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You will be prosecuted in some cases in France. This is a law named “insult to a representative of public authority” If you shout insults at Macron, you will be prosecuted. If you …

I grew up there. I used to bike along stretches of firebreaks between plots. These firebreaks are nowhere nearly enough. Trees are young, pine needles spread everywhere, and ground…

It is also not possible as there is censorship in some cases. The European Union has blocked rt.com.

Constant recreation may be the ultimate purpose of humanity.

Learn the social cues. People won’t say when they are busy. They might not ask you questions back, or keep doing what they do.

They are not allowing other marketplaces, or creators themselves, to run apps on Apple devices directly.

Karp is a philosopher by training that has fallen into ideological blindness. He claims that he is on the right side of history. Democracies need Palantir badly. He preaches his vi…

Liquidation preferences may have multiples. A 3x liquidation preference would have erased most gains for anyone who didn’t raise in the last round, employees and founders included.…

True. I myself try to read articles without looking up the authors. It is hard though. When someone makes an extraordinary claim I feel the urge to look them up. It is a shortcut t…

Nagel's point is that he could not know what it was like to be a bat.

It takes fresh minds not to think about the collective impact of their actions.

What policies post World War II have had eugenic effects on the population?

The issues are two-fold 1- the territorial split between gendarmerie/police within the French territory 2- the fact the gendarmes for police work report to the Ministry of Defense.…

I have always found confusing the existence of the gendarmes. They are indeed a vestigial force of the XIXth century, and should be transformed into a regular police force.

What if Tim was the coding agent?

Cannot come soon enough. Companies like Voodoo Games have made a killing scamming gullible people with no oversight.

> Some have been tortured. Is there any evidence of this?

Depending on the number of applicants and job posts, it may be hard to prove that the person in company A discriminates.

Ironically the post is affected by Hacker News flame-war detection system.

This is a good analysis. About #2 (disincentivize charter education): parents created charter schools because they disagreed on the choices that was made for them in public educati…

Are you referring to the "Joint WHO-China Study"? https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-...

This is an apt description of how things are, sadly. And it all starts at the crib when parents teach their children blind obedience.