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This as much as you want to do it though. I share OP's view point, but will also let those house keeping tasks rote away for a while if I'm not in the mood too. They'll still need …

I think it vastly depends on what you are ordering. We passed a ton of orders for valuable goods that were processed by small companies who used amazon as an alternative storefront…

In France McDonalds partnered with a book publisher to create a whole new collection to bundle books with Happy Meals. Small steps yet, but they could be getting there.

A case where it can matter is when there is no clear commitment yet to use that API. For instance if there is 2 or 3 alternative services, and you want to explore one of them to ha…

I generally like French culture, and also see a strong economic rationale that covers the "amusing" part. It has a strong (and also protected) agriculture sector, from memory they'…

You have a point, but I also think we should be thinking beyond smartphones and try to act on what they are used for. Not in a "guns don't kill people way", but because I think sma…

That's so sad this sarcasm basically became fact after so many decades of going the wrong way. It's also why cities are taking back whole roads from cars when they can, as it's so …

Is the car that last bastion that will make the masses rise in anger, when every single part of our lifes are already touching that spot ? I recently discovered the motorcycle airb…

Car related issues are never “someone else” ’s problem though. Cars getting hacked when running around you won’t be a risk you can ignore. Your town’s critical services car systems…

Judging from this > Mailchimp may in principle be subject to data access by US intelligence services on the basis of the US legal provision FISA702 (50 U.S.C. § 1881) It might not …

Thank you. This looks like a pretry fresh ruling judging from the date of the article, good to know.

I am curious what about Mailchimp make them illegal to use ? On the face of it they seem to have support for the required stuff: https://mailchimp.com/gdpr/

Thanks, but those are just hooks in the app (and stuff like DSFile disconnect every here and there) You still need to manually save each document where you want it, instead of the …

I don't know for the other commenters, my main use of a document scanner is to backup in PDF form on my NAS and in Google Drive so I can trash the physical copy. The scanning part …

Crime rates are generally low so the difference between the areas is less a factor than for other countries, but there are soil and geographic positioning factors that weight a lot…

Not disagreeing, but the devil’s advocate: sometimes you don’t want to be keeping the contractors longer, and will use them as fuses to shelter your business when bad times come. T…

In my experience, in EU it’s just the average perception and you’ll find a good section of big companies having better views. In Japan it’s more like finding exceptions to the rule…

The demerits also accrue, you lose a bargaining chip for your export fees, and it makes it more attractive to rely on imported goods than build a local alternative that could lead …

Proficient French after one year is miraculous (German would be realistic for limited domains), it’s an unforgiving language in a lot of unfathomable ways, just matching gender and…

You get an imbalance with free incoming trade but taxed/impaired outgoing trade. Perhaps a massively importing country can live with it if importers get better deals as a consequen…

It depends on what you call a 'farming society'. If it's about where their priorities lies, Vikings are not a farming society. They valued fertile lands and resources, and expanded…

Sure, yet in the blog's context, arguing wether there are 100% pillaging societies that never had farmers nor developed land under their control is also an argument I feel nobody i…

That was a weird read. For instance: > Under the assumptions of our Fremen Mirage, we ought to expect farming societies to be frequently overtaken and subjugated by their non-farmi…

I also do, but recognize that more than half of the stuff I did to get graduation credits where very boring. Of course, we don’t know in advance what will resonate and what will fa…

Doesn’t it at least constitue a data point for future cases, where Google won’t just be able to say “we just don’t hinder competitors, you must be mistaken” and we also get vetted …