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They were all over 60: a man (a doctor) in his early 60’s with no apparent previous health problems; a woman in her early 70’s with a major previous problem, a cancer; and a woman …

> Do you know many people who have died? Who have gotten seriously ill? Are you afraid? Do you think the response in your own location is too little or too much? I live in France. …

> I am partial to the idea of someone getting to decide, in advance, who they can see or hear. Letting the mob in, and then muting or banning after the fact can be exploited too ea…

It can be a first step to creating a new distribution, but most people just do it as a learning experience. Here's one example though of someone who went on to create a new distrib…

It depends, there's no simple, standard answer. Layoffs in France correspond with the idea of a "licenciement économique" and the details of how that is managed are presented here:…

> Also technically I guess (IANAL) you might have to prove that you obtained the source code prior to the license change. I don't see why. If some code is made available under an M…

> From what I heard France has strong worker protection laws, even stronger than Germany. Do you think this is/could be a problem for startups? Yes, France has strong worker protec…

No, open source licenses impose no obligations on the copyright holder for their own code. For example, if the copyright holder releases their own code under a GPL licence, no law …

> My question to you, gentle reader – are there any licences which compel the distribution or publication of the development history? No, other than that any given project has to g…

The submission appears to be available only as a video. It would be helpful to prefix the title with "[video]", if that's possible.

> Ending at-will employment is a legal solution to a cultural problem. Unlikely to work, but more importantly, I’d argue it’s unwise to rely on legal codes to solve non-legal probl…

> But if most employers were to go fully remote, at that point the shortage-driven Silicon Valley wages would drop near the national average, regardless of how much more it costs u…

> But the arguments I see from Facebook and in this article are about cost of living. That's wrong. Price it based on value created by the employee. Salaries aren’t based primarily…

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> Too much is made of the idea of 'objective facts' and 'subjective experience'. It causes so much linguistic confusion. I disagree on this point. When we think of matter, in terms…

> I don't know if that is a helpful way of constructing the issue; it certainly isn't a neutral one. Reading what I wrote again, I agree that it could have been expressed better. S…

> But the obvious physicalist response is that consciousness has evolved as an efficient information-processing device in in the course of evolution and so that it is, really, unde…

> Sentience has a subjective quality to it, but it’s not clear it has any power. As I said, I don’t know. I agree it’s not clear. The first book I read on the subject, many years a…

> “Quantum mechanics disproves determinism and therefore disproves free-will-skepticism” is an asinine argument ... I agree, it doesn't disprove determinism. If someone argues that…

I’m in France and I’ve lived here for 30 years. What you’ve written is correct. However here’s the reality: If your employer dislikes you, they can fire you for some false reason. …

> For the context it is a small business of 6 people. I think the size of the company explains why you were asked to take emails while on vacation. In a bigger organization, with m…

> This time I'd like to start really pouring my soul into something that can provide meaning to my life, without rushing into the next app/side project/hustle/startup to temporaril…

> From a taxation point of view I'm under the impression that for a country such as France for example seniors are gonna get _on average_ way more benefits during their pension tha…

> I wouldn't mind prepping 6 months on the side using cracking the coding interview, leetcode, etc. but I feel like I will be judged too harshly due to my lack of progress in my ca…