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The really sad part is all the missed positive externalities. Think about what could happen if a few companies owned up to it and said "hey we'll let you have one day a week helpin…

How do you enforce the use of a formatter in a project -- pre-commit hook? pre-receive hook? both? And is there a convention to put a specific dotfile at the project root to hint a…

The French École Normale Supérieure will pay you around 1200 euros per month to study there. There are strings attached though (10 yrs public service commitment).

No, that is the median EQTP. The average is around 2250 euros/month EQTP.

The median salary is around 1800 euros for workers[1]. Not sure where you got the 1200 euros figure from. [1] https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3135908

> The "Social security" pays around of 10% of most usual costs, the mutual fund pays the rest... What? The basic insurance scheme pays at least 60% of a set of reasonable, negotiat…

Not sure. An ariane 4 rocket exploded due to a leftover cleaning rag in a water line. I would guess the launcher + payload price would top the price of an F16?

Carreyrou :) By the way, the book is really good. Should be suggested reading for anyone in the workforce or about to enter it.

And debt; and favors work. Seems like a very good thing in moderate amounts.

Yes except that it is not black and white, working or not working. There could be a real case made for working less and directing efforts towards technology improvements that resul…

That's been debunked by examples where hiring (literal) team players that are not shining on their own enhances a team above the level of an 'all-star' team. So why do we keep repe…

Is there a prescribed SW development methodology at large technology companies? (e.g. Google). Google in particular seems to be heavy on tooling but, perhaps intentionally discards…

True. There should be a hard cap on the amount of pollution (carbon emissions, etc.) that an individual may generate each year, wealth notwithstanding. Of course, this would be alm…

Thanks so much for that :) I needed to hear that I'm not alone in this.

Or event a decent 20-30 euros bottle of St Joseph or a Côte-Rotie. No need to go into three figues.

Not really. You have what already exists for handling investments, e.g. you pay Yomoni (a tiny startup) to make decisions for you but your money is handled by one of the big banks …

Where did you pull your $100 figure from? Suppose this accounting of environment and labor results in paying say $50 for a shirt that would be durable, then this might simply be aw…

Maybe because entrepreneurship is not the path to solving humanity's pressing problems? For many USians, health care is a pressing issue but maybe the best chance at improvement is…

What would be a good way of promoting social / socialist policies in today's current environment? Also, while the idea of an earning cap does not seem to grab you, what about enfor…

OK, so Bitcoin is censorship-resistant. Good. But a practical alternative that would allow high-volume, cheap transactions could blow it off the water. This is weird; I keep seeing…

Recently Amazon upped its minimum order for Prime Now (2 hr delivery) -- used to be 20 euros, now it's 40. I cancelled my subscription because of that, but the customer service was…

> My father told me that con men preferred to go after smart people, like doctors. The reason is that smart people thought they were too smart to get conned, and hence were more gu…

Precisely! Offering this as an option (a simple option, not a new business model in itself) would tap into a user base that uses ad blockers already anyway. So yeah, that would est…

Why would it be more expensive? Google's annual revenue is 13 billion for around 1.3 billion users. That is $10 per user per year or less than $1 per user per month. Google certain…