nyandaber

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by nyandaber 7y ago
I guess you were lucky or in a very specific area. Most of the "shared" electric scooters in Paris are used on the sidewalk, sometimes going very fast. I'm kinda split on the issue, on one hand they're a danger to pedest
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by nyandaber 8y ago
But they're not safe. Like any kind of medication, there's a risk of hidden effects or bad reaction that could and do happen. Rather than trying to lie, I think it's better to be honest about the possible side effects, and co
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by nyandaber 8y ago
It's a bit trickier than that. "J'aime X" is translated to "I love X" if X is a person, but if X is something else, it becomes "I like X". If you really love chocolate, you have to use "J'ad
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by nyandaber 8y ago
Not at all, they're not even in the list of the contributors, as you can see on the 4.16 kernel statistics : https://lwn.net/Articles/750054/ The list doesn't vary too much with the versions, so either t
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by nyandaber 8y ago
The problem here isn't Ireland being a tax haven, it's Ireland giving a preferential treatment to Apple, allowing them to pay less taxes than other companies in Ireland would pay in the same situation.
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by nyandaber 9y ago
That's right, people often talk about motivation, but motivation is overrated. It's a fleeting and elusive feeling, and if you rely on it to get things done, you'll most likely get burnt sooner or later. Having the discipline
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by nyandaber 9y ago
Because it would be much easier to ignore the pressure put by random and secret food inspections if those inspections don't even exist at all. To get and keep 3 stars over more than 10 years require to be overconscious, so even if he w
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by nyandaber 10y ago
The problem with entertainement isn't that it's too profitable, it's that the top earner are taking a huge part of the pie while the majority is fighting for crumbs. It's easy to see the few soccer stars making millions
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by nyandaber 11y ago
Reminds me of Dungeon Keeper, a old PC game where you have to build your own dungeon, with rooms for your monsters, treasure room, magic room to research spells, etc. Heroes try to invade your dungeon, and you also have to fight neighbourin
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by nyandaber 11y ago
The article says the test involved 1000 nodes running 50 containers each, but the conclusion only talks about "no difference between 1st and 30000th container". So we can assume things between 30k and 50k containers didn't go
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by nyandaber 11y ago
There's also the fact that for all those hacks, a non-negligeable portion of the people think the victims "had it coming". They feel it's wrong to take lewd pictures of yourself or join a site like Ashley Madison, so tho
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by nyandaber 11y ago
We should stop studying them before they get brighter than us and overthrow humanity.
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by nyandaber 11y ago
The fun part is that a taxi licence is delivered for free by the city, provided you fit the criterias. But taxis don't want too many licences to be around of course, so they lobbied for a low limit to be delivered (which may or may not
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by nyandaber 11y ago
The assembly thing is indeed annoying, they did it this way because it's a franchise model. Anyone can request to open an assembly in their area, providing they fit the criterias. You're in charge of contacting farmers and animati
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by nyandaber 11y ago
How does it feed the data to the repo? Is it parsing reports from the parliament? If yes, how smooth did the process go?