breakintheweb | 5 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune Surpasses $100B
Some of Larry Ellison's emails with his financial advisor became public and talk about doing just this.
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breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: More bosses give four-day workweek a try
I'm sure you have just didn't realize they were French. Schneider Electric, Technicolor, Atos, etc.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform
Imagine a list of objects with descriptions or names and these objects need to be drag/dropped. It would make since to disable highlight the object names by mistake.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: How 2 Guys Built Power in 8 Months for Less Than $500
Also the 'less than $500' is misleading at best. I would understand not factoring in time if it was built in a weekend, but it was two guys for 8 months.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
A lot of office buildings in the us have the windows permanently closed so you can't open them.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce
I'm Curious how you are arriving at the 600ms since ping is already round trip.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
The father has 11 days of paternity leave in France.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
I'd imagine the real reason for the complaint is that the royalty structure is more lucrative for the publishers and/or authors for books vs audiobooks.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful
The weird thing for me is the people are literally taking a picture of themselves committing a crime. It seems like it would be easy to bring a case against someone doing this?
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down
I would argue that overstated would be wrong because you could surely overstate his role. "He was the only reason Tesla existed, would be overstating his role.
I think "his role shouldn't be understated" would be the correct phrase given the context.
breakintheweb | 6 years ago | on: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
Caps lock is still used by French people on the azerty keyboard since you need to press shift to access numbers.
breakintheweb | 7 years ago | on: A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free
The word tea generally refers to the various preparations of leaves from the plant Camellia sinensis.
breakintheweb | 7 years ago | on: Big-box retailers are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole
I think there would be a big problem with sentimental value also. For example, the old local store that is family owned or the house that you built with a family member who is now deceased.
breakintheweb | 7 years ago | on: Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
I know in France, there was a "solidarity tax on wealth" which was a yearly tax on assets over 1.3million euros. Artwork was exempt from this. This changed in the end of last year and I think it's just based on real estate now.
breakintheweb | 8 years ago | on: The only safe email is text-only email
They could still have the HSBC logo, it would just need to be in ascii....
breakintheweb | 8 years ago | on: Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
It's not only that, it's also the fact that public transportation is bad in most cities in the U.S. You need to have a way to get to the train in city A, and a way to travel after departing the train in city B.
breakintheweb | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Crackle – keyboard layout for programmers
As an american living/working in france I feel the pain of the azerty.
Si vous décidez de changer, je recommande le français canadian clavier. C'est le qwerty clavier avec quelque modifications mineures. Je pense que c'est un bon conpromis.
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