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by rapht 6mo ago
This article omits so many negatives from the "cyclist's paradise" vision of Hidalgo's 2 terms that I don't know where to start. Families are the first casualties: the Paris metro is nowhere near accessible to strol
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by rapht 6mo ago
That is the right question to ask. My temptation is to respond "Obsession with nature is destroying humanity's prospects." Now what?
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by rapht 8mo ago
This is an S4. Last S4 event was in October 2003.
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by rapht 1y ago
Sorry if that sounds offensive, but you are being a bit shortsighted here. The theory just says that shareholder value serves both as a guide to what a business should do, and as a measure of how good it has done, because that measure encom
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by rapht 1y ago
> And meanwhile the biggest threat to all our security, the climate crisis goes unaddressed. That the climate crisis is the biggest threat to our security is the biggest fallacy of our times. It's not that climate change is unimport
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by rapht 1y ago
Agreed. Also, could an elector be nominated to the next round? (i.e. does becoming an elector prevent you from winning the election)
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by rapht 2y ago
Probably it's because I'm not a quantum physicist, but the argument boiling down to "the wavefunction is an object of a probability space not of physical space" seems to make the whole article moot. Can the "wavefun
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by rapht 2y ago
You see the carrot vanishing... OK. But what about the stick? The whole point of Trump's policy is 'we forgot the stick, let's use it again'. I see this true for international policy but you could probably extend that to
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by rapht 2y ago
I don't know what makes you say that. Requiring a bit of market research from project proponents does not mean excluding anything lightweight or just new. What you don't want is some company being contracted because it talked to y
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by rapht 2y ago
CFO's perspective: wanna sell me something, anything? you're out. However well crafted your email is, you're an unacceptable distraction from the priorities that the company has set, the achievement of which is materialized b
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by rapht 2y ago
It's the reason why it can only work at small scale: it's all or nothing. It wants to be your only communication channel. But, surprise, as soon as you live in a larger organisation, there will already be communication channels th
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by rapht 2y ago
Countless Buddhist books explore this in thorough detail.
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by rapht 2y ago
The fact that you can still access hidden quotes/replies/etc from the API makes me think it's a client-side (i.e. app-only) feature.
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by rapht 2y ago
> why would you tip a barber? because they cut your hair good? what was the base payment for then? Let me return the question: why would you tip a waiter? because they brought your food to your table? isn't that why they should be p
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by rapht 2y ago
At individual contributor level, such schemes may work -- anyways, people are paid by the hour so anything outside hours is already dubbed 'overtime', and companies are bound to care. At management level (i.e. top management talki
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by rapht 2y ago
The study seems US based only, I wonder if there's a similar trend in Europe -- that would help identifying if some of the potential environmental factors have been regulated out on the other side of the Atlantic.
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by rapht 2y ago
My understanding was that the main interest of SendGrid, Mailgun et al was precisely that they manage to (more or less) reliably mass send email through the great MS/Google/Proofpoint, where hitting the recipient's mailbox is
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by rapht 2y ago
Unfortunately the article mixes the ends with the means. The key trait that seems to stand out in the most highly regarded people in history is discipline: there is no "10x work" without hard, long term focus, which requires disci
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by rapht 2y ago
A primer on valuation: in many financial contexts, $1 of operating savings may be worth much more than $1 of investment. That is because an investment is a one-off, so it's actually worth $1, but the savings are recurring, so they are
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by rapht 2y ago
Preserve AM radio for worst-case scenario emergency, where nothing else ever is available -- that's the million year solar flare or the next nuclear winter -- of course. AM is the best at what it does, which is transmitting efficiently
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by rapht 2y ago
I have to say, knowing a bit more than is public about the deal the Australians had in the first place with the French and that they chose to just throw away, that I'm left laughing out loud.
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by rapht 3y ago
I don't know about Adobe's motives, but it sure looks like despite the "we ended the process by mutual agreement" talk, Adobe somehow walked away... otherwise they wouldn't let $1bn out of the window - unless they a
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by rapht 3y ago
Got the exact same with a bank located rue de Téhéran :p
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by rapht 3y ago
> The reason I think listing taxes separately is OK is because (a) it is not something that the business itself has any choice over and (b) all businesses have to tax the same for equivalent services. (a) is really just like the price of
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by rapht 3y ago
Same here. Smooth experience.
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by rapht 3y ago
Let me repeat what I have already state elsewhere : the only way the privacy nightmare ends is when we thouroughly regulate the personal data market out of existence - meaning going one step further than GDPR and just forbid any use of my p
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by rapht 3y ago
At this point, I don't really care who is to blame between Apple allowing Meta's intrusivity, and Meta or any others just being intrusive. There is no solution other than "regulate the personal data market out of existence&qu
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by rapht 3y ago
Basically from quick math, this amounts to financing 80% of the buyback through debt and 20% through presumably cash brought by the investors listed alongside EQT in the press release. (If all non EQT shareholders accept the offer, EQT will
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by rapht 3y ago
I'm not a fan of patents, but in that case, it's not like some bigco seeking to perpetually extend monopolistic rights on some product - the inventor is alive, they made what seems like a genuine contribution to the world, and tha
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by rapht 3y ago
Full transparency is probably impractical as soon as the product is complex enough, but whenever inside a product there is one "main component" (such as is the case here), that should be indeed be properly traced - and it would cu

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