Hermel

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by Hermel 2y ago
The German language demands a more precise and sober style, whereas English tolerates more sloppy expressions. One common technique to work around that is to just use English terms when there is no catchy German one. In German marketing, th
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by Hermel 2y ago
Free speech is much more restricted in Europe than in de United States.
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by Hermel 2y ago
No, the fundamental issue with carbon credits is its economics. It would be much healthier to set a fixed price for carbon emissions. This price should be based on the externalities caused by the emissions. In the worst case, the price is t
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by Hermel 2y ago
More and more countries are implementing an "exit tax" when wealthy people try to give up their citizenship. Also, the US authorities make it increasingly hard to do so. I wouldn't recommend anyone to become a US citizen. Onc
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by Hermel 2y ago
There are various valid use cases for companies without business. Examples include: - International holding companies: if there is Coca Cola France and Coca Cola Germany that economically belong together, you might not be able to just merge
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by Hermel 3y ago
Technically, the state does not have the monopoly on money. The majority of the money supply is created by commercial banks through credit. But the commercial banks are so strictly regulated through capital requirements that the de facto de
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by Hermel 3y ago
> I disagree -- this is the correct thing to do if you believe it is not possible for the checked exception to occur. If it is not possible to occur, then it should not be part of the API. The only time I rethrow a checked exception as a
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by Hermel 3y ago
Depends on your position and motivation. I myself am always reachable and read my emails day and night. I enjoy being involved with my company just as others enjoy checking their personal emails every hour.
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by Hermel 3y ago
So why do even the official website of the European commission and the European parliament have a cookie consent button? One would assume that they are not "capitalist services".
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by Hermel 3y ago
I think it is about curation.
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by Hermel 3y ago
No, it is very productive. From this principle, one can derive many important properties of an optimal legal system, most notably that laws should be technology-neutral. If a law needs to be changed every ten years, then it is not a very we
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by Hermel 3y ago
No, a good legal system cannot be outrun by technology. A good legal system provides sound foundations based on principles. Fraud is fraud, regardless of whether it is committed offline or online. Just like source code, legal code can be mo
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by Hermel 3y ago
A good legal system provides legal certainty. It has clean and concise laws that are straight-forward to apply. In case of uncertainty, the responsible authorities should provide guidance on what they believe is the right interpretation. No
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by Hermel 3y ago
Yes, that's the explanation. It still does not make the US legal system look very good. There is a total lack of legal certainty. Even some members of the SEC find the way crypto is handled by the US authorities questionable: https:&#
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by Hermel 4y ago
Exactly, so Page and Brin might think that they can pull the same trick again.
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by Hermel 4y ago
And this agency problem is partially caused by regulators and "good governance" rules who demand that the board is "independent" from the shareholders. But this makes them have less skin in the game and diminishing the e
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by Hermel 4y ago
Like in chess, the moves that you could play matter as much as the moves that you do play. So even if I don't need cash, I still appreciate the possibility of using cash in case my bank of government locks me out of my accounts. For ex
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by Hermel 4y ago
If taken literally, this would mean that the founders could not even do their groceries any more, right?
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by Hermel 4y ago
Still banned in Germany: ads for lawyers, ads for doctors, ads for cigarettes, ads for gambling, and ads for drugs that need a prescription. When traveling to the US, it always strikes me how different public ads are. The US has more public
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by Hermel 4y ago
I would say both are over-regulated, but maybe not as overregulated as Europe. An interesting thing to note is that European countries tend to make rules to outlaw risky behavior in the first place, but have limited fines in case the risk m
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by Hermel 4y ago
That's the key! The Play Store and the App Store do not even have a search filter for games without in-app purchases. I'm sure that is on purpose.
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by Hermel 4y ago
I have the opposite problem: there are more and more profiles on Facebook and Instagram that impersonate me in order to scam people. However, Facebook does not delete them even after having the profile reported by multiple times by differen
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by Hermel 4y ago
In most countries, medical images are not subject to copyright at all as they lack a creative dimensinon and artistic expression.
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by Hermel 4y ago
Not really. Even from a point of view of an experimenter with perfect information, the entropy of the system declines over time as fewer and fewer bits are needed to describe the system. For example, start with a Glas of warm water and an i
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by Hermel 4y ago
In most other countries, such a poison pill would be illegal as it violates the principle of equal treatment of all shareholders. Also, in most other countries, the decision to issue new shares requires a shareholder vote and cannot be done
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by Hermel 4y ago
By definition, low taxes are not a subsidy. It is the trains that are heavily subsidized. The main reason behind the price difference is that there is plenty of competition between airlines for a given flight, eg Paris-Berlin, but no compet
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by Hermel 4y ago
Sometimes, re-inventing something is easier than trying to find it somewhere else.
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by Hermel 4y ago
> international mindset The international mindset is to be tolerant with non-native speakers. I find it perfectly ok when a German company uses expressions that hint at their origin. Similarly, I'm not bothered when a British compan
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by Hermel 5y ago
It's unethical if you believe that people should be free in expressing their opinions. (Yes, I know that freedom of speech in the US constitution concerns the government and not companies, but I'm talking about freedom of speech a
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by Hermel 5y ago
Of course they are free to do what they want. But if they do something unethical, like removing content for political reasons, I'm also free to criticize them and for example demand a refund if they lured me into a subscription by cla

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