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breakintheweb

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    Comment #24076532

    Some of Larry Ellison's emails with his financial advisor became public and talk about doing just this.

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    Comment #22391782

    I'm sure you have just didn't realize they were French. Schneider Electric, Technicolor, Atos, etc.

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    Comment #21805338

    Imagine a list of objects with descriptions or names and these objects need to be drag/dropped. It would make since to disable highlight the object names by mistake.

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    Comment #21545094

    Also the 'less than $500' is misleading at best. I would understand not factoring in time if it was built in a weekend, but it was two guys for 8 months.

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    Comment #21239168

    A lot of office buildings in the us have the windows permanently closed so you can't open them.

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    Comment #20885985

    I'm Curious how you are arriving at the 600ms since ping is already round trip.

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    Comment #20884743

    The father has 11 days of paternity leave in France.

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    Comment #20800891

    I'd imagine the real reason for the complaint is that the royalty structure is more lucrative for the publishers and/or authors for books vs audiobooks.

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    Comment #20533147

    The weird thing for me is the people are literally taking a picture of themselves committing a crime. It seems like it would be easy to bring a case against someone doing this?

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    Comment #20524626

    I would argue that overstated would be wrong because you could surely overstate his role. "He was the only reason Tesla existed, would be overstating his role. I think "his role sh…

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    Comment #20396533

    Caps lock is still used by French people on the azerty keyboard since you need to press shift to access numbers.

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    Comment #18670884

    The word tea generally refers to the various preparations of leaves from the plant Camellia sinensis.

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    Comment #18457979

    I think there would be a big problem with sentimental value also. For example, the old local store that is family owned or the house that you built with a family member who is now …

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    Comment #18307498

    I know in France, there was a "solidarity tax on wealth" which was a yearly tax on assets over 1.3million euros. Artwork was exempt from this. This changed in the end of last year …

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    Comment #15227046

    They could still have the HSBC logo, it would just need to be in ascii....

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    Comment #15123569

    It's not only that, it's also the fact that public transportation is bad in most cities in the U.S. You need to have a way to get to the train in city A, and a way to travel after …

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    Comment #14988053

    As an american living/working in france I feel the pain of the azerty. Si vous décidez de changer, je recommande le français canadian clavier. C'est le qwerty clavier avec quelque …