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by greatpatton 13d ago
Wow, I didn't know that they relocated Boulogne-sur-Mer from France to the other side of the channel. Thanks for the heads-up! I'm driving there in a couple of weeks and I'll plan for the tunnel accordingly. :)
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by greatpatton 3mo ago
If their operation team is not US based that's going to be difficult to operate. They would have to reorganize the whole company as I'm pretty sure that they are not employing only US citizen.
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by greatpatton 6mo ago
And then they will complain that Chinese company are simply crushing them... As a European, I have been buying only Asian cars for ages as I don't want to play their "add options" game, and I think that more and more people a
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by greatpatton 6mo ago
It's simple: not buying them is the way. There is enough competition to just buy a screen that will not do that.
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by greatpatton 11mo ago
At some point the EU just should impose sanction on companies operating in the EU and implementing this kind of sanction.
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by greatpatton 1y ago
Adjustable-gauge are used in Switzerland for a mountain line (Montreux-Interlaken) all through the year. I have never seen temperature issue mentioned. https://www.gpx.swiss/en/stories/technology (the video is ra
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by greatpatton 1y ago
exactly and I think it's shocking that everyone is just repeating lies without putting them in context.
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by greatpatton 1y ago
no but other countries don't invoke the bible all the time when debating laws.
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by greatpatton 1y ago
The article is rather funny as French are supposedly "terrible at foreign languages", but try to find a Briton that can speak anything else than English, it's like finding a needle in a haystack.
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by greatpatton 1y ago
I think I will just skip HN in the future. The number of relevant post to tech and business in the US now that are getting flagged is becoming ridiculous.
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by greatpatton 1y ago
Same, will not risk my mental health for a trip to the US.
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NOAA forbidden to communicate with French IFREMER(francetvinfo.fr)
43 points by greatpatton 2y ago|8 comments
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Is it me or mods are actively hiding everything that is critical of the current admin? This post is 6 hours late, 308 points and at the bottom of the 3rd page. This is not the first post that is either flagged or just made invisible. Is HN
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by greatpatton 2y ago
What democratic government did they overthrew? Because the ROC was no more democratic than the CCP... and Taiwan didn't have real election till the 1990.
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by greatpatton 2y ago
No healthcare, no public research to today's extent, no military etc. etc. Yes when your government is doing nothing normally it doesn't cost that much.
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Yes of course but without the passport scan + fingerprint + travel authorization.
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Referring to 'unelected officials' highlights a misunderstanding of how the EU operates and getting really tiring. They are named like most executive of other countries and confirmed by the EU parliament. The French prime minister
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by greatpatton 2y ago
EU + UK line are going to disappear when the new EU passport check (ESS) and electronic travel authorization (euphemism introduced by the US to call a visa) will come into force. And now that EU citizen have to do the same for UK it will to
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by greatpatton 2y ago
5 years ago, the value of companies listed on the LSE was 2 times the size of Paris. Now they are almost equal (Paris was first in 2023). In 2024 only 18 IPO took place on the LSE, the lowest number in the last 20 years. London is still the
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by greatpatton 2y ago
There is no prevention strategy that will prevent all cancers. Even people with the most healthy lifestyle can get a cancer. That's why you have to do both.
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by greatpatton 2y ago
The Republican party is also flipping seats in the Senate and the House, yet you seem focused on Harris. It's not that people are voting for other Democratic candidates, the country is simply becoming more conservative as people leanin
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Same for "2.4 GHz wireless network" but it's supposed to be 2.4 gigahertz if fully spelled. I suppose there is a logic behind but it's not obvious.
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Sometimes you are going to loose a lot of time trying to make a ChatGPT solution work when Google would have provided right away the right answer... Just yesterday I asked ChatGPT for an AWS IAM policy. ChatGPT-4o provided an answer that lo
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Ok yes the video will not play on it's own if you point to the link directly. However this is a news site, and if you click on the main page that link to that article then the video will autoplay. This is a way hundreds of website are
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Take your Ipad, open Music play a track then go to: https://www.20min.ch/fr/video/france-fusillade-explosion-lev... The video will automatically play (with sound) and the Music will stop. (It won't play on Sa
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by greatpatton 2y ago
No Just did the test before posting on my ipad pro to make sure it was still the case. Music + advertisement on Reddit -> no more music (and the same with the autoplay videos on 2 news sites)
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Sound management is a nightmare... you put some playlist on Music and start to surf the web with Safari only for the music to be interrupted because whatever random web site has a video on auto-play... Seriously?
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by greatpatton 2y ago
Only because Germany is producing less and less electricity. In 2017 Germany was producing 558 TWh vs 430 TWh last year...
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by greatpatton 2y ago
No if you operate in the EU you have to comply that's it. If you buy something from Joe the farmer in PA, you are the one importing it (you are paying the custom duties) and Joe the farmer doesn't have to comply with anything rela
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by greatpatton 3y ago
They may not provide direct R&D details but they will provide direct information about offers price, negotiation status etc. This is part of the Snowden leaks that people seems to have completely forgotten. https://wikileaks.

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