jean_tta

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by jean_tta 4y ago
From the perspective of the gene it makes sense - genes that are more sucesful at making offspring (aka getting copied) should be expected to prosper through natural selection.
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by jean_tta 4y ago
With ever decreasing EROI though
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by jean_tta 4y ago
You do here: "Take any revolutionary discovery. Compare making it freely available to anyone, or limiting the availability to those holding the patents. [...]" You take the situation where there _is_ a revolutionary discovery, wit
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by jean_tta 4y ago
You make two assumptions: - There are as many revolutionary discoveries with and without patents - Without patents, discoveries would be freely avalaible As far as I know, two (related) arguments are generally made for patents: - Patents cr
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by jean_tta 4y ago
If your point is that it offends "no one", except "people like [the other commenter]", i.e. people that are offended, then I guess this would apply to any word about any group.
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by jean_tta 4y ago
I don't get it; why would it be _more_ of a problem than with current tax & benefits systems? Politicians can already make the "increase $benefit"/"decrease $tax" their #1 policy.
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by jean_tta 4y ago
Isn't "money printing" monetary policy, as opposed to fiscal policy?
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by jean_tta 4y ago
"Électricité de France S.A. (literally Electricity of France), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state." - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by jean_tta 4y ago
It would be tricky whatever the claim
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by jean_tta 4y ago
A very smart man, PG himself, once said [0]: > I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. PG started writing essays about what he
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by jean_tta 4y ago
It's really tricky to compare marginal rates like that. Has the definition of taxable income changed over time? How many people were actually taxed at those marginal rates? And so on.
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Ask HN: What print magazines do you read?
1 points by jean_tta 4y ago|1 comments
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by jean_tta 4y ago
> andard to be a high ranking politicians like presidents, ministers, or CEOs. In the 20 years before 2017, they used not only have studied at the same school, the ENA, but where mostly from the same prom : 1978-1980, the (in)famous Prom
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by jean_tta 4y ago
It's not _forced_, but it is common that applicants include this information.
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by jean_tta 4y ago
This is pure speculation, but I would guess it was simply expected information at the time. In some countries, it is still expected or at least common to see information such as: a portrait ; date and place of birth ; marital situation and
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by jean_tta 4y ago
You take for granted that the Spartans were good at war, and reconcile "Spartans good at war" and "Spartans lost to other city-states" by concluding that there are "a lot of factors". Why not revise your assump
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by jean_tta 4y ago
French military radio procedures also have specific pronunciations to disambiguate words. The fact that it is not used (assuming it is not) in ATC radio is not a feature of the French language.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Is it fair to compare the very small region that is England to the very large region that is India? A fairer comparison would be Europe vs India at the time, or England vs the most advanced region of India at the time. "The most advanc
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by jean_tta 5y ago
How come the US military branches are so bad at working together?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
This is either satire or the worst possible example, since the war in Afghanistan is the only time in history article 5 has been used.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
This is essentially the philosophical zombie thought experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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by jean_tta 5y ago
This is what is new: > A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India - practices it has
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Every country has its own myths to both give legitimacy to the government and unify the people around a national project. Sure, the US is more extreme in its focus on its foundation as the core of its national myth, but is it so different f
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Do spherical cows dream of mathematical potatoes?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Surely studying the climate, i.e. a physical system, is completely in the realm of physics. Certainly, it is closer to whatever definition of physics you may have, than education or kidney donation (to take two examples) are to economics.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Below is a quote from the press release we are discussing: > In the 1960s, he led the development of physical models of the Earth’s climate and was the first person to explore the interaction between radiation balance and the vertical tr
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by jean_tta 5y ago
I do not think anyone is arguing that the UK has some kind of legal obligation to inform France. Alas, alliance and more broadly international politics go beyond minutiae of contracts.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
See here: https://au.ambafrance.org/IMG/pdf/en_indopacifique_web_cle0f... The French government has openly stated that this goes beyond the canceled contract per se.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
If you ask about NATO _today_, I'd wager people would see it as a fancy name for "alliance with the US", which includes but is not limited to defense against Russia. A lot of people would think about Afghanistan, for instance
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Australia went from an ever-closer relationship with France to ditching them, unannounced. Even if it is unwarranted, surely France reaction _is_ a major geopolitical consequence.

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