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>>The likelihood of an employer firing people abusively is much greater than an employee being an asshole.<<

Not my experience in the jurisdictions where I've worked, but certainly a widespread belief among many French people.

>>Relaxing a law to fit the legitimate needs of a small number of start-ups..<<

I think the French labour laws need to be relaxed for the good of the French economy, not just for start-ups. The current system benefits those already in employment by entrenching their positions, but to the detriment of younger people seeking work.

There are a lot of good potential employees who don't want to be a part of the "burn 'em and churn 'em" practices employed by some of the larger IT companies. But, I agree, it's always a struggle in any country for small businesses to compete in the recruitment process with large corporations.

Ireland - Eurozone, English speaking, light touch regulation, strong IT and customer support culture. However the high cost of accommodation in the cities, particularly Dublin, is starting to make recruitment difficult. I've anecdotal evidence of several 20-30 year olds looking to emigrate because they can't resolve the high cost of accommodation with their after-tax salary.

It's much more difficult to justify making someone redundant (licenciement économique) or to fire someone who has become an asshole or isn't performing. In other jurisdictions where I've worked, the employee gets their notice period. In France, the employer is often under implicit threat of an inspecteur du travail, a government work inspector, who will wrap the company up in shitload of bureaucratic audits.

My experience as an anglophone, non-French entrepreneur living in France is that the regulations and business climate reflect the belief system of the population. There is a fairly widespread acceptance, even among well educated French people, in several of the following beliefs:

- Companies are exploitative of their workforce and should be strongly regulated to protect workers;

- Excess company profits are a sign of unfairness and abuse, and maximum profits should be controlled to protect against such unfairness;

- The role of an organisation is to provide employment;

- Unemployment can be reduced by making it more difficult to fire employees or make their positions redundant;

- France's international uncompetitiveness, especially vis a vis Germany, could be solved by making other countries similarly uncompetitive by imposing similar burdens.

My partner is French and a Human Resources consultant to medium and large organisations. The horror stories she recounts would make most entrepreneurs run a mile.

My business is online and I can locate it anywhere. I've chosen Ireland for a variety of reasons. Eurozone, English speaking with good multilingual talent availability, good international transport and relatively light touch regulation. Tax rate wasn't a significant factor because the effective rate of tax (after factoring in state subventions) is relatively similar between the two countries.

France is a great place to live but a terrible place to run a business or to hold capital assets. The high taxes pay for a very good public health system and a good transport system. Unfortunately, they also pay for a huge amount of public sector waste.

France for startups works well if you're well connected, in which case you're made. Connections are, however, largely forged early in life, in Lycees and Grand Ecoles, so connections and networks are much more difficult for an outsider to penetrate.

As an example of French business mentality, my friend's business (online/social) has few actual users and no paying users and is 100% supported by a mix of grants and supports from a myriad of government organisations, and by large corporations who are obligated by government to set aside an annual budget for supporting such endeavours. My friend's business is considered a success in France. I consider it a personal success for him, insofar as he has navigated the system quite well. But it's not my definition of business success.

Tried it on a mobile with fibre wifi. Terrible user experience.

* Did a sample image search and pages didn't preload. * Couldn't find any app controls to adjust settings or delete history. * Deleted app immediately.

Can't see this gaining traction.

If the service can be improved, but can only be improved by bribing staff to do their job properly, that's a terrible indictment of the hospitality business.

Of the countries in which I've lived, 2 stand out as regards tipping culture, Spain and France.

Spain has a tipping culuture and the service is mediocre; service is sometimes chaotic (eg food arrives before drinks) and slow, eg asking for bill, paying bill, getting the change takes a long time.

France has a no-tip culture; service is correct, friendly and efficient, despite the stereotype of Parisian serving staff.

My theory is that quality of service isn't related to the tip, but is related to the cultural acceptability of shit service.

In case anyone is searching by author name, it's actually Culadasa.

>>Now the feeling is that the unions hold disproportionate power over the UK government and that doesn't play well with a fragile good Friday agreement.<<

I believe you mean that the "unionists hold disproportionate power". Your statement will, however, probably hold true after the next general election...

Would you mind explaining what your company does and why you think it's unique? I visited your website and I am still none the wiser.

He admitted to using grass and coke in his youth. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, had to concoct a story about smoking grass but not inhaling.

Spotify's discovery engine playlists (Discover Weekly and Release Radar) just don't work for me. I now ignore both playlists and I suspect that the lists are influenced by payola.

I've tried training the algo by following artists and saving albums in the style that I would like, but these playlists keep peddling stuff that is way off the mark. Interestingly, the daily mix playlists have responded to this training, but not Discover Weekly or Release Radar.

For users who are tired of the same songs being fed to these playlists each week, you can create an IFTTT action to save the content of these playlists in separate archive playlists. Once a song is in the archive, it won't (or shouldn't) appear in either of the weekly so-called discovery playlists.

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Be careful using 2FA on CF. I got locked out of my account because I reformatted my phone and hadn't kept backup codes. That's my fault, not CF's. They wouldn't accept email verification or uploading a html file to the root of my domains to grant access.

But here's the kicker: Cloudflare were happy to grant access if I could recall some previous name server history for some of my domains. Information that is in the public domain and can be purchased as a report.

The DUP is a unionist party and is diametrically opposed to a united Ireland.

The acquiring company acquires the target company's assets in return for assuming its liabilities. No cash changes hands.

This guy has 2 plugins - you need to download the test/beta one - it supports ACD. The others support the other cloud services except ACD.

https://github.com/ddurdle/Amazon-Cloud-Drive-for-KODI

I have this running on a Raspberry Pi and it's working 24/7, uploading media files from my NAS to my Amazon Cloud Drive.

I use Kodi on a separate pi to stream the content from Amazon, thereby freeing up space on my NAS.