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^this. The person described here appears like a crook who pocketed millions and stiffed investors, so why just a contempt charge? In any case, probably not a romantic explorer figu…

Wouldn't you know whether a teacher is reliable or not? If reliable, they probably have this reputation also because they can also say when they don't know something. And if you fo…

On the topic of "24. A Sony Walkman-style device that you can give to children so they can ask questions to an LLM...", I would strongly caution against this: - short of AGI, what …

Fair point in your case, but my experience across companies and industries is that people just don't read. It's true in any customer facing experience where tutorials etc are routi…

Looking at the link shared in another comment with the actual study, it seems that only 55% of private sector workers are happy with the new arrangement, and that higher satisfacti…

Can't help but notice that their reduced 4-days work week still is 36h long. 9h work days would be considered long in most European countries, where the norm is around 40h for a fi…

Ongoing demo of integrations with Claude by a bunch of A-list companies: Linear, Stripe, Paypal, Intercom, etc.. It's live now on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBGqr-BU54 In ca…

Qwant is infamous in France for having made big claims and failed repeatedly. It was for the longest time just a wrapper around Bing, while claiming otherwise.

Impossible, even in the current crazy atmosphere. An actual ban would mean an all-out commercial war and a very serious dent in globalization.

All families can't afford meat daily, let alone any type of meat they want. So, some families might favor chicken and certain processed meats here and there, but most cuts of beef …

I think many people have very positive experiences and data, at scale, speaking to the kind of success Edtech can have. I was involved with a study by the Center for Game Science (…

A scientist that causes, through willful fraud, the death of people seems to be guilty of something like manslaughter. Using fake data is a pretty clear-cut example of willful frau…

Thank you very much for sharing this, and the accompanying documentation. I had no idea that Ireland had such a system in place. It seems really elegant and efficient, and better t…

^ This, exactly. In France, digital rights isn't at the forefront of people's worries either (environment, inflation and buying power, societal questions, security, etc). That bein…

.. and don't ever want to buy a place in the city itself, since a square meter costs more than 10k€ in most of Paris.

yup, I can imagine some adversarial changes being made to the effect that the document generated by this online form can be refused by the administration in question. OR if there a…

The end of coal has not happened on Germany, who went back to using massive amounts of coal as Russian gas stopped being available : 33.2% of all German electricity came from coal …

From the google play console notification: --- To boost trust and transparency on Google Play, we're expanding developer verifications as part of our Play Console requirements poli…

Hi, from the tweet exchange in 2, it seems like your agent bought something, as opposed to selling it. Am I missing something?

To paraphrase, western democracies have problems, but the other systems are worse. If one accepts that democracy remains our best bet, the question becomes how to make democracy fu…

Information relevant to oneself, ie to the life and management of one's local and larger communities, are what will ultimately make the difference between a well-informed and enlig…

Yes, and recent examples show it: - News coverage allowed whole populations to understand a pandemic was happening and what actions were being taken by governments to tackle this i…

This would indeed be very interesting to see these pictures side by side, excluding the color / lighting correction of the picture as a whole. I wouldn't discount them entirely tho…

If you have to be a photographer to see the changes (and the focus on jaws is just so odd), and you won't notice the difference if you are just a regular Joe/Jane, then what purpos…

If I understand it correctly, the version entering the public domain would also include the author's own editions (as the limit to copyright of an author is 70 years). In Dahl's ca…