ThrowMeDown01

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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> here everyone calls you a physician even though you only work with animals Just an aside, but that is a gigantic undersell of veterinarians. The difficulties of becoming one aside, just seeing that "humans-only" doctors onl
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
What a strange reply. Your 1) Please read again, this does not fit to anything I wrote. Especially the main point, that inconvenient "anybody" vs. "everybody" thing that you completely ignore. Your 2) This too has nothin
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
A concrete location is something very specific, and the number of newspapers per town is very small.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
The term "Facebook" is not nearly as generic as "hackernews".
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> This name confusion seems intentional Do you have proof, or do you just happen to feel this way without actually knowing any background story? If you make such an accusation you should state your reasons, preferably observable facts.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
To not repeat what I already wrote and fill the forum with double-posts I'll just point to my comment here elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783191 What happens if "everyone" does it and now y
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Also, another confusion of "anyone" vs. "everyone". The English language has those two distinct words, unlike my own native language, so English speakers should actually be at an advantage here. Any time someone comes up
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> What's your definition of huge? Quoting myself: > unless you were huge enough to have your own locations Those locations are millions, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars investments with backup power generators large e
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
So what is the alternative? Maintaining your own infrastructure like we did before "cloud" providers, i.e. your own dedicated servers in managed locations unless you were huge enough to have your own locations? Or just a different
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Does anybody have an equally short summary of any differences today? By the way, there are links below the text, here's the one to the HN discussion of 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10885727
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
That sounds like a great way to make her resent playing an instrument when she's grown up. I learned (soprano and alto) recorder when I was young, in evening classes at a music school (East Germany), and started learning to play violin
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> The rules you mention are very localized So what??? > but my next-door neighbours will follow different rules. Some rules are different, many are not. > Alas, money is always an overriding concern. No it isn't, see w
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
There is an incredible number of norms you and most everybody else adheres to every single day. Some of them even obviously ridiculous and without any objective basis, like "don't wear white socks and sandals". Nobody charges
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
So, and now go back and read what I wrote until you understand it. There is no point to this whole thing (apart from creating clicks for the attention industry). It has no impact (again apart from creating clicks). There is no outcome that
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
What on earth does that have to do with anything being discussed? Why do you think posting a random link contributes anything?
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> The whole point of probabilistic modeling The whole point about the current topic as well as of my post: You missed by about a thousand miles. Please read it again. It's really pointless to argue about a strawman created by you.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
As the blog post rightly said, they present 538 present the forecast in a way that they are never wrong. I can see the point. I also fond the comparison of NFL vs. Senate forecasts meaningful. This kind of "forecasting" seems to b
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Since you link to Wikipedia, you missed one that given the title seems more obvious - but which counters your opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Credit_theory_o... > The fractional reserve theory
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
One argument in favor of such an interpretation is that anytime somebody posts such an anecdote, and in various contexts that happens not infrequently, there is one giant thing all those story tellers forget: That everybody else only sees t
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
I don't understand your comment, especially the "distract" part. First, it isn't false at all, commercial banks create money, just as they say in the paper. Second, if you make the bold claim that the people of the Bank
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> My understanding is that reserve banks create money out of thin air "Money creation in the modern economy" (Bank of England, PDF) https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarter
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Since this subthread is about personal anecdotes of reading experience, mine was completely different. I had no problem finishing the book in record time and I'm glad I bought (and read) it.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
To me this is just so sad. With a bit of empathy you can actually tell them that you are busy or not in the mood. It only gets awkward because or if you try saying it without saying it, if you show them you feel uncomfortable (in what
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
My now favorite example for what you describe is this blog post "I no longer understand my PhD dissertation". However, it's worse, even the same person experiences this - because over time we are different people. To quote fr
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Beginning the story indirectly, when I began the treatment I was not even close to being sure about it all. The only reason I had even tested for mercury was because I was desperate, there just was no other option left, after consulting man
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> I've had strange eye problems that my doctor hasn't been able to explain, and I feel like my cognition is declining You could also explain this with low-level heavy metal exposure, e.g. mercury, as well as a large amount of
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
The route was by train from Germany directly to the city. The annual international military pilgrimage (in May) does not involve having to use ones feet. But it does involve drinking lots and lots of alcohol... it's probably not the
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
I like to point out that the English language has a beautiful way to describe it by having two distinct words ("anyone", "everyone") instead of just one, unlike my native German ("jeder"): If something somebody
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
As an atheist, I've been on two Catholic pilgrimages and countless church services. My first pilgrimage was to Lourdes in the South of France - as a member of the German army. During an introduction course in the first weeks after join
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Somebody posted a link to a Facebook page in another comment, here is a direct link to a video where a goat eats a piece of a woman's jeans: https://video-frx5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/12024956_6368...

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