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by smcphile 6y ago
> Is this communication style a function of being involved in FSF, or does FSF just naturally attract very angry people? I agree that the article was poorly written. But you seem to be implying here that people involved with the FSF, as
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by smcphile 6y ago
> I mean, that seems like a pretty shitty thing to do to an existing userbase. I understand, but realistically how could Apple have done otherwise without creating existential problems for itself? In a nutshell, the marketing stance of A
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by smcphile 6y ago
> Anybody have any thoughts on what Logic does for Apple that Aperture didn't? I'm not familiar with Aperture. According to Wikipedia it and iPhotos were abandoned to the benefit of Photos. Not knowing why Apple made this choic
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by smcphile 6y ago
> if you tell people that ‘hey, any part of this OS is replaceable and should still work’ you have essentially created a testing matrix for yourself of infinite size Fair enough. But between telling people that any part of the OS is re
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by smcphile 6y ago
There’s no “one size fits all” answer to the question. Some people certainly have started from zero at age 40 and have happily retired before the legal retirement age. Whether or not it’s possible for you depends. Life situations vary e
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by smcphile 6y ago
Sure, individual evaluations of all currently available information can and do differ. The efficient market hypothesis is about the sum total of all those individual evaluations adding up to a rational evaluation as reflected in asset price
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by smcphile 6y ago
> You're basically saying that whatever the price is, the market is right. No, the efficient market hypothesis states that asset prices reflect all current available information. OP is not defending that hypothesis in their message,
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by smcphile 6y ago
I find the title here a little misleading, as the Gnu announcement itself doesn’t mention systemd in its title or even in the body of the announcement. I also believe that comparing gnu shepherd and systemd is potentially confusing, because
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by smcphile 6y ago
> So what are the advantages of using Amazon in France compared to other platforms? It’s hard to compare Amazon with FNAC/Darty, because Amazon sells a much wider range of items (food, clothing, musical instruments, unusual electron
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by smcphile 6y ago
> With Linux, no matter the distribution you pick, you have to be more interested in computers than merely viewing them as an applicane for word processing, video chatting and online shopping. I agree concerning word processing and espec
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by smcphile 6y ago
My first computing job, many years ago, was maintaining a large, COBOL program for an insurance company. I doubt the problem the American government is now facing has much to do with COBOL in itself. It probably has much more to do with the
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by smcphile 7y ago
For what it’s worth, I currently have about 160 unique logins. I should probably delete some of them. They all of course have different passwords. 148 of them are stored in a password manager and about a dozen are stored only on paper, kept
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by smcphile 7y ago
I don’t follow your reasoning, but just for information the state pension plans of both the Netherlands and France work on a “pay as you go” basis. Throughout your career, you build up the right to a certain pension in each of the different
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by smcphile 7y ago
You wrote that the median American worker can’t take time off to campaign. That’s correct, they can’t. The point is that lots of people, of all ages, both young and old, who’s net worth is significantly above the median, can afford to
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by smcphile 7y ago
Plus I can’t count. The median is the age of Nixon, 56 years 11 days. Serves me right for not taking enough time to check what I write before posting. Lesson learned.
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by smcphile 7y ago
I messed up in the above message when calculating the median: Clinton 46 years 154 days Obama 47 years 169 days Clinton second term Obama second term Carter 52 years 111 days Bush Jr 54 years 198 days Johnson 55 years 87 day
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by smcphile 7y ago
I forgot to add that between the two cases that I mentioned, the salaried employee also has 5 weeks or more of paid vacation. The self-employed worker just bills for days that they works. Vacation is unpaid or more accurately needs to be fa
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by smcphile 7y ago
> From what I can gather off frenchproperty.com the 'social charges' tax rate employees pay is very very big (29% employee, 50% employer, total would be something like 65%) while self employed pay 12% to 23%. Exactly how much s
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by smcphile 7y ago
No, the French government would not accept not being able to pay pensions. But the French government would still be able to pay pensions, even if everyone were self-employed. The self-employed do already pay into pensions. Additionally, w
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by smcphile 7y ago
My bad, 2028, not 2024 or 2026.
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by smcphile 7y ago
Yes, so using that method and excluding Gerald Ford it would be the age of George W. Bush when he was re-elected, so about 59 years old. Clinton 46 years 154 days Clinton second term Obama 47 years 169 days Obama second term Car
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by smcphile 7y ago
If we start with Johnson, the average of the ages of Johnson and Nixon, so somewhere between 55 and 56: Clinton 46 years 154 days Obama 47 years 169 days Carter 52 years 111 days Bush Jr 54 years 198 days Johnson 55 years 87 day
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by smcphile 7y ago
No, there’s no doubt in my mind that the median age of a president is greater than the median age of the general population, but that in no way implies that old age “runs deep” among presidents, which I take to mean that it’s a common thing
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by smcphile 7y ago
> But old age runs deep in modern presidential politics. Does it really though? Not according to Wikipedia, which puts the median age of a president at 55 years and 3 months, and which describes the distribution of ages as conforming to
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by smcphile 7y ago
I don’t know if Uber would be permitted to do that, I just know that in some cases it’s allowed. The term used is “concurrence déloyale” or “unfair competition”. In practice, if there was a dispute, the courts would decide if a part-time em
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by smcphile 7y ago
>> If too many people become self-employed, the state can't finance itself anymore. This is not the case in France. Self-employed people still pay personal income tax and/or a tax on company profits. The increased taxes on e
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by smcphile 7y ago
In France, an employer can set working hours and working conditions, as long as both comply with the law. There are restrictions for safety and health reasons for example. However, if the work is part time, employees can’t be restricted fro
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by smcphile 7y ago
In France, by law hourly employees get medical insurance, a certain amount of paid sick leave, unemployment insurance and also contribute to a pension plan. These benefits are partially paid for by the worker and partially paid for by the e
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by smcphile 7y ago
I initially had that the same thoughts, but by quickly scanning the person’s comment history, and also seeing that it goes a long way back, it’s clear to me that they’re not a troll. But, yes, I also don’t get (when thinking from my perhaps
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by smcphile 7y ago
Be warned that this guide was written in 2013 for Fedora 18. A few months back, I tried using this guide with Fedora 31 and I found things have evolved since the guide was written. For example, I gave up on installing the Planet CCRMA packa

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