bolaft

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by bolaft 7y ago
> This looks like it’s designed to penalize poor/young/foreign people Right, I'm sure impoverished young immigrants buying newly built houses only to rent them out is a very common thing in Amsterdam.
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by bolaft 8y ago
> French have "intello", a derogatory term for intellectual types "Intello" is not derogatory, it's just short for intellectual.
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by bolaft 11y ago
Secondary speakers are not people who learned French in school and live outside a French speaking country. If you took French in high school in the US you are not recorded in these numbers. Secondary speakers are people like, for example, t
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by bolaft 11y ago
I'm getting tired of hearing always the same uninformed comments about the French language and how the French perceive it. We're not very good with English because of the terribly inefficient way it's taught in school, not be
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by bolaft 11y ago
> ("merci" - the French word, yes) Do you know why?
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by bolaft 11y ago
"Nouvelle Droite".
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by bolaft 11y ago
No, version control can only handle textual changes, only humans with legal expertise can work out how one law affects another. Even if there was a graph that showed all the links between all the laws (which would take an enormous amount of
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by bolaft 11y ago
Did you take a look at the repo? It doesn't track new laws, it tracks the entire Code Civil and considers each new law a "commit", so it works perfectly. Here, as an example, the commit/law that legalizes same-sex marria
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by bolaft 11y ago
Isn't it strange to call that Beaudelaire's? Edna St. Vincent Millay put these words on paper, Beaudelaire wrote only in French...
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by bolaft 12y ago
Thanks, however I was already aware of that, I was looking for something more specific.
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by bolaft 12y ago
Thanks for the info.
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by bolaft 12y ago
Thanks, that would be great.
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by bolaft 12y ago
How do these services work, compsci-wise? Could someone link a few IBM publications explaining how the Question & Answer API works? That would be very helpful. The documentation pages explain nothing.
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by bolaft 12y ago
I came here to say this. The importance of good food is severly underestimated. If you improve the quality of the food you eat, you improve your life. Also, you can save lots of money. And it's a great skill to have, socially. Being a
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by bolaft 12y ago
The threads themselves are pretty good looking but the forum main page ( https://community.nodebb.org/ ) is really cluttered and confusing. Also, why are there upvote/downvote buttons on thread messages? Do they have any
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by bolaft 12y ago
Is this a first? I can't remember the last time it happened. Edit: down in France as well.
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by bolaft 12y ago
For a minute there I thought I was gettin' gold.
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by bolaft 12y ago
He doesn't. At the end of his story, after he rekindled his friendship with this surfer guy, he still has no gossip for his wife.
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by bolaft 12y ago
"On a serious note", this post is nonsense.
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by bolaft 12y ago
Giving a symbolic position to a spouse so she can mine for talent? That's nepotism with a papertrail.