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Revival of the ‘bouillons’: the cheap, noisy eateries triumphing in inflation-ridden Paris
  • I'm curious about the path this has taken. Why would El Pais even write about this? Maybe their readers are more attracted by the generic doomsday message about inflation than about Bouillon Chartier. Interesting how an article that initially reads like (and maybe was thought to be) advertisement takes such a turn. Unfortunately I don't know enough about how the press works.

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    Revival of the ‘bouillons’: the cheap, noisy eateries triumphing in inflation-ridden Paris
  • This is a very distorted article. I live in Paris and most restaurants offer 3 cours meals for under 20EUR contrary to what the article claims. Bouillon Chartier is only a place for affordable food for Parisian when squinting very hard. It's rather a highly touristy place with a particular business model. Without going into detail about it, it's strange to take such an outlier focused on foreigners as the centerpoint of an article about "inflation ridden Paris". Other nice initiatives should have been there.

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    An immunologist explains why the immune system works best when balanced, not 'boosted'
  • But can you really get an autoimmune disease by eating too much supplements? I thought the body would just not retain them. It'd be quite difficult to eat exactly the quantity required without any self regulating mechanisms in place.

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    ‘Bloodbath’ at French village fete as youths from deprived suburb kill 16-year-old
  • Seems the main suspect didn't come from a "deprived suburb"—at least according to the latest update by lemonde. Typical reflexive, prejudice pattern thinking.

    "Il habite « le centre » de Romans-sur-Isère, et « non le quartier de la Monnaie », a précisé le procureur de Valence" from https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/11/21/apres-la-mort-d-un-adolescent-de-16-ans-a-crepol-sept-personnes-interpellees-annonce-gerald-darmanin_6201515_3224.html

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    Paris to hold referendum on higher parking fees for heavy SUVs
  • To be fair, there aren't many of these in downtown Paris in the first place. Probably way fewer than in American or already German cities. This referendum feels more symbolic than anything else.

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    VIDEO: Czech PM goes shopping in Bavaria, finds that German groceries are cheaper
  • Interesting. Yea, the snob, chauvinist argument, or from a more positive perspective a healthy habit of caring more about food quality and a willingness to pay for it as opposed to saving money for expensive cars, is also high on my list. It also changes the dynamics from competition on lowest price to competition on quality—sometimes probably allowing for much higher margins than what you could get for the same product in Germany.

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    VIDEO: Czech PM goes shopping in Bavaria, finds that German groceries are cheaper
  • Thanks for this. When I moved to France from Germany, basic meat ("Hackfleisch") was almost twice the price there and it puzzled me how this is sustainable in an open market. I guess meat quality is not visible enough to the end customer for a market to equilibrate out such differences. Are the differences regulation driven?

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  • This is a screenshot of my weather app showing forecasted (smooth blue/purple) rain of the French Arome model VS rain radar (sharp green/yellow contours). It actually does a pretty good job on the large scale but the details aren't always quite right. Dies anyone know how rain probabilities are computed from these models instead of fixed predictions?

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    Matthew Croughan - Use flake.nix, not Dockerfile - MCH2022
  • Agree. The issue with reproducibility comes up mostly once you are building your own containers, many of them, and run them in production but then it can hit very hard because it becomes too expensive then to work around all of the following: Once you are hit by a problem (sometimes years after building the original one), it's hard to debug bc you can't be certain to be able to reproduce what you have. It's even difficult to just find out what is in an existing Docker container, companies are running costly scans for that. And finally you can't compose (you can mostly layer) as well one Docker container with another. Using Nix with flakes gets rid of all of that and you can still have Docker or other containers as output.

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  • How would you design a tool to specify deeply nested forms, basically a complex decision tree, eg for medical diagnosis or complex tax stuff etc, where future form elements can dependent on a previously specified one, but statically ie chosen from few option not generated via a function so that all options and branches are known without executing code. The form specification should just be declarative, data. What data structure would you use to represent that form (I think it would basically be a DAG)? What language would you write it in? How would you generate a graphical representation (eg converting to .dot)? How would you generate a fillable form from it?

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    I always wish I wouldn't have to pull in python/pandas to do simple data transformations on smaller local datasets/csv files and stick with sqlite. But then I tend to quickly hit a problem that seems to require dynamic SQL. Anything in between SQL and a general programming language that is made for transforming tabular data?

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