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It cleared launch pad which was the most important goal.

Used to drink 2 cups a day. 1 after waking up and the next as soon as I reached the office. As coffee affects my sleep quite badly, moved to having only teas during the weekdays and enjoying the coffees at the weekend.

Yes. In the article, it states the satelite is 1 million miles from Earth. That's a bit more than 4 times the distance Earth-moon.

Can someone please enumerate the advantages compared to, let's say Chrome dev tools? Tried to google to no avail. Thanks in advance.

I remember a debate about high achieving black women "marrying down" (with school dropout black guys on low income) or "marrying out" with white guys.

Attitude seems to be changing for the better anyway.

Here's also an article [0] on the subject that cause quite a stir back in 2011.

[0] http://www.npr.org/2011/06/29/137499303/author-tells-black-w...

I'm not a defender of France or what they did. I'm African born in the Ivory Coast and simply wanted to clarify a few things from the article.

You are mixing the facts. I stated the 2002-2004 war. The election were held in 2010.

During the civil war[1] 2002-2007 The country was divided in two with the French military separating both side, the French were authorized to act by UN resolution 1528 (very important!)

The elections were held in October 2010, the counting took months and the Electoral commission declared Alassane Ouatarra the winner in December 2010. Laurent Gbagbo refused to stand down, claiming he won. Thus the 2nd civil war began[2]. The stand off continued until April 2011 when the rebel took control of the country including Abidjan and with the help of the French removed Gbagbo.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Ivorian_Civil_War [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ivorian_Civil_War

My first post on HN :) I'm not sure the situation is a simple as the author implies. It is true that when the French left Guinea in 1958 they took everything with them. Eventually Guinea turned to communist Russia with even greater consequences.

The author claims "Right for France to pre-deploy troops and intervene military in the country to defend its interests". This is not true as it's a defence agreement against external aggression, not internal civil war. For example they did not intervene for any side during the 2002-2004 civil war in the Ivory Coast.

The usage of Franc CFA is actually beneficial to those using the currency as it's value is pegged to the Euro, hence helping to control inflation.

I do not dispute the facts that Africans countries ought to be more autonomous (after all that's what independence is), but this stems more from a failure from Africans politicians than anyone else.