netrus

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by netrus 9mo ago
One city has a millionaire who builds a yacht for 100M dollars in a local shipyard and uses it for holidays. The neighbor city has a millionaire who spends 100M dollars to build 10 ferries he gifts to the city. The general population is cl
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by netrus 1y ago
I think the core idea is to avoid someone actually losing money. The producer might end up with a loss, the actor's profit is strictly positive (not accounting for opportunity costs...).
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by netrus 1y ago
It's important to be precise because everything is not the same. In the German case the ruling was not because someone posted a critical meme, but because it was not entirely obvious the picture was edited (as in: you and I can immedia
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by netrus 2y ago
You are of by a factor of 10.
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by netrus 2y ago
Any educated reader can be assumed to interpret 'heiress' as 'heiress to a fortune' in this context.
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by netrus 2y ago
The irreversibility is still important to highlight, as it is distinctively different from a similar consent issue with search: "Google indexed my website against my will, but I will just forbid them to include me in search results goi
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by netrus 2y ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by netrus 2y ago
Hydro power is a great thing, it was the first renewable energy that was available in meaningful quantities. However, great sites for hydro power are definitely limited. We will not suddenly find a great spot for a new huge dam. Imagine the
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by netrus 2y ago
Just to add to that: Any fluctuation in prices works to incentivise storage, negative prices are not so special in that regard. Negative prices allow for some weird actions to become profitable - like starting an empty washing machine, turn
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by netrus 2y ago
That's a very optimistic outlook after it was revealed what preparations had been taken to deal with a global pandemic, a risk scenario that at least every country had a playbook for. I just think it is not possible to meaningfully pre
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by netrus 3y ago
Stocks can fall quite a bit before a company fails. Aviation is full of companies with huge revenue and tiny profits/valuations.
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by netrus 3y ago
Because correctly assigning blame does not solve any issue caused by the racism?
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by netrus 3y ago
If the pot size stays the same, you are just shuffling around between artists. So artists who are listened to by people who only listen to a bit of music benefit, and those listened to by people who listen to a lot of music get less. I gues
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by netrus 3y ago
It's a tautology, as no implementation of a concept will ever be equivalent to the pure concept. The real existing examples of implementations of concepts will still tell you something about the viability of the concept.
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by netrus 3y ago
As drawing discoveries are hardly a thing, I see no ambiguity here.
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by netrus 3y ago
It's an artifact of how the measurement is made, as it accounts for insurance profits. While a good proxy in normal times, corona sent this measure into a wild rollercoaster-ride. However, it is generally a good idea not to change the
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by netrus 3y ago
By flipping thousands of coins for this paper, I am sure their participation exceeds that of many 5-author-papers.
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by netrus 3y ago
I can imagine that many great academics might have difficulties 'holding a job'. A PhD is certainly something to be proud of, just as running a marathon, raising a great child or having a great corporate career.
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by netrus 3y ago
Wherever there is a Tarif, there are Außertarifliche Angestellte who can freely negotiate their salary, if it is at least 110% of highest Tarifgehalt. Unions cannot do anything about layoffs because that's the job of the workers counci
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by netrus 3y ago
On my Android Samsung Galaxy, when I want to know the password of a saved Wifi, I generate a share-QR, screenshot it, and have a QR scanner scan the picture to extract the password. It drives me nuts, the password is clearly not secure&#x2F
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by netrus 3y ago
Add enough pizza alternatives to make it a somewhat plausible diet and that's an actually great idea - for the crowd that can afford a fully delivery-based diet.
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by netrus 3y ago
I guess you also need to draw and pay for a lot of electricity most of the time to get that kind of deal.
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by netrus 3y ago
The sentence is ambiguous, however, West Point was founded in 1802.
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by netrus 3y ago
I'd guess one would use a voice recorder to practice the skill, that way you get pretty fast feedback on how to make the right sounds in reverse. As a child I practiced to say my name in reverse, as the voice recorder in Windows 3.1 (o
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by netrus 3y ago
If you are just interested in the percentage share (not a map of labeled data), all you need is random sampling. Classifying a couple of hundred coordinates is sufficient, takes at most some hours (more likely <1h), and is required anywa
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by netrus 3y ago
Extremely relevant to electric cars. Looks like we are close to electric > ICE, (or past that point, whatever), but it was a long painful time of hyping subpar cars by those who believed in the potential of the technology.
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by netrus 3y ago
Coming up with (at least a bit) fun names for grant applications is a small plaster on the pain these applications involve. If the money actually comes, the fun name has a good chance to stay, as everyone has gotten used to it.
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by netrus 3y ago
Apparently they are not paid enough to deter them from cheating.
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by netrus 3y ago
That kind of data should definitely preserved for future generations - national libraries and archives could be trustworthy guardians of such data that is only meant to be accessed again with some time delay. Or we encrypt it very well, thr
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by netrus 3y ago
Of course that's possible, if only to calm the nerves of the public (I don't think there is a legal obligation). However, hardly anyone requested it for Apple's equivalent product.

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