nico42
Re:French petition against return of bee-killing pesticide passes 1M
on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @03:11PM (#44651693)
> I don't understand while they are not instead asking for a European law to ban them
That is exactly what they are asking for, but it's not up to them to decide for the other countries.
Re:EU Pushes Ahead with Big Tech Antitrust Enforcement
on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:24PM (#43440417)
It's also a response to the failure of the US to regulate their own companies and apply their own antitrust laws.
Where Jeff Bezos Went Wrong with the Washington Post
Re:Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:42AM (#43203681)
To Mozilla: if your intentions are indeed good as you claim in your post[1], then update the ToS accordingly.
Chrome is removing µBlock origin, I and probably a lot of other users saw this as a good moment to promote Firefox to our relatives, you are missing a chance and alienating your user base here.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/fi...
Re:Why is America getting a new $100B nuclear weapon?
on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:08PM (#26198047)
600 more atomic bombs on this earth.
You never know, if there is still a few cockroaches still alive after the 500th bomb you drop, you still have 100th more...
Re:Bitcoin is now worth $50k – and it's ruining the planet faster than...
on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:20AM (#26179472)
Private jets have less impact than rice farming. But if I had to choose, I would prefer we stop using private jets.
What matters for me is how I, as an individual, can use information to change my behavior.
From this standpoint, I have a lot more environmental impact by contributing to bitcoin than by watching a YT video.
Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:26PM (#25651309)
I make an app to learn languages. What's different is that learning programs are automatically generated using Machine Learning (NLP). This opens up tons of opportunities (both on the educational side and on the business side).
* I'm a machine learning scientist and developer
* I'm looking for a person passionate about using technology to bring education to the greatest number of people
* I'm in France, Paris
* I'm launching the MVP in a month
* contact: nicolas AT globers DOT co
Re:Why Tesla stock is vastly overpriced
on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:43PM (#25489351)
"Skeptics say, it would have to sell every book being sold in the world today to justify its stock price" - Amazon in 1997 [1]. The stock is 50 times higher now.
I have no idea if history will repeat itself, but I find the parallel interesting
Re:In Finland the average amount of data transferred per SIM card is 1...
on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:29AM (#24752201)
I'm not sure we should see unlimited 4G plans as a positive. 4G consumes a lot more enregy than Wifi for the same bandwidth, so usage of Wifi should be encouraged when possible.
Re:Google adds "Black-owned" business attribute to local listings
on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:40AM (#24007373)
the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
* Any tool that allows to discriminate "for" allows to discriminate "against"
* What is the rational to be able to add "black-owned", but not "mexican-owned" or anything else, are mexicans not victims of discriminations ?
* What is the end game ? Black people go to black-owned businesses, white people go to white-owned businesses ? this kind of anti-racism looks a little bit like segregation to me.
I'm not against any positive actions, but this one seems dangerous and could have unwanted indirect impacts