I used OVH for personal projects but had to stop. They randomly block IPs from the iCloud Private Relay network, causing connection timeouts. Their SPF records for outgoing email services are incorrect and missing IP addresses. I opened a support ticket over a year ago, and it still hasn’t been resolved. (Obviously, I’ve moved my emails elsewhere because I’d like them to be delivered.)
Maybe their professional offerings are better. Never made me want to try though...
Is there any science out there to support it? Gabapentin is also supposed to be a miracle cure but it only works (anecdotally) for very few people and the studies are inconclusive.
It (memantine) is not a full cure, and I never advertised it as such. It only anecdotally lowers the severity of tinnitus which can make the difference between a person wanting to stop living versus continue living. Also, it is strictly for short term use only, a few weeks (3) to a few months (3), and no more, but its benefit can last.
The British government may be an omnishambles, but their websites are remarkably clear and readable, specially for an aging population with worsening eyesight.
The focus is very different though as the Swedish one is a brand guide for country marketing purposes while this is for developing government services.
I think Musk's mistake was to openly embrace conservative opinions and fringe conspiracy theories (his since deleted tweet about Paul Pelosi for instance). I already know of people in more liberal circles that would never buy one of his cars, just like they don't buy "my pillows" or go to Hobby Lobby. It's a big target demographic for EVs and doesn't bode too well for Tesla in the current political climate.
Mail for example. But there are quite a few French troops still protecting French interests in their various former colonies in Africa - a place where statehood is a nebulous concept so I think it’s fair to say that many of these places still act in effect as protectorates. Add in resource extraction and it also starts to look like a colony again.
Most of the mining industry in Mali is owned by Barrick, Allied Gold and Anglogold Ashanti, none of them are French.
The French intervention in northern Mali was to avoid a spillover into western Niger (where France sources most of the uranium it uses for its power production).
> What colonies are you referring too? The last one was Djibouti in 77...
Monetary exploitation is the most effective means of bondage and most widely accepted form to exert control over a population because it is required for any transaction that doesn't get solely resolved by violence, in doing so you can essentially tax, govern, and structure Society without the need or expense of an occupying presence just the occasional military operation to remind them of said colonization: up until 2020 or so the CFA was used in 8 African nations and had a dire strain on those nation's people [0]. You should listen to Francis Ngannou's talk about the effective bondage African nations were operating under French rule because of the CFA that made trade between even neighboring African nations impossible.
Colonialism takes on many faces, but as the saying goes: He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
> go and have a read about the CFA franc
Agreed, also look into why France has had continual conflicts in the Ivory Coast to see how it achieved this.
Edit:
> Aren't states free to adopt or drop the CFA franc? How does that make them colonies?
They were not free to do so, at all; as I said in a response HN won't let me post (posting too fast prompt) it would benefit most on HN to focus on why Fintech matters, it's more than just writing lines of code aimlessly and for it's own sake to create some new toy that can and will be soon forgotten on Github. Despite the prevailing narrative, it's not just the domain of what many regard as 'techbros,' but rather it's an approach to effect and enhance Society when done right in a more nuanced manner coming from a well informed understanding of how and why Society functions they way it does.
Hence why I used the quote that I used by a former US president to underscore what was written in a concise manner.
It's not true. Overseas parts of France are fully integrated in the republic, and citizens there have the same rights as in the mainland. There's no distinction between "settlers" and "natives" from a legal point of view (the economic picture is a bit different). There have been referendums in New Caledonia about independance and people there still want to be part of France.
To be faire, I don't even understand how New Caledonia or French Polynesia (where people have full representation in congress) can be on the non-self-governing list of the UN when Puerto Rico (where citizens don't have a seat in the house, senate or electoral college) isn't.
> Overseas parts of France are fully integrated in the republic, and citizens there have the same rights as in the mainland.
I'm sure you know that the exact same claim was made about French Algeria.
"the Mediterranean coastal region of Algeria, housing the vast majority of its population, was ruled as an integral part of France from 1848 until its independence. "
Such statements like yours were exactly what was repeatedly screamed out by perhaps what you would call your hero?, Jean-Marie Le Pen. His daughter also recently said all that torturing of some folks was good for Algeria. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170420-le-pen-french-col...
Vous savez exactement ce que vous êtes.
> There have been referendums in New Caledonia about independance and people there still want to be part of France.
As one of France's longest-held overseas territories, Algeria became a destination for hundreds of thousands of European immigrants known as colons, and later as pieds-noirs. However, the indigenous Muslim population remained the majority of the territory's population throughout its history. In 1835, indigenous rebels organized the Algerian resistance movement against French settlement; the rebellion was suppressed in 1903 after the "pacification campaign" by the colonial forces, who used chemical weapons, mass executions of prisoners and civilians, concentration camps and other atrocities in order to put them down.
I don't think I'll answer to a comment calling me a fascist. Comparing Algeria before independence and the current status of overseas France is dishonest.
No one called you a fascist. But you clearly hold views identical to Le Pen. Comparing how you justified continued sending settlers to "overseas" France and how the same steps were justified for pre-independence Algeria is perfectly valid and honest.
I think most of these gases are or will eventually be banned in Europe because of their impact on the environment. I've seen newer datacenters use water mist sprays.
Nitrogen makes up 78% of the atmosphere, so I doubt it will be banned. Most datacenters don't actually use halocarbons despite the common "FM200" name.
You might be thinking of Halons, which are CFCs that depletes the ozone layer? They are mostly phased out worldwide but existing installations might still be in use.
FM200 is something else that is often used in modern builds (not just datacenters).
I've heard that one. I thought it mostly affects refrigerants, but I didn't notice that FM200 is also an HFC. There are other fire suppression gasses with a low global warming potential, which probably can still be used in the future.
How... what. What if the fire is electrical? You can't just go "well the triple interlocked electrical isolation will trip and cut the current" if a random fully-charged UPS decides to get angry...
I never really understood the whole thing around Paul Graham. His insights on startups and tech are somewhat interesting and legitimate, but at this point I feel like some people are taking his every thought, even mondaine, as gospel...
I've read a collection of his essays and outside of programming/startups, they are really mundane/black & white/binary division. I.e., the world is divided into nerds who are good, and bullies who are bad.
It gets really repetitive and boring to see this sort of comment (and often much nastier ad homenim attacks) every single time any of pg's writing is on the front page.
If you think his observations are mundane, then why not just move on to another link, hopefully one that you're interested in?
It also gets tiring to have the knee-jerk defensive of PG or any other expert leveraging ina different vertical to be "if you don't love america than get the hell out".
HN loves to question the bonafides of everyone/everything; if you're sick of these comments, why do you take the time and effort to comment?
There are a lot of “hackers” who think that the ability to code or build a successful business is synonymous with deep intellect and wisdom, and a forum such as this naturally attracts a greater number of them who engage in some vicarious glory seeking.
I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it
would probaly talk less or at least narrow his focus.
Definitely, this blimped into my mind. The Bonaldi effect is more like « demoing something with great hype, that was working perfectly at rehearsal time, will ultimately fail with an audience, in proportion with the hype/reality ratio », but yeah it ended up being generalised enough to be a superset of Vorführeffekt.
For non French readers, the Bonaldi effect is generally understood as having catastrophic side effects, causes, or downright coincidences way beyond the intended demo not working: the climatic example being a demo of a vacuum cleaner that was met with the studio’s mains breaker triggering and outright killing the live broadcasting, millions of TV viewers being suddenly met with static (post mort en showed the vacuum cleaner was not in cause). An analogy would be demoing some totally harmless piece of code and encounter a kernel panic or a LAN/WAN takedowns.
In spite of Bonaldi trying increasingly hard for such events not to happen, they still did, and the audience was increasingly watching the show both for the often cheesy devices demonstrated, the comedic effect of the hype of such obvious cheesiness and the unexpected ways things would go sideways.
Maybe their professional offerings are better. Never made me want to try though...