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Said like that it sounds like rolling blackout and the state enforcing energy consumption at gun point.
There was a lot of noise because the government planned some of these things. But in practice it meant reducing the temperature of public swimming pools a bit, reducing/shutting down public lighting deep in the night, reducing temperatures in office building by one or two degrees.
I would even say this "stressor" will be beneficial, at least at a local level.
The real downside is the increased energy bill for people.
Finally, a large part of this issue is self-inflicted as a failure to plan power plants maintenance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_34
We take it for granted and the restrictions when traveling abroad are always surprising.
I recommend the book, well written and approachable to casual readers like me. A lot of details about carrier operations, fog of war and visual representations of attack vectors and bomb hits and their outcome.
Also, Drachinifels had a good session/interview about the book with Jon Parshall, one of its author:
From the same Iain Banks, "Against a Dark Background" features space battles where rules of engagement ban the use of AI-controlled weapons.
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Wealth definitely helps in the sense it gives you a better environment to support you during your studies. About it helping you being tutored by fancy private organisms, this is true but I think it applies more to the "lower" part of the Grandes Écoles & co pyramid. You are not going to enter Polytechnique or ENS solely because of that. It still requires a lot of work or talent.
About the set of high schools/classes préparatoires funneling a large part of candidates to top schools, that is definitely true. But again it requires a lot of work, you are not going to move through Henri IV or whatever to ENS only because your parents have money. But receiving a good education from birth and having family and friends who knows how the system work, because they moved through it themselves, helps a lot.
But wealth helps because these places are usually in large cities (and mostly in Paris), which are expensive to live in. And to get there you have to come from good/prestigious high schools and have good grades, which again living in a wealthy family helps a lot.
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One can argue that by tweaking the tax level per type of fuel, it shapes the market in one direction or another, but that is not a subsidy as in "it is supporting the people by making things cheaper".
Don't be so harsh. I would not be surprised to hear a child (~6/8 years old) say that, assuming some kind of polite/policed family background.
> Yes, they don't teach you the "on a...", "faire le truc avec...", "ouais" and "ca marche"
Imagine us watching Stringer Bell from "The Wire" for the first time. Or listening to pop or rap. Or chatting with native speakers.
We just have more exposure.
So, while what you said may be true for radio broadcasts, I am not sure it is at play here even if the interviewee knows he is being recorded.
I feel the level of violence of gilets jaunes has been overreported by international medias, or maybe misattributed. I believe the large majority of protesters have been angry, determined people but overall pacific ones. And the reported violence came from a small minority, who abused the opportunity. And the same thing happened in the US months ago when there were reports of looting and degradation. Maybe I am naive and manipulated by medias, who knows.
But you are probably right, in the sense that gilets jaunes organized blockade of infrastructure, and were generally very active, trying to be heard. Much more than in recent US protests. But I would not call that "violence".
(wikipedia.fr)
You are correct and I was wrong. I learnt something today, thanks.
First, the military vs police comments sound a bit off to me. Technically, the most incriminated force, CRS, are part of the "gendarmerie nationale" which is a branch of French military. But the comparison stops here, for all purpose they are trained and behave like a police force, only one dedicated to handle riots. Which puts them more than other in a position to commit abuses, hence the focus on them.
In the recent years, there has been a tendency to equip them more and more like terminators with body armors and weapons like rubber bullets, tasers and the like. It is not well perceived and subject to continuous debate. But they have nowhere near the level or weaponization of US police force (almost typed "military" there, that is telling).
What Amnesty International reports here is known, it makes the headlines all the time in national newspapers, and a lot of people (me included) are not happy at all about it. There are ongoing inquiries and CRS and police in general do not have the same level of immunity as in the US, even though more scrutiny is always welcome.
Finally, keep in mind the level of violence in France is not comparable to the US. Every report you may see about it should be read relatively to what we are used to. From a different viewpoint, two policemen have been attacked and severely beaten two days ago. This is a national news, something exceptional, making again headlines on "Le Monde" (probably the major French newspaper) since then.
But sure, maybe caused by terrorism and black blocs, the level of violence in police response has increased. This is a major issue and a big topic, not something ignored. And it should not be.
This is sad because the project looks interesting, it is not the usual quick kludge or vaporware, but the bad or inexistent documentation is a terrible disservice to the project.
Maybe because there is a larger fraction of people who know or see how the sausages are made.
There are cool things, but is not magical nor transformative. At least not yet.
That said there are nice CGI of the black hole, where the consulting part really shines. BTW, there is a "Mindscape podcast" episode [1] with Kip Thorne where he explains what technically accurate parts were kept, and the others where he had to (unhappily) let go.
[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/epis...
(had to look it up: https://ghidra-sre.org/ ).
Also note that one of these assertions is measurable, and the other an unsubstantiated opinion.
They talked about a lot of things, but IIRC GEO issues were very low on their priority list. This is a very thin doughnut but still a very very large on considered scales.
[0] In French: https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-methode-scientifiq...
I never understood these arguments. People do not live in an abstract space outside existing social and economical structures. If one way or another, this DAO thing turns into an actor paying wages, the related laws will apply in some juridiction.
Now, what you might say is these questions become irrelevant for the structure creating the DAO, and are instead left to be solved by those receiving the benefit. It sounds dubious at best.
I agree with the sentiment but the truth is ballistics is several order of magnitude simpler than biology/biochemistry. I find medicine fascinating, but the more I learn about it the more I am astonished at the huge mismatch between perception of the field and what we actually know. And have always more respect for practitioners.
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> How it works is not entirely clear.