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HNBRNon Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address

I wouldnt use it myself, but definitely have ideas of people I could offer a new email adress to.

HNBRNon Reordering Columns in PostgreSQL

Thanks, we could definitely start from this

HNBRNon Reordering Columns in PostgreSQL

Thanks. I checked and dbeaver can indeed store columns ordering as a filtered view. Seems like a bit overcomplicated to me but I guess I've been spoiled with mysql in which the ordering is trivial.

HNBRNon Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

Brilliant tool ! I started to put all my notes there. However I cannot figure out how to display a note at the bottom of the screen (below another one as in the featured page ?)

HNBRNon Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy

In France you could probably start a revolution in suggesting that the students should pay for university.

https://www.study.eu/article/tuition-fees-in-france

HNBRNon Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

comment_on_crypto_fail = ( author_religion == 'crypto' && author_lost_money == false ) ? 'misstep' : 'regulate_urgently'

HNBRNon France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet Giants

French guy here. I think a lot of comments miss the point of the new tax : Some US tech companies use fake transfer prices to avoid paying income taxes in France. Eg Irish facebook subsidary owns the Facebook brand for Europe and charges other subsidiaries for using it. The French Facebook subsididary was charged so much in past years that it didnt declare any benefits in France. This is fraud. But this is fraud at EU level and EU is not yet organized to face it. So French government is taking the lead and expects other countries to follow soon (very likely). You have to understand that French companies and French taxpayers a getting reasonnably upset for paying high taxes when some US companies dont.

HNBRNon Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today

However the situation is much better now. It was very common for us French people to discover a huge roaming bill after a trip in another European country. At least roaming cost are becoming predictable

HNBRNon Facebook announces "Hack", the "language of the future"

Static typing is an excellent new for PHP developers. However I wonder if Hack has an some kind of included framework in it or if it's compatible with cake PHP, symfony, laravel, etc.

HNBRNon Why Warren Buffett is wrong on Bitcoin

In my opinion a very partial reaction on Buffett's analysis. Bitcoin's value is nowaday more related to speculation than to what you can buy with it. This is true whatever the value of the technology behind and that's probably Buffett's point.

I think that mentionning the huge appreciation of the bitcoin in 2013 doesn't really make the currency more trustful. I would say it's the contrary.