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by tribaal 10y ago
Oh, thanks for the precision, that makes your product much more attractive indeed. "Self adhesive" makes it sound like they are stickers however (English is not my first language), perhaps changing that to something like "reu
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by tribaal 10y ago
Since I use my webcam for valid reasons (videoconf with my distributed team), this product is unfortunately completely inadequate for me. A much better alternative is something like what soomz.io sells ( https://soomz.io/en&#
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by tribaal 10y ago
Sure, you don't have to. But you can (and many people do). EDIT: also, the mail goes to one of these places where people are standing around watching the people counting (your community's townhall, usually)
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by tribaal 10y ago
Well, many things are decided by elected comitees, but referendum are required to change the constitution (we're ok with it changing, it's not seen as an untouchable artifact here). Citizens can also decide to submit things to ref
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by tribaal 10y ago
Like I added in my edit, there is almost no such case: Sundays are a mandatory day off for most. That means you can't go shopping on a Sunday, except in very few shops (train station shops have exceptions). Doctors, pharmacies and most
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by tribaal 10y ago
To clarify on top of Klathmon's point: this actually happens in Switzerland, it's not just a theoretical argument. Actually, the government is required to have some people watching the counting (specific rules vary on a per-cant
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by tribaal 10y ago
I don't understand much Chinese, but here is a video of one of those events in case you want to see what jiyinyiyong is talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hPpeKPDoDg It seems to be quite entertaining, by j
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Oracle buys Dyn(oracle.com)
229 points by tribaal 10y ago|126 comments
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by tribaal 10y ago
I'm very happy with my System76. (I have an galago ultrapro - they don't make them anymore but still provide support). They used to have pretty bad reviews, but most if not all the people/colleagues I've asked are now h
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by tribaal 10y ago
You are absolutely right, the amount of engineering that went into making them is impressive. Regarding the UI - despite not looking "high-tech" (no animations at all -not even transitions- simple basic color scheme), I find it ve
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by tribaal 10y ago
The Swiss railways is kind of used to non-fiat money already - they already (co-)print and maintain their own alternative: the reka cheques http://www.reka.ch/en/rekamoney/privatepersons/reka-checks/S...
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by tribaal 10y ago
> in an antiquated vending machine for buying train tickets (has any one of those EVER impressed you?) I don't know if you've ever used one but the Swiss ticket machines are nowhere near antiquated. They are all touch screen de
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by tribaal 10y ago
As someone who is ignorant of said "clone", I feel compelled to ask: What would be an accurate characterization? I'm genuinely curious.
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by tribaal 10y ago
How is LXD tied to openstack? You can use LXD in exactly the same way you used LXC (with a nicer CLI interface, no less). nova-lxd adds lxd as a "hypervisor" choice for openstack, but it's a completely optional way to use it.
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by tribaal 10y ago
In my humble EU citizen's opinion, they certainly should be allowed to. Once they pay their 14B in taxes.
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by tribaal 10y ago
Well, where would they go? All EU countries will be subject to the same law, and I doubt they would just stop selling their product on the european market (it would still make them money even when paying normal taxes). Paying customs tariff
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by tribaal 10y ago
While you might be right in the US (I don't know), it is illegal to have fiscal deals with the government in the EU, which is the very ground for the court action in the first place. From my perspective (as a EU citizen), it is the rig
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by tribaal 10y ago
I've been a happy Samsung customer for the longest time, because I basically flashed their nice hardware with cyanogenmod. My recently purchase S7 is the first ever cellphone I return to the store because: 1) It's way too hard to
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by tribaal 10y ago
I've signed up a long time ago (yay early adopters I guess), so I can't comment on the sign up process or setup with your own GPG key nowdays. But their website works 100% and provides all the functionality if you don't let
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by tribaal 10y ago
I follow that definition when I want to speak proper French . The rest of the time I'm quite happy to speak my dialect instead. Ergo: I don't consider dialects (mine or others) to be French. They are dialects of French. Not Fren
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by tribaal 10y ago
I'm a French speaker , not a French citizen . Quebec is not the only non-France part of the world where French is spoken, and as a citizen of one of these parts, I still believe (like most French speakers) that French is, indeed, for
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by tribaal 10y ago
> There isn't really an official version of French either Yes, yes there is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise The very video you link to calls Quebec French "Joual"... not F
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by tribaal 10y ago
My point is that "Engineer" (software or otherwise) is a legally protected term in many countries (Canada, Switzerland,...) How much you consider yourself an engineer is irrelevant in this case: you either are one because you have
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by tribaal 10y ago
As it's been said several times on hacker news (sorry for repeating it one more time here): In some countries calling yourself an engineer without having an appropriate degree issued by an engineering school is a crime (although, seldo
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by tribaal 10y ago
I used an Xbox kinect as a 3d scanner before, and the resolution of the 3d sensor is wayyyy too coarse-grained for anything really useful, unfortunately. It works well for human-sized objects, but you can forget it for smaller things (it ha
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by tribaal 10y ago
That's a far cry from being unsafe cities :) Sure, there are isolated anecdotes like the ones you quote - but there is not a single area of either Geneva or Nyon where I wouldn't walk around with an iPhone at night (I grew up in t
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by tribaal 10y ago
Most if not all of Switzerland is the same.
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by tribaal 10y ago
Well, holding a referendum in Switzerland means 100k citizens agree to put it up for referendum, nothing more, nothing less. It's not some kind of endorsement of it as a good or feasible idea, unfortunately. As you point out, most pro
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by tribaal 10y ago
Ah, good point. Thanks for showing me the problem with my argument.
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by tribaal 10y ago
While I understand the point you are trying to make (CERN is partially on Swiss territory), it is not a Swiss employer by any stretch of imagination: they have extra-territorial status, like the UN. Swiss laws and wages don't apply t

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