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You should also work for a more ethical company next time. Edit: it's not a snark, just a friendly reminder.

There is a plan like this for Paris. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_(project)

I wouldn't trust a MBTI personality score because the test is too susceptible to social desirability bias. But on the other hand, assuming that you "are" an INTJ and knowing that y…

The test has low psychometric value but the underlying model is interesting [1]. I see it more as a checklist on what to consider about a person. Mainly: what is important to him o…

On the other hand, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [1]: [The Germani] do not pay much attention to agriculture, and a large portion of their food con…

How do the "honest DIAN officers" that you talk about report their exhorted income?

My theory is that as a lot of people don't declare their full income in developing countries (and are quite tax-adverse due to a perception of high corruption), a way to redistribu…

Partially mythical, there were no bananas and if I remember well there were only two monkeys. [1] [1] https://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural...

They sometimes do try to espouse a critical viewpoint of free trade, for example [1]. [1] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21695855-americ...

In regard to [1] your hypothesis is probably correct. There exists technology that dims the lights automatically when the volume level of an area is too loud, in order to make peop…

No paleogeneticist here but from what I know from : Andean people benefit from a genetic adaptation to high altitude and don't need coca leaves (Himalayan people also benefit from …

Then why would the g factor also apply to animals as stated on the Wikipedia page? You don't see that many doing mathematics.

It would be more like "Basketball is about being in very good physical shape", which makes more sense. IQ (or more precisely the g factor) correlates not only with math but also wi…

TeleSUR is the (mostly) Venezuelan equivalent of RT. Take it with a grain of salt.

It's interesting to note that since the revolution the French legislators have had an universalist view of things. The goal was to spread the enlightenment ideas to the world (who …

I'm not a constitutional lawyer but a subset of the protections seem to apply. The French constitution does an "include" of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.…

The French constitution references the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which covers "all men, French, foreign, prisoners and enemies".

As a kid I played in these areas while my dad was cutting wood. It was rather exciting to find a shell as these were rare compared to other pieces of metal. We were just told not t…

Hi Joe, Form my perspective: sometimes when I report a bug it's more so that other users don't waste their time troubleshooting it than to have it fixed immediately. Maybe sometime…

I can't comment on the paid support. I've just noticed that the non-paid support engineers seems to be under pressure. I feel little bit bad for them sometimes. They don't seem to …

I wonder if people at Google know how awful it is to report an Appengine bug. You have to battle for days to get your bug acknowledged. I've noticed that they've added more support…

True, Paris was renovated in the 19th century to be made more 'hypertrophic' [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris

It is probably a mistake to summarise the ethereum project as a cryptocurrency, it aims to be a lot more than that. That said, the problem with this kind of fundraising is that an …