roma1n

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by roma1n 7y ago
The really sad part is all the missed positive externalities. Think about what could happen if a few companies owned up to it and said "hey we'll let you have one day a week helping children with their homework or working on a sha
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by roma1n 7y ago
How do you enforce the use of a formatter in a project -- pre-commit hook? pre-receive hook? both? And is there a convention to put a specific dotfile at the project root to hint at your IDE/editor that it should use a certain tool for
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by roma1n 8y ago
The French École Normale Supérieure will pay you around 1200 euros per month to study there. There are strings attached though (10 yrs public service commitment).
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by roma1n 8y ago
No, that is the median EQTP. The average is around 2250 euros/month EQTP.
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by roma1n 8y ago
The median salary is around 1800 euros for workers[1]. Not sure where you got the 1200 euros figure from. [1] https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3135908
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by roma1n 8y ago
> The "Social security" pays around of 10% of most usual costs, the mutual fund pays the rest... What? The basic insurance scheme pays at least 60% of a set of reasonable, negotiated fees and the "mutuelle" covers the
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by roma1n 8y ago
Not sure. An ariane 4 rocket exploded due to a leftover cleaning rag in a water line. I would guess the launcher + payload price would top the price of an F16?
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by roma1n 8y ago
Carreyrou :) By the way, the book is really good. Should be suggested reading for anyone in the workforce or about to enter it.
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by roma1n 8y ago
And debt; and favors work. Seems like a very good thing in moderate amounts.
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by roma1n 8y ago
Yes except that it is not black and white, working or not working. There could be a real case made for working less and directing efforts towards technology improvements that result in less environmental damage. To me, it does not make any
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by roma1n 8y ago
That's been debunked by examples where hiring (literal) team players that are not shining on their own enhances a team above the level of an 'all-star' team. So why do we keep repeating this nonsense?
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by roma1n 8y ago
Is there a prescribed SW development methodology at large technology companies? (e.g. Google). Google in particular seems to be heavy on tooling but, perhaps intentionally discards SCRUM et al from the outset.
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by roma1n 8y ago
True. There should be a hard cap on the amount of pollution (carbon emissions, etc.) that an individual may generate each year, wealth notwithstanding. Of course, this would be almost impossible to enforce and trivial to circumvent :(
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by roma1n 8y ago
Thanks so much for that :) I needed to hear that I'm not alone in this.
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by roma1n 8y ago
Or event a decent 20-30 euros bottle of St Joseph or a Côte-Rotie. No need to go into three figues.
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by roma1n 9y ago
Not really. You have what already exists for handling investments, e.g. you pay Yomoni (a tiny startup) to make decisions for you but your money is handled by one of the big banks e.g. Crédit Agricole. Your point is somewhat valid, but also
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by roma1n 9y ago
Where did you pull your $100 figure from? Suppose this accounting of environment and labor results in paying say $50 for a shirt that would be durable, then this might simply be awesome. Fewer, more durable goods that in the long term may b
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by roma1n 9y ago
Maybe because entrepreneurship is not the path to solving humanity's pressing problems? For many USians, health care is a pressing issue but maybe the best chance at improvement is through "EU-style" socialized medicine? My m
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by roma1n 9y ago
What would be a good way of promoting social / socialist policies in today's current environment? Also, while the idea of an earning cap does not seem to grab you, what about enforcing a cap on a given individual's ecological
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by roma1n 9y ago
OK, so Bitcoin is censorship-resistant. Good. But a practical alternative that would allow high-volume, cheap transactions could blow it off the water. This is weird; I keep seeing 'justifications' of Bitcoin's current value
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by roma1n 9y ago
Recently Amazon upped its minimum order for Prime Now (2 hr delivery) -- used to be 20 euros, now it's 40. I cancelled my subscription because of that, but the customer service was courteous and refunded the unused months fairly quickl
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by roma1n 9y ago
> My father told me that con men preferred to go after smart people, like doctors. The reason is that smart people thought they were too smart to get conned, and hence were more gullible. Another reason for going after high-status profes
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by roma1n 9y ago
Precisely! Offering this as an option (a simple option, not a new business model in itself) would tap into a user base that uses ad blockers already anyway. So yeah, that would establish a sort of ceiling and communicate some information to
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by roma1n 9y ago
Why would it be more expensive? Google's annual revenue is 13 billion for around 1.3 billion users. That is $10 per user per year or less than $1 per user per month. Google certainly has a rationale for not providing a subscription op
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by roma1n 9y ago
That's an open question that Google could solve by providing said option. One dollar a month for the complete suite of google tools with no tracking or ads whatsoever? Sign me up, right now. I pay 10x that amount to Spotify for a decen
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by roma1n 9y ago
this is not grammatical advice (uncountable, no 'a') Disclaimer: I am not a native English speaker and this is not grammatical advice
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by roma1n 9y ago
"censor" is a loaded term. Why not "forbid"? Also, what if the solution to an abusive government is not a technological tool but a plurality of governments, many of which promote (some vision of) human rights? Central po
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by roma1n 9y ago
See friends, exercise, and if the issue is serious enough, do not put off seeing a psychiatrist or another health professional. Strangely enough you do not see an Ask HN: what are you doing for your T1 diabetes ? -- people will just see the
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by roma1n 9y ago
Yup, most drugs used in psychiatry also have indications for neurologic conditions.
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by roma1n 9y ago
Well, it's counter strike we're talking about. They probably started playing it in their teenage years.

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