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SBF is despicable but I have no sympathy for his victims. 99.9% of FTX users were motivated by greed: speculation, tax evasion or illicit deals. Greedy people stolen by a greedier …

This comment is antisemitic and pornographic.

This refers to the Declararation of Rights of Man dated August 1789. It's still nowadays the foreword to the French Constitution. Hence the idea that France is the home of the huma…

My understanding is that Julius Caesar could have lost that war but there is little chance that Rome wouldn't have submitted Gaul in the end. Current Spain and Portugal's territory…

Indeed, what could go wrong... The author wants the scientists to be involved in the coming COP27, as if they were not already. As if no technical anf scientific solutions had been…

Despite his dubious past, the billionaire John Arnold has focused time and money to amend scientific research. I've read maybe 2 years ago about that endeavor and followed him on T…

Digikam is good. I haven't found anything great yet, but my 40,000 photos are well enough organized using Digikam's features. What I like is that its database is easily hackable th…

Without going to extreme extents, many of us can lead a more sober life: no plane trip, less meat, insulate the house, avoid fossil fuels on favor of electricity and choose an elec…

The link between monetary inflation and price inflation has been "demonstrated" by the Chicago Boys, with Milton Friedman as their guru. It led to the "monetarist" school of though…

Or maybe we don't care much about what happens in our jails. As if being raped in jail was part of the sentence. Note that rape is only the extreme form of the violence that inmate…

This reflects the abnormally high proportion of people jailed in the USA: - 80K inmates for 68.5M inhabitants in the UK => 0.12% - 1,215K inmates for 331M inhabitants in the US => …

Exodus privacy and TrackerControl apps on Android reveal that Dashlane tracks its paying customers and resell that data for targeting and/or retargeting. I wouldn't have been surpr…

FBI Searched Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/fbi-searc...

Always the same arguments are used to justify invasion of privacy by governments: terrorism, pedo-pornography, human trafficking for sex (especially children). Which are solid argu…

"we all know we can’t decarbonize in time" I guess you mean "we all know that almost no current government has the political courage to do what is necessary so that we decarbonize …

I don't know, really. You may be right but he's smart and very familiar with Twitter practices so despite the apparent no self-restraint, maybe he knows how to stay on the edge? So…

A big thank you! This is an amazing list of things to look into and keep in mind. Many points are obscure to me, but I'm going to print this and keep it at hand. Thanks again.

OK, thanks, I will take that into account.

Thanks! I appreciate, really.

I'm open to discussion of course, but I'd more a more argumentative reply. My point is not about equity but just plain efficiency. I'm all for a more equitable recruitment - but th…

I'm learning Python. Do someone knows a resource to learn the well-known tricks for "fast" Python? A book, a website, a cheat sheet or even a MOOC or part of a MOOC?

Taking references should be prohibited altogether, except for specific jobs (if the job implies interaction with children). They remind me of house employees' conditions in the "Do…

That's totally imaginary. As if Putin, through Gazprom, could decide the price paid by the EU for its fossil fuels. Putin doesn't have to sell and the EU doesn't have to buy. Cheap…

If you want not to be gullible to any parties, stick to the facts. Before Putin's so-called "demands": 1/ EU companies paid energy in euro or dollar to Russian banks NOT under sanc…

Old light technologies: lenses, glasses, telescopes, prisms, Fresnel lenses for lighthouses, ... laser may be too recent to be considered as "old". Despite being worked on for cent…