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tarekmoz | 11 years ago | on: Cuba and the U.S. will begin to normalize relations

Nope. I smoke cigars weekly and I can tell you Cuban cigars are the bests (they are allowed in my country).

In the U.S. you will find the same brands like Partagas, but they're made with blends from other countries than Cuba, and they are really inferior. I tried a bunch of them and Cubans wins everytime.

tarekmoz | 11 years ago | on: The Market Where France’s Top Chefs Buy Their Food

Secretive ? Not really... We have news report on Rungis every other month on national TV. Everyone knows about this place in France.

It's delivering food daily for the whole country, and was initially within Paris. They moved it outside Paris to make it easier to access by train.

It's a place folks love because that's where you get the freshest stuff.

I live in Dijon (300KM south of Paris) and I can get fresh Fish that most of the time come from Rungis.

tarekmoz | 11 years ago | on: InstaNerd

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tarekmoz | 12 years ago | on: The World's Most Powerful Browser-Based IDE – Codio

I don't know if this is cultural, but I don't understand this kind of marketing. It's like those signs in some restaurants, e.g. "the best cappuccino in town" or "the world's best burger"...

It makes me instantly skeptical :)

tarekmoz | 12 years ago | on: Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car and house in 5 years

[..] Well, after struggling for a year and if your second year salary is still RMB 2,000, then that means you have not grown as a person. You should be really ashamed of yourself. Do yourself a favour and go to the supermarket and buy the hardest tofu. Take it and smash it on your head because you deserve that.[..]

Hahaha smash your head with tofu if you don't get a raise. :))

tarekmoz | 12 years ago | on: Why Europe needs to get over its Silicon Valley envy

I am not sure why you're saying that the Sophia Antipolis tech area is an attempt to build a "Silicon Valley" - It's mostly big companies there and there's no incentive to build your startup there.

It's quite huge - around 1500 companies with a lot of R&D labs.

It was not built to mimic SV. And no one claims that except maybe some rare schools/companies brochures that want to sell the place to students/young engineers.

> The current party detaining majority is the Socialist Party (PS) so the idea that innovation comes from the state and individual action is just a burden

That's completely inaccurate... There's a huge effort right now to boost innovation in France by the current government - by Fleur Pellerin, through grants for private companies in tech and many other things.

Look at all those individuals the french government promotes at the CES ... http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2014/01/france-makes-waves-at-ces-20... - it does not look like a burden to the government :)

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