Noseshine

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by Noseshine 9y ago
The problem was mostly in the cities though. I remember I returned from my parents where I had stayed over the weekend and it was okay - to a city that was still glowing from the heat at 11 pm at night. I say that as someone who spent a sum
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> Today I read The Washington Post and Fox News every day, to compare what they're saying. I (a German) do the exact same thing! I don't even find Fox News stories particularly egregious, it's more in what stories they c
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by Noseshine 9y ago
EDIT: Oh I get it. Should have responded AFTER the morning espresso.
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Free excellent courses: Start with "Fundamentals of Neuroscience" by Harvard, free multimedia course that requires only a high school level education: https://www.mcb80x.org/ then go to "Medical Neuroscienc
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> the government is funneling an ever-greater percentage of revenue from productive pursuits to pensions That is too simplistic for me. Income for one also is income for somebody else down the line. All those "economic" conside
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by Noseshine 9y ago
With a demographic that is the inverse of the "voter turnout by age" graphic though [0]. [0] http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> which would be a huge business model change, Is it? Since Adobe switched to the subscription model and the "Adobe Creative Cloud" I'd say they would be quite happy if that infrastructure would be good enough to run their
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by Noseshine 9y ago
I prefer the (open source) videospeed Chrome extension [0]. It gives me a much wider range (thus far I used up to 5 x speed; audio is blanked above 3 x speedup), 0.1 increments - and keyboard control. The latter is essential to me, I can
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Obviously the example code is inside another function - `await` can only be used inside a function marked with `async`, which always returns a promise. That means error handling may not be necessary inside that function. Errors are caught
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by Noseshine 9y ago
You make sure the material is "boring" so that you can concentrate on what the talk is really about: The people in front of you. They change every time, sometimes radically (composition of the audience and context). You want to wa
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Without knowing anything about the CIA specifically but about big organizations incl. government ones: I suspect 99% of the employees have jobs comparable to what you see in the daily Dilbert cartoons, and they sit in aging offices with out
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Indeed. Fortunately there is a filter-list [0] for my ad blocker with the sole purpose of blocking these EU cookie warnings :-) [0] List homepage: http://prebake.eu/
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Here is why the startup I write code for wants an app first and browser code second. We actually would prefer the browser by leaps and bounds, cutting the need for central servers and decentralization is a core idea, you should remain in co
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by Noseshine 9y ago
I think so too. In our recent conflicts when you were caught you might get shot, the ancients used torture-killing so cruel I can't even read about it without feeling sick. Not even the Nazis used something like the Brazen Bull ( https
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by Noseshine 9y ago
And everybody takes inspiration for everything from somebody else and it can all be traced back to ancient Babylon, Greece and Rome. Yes we get it, nothing is an original idea. Thought experiment: To be truly "original" a child
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> Even if the book is fine There is the crux of your... argument. How about you read the book and then come back? You sure have a lot to say about something you never looked at. You can't improve how "the other side" is ar
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> Yes, he did. It was specific. It was specific about the authors , but the question was about specifics of the book. Still not one bit of information about the book in sight in this sub-thread. I don't care either way, as a bore
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> I've tried to learn some quantum physics for fun, and it seems to me that most textbooks have surprisingly little description of the actual physical experiments behind the physics. Try the free and new course "Quantum Mecha
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by Noseshine 9y ago
They do? Just check the version: Open Defender, go to Help => About, check "Engine Version". Should be 1.1.13704.0 or higher.
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> Businesses hate instability. Which ones? How many billions of GDP are created by arms manufacturers directly and indirectly, add to this the vast part of the economy supplying and/or supporting the military one way or the othe
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by Noseshine 9y ago
No, that question is unsettled. If you know better, you might want to give an answer here: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/14337/q-about-conseq...
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> the number of true facts LOL Anyway - once again you did NOT respond to what OP wrote. What you did has a name: Whataboutism. Care to say something about what OP actually wrote? Is he right or wrong? Should be easy to prove him wrong s
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by Noseshine 9y ago
No, his point is that if you are lying they have an instrument to use against you. Similar to how they got Al Capone, where they didn't have to go through the trouble of having to prove his actual crimes in court. It isn't about
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Reason why this is not important is if your only path of attack is through the "who did it" path and you have nothing whatsoever to say about the actual content, maybe you should base your attack on more solid ground. Should be ea
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by Noseshine 9y ago
> but most people don't seek physical confrontation. Like that passenger, who did NOTHING. We even have a video (not the first one that was published, a later one) that shows wat he did: NOTHING. No, the real problem are people like
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by Noseshine 9y ago
A lack of subject knowledge when commenting about something does that to you. /s
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by Noseshine 9y ago
I refer to what I already wrote. Nothing you say addresses my point. It only works for some . > lots of businesses fit it pretty well. Keyword: "businesses". If everybody follows that path, who is going to work at those busin
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by Noseshine 9y ago
That is any topic ever. Anyone can "contribute" to discussions on anything from the budget of the DoD to health care without having the slightest clue how anything actually works. All you have to do is instead of having to deal wi
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by Noseshine 9y ago
That is the trouble with you guys: You propose ideas that work - but only as long as only very few people do it. Thank you for demonstrating it so clearly - by the way, did you yourself even notice this catch? It may work for anyone , but
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by Noseshine 9y ago
Not to take anything away from your stories because I don't think that group is the problem (as the Economist wrote in an article, it's the 0.01% not the 1% we should worry about, we are much more top-heavy than we think), I wou

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