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> Luke Beson

Luc Besson.

francoisfeugeason Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable Forms

Well, the vast majority of Europe builds concrete homes. We definitely get insulation, internal plumbing and wiring.

francoisfeugeason The Next Backblaze Storage Pod

A French SDS company, now owned by OVH, did exactly that a few years ago : https://fr.slideshare.net/openio/openio-serverless-storage-7...

I don't think they actually sold any.

francoisfeugeason We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change

In France for instance if you accept credit cards, it is illegal to add a fee for accepting it.

You can impose a minimum purchase amount for accepting it though.

Certain professions (i.e., taxis) are even forced to accept credit cards.

francoisfeugeason How We Built r/Place

Last time I tried it, their app was even worse than the mobile website though.

francoisfeugeason Razer targets perfect Linux support

What models specifically are you talking about ? My company buys high end ASUS and Dells with AZERTY (fr) layouts...

I've never heard of a major vendor not shipping ISO layouts before

francoisfeugeason Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork

This is an excellent initiative. Can you shoot me an email to discuss how we can work together (it's on my profile) ? My company used to work with Prestashop a lot.

francoisfeugeason Telegram bans public ISIS channels

I'm not going to debate on how democracy works or doesn't work, you totally disregarded the second part of my comment anyway.

I'm not aware of any atrocities committed by our current government.

[edited after cooling down]

francoisfeugeason Telegram bans public ISIS channels

He did blame the victims.

France is a democracy. The French government has been elected and represents the people of France.

Plus all the things he refers to are not especially the doing of our current government. I do not like our current president or the current ruling party, but come on...

francoisfeugeason Telegram bans public ISIS channels

Excuse my French but that man is a piece of shit. Victim blaming at its finest and a totally uncalled for, totally irrelevant, very misinformed political opinion.

I do realize I'm on HN and this is not the place to discuss this, but I had to react as this hits a nerve (obviously).

If you think the French welfare state is a production of our current socialist government, newsflash: it's not. As for France being a paradise for immigrants, we can't even get the Syrians refugees to come here to fulfill the quotas Europe imposed on us.

I can't find any more words to say how disgusted I am by that comment.

francoisfeugeason Je Suis Charlie

Your link is so much more relevant than the thousands of people taking the streets brandishing "Je suis Charlie" signs when the terrorists are still at large. /s

Sorry, I meant : yes, really.

francoisfeugeason Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification

State is a required field ? And we have no details on which data files you use ?

I'm very interested in such a service, but this does not look serious at all...

francoisfeugeason Tablet Zero

> It's perfectly clear to anyone who has watched Samsung > over the years that they're the Burger King of consumer > electronics. They let the market leader do the R&D and > then slavishly imitate their successes.

We may not be watching the same company then : Samsung invests over 6 billion USD per year in R&D, approx. 9% of its revenue (Apple does 2.2%).

Sure, on some markets Samsung acts more as a "fast follower" than as as innovator, but to call it the "Burger King of consumer electronics" is plain ridiculous.