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by vansteen 5y ago
Arte is a French/German public TV channel (excellent one in my opinion). I guess this video is blocked outside these two countries (also available in Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, Austria, and Switzerland I think)
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A Game Designer’s Analysis of QAnon(medium.com)
2 points by vansteen 6y ago|0 comments
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by vansteen 6y ago
Everywhere in the world, nutrition labels appear to try to summarize in a simple way if a food product is "good" or "bad". Examples: - The European nutriscore : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri-s
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BeOS Intro Speech(youtube.com)
3 points by vansteen 6y ago|0 comments
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by vansteen 6y ago
That's not really the SE I have in mind. My old SE has a 4" screen and the weight is around 100g ...
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by vansteen 6y ago
color naming is a cultural topic.
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Theatrophone(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by vansteen 6y ago|0 comments
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by vansteen 6y ago
Used by many product checking apps. In France, Yuka seems to be the leader app ( https://yuka.io/en/ ). Yuka uses the open food facts database to fill its own datatabase. This kind of app is used a lot here to verify t
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by vansteen 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. Congratulations!
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by vansteen 7y ago
Btw, on a tax manner, are these companies really American?
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by vansteen 7y ago
"To provide this fix on short notice, we are using the Studies system. This system is enabled by default, and no action is needed unless Studies have been disabled. [..] It may take up to six hours for the Study to be applied to Firefo
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by vansteen 8y ago
You either hate it or love it. (personally, my default view in OSX Finder)
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by vansteen 10y ago
Symfony 3 or Laravel 5. Laravel has been created by Taylor Otwell. Here are his thoughts on Symfony 2 "vs" Laravel 4. It's from 2013 but it's still interesting to understand the difference. https://www.reddit.
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by vansteen 10y ago
I like Hacker News for that. The topic of this article is interesting. Thanks for bringing that up. However, when you read the comments here, you realise the article is quite wrong :)
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by vansteen 10y ago
French: Often used: à è é Used: â ä ê ë î ï ô û ù œ ç Very very rare: æ ü ÿ
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by vansteen 10y ago
In the meantime in Europe ... http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/29/prisons-acros... http://qz.com/644914/the-netherlands-keeps-having-to-close-i...
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by vansteen 10y ago
Next month in Switzerland, there's a votation to establish a basic income. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2016#Basic_...
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by vansteen 10y ago
Actually it's pretty common to do 40 minutes of subway travelling in a big european city. It begin to be quite long but many people do it.
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by vansteen 10y ago
Comparing to a flat in my city Paris, France... Many people (student, young professional) lives in small flats like that. I lived in a flat like that. The price of a 25sq-meters flat (= 270sq-ft, the Kasita) is around 200 000 US$ . To rent
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by vansteen 11y ago
Some scientists think they are quite intelligent animal and they can easily learn. The problem is they have to learn everything by themselves. I read that octopus doesn't transmit any knowledge from one generation to the next one. The
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by vansteen 11y ago
I never heard about such a device but I have a Motorola LAPDOCK to control my raspberry. I guess the raspberry could be adapted to control a distant desktop (adding a wifi or bluetooth card, a battery of some sort and a VNC-like software) O
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by vansteen 11y ago
I guess what you're saying can be discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen...
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by vansteen 11y ago
Just a simple advice: When someone comes to you to offer you a "taxi" service everywhere in the world, be careful, it might be a scam. (One time, I've been robbed of all of my money in Vietnam accepting an offer like that) Th
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by vansteen 12y ago
That's a good news!
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by vansteen 13y ago
You are totally right. In the 20th century, France committed ugly things as well. In my previous post, I was talking about the recent period but Algeria is a good example what should be avoid. It's still a sensitive topic here, even 50 year
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by vansteen 13y ago
"Afaik, most every democracy that had a serious terrorist problem over years threw out the law book -- UK, Germany, Israel, Spain, USA, etc." ... Can you precise? I can talk about something I know. I'm french. France got problem with islami
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by vansteen 13y ago
First impression: 1/ You cannot visualize which link has been previously visited. Important for me! 2/ It's harder to read. Too much white spaces maybe.
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by vansteen 14y ago
Paperless. I scan and classify in Evernote every single mail I receive. (tax, invoices, gvt mail, etc..)
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by vansteen 15y ago
Fantastic! I was looking for details about this french documentary for ages. I saw it on french TV long time ago but I failed to find some details about it. Thanks for this links.
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by vansteen 17y ago
I've seen many time Unarchiver saying a archive was corrupted or was unable to decrypt with the right password. Now I use unrar in command line. (imported from macport) . Much better!

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