Something being innate doesn't necessary mean it is in your genes.
It could be influenced/decided by any event or hormonal level during pregnancy / early childhood.
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It could be influenced/decided by any event or hormonal level during pregnancy / early childhood.
I have nothing against community manager / PR curators posting links, but making it clear would be IMHO preferable.
About the content: Interesting, but really weird font.
I use night train, when available, 1/2H to the train station, 5mn to boaard, and I wake up the following day in a nice city to explore. (not an hour away from that city, but in the center).
> Much of what makes Europe very livable these days results from returned would-be Americans promoting the democratization of Europe.
First time I ever heard this argument, so without solid arguments, I will continue believing that democratization in Europe is the expected result of the Age of Enligthement[1].
> Much of the rest of what makes Europe very livable these days results from the United States rescuing Europe from central European tyranny twice during the world wars
Well, this is a cute one, but work in Europe was mostly done by the Soviet Union and Britain in WW2, US just dealing the last blow to an already moribund opponent. (That is, for Europe, the US actions in others operative theaters at the time was huge, but we are talking about Europe here). US was quite late in WWI too, but I have no idea who would have won without them. They sure helped, but your comment make it look like a single country saving the day.
> and following the second rescue with the Marshall Plan and the Bretton-Woods agreement.
Marshall plan sure helped Europe economically, but saying it was pure goodwill instead of a political move isn't fair, it being devised by a military give some hints on the 'real' objectives[2]. I won't complain about that, since american supremacy was way more tolerable than USSR (Or so I was told, but winners write history, right?). I don't know enough about Bretton-Woods agreement effect to comment on it, so I will abstain.
Last point:
> Many, many, many people want to immigrate to the United States.
Yup, Hollywood did a nice job selling the american dream. Though that is changing, US/USSR is going from 'good guys/bad guys' to 'bad guys west/bad guys east' pretty quickly these days.
Sure I would like to visit, there are lots of interesting place, but having to deal with the TSA is to much of a hassle on its own.
Government shut-down closing those interesting places once in a while is just the bonus argument, but can prove even more bothersome than the TSA (which is after all only a bad moment).
European regulation is supposed to be harsher than US one, so it is highly unlikely, but I didn't found the information on the website.
People won't accept full-time low-wage shitty-manager jobs, because they won't accept their lives being poisoned by shitty managers, and they will have the choice.
But most shitty managers are shitty because they have power over their low-education personal (which can be easily replaced, and job market is not good these day). Those workers will take part-time ok-manager jobs, mostly because they want to contribute to society, also because they might get bored.
Also, in most of Europe, University cost is quite low (like, less than 1k€ / year, instead a life-long debt like 'some' country can pull out), so universal income could bring interesting trends in education. Not everyone would go back to school, maybe almost no one at first, but I would expect views to change rather quickly on that subject.
You may not even be allowed to turn to alternative battery suppliers, because it might be forbidden by contract. Their are some user protection laws in some countries (say, France), but it won't be the case everywhere.
What is strange is the use of 'minor'. As far as I know, their is officially no caste system in the US, so no minor or major citizenship. It may also be another case of me over-reacting, 'minor' meaning in this situation 'only one'.
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I suppose the referred story is there: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-kil... but I don't know if it's the only time that happened. Close enough I suppose.
I wonder what's wrong with me, it took me three times to understand what was the weird stench coming from this sentence. I then understood than 'minor citzen' thing you did. Well played, almost got me.
For what it's worse, this kind of critics hurt less from a fellow french (maybe because we have endured stupid governments together?).
My comment was not my brightest, far from it (none of my comment in this thread, in fact), but seeing so much french-bashing à la reddit, was too much for me I guess.
The worse is that I read this story in a french newspaper an hour before, which was less partial than the convict's blog. Gave up posting it here because paywall + language where too much hurdle for HN, and couldn't find a better article.
Seing this article afterward and the quality of the response (up to the article's value I guess), well, my reaction was not up to my own standards.
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Still, the french institution judgment was quite stupid, and we had a good laugh. The blogger's reaction to is incoming legal battle was beyond stupid. When you receive official document an incoming legal battle, you don't ignore it outright, you either deal with it or hire someone to do it, you check what you can do and what you risk. Ignoring it until you are fined is not the best way to be heard when complaining afterward.
I'll let the previous comment I made in the thread untouched. That way I'll think twice before being rude next time.
"Human blogger fined 8,000 euros by the french assholes for criticizing a bank" is the closest to reality.
"Human blogger fined 8,000 euros by the french independent authority for criticizing a bank" is close enough to reality and politically correct.
How many time did I see "SUSPECTED Al-Quaida member and his family and some of his neighbors were killed in an explosion while a drone coincidentally flew over his house" in the news this month? I lost count.
A few points:
* French are fed up with US agencies, nothing against US judges.
* This was a civil deliberation, and will probably be nuked if said blogger make appeal.
* That regulator have no way to enforce their decision.
* Yes, this judgment is beyond ridiculous.
* Yes, the AMF should be disbanded (if they are as corrupt as they seem) or need a severe shake (in the case they are 'just' dangerously outdated).
All my (highly-skilled) foreigner friends do not plan to leave either.
So with your argumentation, France is probably the best country in the world.
Coming from an american (I guess), i find this hilarious.
>France is closer to a monarchy than a democracy. I can get the comparison, current constitution was made to give important powers to the president (heavily influenced by Charles de Gaulle, which wasn't the best idea).
American democracy funding looks very much like bi-partisan plutocracy, when looked from outside, so not really a model. (And honestly, why stop with the work half-done? Be honest and bring it to one party. Or is it even harder to give democracy lesson afterward?
Being easily cynical, I will say that those who currently own Bitcoins are those who would make a buck if it was adopted, so it's not surprising to see that kind of idea there. But that's just me being cynical.
What is considered rude from a police officer in the US is when they shot you without warning (with a warning, it's normal).
They are lots of places I would love to visit in the US, but current policies are keeping me out (also: beard).
They are some always interest at play. Well funded publications are either government-backed (in some communist/socialist countries), which might mean unfair treatment of some news, or corporation (or corporation-backed), which means a stance on some subjects (let's say:liberalism) that isn't exactly fair either.
The best (or, some might say, only) way to get news is to get it from different sources, which preferably does not share the same point of view.
I wonder if this mechanism was the inspiration for that episode, seems close enough.
Sometime, economy freaks me out even more than politic :'(
I have wondered since I first heard of thorium reactor why they weren't already adopted. Since some of the country with the civil nuclear power are those with nuclear weapons, is it possible that the military are lobbying for uranium? (I can see two possible reasons: refining price going down with production scaling, or just to hide their own uranium import in the civil import. If Thorium is adopted worldwide and can't be used to build nuke, seeing who is upgrading its nuclear arsenal would way easier, which can be good or bad, depending on your point of view.)
>The technology development is decades in the future.
Well, that's true for every research domain which isn't funded enough.
But why hidding /removing the ads in gmail feel wrong? Because they are not too visible. The only bad/intrusive part of gmail ads is the mail parsing to select which ad will be shown. I have no proof, but I strongly suspect this will be done even if I hide them, so nothing to win there.
I REALLY hate ads on web-based gmail client, but I suppose they are a necessary evil.
The an ads-removing feature send the wrong message.
I may buy (or donate for) a gmail-client-enhancer. I may buy (or donate for) an ad-remover plugin (well, I already use ABP and ghostery, and donated for the former) But I wouldn't give money for a gmail-specific ad-remover, that doesn't feel right (even if I am using ABP, maybe the 'specific' part?)
I may be wrong, but distributing it at two separate plug-ins may be better. Removing the "ad-removing" part would be the easiest way, because interested people almost all already have ad-blocker.
Even if you chose to let it in, not making it a major marketing point would be smarter. just let it there as an option (activated by default or not, I don't know).
PS: Attachment icons would be real nice, though, I love that feature.
PS2: Yes, I know, using ABP and not wanting to pay for that app because of this feature sounds like hypocrisy, in fact it is, but that's how I thought about it (I have build-in hypocrisy), and I may not be the only one.
is it just me?
Last time the price went to someone before he actually did something, it didn't turn that well, so why try again?
It's not like there is a lack of possible nominee.