hans1729

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by hans1729 4y ago
>Anyone that advocates for increasing democracy generally I find this take fascinating. In my model, increasing democracy correlates negatively with increasing long term planning, which only then wouldn’t be the case if our species was a
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by hans1729 4y ago
This just holds when you are b2b. If you’re serving end users, they don’t care about the contract, they care about their UX.
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by hans1729 4y ago
Not just FAANG! Smaller vendors are a very significant threat vector, too, precisely because they are smaller. More owners with smaller margins, looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from the available data, thus entering grey areas a
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by hans1729 4y ago
[citation needed]
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by hans1729 4y ago
>Why isn’t there more central EU coordination in case there actually will be a gas shortage, and we need to divide the gas? Look no further than back to early Covid again, remember the disparities and chaos wrt borders? When people final
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by hans1729 4y ago
When covid hit, governments across Germany realized wait, we need videoconferencing for students! . For the prime ministers and their ministers of education, this meant they could either shine in comparison to the others, or the opposition
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by hans1729 4y ago
This asserts that Russian aggression would transcend across NATO-borders. Is that a given? 1. Party Z invades Country U. 2. Continent C denounces the invasion of U and sanctions Z. 3. Z retaliates against C. Does an act of retaliation (weap
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Nuclear Preparedness PSA (with captions) [video](youtube.com)
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by hans1729 4y ago
I smugly commented "Dang" on one of the status updates on twitter and spent time with my girlfriend. Now HN is up again and I spend time consuming meta-content regarding the outage (such as this thread). Have a great weekend every
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by hans1729 4y ago
The US manages to be the reigning empire and a failed state at the same time. Internationally, it's the empire, internally, it's failed beyond repair.
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by hans1729 4y ago
fyi, I get a `page not found` for [3].
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by hans1729 4y ago
can't speak for op because I don't know what layout his country has. For Germany, vim is not usable beyond basic movements, because for example [ and ] have no dedicated keys. Typing { } on the default german layout is an insult t
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by hans1729 4y ago
My m1 air with us layout was shipped to Germany from Poland within one month, right after M1s were released. The US-layout is faily common in the EU among programmers etc.
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by hans1729 4y ago
"Charitable reading" is something I should definitely lean more towards. Out of habit I usually assume the worst, maybe I should reflect on that.
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by hans1729 4y ago
I simply wasn't sure what to make of your comment. I probably shouldn't have assumed the worst in the face of ambiguity. The sentiment that science needs to be newsworthy wrt actual beliefs is omnipresent online, indicating (to me
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by hans1729 4y ago
The "news" are the findings of the paper. Not sure why beliefs should matter for the value of scientific work
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by hans1729 4y ago
>Roadworthiness or streetworthiness is a property or ability of a car, bus, truck or any kind of automobile to be in a suitable operating condition or meeting acceptable standards for safe driving and transport of people, baggage or carg
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by hans1729 4y ago
I am. Berlin and Germany are in a special relationship, I'll leave colorful elaborations to others :-)
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by hans1729 4y ago
I was told so from a credible source a couple years ago. What I can recall: legalisation would entail complex legal work, to a degree where that option is essentially not on the table. This is supported by the fact that "Legalisierung&
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by hans1729 4y ago
The SPD brands itself as social, pro worker, peaceful, pragmatic and economically-focused all at the same time. They woo young voters, while their core clientel is >65. They actively make policy that works against the youth (serving thei
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by hans1729 4y ago
advocatus diaboli: the FDP has a long track record of advocating for legalisation and then voting against it or abstain in parliamentary elections. Their core clientel are small business owners and (other) anti-regulation folk, I strongly d
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by hans1729 4y ago
Not with respect to the country as a whole. 'broad' is the key term in the sentence you quoted.
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by hans1729 4y ago
Wording: Germany will not legalise Cannabis. Maybe it will be decriminalized, but there is basically no chance of legalisation (too complex/expensive of a process). I have no reason to trust the SPD that they will deliver on this, th
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by hans1729 4y ago
>people want to buy it, and people also want to sell it. That means there's a market and therefore a value to it for those people. People don't want to sell it, they have to , in order to pay the electricity bills for the mi
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by hans1729 4y ago
Scarcity isn't 100% important for value - leverage is. Leverage can be tied to scarcity, but doesn't have to, it all depends on the goods which are being exchanged. Artworks exist just once, coupled with the attributed prestige th
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by hans1729 4y ago
>Gold is like an old god: its faith has a lot of coinage. However, its rule is not necessarily omnipresent. Very nice point, you're not wrong. That being said: >we are in a post-nuclear apocalypse. I have a small trading post and
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by hans1729 4y ago
The exchange rate for gold (i.e. the interface of an economy with the material) can crash, not gold itself, thus the inherent value. That was my point, sorry if that wasn't coming across. >If the world crashes so far that gold is a
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by hans1729 4y ago
Ha, nice. Problem: art receives value wrt the artwork, not the canvas, so the screenshot-meme wins. (Unless the cultural prestige lies in the underlaying technology itself, in which case the piece of art is the blockchain-implementation, no
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by hans1729 4y ago
>Very few economic transactions are denominated in gold, either as a medium of exchange or a unit of account. That doesn't mean that gold isn't a viable medium of exchange - it obviously is, just go to a market of your choice a
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by hans1729 4y ago
Scenario: a country-wide blackout occurs. You're haggling with local farmers for food. Which has value to them, bits on a hard drive or solid gold?

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