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bibinou··on Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month
Range is 70 km (45 miles), according to French media.
bibinou··on Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings
> Both issues appear linked to the way Google Pay is set up on a PayPal user’s account.
bibinou··on Who Is Shadow Inc.?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21123337/iowas-caucus-frac...

&

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/04/us/politics/i...

bibinou··on Cards Against Humanity buys Clickhole, turning it into an employee-owned company
> the deal will allow ClickHole to bring on additional staff — it currently has only five full-time employees
bibinou··on Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Submissions

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

bibinou··on California Attorney General delays .org sale
AG Letter is page 3 of this pdf: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey...
bibinou··on PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]
change the video quality to High and you get the correct aspect ratio.
bibinou··on Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events
fixed in 77.0.3865.120
bibinou··on Almost one-fifth of Britons 'do not use internet'
> the OII survey visited people in their homes and gathered a more detailed view of Britons' online lives.
bibinou··on Almost one-fifth of Britons 'do not use internet'
Please fix the title, the real number is 18% (of 2000 people surveyed)

Direct link to report:

https://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2019/0...

very interesting numbers nonetheless.

bibinou··on Elevating original reporting in Search
It's not re-ranking, it's rating of the algorithm.

Basically the difference between preparing a exam using annals and buying the exam.

bibinou··on Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness

  > dozens
Statista (https://www.statista.com/statistics/515533/dog-population-eu...) :

  > The dog population in Norway was measured at approximately 500 thousand in 2017
bibinou··on Why the French love to say no
context: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-part-of-no-...
bibinou··on DuckDuckGo and 67 Employees
follow-up: https://twitter.com/mikeindustries/status/115784566871661772...

Duckduckgo uses Microsoft Bing's index.

bibinou··on Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]
full 29 minutes version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRpwVwFxyk4
bibinou··on Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video [video]
robots are cheaper.
bibinou··on GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons
it's an embedded tweet:

https://twitter.com/Farzad_YZ/status/1154640983377797120

bibinou··on Denis Diderot wonders if the grass could be greener (1770)
He're the original French text for those who read it: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Neveu_de_Rameau_(nouvelle_...

it's on page 19 (see the mark on the left side)

bibinou··on The helicopter team that films the Tour de France
Here's a small video on the helicopters: https://youtu.be/2iiQiXsQDWU?t=14 (warning: LOUD)

on the relay plane: https://youtu.be/6by7a6FPZ58?t=14

bibinou··on Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
This concerns the Online Store, which is their Squarespace clone:

https://squareup.com/us/en/online-store

not Square Payments.

bibinou··on Ask HN: Faking your resume to acquire projects
Your story feels very similar to this thread on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/axqkcq/i...

Maybe you can find some answers there ?

bibinou··on Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages
Look at Simple English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
bibinou··on Economics of Spotify is making songs shorter
While playing a song in a playlist, clicking on the album art next to the song name will bring you to the song in the playlist, if you're using the desktop client. Doesn't work on mobile. Clicking the song name will send you to the song in the album.

It's similar (well opposite) to Github commits view, where clicking a user avatar will send you to his profile, while clicking his nickname will show you all his commits in the current repo.

It's not a very good affordance.

bibinou··on Windows 10 refutes the idea that the Linux kernel is what defines GNU/Linux
The argument is that Windows Subsystem for Linux has no Linux code in it.

edit: I'm having a hard time coming up with a name which would be correct and Microsofty enough. But I think it would be a oxymoron.

bibinou··on My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
mirror / archive: http://archive.fo/nPkP9
bibinou··on Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake
They were acquaintances, not neighbors.
bibinou··on Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
Who is me?
bibinou··on Tesla Autopilot and Euro NCAP
Autopilot was a major factor in Air France's deadliest crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
bibinou··on Web.dev by Google
I got a ERR_SSL_VERSION_INTERFERENCE briefly before the page successfully reloading. I have uBlock Origin installed, so it may be it.
bibinou··on De-Google-ify Internet
could you get some sort of network view and post your request headers?

especially Accept-Language.

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