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tajen
10y ago
It's all up to you. But I personally chose not to go to US conferences because of the TSA. The risk of being jailed is real: If you chuckle while they ask questions then lose your temper because he's not happy and you lack sleep;
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10y ago
Are you suggesting men don't seek medical treatment therefore it's their fault for getting sick? Girls often don't want to become programmers, and, as I know it, we don't say "It's their fault". We just
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10y ago
How? Do cameras detect DRM contents?
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tajen
10y ago
There is also https://theoldreader.com which looks very much like Google Reader (plus it doesn't tend to share your 'private' posts on Google +!).
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10y ago
It could even be worded like this: Given most taxis across the world provide a dodgy service and hijack fees way above official metered levels (or hijack meters or add luggage fees or spend 20 minutes negociating the fare after you've
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10y ago
Do we still have grading in university? Since we started removing marks in middle school, should we keep going in adulthood by keeping students away from being evaluated? so universities don't have to make students unhappy.
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10y ago
To a free country? The US has lost so many cogs of its democracy... How far is the day when some US citizen (journalists, intellectuals) start begging for political asylum in countries that don't pride themselves for being free (like R
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10y ago
Or don't go to USA. Other countries need to develop their conferences and ecosystems.
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But every popular movie on my TODO list is unavailable on Netflix, because they tend to produce their own content... After watching a dozen movies/series in the French catalog, there was no good content left to see.
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10y ago
> In two years, your average consumer probably doesn't care if their device is still receiving updates Well, that's exactly why I've bought an iPhone this time. Exactly €1000 lost for the Android ecosystem, just because I
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10y ago
> $.90 per node per hour That makes $700 per month. Is this the minumum? or can we have 0 node when the lambda is idle ?
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10y ago
Indeed, 13 times more dams than France (who prides itself for 12% hydroelectricity), while USA is only 5 times bigger in population. China has the most number of large dams in the world: More than twice the USA, for 4x population. http:&#x
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10y ago
Most people don't realize that child pornography is "any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor". Under a bad cop, any sexually explicit pic of a person can be deemed "under 18 years of age"
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> of the world's biggest tax heaven As a European, I've always thought the US had extremely high reporting requirements, power of investigation, and anonymity was dead since the NSA was invented. What makes it a tax heaven? Is
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10y ago
Actually... the guy just reinvented Europe. With cities which grew organic when transportation was expensive, commercial and residential areas are close to each other. Even Sydney, Australia, is a nice city when you don't have a car, e
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Not only that, but the energy is radiated in wavelengths that aren't absorbed by the atmosphere (I suppose it's different with cloudy skies). If this solution becomes massively widespread, it could have a good effect on global war
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10y ago
I'd be curious about France for example, since air conditioning isn't as widespread as in Germany, Thailand or USA.
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> "The car I'm working on is mine" and short debug-fix-test cycle Just saying, at the announced pace, after 2 weeks they've provided cars to every Tesla employee, their partners and children. That's a short test
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Like, I pay $5, I get the official .torrent link legally? This is pure fiction!
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There are many maps of terrorist attacks, shared on Facebook and so on. I just wish they started including terror attacks from US. Just to see the ratio. First example on Google: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2016&#
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Because he also looks terrible on the photo and he immediately received ads for MacDonalds jobs within minutes of posting this picture. His insurance also resigned his health policy after a system recognized him as a drunkard.
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Every tax punishes the poor first, but what's the other solution: Let the cigarette be affordable for the poor? According to the theory that poor people make bad life choices[1], they'll smoke anyway; so the discussion is only whe
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In Europe we get blockbusters with a delay (4 to 8 months), so the choice is, either you pirate now, either you go watch it in theaters in 6 months, either you pay for the DVD-with-unskippable-ads next year. Dumbed-down movies are also a re
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10y ago
Every time I try to use Firefox, I feel driven away by the web developer tools. I can't exactly pinpoint what makes me unease, I don't think that's only about habits, it feels like the FF dark background makes them harder to
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Australia would be a great place to start, since they have capacity for twice the population and developed infrastructure, but they're not immune to political decisions either.
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Maybe we should help them immigrate in a truely developed and free country, build a tech hub over there and start building up the counter-power that will take over the world's regulations in the XXIst century. I'm being sarcastic
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You're correct, very interesting. In summary, Daniel Negari paid $185k for the .xyz, purchased a few other gTLDs, and Alphabet supposedly only pays $9 per year for its domain. I presume Google is confident in xyz having no security bre
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It's fun to have your own extension, isn't it? then you can host http://hooli.xyz as well, which is good fun too (It's the parody website of the equivalent of Google in the TV show "Silicon Valley", whic
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Except in France, May 68, De Gaulle (conservatist) wasn't ousted, he even came back in favourable position after 3 days off the grid: He threatened to use the État d'Urgence against the strikers, dissolved the Assembly and the new
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Sorry I've skipped a step. I'm quite confident that the day they want to corner you, they'll claim the porn pics in your browser cache are child porn. Even a drawing counts as "depiction of child pornography" and if
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