thatfrenchguy

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by thatfrenchguy 10y ago
> Should people who live in that corn field pay for a rail system in DC? Yes. The same way people living in DC pay for all the interstates they don't use next to corn fields.
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by thatfrenchguy 10y ago
"Over the next two decades, however, streetcar lines either were bought up and then closed down by automobile companies or simply went bankrupt." Ah, America.
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by thatfrenchguy 10y ago
How do you think other countries got paid vacation ? Mostly by electing nice politicians and going out in the street. But American people prefer Clinton and Trump, lol.
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by thatfrenchguy 10y ago
This has a terrible environmental impact. For 1000€ you could have bought a car in any European country (but you'd have to learn how to drive a manual, hard for a 'merican)
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by thatfrenchguy 10y ago
France has a long history of making good infrastructure (TGV anyone ?) so there's that. Also, more vacation (5+ weeks) + better health care -> more productive workers, especially in physical labor work.
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Thomas Picketty says because the share of capital versus the share of salaries is up by ten points (and usually people notice it, hence all the raising inequalities and the crazy billionaires that "deserved it"). Also, because we&
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
You mean in a country where birth control is not free and where you can have to drive 500 miles to get an abortion if you live in retarded states like Alabama or Texas ? Yeah, sure, blame the poor.
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Just use a blender, seriously. These hundreds of millions of dollars could be used to do something useful for society.
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Well going to work is probably 90% of your moving needs. So if you live 45 minutes by train from where you're working and there is an actual train there, public transit helps you a lot.
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Let's not forget that BART also made bad engineering choices, like non-standard tracks and trains that probably cost a lot of taxpayer money...
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Travel is cheap if you're not doing it the five star hotel way :-)
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
"One day, I even found myself asking my girlfriend for a few cents because I had no money to buy bottled water" In general, when you have no money, tap water is better than bankruptcy.
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
For the joke, I studied mobile networking in Canada, and we studied how actually, the dense areas are what cost the most money to the mobile operator. The "we are a big country" is just a marketing stunt.
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
So, it's like normal social interactions in something that look like a club or a non-profit but done by a private company that watch you all the time ? That sounds to me like something for people that lack actual interesting social gro
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
The left main thing is mostly about making sure there is a "floor", meaning that even if you are poor and on min wage you don't die on the street or bankrupt at the first opportunity. Usually, countries where the right is in
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Aren't standups mostly a way for management to say "now the standups are at 9:30 and everyone have to be at work at 9:30" ? :-). Also it's clearly micromanagement: Why does everyone, including your boss, have to know wha
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
Yeah, I can get the "spending my life at work because it's fun/I like it" thing (although most SV companies are more into "spending my life at work" than actually be working productively most of the time), but
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
I liked this until the "my life is my work" part. What is it with Silicon Valley that always ends up in "you spend all your life at work and it's a good thing" ?
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by thatfrenchguy 11y ago
"René would never have experienced such a career in France," said Benoît Chantre, president of Paris' Association Recherches Mimétiques, one of the organizations that have formed around Girard's work. "Such a free w