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We already had a system in France which is phased out. The difference is that that previous system was opt-in, and now it i the duty of the telemarketers to get authorization. The …

There is (or at least - was) a similar test for Paris taxi drivers. They needed among others to explain turn by turn the drive between two places indicated by the examiner. Today t…

Yes, we agree then. Interestingly enough, I noticed, at least in Europe, that a low participation is usually a sign of a country going well. People are more of less unaffected by t…

> I'm not sure what nitpick you're trying to make. The non voters are routinely used in discussions to lower the results of various parties. The message is "in reality only (a smal…

I am glad I'm not the only one. At least in France there were traditionally stacks of cartoons as well (and some magazines)

The French head of Microsoft ctor not, under oath, say that Microsoft can guarantee sovereignty. This is the evidence that until you have a EU company, under EU rules and not prese…

I was on the cybersecurity side of that, "advising" huge, multinational companies that hold the world together. Oh boy. I was told for instance once that my concerns about an open,…

The third that didn't vote does not exist. The net result was roughly 50/50. Now, maybe this third will start to exist and vote if they either wake up, are seriously hit financiall…

This is and have always been the case for Masters and above across Europe. It varies for Licentiates. It is also often the case for exams in majors (they are often oral). So nothin…

Why? If the low revenue busyness is taxed at 1% and the mega one at 30% (just examples). Taxing on the income also means that you can offload taxes elsewhere easily

It all depends on the tax level. If today they are texted at, say, 20%, this could be a 5% on gross revenue (or whatever), and indexed on the revenue (like for humans). I also run …

Sorry, I mixed them up (I am not a native speaker of English, but would have probably mixed them up in French as well :)). Thanks (I updated my post)

I seriously do not understand why companies pay taxes on the income and not the revenue. (EDIT: I mixed them up) I pay on the revenue. I also buy things. I also consume. And someho…

The French Post is also living in the 90s. They send SMSs that look like a scam ("your package something, click here"), the link is on a wild domain completely unrelated to anythin…

I have tons of devices and I wish everything was Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi has its problems but at least it is easily measurable, debugable, ... Zigbee is a voodoo protocol: you initiate the pa…

I work in cybersecurity, have seen a lot. For your own good, really listen to the legal advices.

I find it perturbing that one completely corrupt organization haggles with another completely corrupt organization using some moral arguments. It is just missing the Olympic Commit…

YEs, absolutely, there is a big difference. My point was rather that both drivers and cyclists can be assholes (with different outcomes)

True. Still showing 10$ when it is actually 11.75$ because there is a random tax is really, really insane. I truly wonder why the US does this when the rest of the world does not.

When visiting the US, I lerned that a meal that costs 10$ is actually 10$ + some random tax + a tip = 20$

This also includes cyclists. (I drive and cycle, and see all the combinations)

Why not reconfiguring it with something like AutoHotkey at the OS level ?

Thank you for the information - and what about communication? I don't think they have an antenna that reaches out to the surface?

When I was in my late teens, I used to hike with a 15 kg backpack (with the technology of the late 80s). I could walk about 15 km in average hills over 8-10 hours. I was average, p…

I would love to have something like this for HN, a RSS feed with articles over 5 hours (5 hours because it is old enough to have comments which are often more interesting that the …