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Re:Scott Adams has died on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:24PM (#46608301)
> Luke Beson

Luc Besson.

Well, the vast majority of Europe builds concrete homes. We definitely get insulation, internal plumbing and wiring.
Re:The Next Backblaze Storage Pod on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:11PM (#27621654)
A French SDS company, now owned by OVH, did exactly that a few years ago : https://fr.slideshare.net/openio/openio-serverless-storage-7...

I don't think they actually sold any.

Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:04PM (#15918538)
In France for instance if you accept credit cards, it is illegal to add a fee for accepting it.

You can impose a minimum purchase amount for accepting it though.

Certain professions (i.e., taxis) are even forced to accept credit cards.

Re:How We Built r/Place on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:08PM (#14110939)
Last time I tried it, their app was even worse than the mobile website though.
Re:Razer targets perfect Linux support on Saturday March 04, 2017 @06:50AM (#13790497)
What models specifically are you talking about ? My company buys high end ASUS and Dells with AZERTY (fr) layouts...

I've never heard of a major vendor not shipping ISO layouts before

Re:Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:23AM (#13344526)
This is an excellent initiative. Can you shoot me an email to discuss how we can work together (it's on my profile) ? My company used to work with Prestashop a lot.
Re:Telegram bans public ISIS channels on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:30PM (#10596957)
I'm not going to debate on how democracy works or doesn't work, you totally disregarded the second part of my comment anyway.

I'm not aware of any atrocities committed by our current government.

[edited after cooling down]

Re:Telegram bans public ISIS channels on Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:16PM (#10596426)
He did blame the victims.

France is a democracy. The French government has been elected and represents the people of France.

Plus all the things he refers to are not especially the doing of our current government. I do not like our current president or the current ruling party, but come on...

Re:Telegram bans public ISIS channels on Thursday November 19, 2015 @12:50PM (#10596218)
Excuse my French but that man is a piece of shit. Victim blaming at its finest and a totally uncalled for, totally irrelevant, very misinformed political opinion.

I do realize I'm on HN and this is not the place to discuss this, but I had to react as this hits a nerve (obviously).

If you think the French welfare state is a production of our current socialist government, newsflash: it's not. As for France being a paradise for immigrants, we can't even get the Syrians refugees to come here to fulfill the quotas Europe imposed on us.

I can't find any more words to say how disgusted I am by that comment.

Re:Je Suis Charlie on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:44PM (#8852373)
Your link is so much more relevant than the thousands of people taking the streets brandishing "Je suis Charlie" signs when the terrorists are still at large. /s

Sorry, I meant : yes, really.

Re:Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @04:05AM (#6011618)
State is a required field ? And we have no details on which data files you use ?

I'm very interested in such a service, but this does not look serious at all...

Re:Tablet Zero on Saturday December 10, 2011 @12:19PM (#3337931)
> It's perfectly clear to anyone who has watched Samsung > over the years that they're the Burger King of consumer > electronics. They let the market leader do the R&D and > then slavishly imitate their successes.

We may not be watching the same company then : Samsung invests over 6 billion USD per year in R&D, approx. 9% of its revenue (Apple does 2.2%).

Sure, on some markets Samsung acts more as a "fast follower" than as as innovator, but to call it the "Burger King of consumer electronics" is plain ridiculous.