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Arte is a French/German public TV channel (excellent one in my opinion). I guess this video is blocked outside these two countries (also available in Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, A…

Everywhere in the world, nutrition labels appear to try to summarize in a simple way if a food product is "good" or "bad". Examples: - The European nutriscore : https://en.wikipedi…

That's not really the SE I have in mind. My old SE has a 4" screen and the weight is around 100g ...

color naming is a cultural topic.

Used by many product checking apps. In France, Yuka seems to be the leader app ( https://yuka.io/en/ ). Yuka uses the open food facts database to fill its own datatabase. This kind…

Thanks for sharing. Congratulations!

Btw, on a tax manner, are these companies really American?

"To provide this fix on short notice, we are using the Studies system. This system is enabled by default, and no action is needed unless Studies have been disabled. [..] It may tak…

You either hate it or love it. (personally, my default view in OSX Finder)

Symfony 3 or Laravel 5. Laravel has been created by Taylor Otwell. Here are his thoughts on Symfony 2 "vs" Laravel 4. It's from 2013 but it's still interesting to understand the di…

I like Hacker News for that. The topic of this article is interesting. Thanks for bringing that up. However, when you read the comments here, you realise the article is quite wrong…

French: Often used: à è é Used: â ä ê ë î ï ô û ù œ ç Very very rare: æ ü ÿ

In the meantime in Europe ... http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/29/prisons-acros... http://qz.com/644914/the-netherlands-keeps-having-to-close-i...

Next month in Switzerland, there's a votation to establish a basic income. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendums,_2016#Basic_...

Actually it's pretty common to do 40 minutes of subway travelling in a big european city. It begin to be quite long but many people do it.

Comparing to a flat in my city Paris, France... Many people (student, young professional) lives in small flats like that. I lived in a flat like that. The price of a 25sq-meters fl…

Some scientists think they are quite intelligent animal and they can easily learn. The problem is they have to learn everything by themselves. I read that octopus doesn't transmit …

I never heard about such a device but I have a Motorola LAPDOCK to control my raspberry. I guess the raspberry could be adapted to control a distant desktop (adding a wifi or bluet…

I guess what you're saying can be discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen...

Just a simple advice: When someone comes to you to offer you a "taxi" service everywhere in the world, be careful, it might be a scam. (One time, I've been robbed of all of my mone…