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>Free trade benefits all people. At this point it's not economy, it's religion.

You can't expect the people who are the adjustment variable of worldwide unimpeded trade to applaud with both hands.

Now make a laptop with a keyboard and touchpad that justifies me stopping frankensteining my old machines to keep them alive. That chiclet keyboard and phone-sized pad nonsense is …

Dell tax on options, I'd wager. If you look at the cost on everything that isn't the base, laptop manufacturers generally add an extra 100% on the retail price of these parts. 200%…

>Support is good and reachable by phone Really ? I used them quite a bit years and years ago, and at the time the support was somewhat garbage, which made me move to OVH.

Not surprised to read in the comments they're a subsidiary of Online.net. Ever since they've introduced ultra-cheap dedicated boxes ten years ago, it seems everybody's been sub-ren…

To be completely honest, I also do it like this at the moment, using Kdiff as a merge tool. I've been thinking about moving over to Ediff, but I'm lazy.

Serious question, never used a git GUI in my life, is there a practical point to it ? I just can't see myself doing it without zsh, my nested .dotfiles, fasd and so on. And worst c…

You guys across the Atlantic need to understand than nobody in Europe ever cared about what the EU votes, unless they're a EU employee themselves.

Europe fell decades ago. The Marshall Plan we call it.

Odd you'd say that. Though I'm not a native English speaker, I found Spanish to be among the hardest languages I've come across (more so than Modern Greek or German), and I come fr…

As a rule of thumb, English is choke-full of Anglo-Saxon/French redundancies that rarely come to light due to a register separation. Anglo-Saxon etymons tend to the lower registers…

The money would most likely go to the French state, hence benefiting indirectly to the whole of French citizens.

Wow, I went into the negative with that. You guys really need to learn how to take a joke (unless I'm being taken down by the hippie lobby, in which case I'll keep put. No surrende…

I read "hippies" and rejoiced. If only...

The number of death is probably more an effect of the general destabilization of the country (which gave ample room, as an example, for various exactions on minorities in Irak besi…

Getting things done ? You must have missed the Louvois scandale. You know, thousands of soldiers no being paid for almost a year and stuff...

The adoption of Linux is just consistent with the fact that we're getting poor.

Most of the French DON'T work for the government and unions have almost no power whatsoever. That's why they make a lot of noise.

Archiving languages is necessary for linguistics' sake. God knows we'd love to have at least some form of written attestation for most ancient tongues.

Trying to experience a bit of everything isn't a WASP thing, it's bona fide Humanism. As Montaigne put it : « I like better a well rounded head than a well filled one ». Western Un…

City creations are ordered all the time and they do not forcibly fail. Many new world (ie. US, Australia, NZ) cities weren't organically grown. And so were a lot of cities built du…

I've been able to vote for quite a long time, and never did so out of principle (in a country where 80%+ of the population votes, very much unlike the US). I actually think the nee…