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falsestpropheton Canonical asks OVH to pay €1-2/mo/VPS. Else, prohibited to use the mark “Ubuntu”

It really isn't a French thing to be mortified by people speaking English. Probably, you did something else to offend.

That said it doesn't hurt for bonjour to be the first word out of your mouth. It is France and they speak French after all. The same goes for hello in every other language in every other country on earth as well.

source: American who has lived in France.

falsestpropheton My Dinner with Peter Thiel

You find it strange that conservatives support the Republican nominee for the presidency?

falsestpropheton Startups and immigration

If an entrepreneur moves to Canada or Europe to start their brilliant company, what makes you think an American (or American immigrant) founded and funded derivative company can't beat them in the market and create the jobs here anyway?

If Uber was founded in Toronto or London or Shanghai, are you sure that Lyft wouldn't have crushed them?

falsestpropheton Startups and immigration

This guy is lying or has a terrible lawyer.

If was telling the truth that he has founded and exited several technology companies including one worth over a billion dollars, then there are any number of ways he could found a business in the US: E-2, EB-5, and yes the O-1A.

falsestpropheton Startups and immigration

Why should the United States accept everyone who announces they would like to start a company? But it does with the E2 visa (for treaty countries).

And your problem is that you can't stay forever when the business fails?

falsestpropheton Buffer Layoffs

That is surprising and disappointing.

I know we didn't send our guys over to Iraq and Afghanistan in business class. It's shameful that a rando in USAID or something would be afforded better accommodations for a conference in Tokyo.

falsestpropheton Buffer Layoffs

"Good terms" is setting a pretty low bar for family.

falsestpropheton New Incentives (YC S16 Nonprofit) helps Nigerian mothers deliver babies safely

"The cost of a baby being born with HIV runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars."

By what measure does it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars? Hardly anyone in Nigeria has hundreds of thousands of dollars.

falsestpropheton Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups

Toronto is the seventh largest metro area in North America. 2/3 the size of Chicago.

About the same size as Washington and Philadelphia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metro...

falsestpropheton Machine learning for financial prediction

Exactly, when I heard drugs usage was a problem in some communities I too knew that was impossible because selling and using drugs is illegal.

Sure, there are a few that do illegal things (and inevitably get caught since there is so much monitoring going on).

falsestpropheton The trials and tribulations of doing business in India

Does that apply to United States readers?

There are certainly many criticisms of or insults to our country that a lot of our countrymen would prefer to not see.

falsestpropheton Instagram for Business

Yeah but Americans and some Europeans have basically all of the money.

Look up ad rates in the rest of the world and see how lucrative that business is.

falsestpropheton Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers

The two sexes are not identical. Boy are you going to be surprised about what pants are hiding.

falsestpropheton Five Cities Beloved by Digital Nomads

For one, the abolition of the fee is only temporary (for three months) officially.

falsestpropheton Five Cities Beloved by Digital Nomads

Until March 24, 2016 there was s $160 fee foe US citizens visiting Argentina. (Just incase not everyone is following Argentine visa policy.)

falsestpropheton An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else.

You do standby while millions are enslaved.

The United Nations estimates that roughly 27 to 30 million individuals are currently caught in the slave trade industry.

For context there were 3,950,528 slaves in the US in 1860.

falsestpropheton How Neanderthal DNA Helps Humanity

"If two organisms can mate and have viable offspring, and then the offspring can further reproduce, you say the two organisms are part of the SAME species."

Firstly, that's not true.

Even if that were true, there is no evidence of reproductive success between human males and Neanderthal females.

falsestpropheton Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

Is there large scale government directed selective breeding in China?

falsestpropheton Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much

The Red line between Cermak-Chinatown and 95th Street [1] was reconstructed over 5 months [2] in 2013.

[1] None of the reconstructed line was elevated steel structure.

[2] Not "almost two years"

falsestpropheton Ask HN: Freelance developer hit the ceiling: what to do next?

How do you spend $140k/yr in Vilnius? Is that a very extravagant lifestyle?

falsestpropheton Lyft and Uber to Halt Operations in Austin After Voters Reject Proposal

The "contractor" relationship at a financial service company (in the US) is almost always structured as W-2 employee of a staff augmentation firm.

falsestpropheton SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch

What you people are missing is that Americans don't care what you think.

falsestpropheton SpaceX lands rocket at sea second time after satellite launch

So you're telling Elon Musk he isn't an American?

He wouldn't pay you any mind.

I'm a other-than-singular national as well and I certainly don't care to hear I'm not American.

falsestpropheton H-1B Willful Violator List of Employers

"US is a nation of immigrants"

The US is a nation full stop and we can write whatever laws we please without regard to when people arrived here in the first place.

Are Madagascar, Mauritius and Haiti also disallowed from having immigration restrictions because they were also populated in the Modern era?

falsestpropheton One-third of SF Bay Area residents hope to leave soon, poll finds

And Lake Michigan.

falsestpropheton Congress is clueless about tech because it killed its tutor

I accept the premise that many people elected to Congress act in their own interests before their constituents.

But I think long before violently overthrowing the government, people would first try electing different people.

falsestpropheton Classism in America

It isn't equally ridiculous.

38.6% of Americans state that they would vote for Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton while 49% state that they would vote for Clinton over Trump.

There are only several hundred members of the IRA today (out of 1.8 million people in Northern Ireland) and even fewer of them participate in terrorism.

And it's not a logical fallacy. The cab driver clearly didn't mean all Americans support Donald Trump. Presumably he knows there are other candidates so thats at least a few people who don't support Trump. He meant a lot of Americans do support Trump and clearly they do.

[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Irish_Republican_Army

falsestpropheton Classism in America

"A cabbie asked me if I supported Donald Trump and told he we was surprised I didn't. He told me all Americans supported Trump. So I asked him if he was an IRA thug/terrorist, to which he naturally said no."

It's hardly reasonable to compare being a member of a terrorist organization to supporting the leading candidate of one of two major parties.

Consider just the sheer effort of participating in terrorism is far greater than voting.

falsestpropheton Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing

"potentially serve as a novel... toward curing.." is academic speak for "well, anything's possible"

falsestpropheton He Always Had a Dark Side

US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.