IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 3y ago
In part I think it’s because young people’s worlds have massively expanded, on average. I traveled to 5 continents mostly without parents as a teenager, and I’m a pretty average guy who just put his mind to it. It’d be unthinkable for my pa
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by IkmoIkmo 3y ago
Oh god that first one… It’s really nice in podcast form on the way to work or in the bathtub, absolutely terrible to keep my attention when trying to understand news in readable form, and always suspect of being mere anecdata and generally
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by IkmoIkmo 4y ago
Not sure about that. If you’re competing with an adversary in the cybersecurity space, it’s likely that you’ll go quite far to win. It’s a matter of national security after all, plus it is strictly legal soon to start your activities and sl
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by IkmoIkmo 4y ago
Would be cool to see two comparison pictures (no head needed). 110lbs is a fantastic result, I wonder if it’s hard to see for you because it was a gradual change?
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Most countries in western Europe and many states seem to have less than 10 ℅ excess deaths in 2021 That may well be true, but it cannot in and of itself be a reason to decide to relax measures. It's like saying the number of traff
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Omission of China was very strange. I get that you may not have data. But to not mention that fact, when it's 1/5th of the world population, ostensibly the point of origin of Covid-19, and a country where most people are curious a
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
In terms of excess death, those are correct interpretations. But a true measure of successful policy would've been some kind of death vs impact, corrected for difficult factor. Death is what the article covers. Impact would be the cost
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
roommates
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Agreed, in a lot of cases it makes little sense to upgrade. That's true just about always when you don't have a 4k TV. When you do have a 4k TV and it's large enough, a PS5 can look a lot better. Especially versus the regular
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
On the whole FB account, does it require you to actually do anything with it? Can it literally just be an e-mail and random password, which only logs into the Oculus. If so, what's the problem?
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Does anyone believe one would disappear from public appearances for 5-6 weeks due to ostensibly her 'resting at home', somehow oblivious to the fact that literally the entire world media is talking about your disappearance. This w
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
My reading so far has been different. Indeed children are far less likely to be at risk, yet several dozen kids have died due to Covid already, and a larger group has complications from long-covid. The studies in contrast show no major side
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
On the contrary, I see most western media continue to host 'let's hear both sides of the story' type forums on their talkshows and interviewee lists, when one side are medical experts, and the other side are frankly a bunch o
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
As far as I know, virtually every serious medical forum, whether it's pharmaceutical companies, health ministries, WHO, groups of hospitals, universities etc are constantly researching, monitoring and reporting on side-effects and taki
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I highly doubt you average 35 km/h on a regular bike, especially when overweight, and then regularly get overtaken as well, in a city. It's simply an average. People ride bikes in Amsterdam in their everyday clothes for work or go
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I mean, bolt cutters can cut rebar in 30 seconds max: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0imMjR-Vqs The type of locks you'll typically find on bikes can be cut by $30 bolt cutters in about 5 seconds, which fit in a backp
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> 2-3 hours a day, every day, weekend included I mean, I use a regular bike for 30 years in Amsterdam, I really don't think 2-3 hours of daily biking is the norm... There's 5 supermarkets and 5 gyms within a 5minute bike ride,
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
The 25km/h limit is EU legislation as far as I know, so indeed it'll be in almost all of Europe. I think the issue is two-fold: 1) There's not much enforcement. Many units can be set to go say 32km/h with a software upda
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Here in Amsterdam I feel it's the opposite. Next to the car roads we had beautiful biking infrastructure used by bikes going typically 10 to 15 km/h, averaging say 12km/h, used by virtually everyone, poor and rich, kids, stud
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Thing is that it's a lot easier to regulate a small number of registered businesses, with known owners, in known locations, versus a potentially endless amount of (unregistered) customers that come and go. Not easy, just easier. Pinpoi
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
It's the antithesis of gambling. If you bet $10 on black and win straight away, earning $10, and go home with $20, and stay home for the rest of your life and never walk into a casino again, then yes, you won. But you're not reall
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Am I missing something? Yes, a few things. For one, Germany isn't the richest in Europe. But that's besides the point. Typically price to income measures not prices per person, but per household. After all, the average house
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Some countries are going to see a shrinking population. Particularly wealthy countries. That's not entirely clear. In terms of births it's correct, but at any point in time there's millions of people ready to migrate to
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
So? It's a fact, but why does it matter? You'd think it's obvious: home prices typically dictate affordability, and affordability is what we ultimately care about. But in housing it's more nuanced. Home prices * financin
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Bit of a painful read. On the first game, it's a common game concept (very much not novel) that I've seen many people recreate. I built one myself with better graphics and gameplay over the course of a week and sold it for 5k to a
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I agree with you, but this isn't necessarily the best example. In this case, frankly part of this issue had to be resolved by relaxing strict zoning laws that weren't allowing space to be used in a way that the market demanded (of
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
As I noted in the last piece of my post, I believe there's value in bitcoin being a store of value. It has proven itself there and is a contender to Gold in that respect. But there's no pretense around gold as having technological
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Here's a KPI: do you find it useful for something other than the fact that the price might go up? I don't personally, I don't use or own it anymore. Could you explain more about your uses? > I know I do, for a fairly
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Accepted and used in 99% of every real-world transactions by the biggest economy in the world, used by 99% of the merchants and 99% of the citizens in this economy. But I'd say that perhaps it's not the best comparison. Few people
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
What I'm always missing from the discussion around bitcoin and its price is: what are reasonable KPI's to measure its success, its impact, its utility etc. When you want to value an organisation or company, it makes sense to look

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