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From what my former classmates told me, for profiles that are roughly equivalent, it looks like to be closer to 40k. But then they are not in consulting companies.

And I'm too much of a lazy ass to look for another job. Also I have few reason right now to seek a higher salary.

Yeah, like a temp agency, but we are full employees, which means we are still paid between contracts.

The problem is knowing the market rate.

I've had my Engineer's Degrees from ISEP last year and I'm working at Alten since October 2016. My official title is development engineer (Ingénieur d'études). Before that, I've done two six-months internship as a junior java dev.

Alten is a technology and engineering consulting company, which means, in the context of the French market, that when a company, need a particular profile (like java dev) to staff a position for a set amount of time (like for the expected duration of a project), they'll contract Alten for a developer, java, for x months.

Well, my 36k salary, while working around Paris, disagree with your assertion.

I would say 46+ k€, before taxes, which are 33% corporate tax rate and ~30% on personal income. But I'm not sure how it applies to people with tech visa.

Could you expand on corruption? I am keenly aware of its existence in the construction sector there, but do you any other examples?

That's odd, I felt very welcome when I was there hiking this summer. But then it might not have been in the same areas, plus the usual difference between the country and cities.

Well, the current government could be trying to have one positive result. And have some example of migrants with a positive economic impact.

> The limit of freedom of speech

Could you expand on that? I'm French, living and working near Paris and I would be interested to hear what limits do you think of.

Personaly I think it is no worse that any other Western country.

Edit: The limits I can think of are more from media watchdogs, which can be ignored (just look at Dieudonné). Or you can be sued by anti racist/anti _____phobe associations for slander, but I would not qualify that as a limit on freedom of speech like can exist in other countries.

I've been using it for years, so I did not realised they had closed Labs in the interim.

I remember reading a lot about staying during the winter in Antarctica from this: http://www.funraniumlabs.com/category/antarctica/

Alcohol, lot of alcohol.

Does never having any interest in anything count?

Still, my work is not my (whole) life and is nothing more than a way to earn money to support me. At least that way I'm not disappointed by my current job, which is mostly useless and unrewarding.

Fair enough. My comment was mostly valid for the Wii and Wii U lineup, I agree that it's better for the DS.

> Typically the best games on the whole platform.

Also perhaps the only worthwhiles games on Nintendo's consoles.

In the XCOM games, one interesting aspect is to mitigate bad rolls and stack bonus to increase your chances to hit.

So with enough skill, you can remove most of the luck aspect from the game.

XCOM2 does it too.

You can see the code in there : https://twitter.com/m1sp/status/697268847187890176

It is increasing your chance to hit if you've a missing streak and if you have lost soldiers. And lower the chance of the enemy hitting you if they've already hit you this turn and you have less than 5 soldiers. So you can (and will) miss 90% shots, it should not happen twice in a row the same turn.

In the code of XCOM2, modders have discovered that the game cheat in your favor by increasing your chance to hit if you've missed in your lasts shots. And lower the chance of the enemy hitting you if they've already hit you this turn.

So you can (and will) miss 90% shots, it should not happen twice in a row the same turn.

Edit : Found the source : https://twitter.com/m1sp/status/697268847187890176

An eastpack shoulder bag, enough space to carry a book for the commute and a water bottle during summer.

On the other hand, I don't think the concentration in THC was the same between the cannabis now and then and it's even worse for the processed form.

Creating Jira accounts and giving them access to the right projects. It's one of my jobs.

As said in the conversation you linked (which is interesting, thank you), the obsolescence is for the attack submarines close to their target, whereas missile submarines, like the Columbia, has still the rest of the ocean to hide.

Well, the sub part is pretty expensive, since you have to accomodate 100+ people, with a nuclear reactor/diesel engine + batteries and all the supplies for a long trip. And they need to be able to move undetected, that's the point of the nuclear missile sub as a strategic deterrent.

I forgot the toilets.

I found a breakdown there: https://www3.epa.gov/watersense/pubs/indoor.html

If you're including water for shower/bath, dish and cloth washing, it does not seem a lot.

Not on the current subject, but is it normal that this page is empty : https://pinboard.in/features/ ?

I think he meant the labor laws are protecting more the employee than the employer, notably on the firing part. So, as far as some theories go, if it is hard to fire employees, employers will be more reluctant to hire, reducing worker mobility.

But I only have a small experience of the consequence of our current labor laws (which are very hard to change, the current gov tried last year and got massive protests for their trouble).

Edit: Also the employment taxes (the one paid by employers) are very high in France (half of the salary +/-).

I don't think so.

Apparently the only one that got translated is The Camp of the Saints, which is very differents in its themes.

North and The King's Game by Jean Raspail. Very good fiction books.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is one of the best author I've ever read.