FrenchAmerican

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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
SBF is despicable but I have no sympathy for his victims. 99.9% of FTX users were motivated by greed: speculation, tax evasion or illicit deals. Greedy people stolen by a greedier one: I don't care but I appreciate the irony. Life savi
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
This comment is antisemitic and pornographic.
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
This refers to the Declararation of Rights of Man dated August 1789. It's still nowadays the foreword to the French Constitution. Hence the idea that France is the home of the human rights, which is deeply rooted in the representation
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
My understanding is that Julius Caesar could have lost that war but there is little chance that Rome wouldn't have submitted Gaul in the end. Current Spain and Portugal's territory required from Rome no less than 190 years of wars
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Indeed, what could go wrong... The author wants the scientists to be involved in the coming COP27, as if they were not already. As if no technical anf scientific solutions had been provided to climate change! Plenty of solutions have been f
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Despite his dubious past, the billionaire John Arnold has focused time and money to amend scientific research. I've read maybe 2 years ago about that endeavor and followed him on Twitter ; I found it quite interesting and original. For
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Digikam is good. I haven't found anything great yet, but my 40,000 photos are well enough organized using Digikam's features. What I like is that its database is easily hackable through scripts (I use Python). So one can fit one&#
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Without going to extreme extents, many of us can lead a more sober life: no plane trip, less meat, insulate the house, avoid fossil fuels on favor of electricity and choose an electricity provider selling only energy produced by renewable w
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
The link between monetary inflation and price inflation has been "demonstrated" by the Chicago Boys, with Milton Friedman as their guru. It led to the "monetarist" school of thought - which has been the reigning paradigm
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Or maybe we don't care much about what happens in our jails. As if being raped in jail was part of the sentence. Note that rape is only the extreme form of the violence that inmates, mostly males, endure. I can't see where the suf
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
This reflects the abnormally high proportion of people jailed in the USA: - 80K inmates for 68.5M inhabitants in the UK => 0.12% - 1,215K inmates for 331M inhabitants in the US => 0,37% There are therefore around 3 times more people i
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Dashlane tracks its paying customers for ad (re)targeting
5 points by FrenchAmerican 4y ago|2 comments
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
FBI Searched Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/fbi-searc...
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Always the same arguments are used to justify invasion of privacy by governments: terrorism, pedo-pornography, human trafficking for sex (especially children). Which are solid arguments but of course those laws are in 95% of the cases used
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
"we all know we can’t decarbonize in time" I guess you mean "we all know that almost no current government has the political courage to do what is necessary so that we decarbonize in time". Or " we all know that we
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
I don't know, really. You may be right but he's smart and very familiar with Twitter practices so despite the apparent no self-restraint, maybe he knows how to stay on the edge? So I guess we'll see if the tone of his tweets
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
A big thank you! This is an amazing list of things to look into and keep in mind. Many points are obscure to me, but I'm going to print this and keep it at hand. Thanks again.
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
OK, thanks, I will take that into account.
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Thanks! I appreciate, really.
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
I'm open to discussion of course, but I'd more a more argumentative reply. My point is not about equity but just plain efficiency. I'm all for a more equitable recruitment - but that's not what I addressed here. Of cours
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
I'm learning Python. Do someone knows a resource to learn the well-known tricks for "fast" Python? A book, a website, a cheat sheet or even a MOOC or part of a MOOC?
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Taking references should be prohibited altogether, except for specific jobs (if the job implies interaction with children). They remind me of house employees' conditions in the "Downtown Abbey" area. It's just a sign of
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
That's totally imaginary. As if Putin, through Gazprom, could decide the price paid by the EU for its fossil fuels. Putin doesn't have to sell and the EU doesn't have to buy. Cheaper price for Serbia and Hungary? Well, those
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
If you want not to be gullible to any parties, stick to the facts. Before Putin's so-called "demands": 1/ EU companies paid energy in euro or dollar to Russian banks NOT under sanctions 2/ Russia sent the energy. Af
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Old light technologies: lenses, glasses, telescopes, prisms, Fresnel lenses for lighthouses, ... laser may be too recent to be considered as "old". Despite being worked on for centuries, optics are still a super active field for
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Steel is amazing, but nowadays I find even more amazing that we can replace it by wood in many circumstances. Skyscrapers in wood? Checked. And wood can often replace concrete. Building using wood sequesters carbon from the atmosphere and,
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Musk will rebrand Twitter as SpeechX.
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
1/ Political power: allowing Trump back or not give him a huge leverage. On Democrats, on Trump, on Republicans still loyal to the Constitution (therefore anti-Trump). That decision will be more influential in the 2024 election than an
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
Elon Musk is not a fool and everybody in the space community knows that he is not really working on a colony on Mars. Then why does he say so? The NASA has understood after Apollo that huge budgets require large political support, hence hug
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by FrenchAmerican 4y ago
You may be interested un what game theory indicates about this. I'm not a specialist of it, just a book I read years ago. Basically: you wrote some code and didn't know how to make money of it, otherwise you would have. If someone

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