martindelemotte

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by martindelemotte 7y ago
There is a plan like this for Paris. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_(project)
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by martindelemotte 8y ago
I wouldn't trust a MBTI personality score because the test is too susceptible to social desirability bias. But on the other hand, assuming that you "are" an INTJ and knowing that your manager "is" an ESFJ, you shoul
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by martindelemotte 8y ago
The test has low psychometric value but the underlying model is interesting [1]. I see it more as a checklist on what to consider about a person. Mainly: what is important to him or her? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by martindelemotte 8y ago
On the other hand, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [1]: [The Germani] do not pay much attention to agriculture, and a large portion of their food consists in milk, cheese, and flesh. [1] https://e
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by martindelemotte 9y ago
How do the "honest DIAN officers" that you talk about report their exhorted income?
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by martindelemotte 9y ago
My theory is that as a lot of people don't declare their full income in developing countries (and are quite tax-adverse due to a perception of high corruption), a way to redistribute is to tax "luxury" goods like vehicles or
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by martindelemotte 9y ago
Partially mythical, there were no bananas and if I remember well there were only two monkeys. [1] [1] https://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural...
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by martindelemotte 9y ago
They sometimes do try to espouse a critical viewpoint of free trade, for example [1]. [1] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21695855-americ...
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by martindelemotte 9y ago
In regard to [1] your hypothesis is probably correct. There exists technology that dims the lights automatically when the volume level of an area is too loud, in order to make people lower their voices.
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
No paleogeneticist here but from what I know from : Andean people benefit from a genetic adaptation to high altitude and don't need coca leaves (Himalayan people also benefit from a different genetic adaptation). It does make work mor
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
Then why would the g factor also apply to animals as stated on the Wikipedia page? You don't see that many doing mathematics.
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
It would be more like "Basketball is about being in very good physical shape", which makes more sense. IQ (or more precisely the g factor) correlates not only with math but also with language skills and music[1]. [1] https:/
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
TeleSUR is the (mostly) Venezuelan equivalent of RT. Take it with a grain of salt.
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
It's interesting to note that since the revolution the French legislators have had an universalist view of things. The goal was to spread the enlightenment ideas to the world (who said the French weren't pretentious). Of course in
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
I'm not a constitutional lawyer but a subset of the protections seem to apply. The French constitution does an "include" of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. A constitutional court decision of 1971 has
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
The French constitution references the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which covers "all men, French, foreign, prisoners and enemies".
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
As a kid I played in these areas while my dad was cutting wood. It was rather exciting to find a shell as these were rare compared to other pieces of metal. We were just told not to play with them. I remember that one day we found a shell b
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
Hi Joe, Form my perspective: sometimes when I report a bug it's more so that other users don't waste their time troubleshooting it than to have it fixed immediately. Maybe sometimes I'm not 100% clear but it is a bit discoura
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
I can't comment on the paid support. I've just noticed that the non-paid support engineers seems to be under pressure. I feel little bit bad for them sometimes. They don't seem to have the time to look into problems. It must
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by martindelemotte 10y ago
I wonder if people at Google know how awful it is to report an Appengine bug. You have to battle for days to get your bug acknowledged. I've noticed that they've added more support people since the early days but it's still a
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by martindelemotte 12y ago
True, Paris was renovated in the 19th century to be made more 'hypertrophic' [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris
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by martindelemotte 12y ago
It is probably a mistake to summarise the ethereum project as a cryptocurrency, it aims to be a lot more than that. That said, the problem with this kind of fundraising is that an important part of the "investors" are not apt to j
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How Non-Native Speakers Can Crack the Glass Ceiling(hbr.org)
1 points by martindelemotte 12y ago|0 comments
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by martindelemotte 14y ago
According to this meta-analysis, employees dont leave managers nor do they leave companies. They leave (maybe) because of the job. Estimated true score correlation Job Fit - Tenure: 0.18 Company Fit - Tenure: 0.03 Group Fit - Tenure: 0.06 S
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I've built an Ajax indexing service, could it be useful to you?(seoforajax.com)
1 points by martindelemotte 15y ago|0 comments
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by martindelemotte 16y ago
This talk about organizational culture is interesting : http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Hacking-Your-Organization It's from Lloyd Taylor who was Director of Global Operations at Google during their growth. He explains the model he uses
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by martindelemotte 16y ago
If you want to know what's wrong with a government/big company job, go and try one. You could be suprised, just like I was, and start to aim for a high variance career.
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A Brief Introduction to the Java and .NET Patent Issues(infoq.com)
3 points by martindelemotte 16y ago|1 comments