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by tajen 10y ago
Exactly. We just need to sum the energy costs involved in moving 1t of metal to see that no amount of electric cars compares to living close to the workplace, and no "10% saving" will allow USA to divide its emissions by 7 [1]. Bu
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by tajen 10y ago
There's one more reason why we need housing by the jobs. Global warming. As long as people live >20 minutes from work, there will be many reasons to take the car, and own a car. In Sydney, most of my colleagues didn't own a car
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by tajen 10y ago
There are 3 volunteers to tell, write and cross-check the paper ballot; and it's a public audience, meaning that there are a bunch of witnesses, including families who want to teach kids why the votes can be trusted, and party represen
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by tajen 10y ago
Ask Switzerland how they manage paper ballots for 25 different votes every 4 months .
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by tajen 10y ago
But isn't it forbidden by Apple's ToS? I thought scripting, loading code from the internet, and apps built from a code-generator were forbidden?
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by tajen 10y ago
SublimeText is not open-source. But there are probably other good editors on Ubuntu – Why not reusing them.
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by tajen 10y ago
Every time someone succeeds, people call it out for good luck. In the case of Steve Jobs, that takes a lot of good luck. Good luck repeated reliably over the course of his life. It's funny how good luck falls more on people often who w
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by tajen 10y ago
I was wondering whether some Greeks saw through the surface. Your opinion seems the right to me: The older generation didn't know what paying taxes feels like. In France, if you have a company, 63% of the company's income goes int
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by tajen 10y ago
They'll find another way. It's Linked In. They regularly purchase and merge data from various sources. They'll phone your employer if need be. "Hey employers, tell us how much your employees earn, so we tell you where yo
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by tajen 10y ago
Idea: Dell could make an incredible coup by launching their own Linux. Dell is limited by Windows not being Unix-based and not being open-source. Dell is losing thousands of sales by not having a Linux – Apple users don't switch even t
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by tajen 10y ago
You should be on top. Just as we have FCC approvals before you connect a device to 3G, landlines or to the power grid, we'll have to have approvals for all devices connected to the internet. And the top test of the list is a penetratio
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by tajen 10y ago
But is it carbon-neutral now? Let's remind the whole picture here: We want to come back to global greenhouse gases emissions on 1990, because they were balanced by nature's absorption. It often happens that the cost of building so
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by tajen 10y ago
That matches my intuitive opinion about it. And it only gets worse with the sharing economy. As soon as you choose your peer, it introduced human judgement. One interesting thing would be to measure which race is the most racist, so we can
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by tajen 10y ago
That's why I said "...which I didn't succeed to fix in time". Of course, a proper person can (and should) counterbalance a handicap. But having a basic understanding of ball-playing would have saved a lot of experiences
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by tajen 10y ago
But there is now 7 billion people. And no, it's not just "People will have to move": +6 degrees in one century is a temperature change we haven't seen since humans appeared on Earth: https://www.xkcd.com/
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by tajen 10y ago
> but cold countries becoming unlivable is desired. I don't know, let's analyze the facts. Do they emit carbon and participate to the destruction of civilization in 2150? Which one is a crime against humanity, staying in cold c
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by tajen 10y ago
I didn't learn to play ball at all when I was 3. Which translated into a lack of friends at a later age, which I didn't succeed to fix in time, which translated into a late first experience with girls, which turned extremely bad.
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by tajen 10y ago
> I'm in the fortunate position that this is possible for me since I live in the city I can't approve. You've made the choice. You've paid for this choice. People keep claiming that I'm lucky to live close from m
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by tajen 10y ago
... which opens up to the use case of: _____ ? of using a MBP as a cash register, where barmen can fastly display their list of customers ???
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by tajen 10y ago
Despite the bad reviews from most well-known experts, the AAPL stock didn't vary. There was a 1% fall on Oct 26, but it seems due to a technical change, not a trader evaluation. Proof that either the Macbook Pro isn't bad enough,
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by tajen 10y ago
> instead of a brand with a Samsung lithium ion battery they believed they were buying from Amazon Plot twist: It was the genuine Samsung product...
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by tajen 10y ago
You are being downvoted because you misunderstood the GPL, which is a heavy fault in the software community. GPL says: "If you take GPL code, you must publish the whole app as GPL." In the GPL mindset, open-source is contagious. T
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by tajen 10y ago
A paid Linux! That's what I said on this comment about "Ask HN – What innovation would you want to see", which 84 people upvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12570030 I wish we would have executed on
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by tajen 10y ago
One point I take away is, the more data there is, the more costly it is to secure it with procedures. Hence, we should require an insurance every time we collect and merge data, and start hugely increase the fines, just to make sure insuran
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by tajen 10y ago
Among "opportunity for improvement" and "a challenge", my preferred wording came from an American war movie: "Boss, we have a situation" was translated in French with "Boss, we have a problem". As if
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by tajen 10y ago
There is the option of running a charity, one that would be ready to help at the right places by reurbanisng and reorganising territories. If you benefit from the charity (=if it gives you credit for politics or if you get a salary for the
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by tajen 10y ago
> with 0 compensation I don't agree compensation would be any useful. In France non-compete agreements must be compensated proportionnaly. Example: My company prohibited me from working with the customers on the whole territory of F
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by tajen 10y ago
> but pushing over developers I'll wait until Thursday to check they still ship with the Terminal app...
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by tajen 10y ago
It's the electricity symbol for a switch.
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by tajen 10y ago
> If Apple still sells a bunch of these, then it was a good idea Nope, it will just prove that Apple has no competitor in the field of quality computers. I would still buy a Macbook if they sold the 2009 (even for the price of today). Wi

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