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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Not sure. It's per request, but I'm guessing they only ask for the info of one person at a time.
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The Alternative Vote (Instant Runoff) Explained « Grey's Blog(blog.cgpgrey.com)
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Couldn't you, in theory, keep hashed passwords, but in case of a request comply by saying: "Ok, we will give you the passwords, but our passwords recovery process will take over X years while we brute force it" ?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
According to other sources, you have to pay a fine of 3850 Euros for every time you don't comply to a request. That amount is low enough that the cost/benefit of giving out the passwords is not evidently on the side of complying with the de
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
One of the benefits of being in the EU is that there is a higher authority than the government who can overturn stuff like that. I'm not a legal expert, but seeing as how the latest constitutionnal questions in France went, I'm pretty sure
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
This is a common fear in a lot of western countries. I really would like to see numbers on how many fake marriages have actually been avoided by the drastic policies in place, and see how that compares to the cost of enacting these policies
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The $100k Taxi Ride [Oct 2010](baydin.com)
4 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|0 comments
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Awesome, my client requested just that for his project. I wish I was kidding.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
AFAIK it is the plain text passwords. I'm really not sure how they imagine it's possible. This feels pretty strange actually: while I don't dispute the fact that the french legislature has little to no understanding of the technical issues,
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Ask HN: what is the problem with Eiffel (the programming language)?
2 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|1 comments
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Why I hate Wikipedia(erfworld.com)
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Finally, an explanation I can give my girlfriend for my search history.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
The wikipedia article on the softcard doesn't even mention Allen : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard Is that a mistake?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
My personnal favorite article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_in_Somalia Ever since reading that one, I have been following Somalia news much more closely.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
One more evidence of the rise of emergent nations: the former colonial powers become in need of help from the colonies. I wonder when Britain will start needing help from India, or perhaps further down, when France will start needing help f
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Brazil considers helping Portugal financially(guardian.co.uk)
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
It's encouraging that a number of other systems are being developed (EU, India, Russia, China). What is slightly discouraging is the time and delays it takes for them to launch. Original date for the EU's Galileo was 2010. Now, it's going t
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Probably depends on the family. In my case (she was indeed born in China), it's not so much her parents as her who cares a lot about that.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
There will undoubtedly be a crash. Prices are rising for two reason: -Speculative buying (that's the cause of all the empty appartments in places no one wants to buy) -Cultural reasons. When a guy wants to marry a girl, he has to own his ow
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
> "instead of seeing a screen it can beam individual rays of light into your eyes right on your retina ... [so] you can look at your phone and see HDTV" I'd would love to see that in action, assuming safety is not a problem, of course.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Isn't it the same thing for any platform? Once you use a platform, you're at risk from the owners of the platform. Apple's App Store is another example, it seems like your app can be blocked on a whim.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I know what you mean. I'm appalled at such an idea - but I can't dismiss it as having no market. And the last line of the article seems to indicate some people have the same opinion.
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A New Era for Internet Domains: Why .XXX Is Just the Beginning(mashable.com)
2 points by yannickmahe 16y ago|0 comments
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Programming the First Video Game(bnl.gov)
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Interesting facts. Could replacing the highway patrol by automated radar systems work? I'd like to see a study of that. Also interesting is the fact that the article title seems to lead to a "no", but the answer ends up being "yes".
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Indeed. Google's dominance of the search engine market has in no way prevented them from keeping to grow. Facebook may very well diversify even more to keep its growth, and therefore valuation.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
It's really interesting that, in this "SEO is a perfectly valid marketing strategy" world, there are still cases like these. Who comes up with this rules? Who on earth thinks they are a good thing? The Peter Principle ( http://en.wikipedia.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I am appalled at this idea: sell air? How close is that to selling nothing? And at the same time, I sure there is a pretty big market for such a thing... Scary.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I really don't get how they failed. The business model was sound (financially if not ethically). What went wrong?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Side question: how many users can these minor linux distros hope to get? Linux is still not mainstream for desktop computers (i.e. non geeks are a very small minority of users), and there are dozens of distros with very little differences b

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