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The site was launched by the ministry of higher education and research of France, and there are mainly courses from French universities or research centers on it. Their first target is the countries where French is spoken (for instance, in West Africa) but the courses also try to have an English version.

I think prosecutors are elected in the US only as far as I know (even in other common law countries, they are not elected).

In most countries, they are appointed.

There have been some updates today: a commission has just finished to investigate the outcomes and given a negative assessment, but the mayor of Paris has stated that she will not follow the advice of the commission and carry on implementing the plan to reserve a portion for pedestrians.

Source (in French): http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2016/08/22/la-commissi...

Is there a detailed curriculum? I don't see any on the udacity page.

And there is no unique "western-style" diet, but various "western-style" diets. Italy is a western country, for instance, as well as France and thy both have different diets, and different from the one that is depicted in the photo in the article that looks like there is a burger with French fries (which maybe could quality as an "American-style" diet -- at least seen from Europe -- but people certainly eat more various food in the US...).

No, Lolita by Nabokov is not banned in France. I saw this book myself in a French library a few years ago. And according to French wikipedia (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita#Les_traductions_fran.C3...), a new French translation was published in 2001.

Depends on the country in Europe.

I know about BBC News in the UK, and in France, there are now 4, and soon, 5 (BFMtv, ITele, LCI, France 24, France Info).

A French news TV, with livestreams in French, Arabic, and English: http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed

The main news channel in France: http://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/live-video/

Actually, for Switzerland, Swiss labs cannot apply to all EU research grants now. And I think it's a temporary agreement, which may well be scraped quite soon, if Switzerland really implements the controls on immigration. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/eu-swiss-singl... EPFL did not seem and does not seem so happy about the situation.

> The only thing that has changed that the money that formerly took a detour to EU now goes directly from the Swiss government to the Swiss labs.

Switzerland labs are actually performing very well, and get more money from the EU research budget than what Switzerland gives to the EU budget (net gain of CHF 219 millions according to http://www.sbfi.admin.ch/aktuell/medien/00483/00586/index.ht... )

International collaboration is beneficial: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexitvote/2015/12/05/debunking-the-m...

Yes, you can collaborate without a specific grant, but in my experience, it makes the collaboration easier.

And CNRS in France. The first British one is University College London, after Max Planck Society and CNRS.

The Nature Index (http://www.natureindex.com/annual-tables/2016/institution/al... ) has CNRS 3rd, then the Max Planck institutes 4th, and the first British one, Oxford, is 7th.

> The EU regional development funds are notoriously wasteful

Can you give references? Preferably not only one anecdotical example, and with comparisons with state development funds (especially from the UK).

EU research funding is also a huge incentive for collaborative research between research groups in various European countries, pooling talents from all over Europe.

Research needs international collaboration, and UK funding only would make it more difficult.

Are there lots of opportunities to work on static analysis and theorem proving outside academia, especially in Silicon Valley?

Being young is associated with risk-taking (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396566/ for instance for some references. In the article, "young" means less than 25). So you're more likely to ski less safely, for instance.

Young drivers are also really more likely to have a car accident (ask car insurance), not because they are this age or that age, but because they less experienced.

Which are likely if you are young...

Sport-related accident for instance. Especially ski accidents... and Austria is a land of mountains, and ski is very popular there.

Young people are more generally more likely to have accidents. Car-accident are also more prevalent (drinking...).

No,in France, some universities/academic departments are said to be leftwing and other rightwing (in history, for instance) but they don't seem to indoctrinate, rather to attract some students who already have the same mindset.

In reality,in History, professors may be slightly engaged politically, and some students as well, but most are rather struggling to figure out what kind of jobs they are going to do after their studies.

I've found another document from the European Commission that seems to say that the 2001 directive actually also requires that all EU member states use summer time, not only when if they use it.

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/studies/doc/201...

"European policy measures began to be introduced, leading to the present day situation, where Directive 2000/84/EC requires Member States to put their clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and change them back on the last Sunday of October each year."

And 11.2 (page 10): "The cumulative effect of this succession of laws is that all Member States are now obliged to observe summertime, starting it on the last Sunday of March and ending it on the last Sunday of October."

Summer time is decided as the EU level: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320...

But as the UK is apparently leaving the EU, staying on BST will be possible...

[EDIT, typo: US -> UK]

Sure, but if you are using a language without support for unicode, and you don't use a dedicated library (which would be already using a kind of lexer, wouldn't it?), you have also to parse these unicode characters yourself.

When you add unicode, it can become more complicated (or rather, cumbersome)...

I'd really like to have type-level numbers natively in Rust. Implementing a vector generic on its dimensions seems to be so much easier in D!

Any prospect about that?

I have the impression that I elected the MPEs, and that I have chosen my ministers and my head of state, and as such, the councils of ministers and heads of state that are the real rulers of Europe, yes, the nations! As the European commission, it's a civil service as there is in all the European countries.

I think there may be something missing in the comparison table. When I look at the prices of Backblaze, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html it is $0.05 for 1 mo but in the table on the website of C14, it's written "free"

You have to pay a 1 € to add or get back the data, so it's more for long term storage. I don't think the speed of transfering data is hugely crucial in this case.

Ocaml has opam, a package manager, with currently 1227 packages in it. https://opam.ocaml.org/ The standard library of ocaml is quite basic, so usually, you use either Core (https://github.com/janestreet/core) or Batteries Included (https://github.com/ocaml-batteries-team/batteries-included) I personnally prefer Batteries because it tries to stay compatible with the standard library.

I don't think it is similar.

These languages have evolved during centuries and continue to evolve, whereas the metric system was built purposefully for simplicity. The equivalent of the metric system would be something like Esperanto. English is as archaic and complicated as the customary system for measurement.

You're saying that foot is more useful than meter and so on but you don't explain why. As an European who has always used the metric system and never encountered the customary system, I am perfectly fine with the metric system.

For instance, I am puzzled by the affirmation about Fahrenheit. Cooking very often uses water and Celsius having a scale based on that. I'm not sure that having a scale with the highest temperature based on the temperature of horse blood is much more relevant in every day life...

And so on for the other measurements...

Usefulness is not a relevant question for measurements, because we can always find real life objects to make these more visible (for instance, one long step is for me about 1 meter).

Is it possible to go to Europe, where law is usually taught at undergraduate level, in public universities, and in some countries, with very cheap tuition fees, and then pass the bar exam back in the US?

This library is built upon multicore Ocaml. We've spoken about multicore OCaml for a long time, and apparently, the last tentative of it is being developed. When will multicore Ocaml land into the stable version of the compiler?

What is kid food? Kids can very early eat and enjoy the same food as adults; it's a question of food education (for instance, https://theconversation.com/pleasure-is-good-how-french-chil... in France and Italy)