You can try their website [0].

Their documentaries seem to be subtitles in English, Polish, Spanish and Italian (in addition to the original French/German that is typical for all Arte programs).

So my guess would be it is made available for European Union only. Although you could argue that there are not many countries left in the EU whose main language is English.

[0] https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/089086-000-A/the-blade-runner-...

> Although you could argue that there are not many countries left in the EU whose main language is English.

Legally there are none (Malta has nominated Maltese and Ireland Irish, even though English is the most used language in both).

Thanks for your help :) Unfortunately the Arte TV website is also region locked and doesn't let me watch this from South America. A shame, it sounded interesting.

Sounds like it's time to fire up the VPN with an exit node in a different region, er, I mean visit the region personally yourself. Yeah, that's what I meant.

> When LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse is built

For context for US readers, the California High-Speed Rail will probably be completed before the end of the debate on the construction of the LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse.

Because their train travels are heavily subsidized. And more recently, it became easier to carpool easily for long distance trips in France with Blablacar (before the pandemy).

> If you search airfrance.com for flights from New York to Lyon, the fastest connection you get is indeed two flights connecting at CDG (11 hours total time).

And if you search an aggregator, chances are that Brussels Airlines (via Brussels, obviously) is faster. And more convenient since you can drop your luggage at your starting point.

At that point, one criteria that comes into play is if you are living closer to the Lyon train station or to the Lyon airport.

> will I just book a flight via Brussels (New York -> Brussels -> Lyon) because that will still be fine...

Or Amsterdam flying KLM which is a way better airport than Paris Charles de Gaulle anyway (and arguably a better airline than Air France). Or any German airport flying Lufthansa.

its kind of funny that air France is considered worse then KLM considering they are the same company..

They both have their own staff, airplanes and general policies. They are under the same umbrella but far from the same company.

> However, if you're already arriving or leaving on a long distance flight, the whole overhead of getting to/from/through the airport disappears and those 1.5 hours start making a difference.

There is a workaround for this. For long distance flight, take a company where the international/local connection takes place outside France: KLM through Amsterdam, Lufthansa through german airports, Brussels Airlines through Brussels...

This is already what I always do when I have to make a long distance flight because Paris Charles de Gaulle airport is horrendous and Air France is prone to mass cancellations when there is a strike.

But this is doable because I live in Toulouse which has bad train infrastructure but is well connected to the rest of Europe by plane.

> In France too, [...] hilarious when management uses English words

Recently (well... back when going to the office was still a thing) I had a meeting with a senior manager at our company. At the end of the meeting, he grabbed his iPhone and said "I am going to take a selfie of the whiteboard" (in French except for the word 'selfie') thinking that meant any kind of picture.

For as long as I can remember, IBM has always been cutting thousands of jobs every other month.

Yeah you can copy and paste this story and these comments at least once a quarter. Same story “IBM lays off thousands” same comment “IBM isn’t even a company and this will surely be the death of them”. Literally ever since I first heard the letters IBM I’ve heard these same headlines and comments.

And yet my clients keep buying IBM products and hiring IBM consultants. There is a huge enterprise world outside of Silicon Valley that HN is completely unaware of.

I second that. And every time the sentiment of most commentators is pure vitriolic. I really don't get it. Unless it's coming from laid-off workers - which I can understand and empathize. But I highly doubt it. My understanding is that people here just hate IBM because it's old and out of fashion mostly mirroring the same valley sentiment towards anything and anyone on the older side of the road.

The amount of misconceptions that are passing in a lot of these comments for facts is astounding. Many pretend that they don't know that IBM is one of the major PaaS and IaaS cloud providers. Others pretend that they ignore all the R&D done in IBM. Others still ignore the fact that IBM is one of the most open source friendly companies out there. And others still forget that it is probably the oldest IT company around that has reinvented itself more times than Elon has begged for public attention.

Anyway. Each with his own opinion. Luckily business out there has it's own as well and places its money on it.

With that I'm not trying to absolve C-suite from their responsibilities or their shitty management that will leave thousands of good workers high and dry. This is a different issue altogether but like I said the hate in these comments have nothing to do with it.