psalaun

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by psalaun 15d ago
I agree, but taxing real estate as an investment would break the wealth structure of many voters (and politicians) above the 80th percentile of wealth. For half a century, in France, it's been told that real estate was the safest/
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by psalaun 1mo ago
No, separation of powers
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by psalaun 1mo ago
for a caramel or some sauces it's legit
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by psalaun 2mo ago
woah, so many memories bubbling up right now, thanks!
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by psalaun 2mo ago
On a planet with infinite resources it may be a mad world. On one where oil will be depleted at some point and fast fashion brands are collectively creating thousands of disposable plastic clothes models in dozen of millions of nuits per mo
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by psalaun 2mo ago
Switching the feed setting from the default algorithmic curated one to chronological improves a lot. And unsubscribe people liking the kind of post you're mocking, too.
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by psalaun 3mo ago
I use it as my workhorse for coding and general chat questions, because it's good enough 80% of the time, and indeed it's french/european (with heavy US capital tho...). We complain too much about not having enough major comp
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by psalaun 3mo ago
I thought this was only an old urban legend; some people actually use this technique? Especially in a trade supposed to be led by people trained in sciences?
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by psalaun 3mo ago
I was looking from a job market / business opportunities angle, not as a user!
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by psalaun 3mo ago
I'm 40 and was in university when the first iPhone went out. The "glory days" of internet started soon, and I've never felt I lived through an exciting era (or job market) back then. I was living in Europe, far from the
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by psalaun 3mo ago
> People treat AI like a diary, and the government can request that data at anytime. Isn't the case for any US company? I'm working in an european SaaS business, and we consider that any data that goes through Azure or Google W
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by psalaun 4mo ago
I'm not from the US, but if the NYC taxi system works like french one, entry on the market required buying an existing licence from a retiring driver for the price of a flat. Government should have forbidden Uber from operating in this
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by psalaun 5mo ago
You can check in the Actions tab of the repository. For our 300k LoC codebase, it's between 5 and 10 min per review
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by psalaun 5mo ago
Maybe try water kefir first then. I've got mine for 5 years now at least, making 2 bottles every couple of weeks or so. Kefir is easier and quicker to make than kombucha, there is no caffeine and maybe less sugar. Probably the best int
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by psalaun 5mo ago
Exactly what I've been saying when people complain about how public sector spends the taxes (especially when comparing against private sector so-called efficiency when managing hospitals or schools)
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by psalaun 5mo ago
git bisect gets more useful because it will pin a smaller set of changes
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by psalaun 6mo ago
I use LinkedIn as a forum; I only follow, comment and react to economics, society, ecology related posts (and therefore I only follow people posting these opinions). It's the closest we have from an Agora: I can debate with people I wo
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by psalaun 6mo ago
A car race is a zero-sum game, which is not the case of economics (according to orthodox economists at least), so if there was a magic recipe for startups success, more of them would generate wealth, the pie would grow, therefore less shoul
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by psalaun 6mo ago
That's my point in France also: industries complain about the cost of workforce, therefore they've moved everything offshore for the last two decades and they are lobbying heavily for lowering the wages and taxes in order to &quot
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by psalaun 1y ago
And it even might be a rather short (in length, not height) peak we won't ever reach again. Nowadays I don't see a single reason to believe that children won't be put back to work in western societies in 200 years, unless mas
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by psalaun 1y ago
Where do you see jealousy in the comment?
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by psalaun 1y ago
Longueteau white rhums can be sipped, they are very floral. Taste like pure fresh sugar cane, without the sweet side. Their 62° is great for ti'punch.
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by psalaun 1y ago
And they keep going for it: in France the neoliberal government is pushing further the privatisation of railroad (they ask the national company to invest in the shared infrastructure, but spare the competition from this burden; then they wi
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by psalaun 1y ago
You completely ignore the point of my metaphor. Do you have enough trees to build the brig to reach these resources? If we deplete our oil stocks (even non-conventional) before discovering the multiple replacements we'd need at large s
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by psalaun 1y ago
You assume there are enough trees on the desertic island to build the ship that will allow us to reach the brave new world full of resources. We don't know that. It seems to be a leap of faith, based on the possibility of numerous succ
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by psalaun 1y ago
> It's easy to income Star Trek but hard to imagine how we get there from here I'd like someone, amongst the tech bros for instance but it could be any influential politician in power, to set a target on when do we stop making
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by psalaun 1y ago
It was a choice, I loved my job there. I had more exciting projects than most of my friends in the private sector!
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by psalaun 1y ago
In parisian startups it's more 9 to 7 with 30 min lunch breaks.
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by psalaun 1y ago
Even in government; I've worked 50+ hours weeks working for the healthcare branch of the providence state, with a classic 39h/w contract. No compensation of any sort, despite having timesheets. There are a lot of myths about Frenc
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by psalaun 1y ago
(I've the feeling that during civil uprising in dictatorship or democracy, the police tends to serve and protect the hand that feeds them, rather than the oppressed people.)

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