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by p0pularopinion 7mo ago
I don‘t hold a strong opinion on this, but I still find it a bit weird that they are set to ban something in porn that is - as far as I understand - perfectly fine irl? What I find weirdest is how incredibly prevalent this „genre“ (?) is? N
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by p0pularopinion 7mo ago
Condolences for loosing your mother. It is fascinating to be around such social people. I still remember my great-uncle as a kid. He lived a very simple live as a rural farmer in Germany. He did not have a wife, and he didn‘t have kids, but
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by p0pularopinion 7mo ago
Yes. You can also have melanoma on your uvea
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by p0pularopinion 7mo ago
The problem is that just because you‘re detecting something, it does not mean it is worth watching. Bodies are not standardized and most people habe something off. But you can‘t really reschedule everybody constantly, as that would entirely
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by p0pularopinion 7mo ago
> My father is a part of "full body PET scan every 3 years" program as part of post - cancer treatment, These treatments are wonderful and it is great that they exist. But many people fail to understand the difference in terms
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by p0pularopinion 7mo ago
> Isn't it possible you could be early-detecting something serious that is much easier to treat now vs when symptoms appear? It could be. It could also be the cade that you undergo invasive surgery for something that would have neve
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
Remarkable how you can spit out such an ignorant comment and then be wrong about it
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
This is just objectively untrue. Source: I live in Germany, a country with some of the highest electricity prices, I drive a BEV and I heat my home with a heatpump. My systems SCOP hovers around 3.5, which means that my kWh of heat made fro
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
I'm curious as to how this will shift once the shift towards more electrification continues. This is only about electricity generation, not total power consumption. Nowadays, for very energy intenive things like heating or driving a ca
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
> Electricity/heating and gasoline in the EU is many times more expensive than in the U.S. Maybe because Europe as a whole has little to no signifcant oil reserves ready for extraction? Very much unlike the US. > I would think th
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
Nuclear does not cause prices to be lower. Putting that aside, political discourse here in Germany was "interesting" to say the least. The shift to renewables started off pretty well in the early 2010s before it came to a grinding
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
> But it is by no means obvious that carbon taxes are the right path. When the government says that the market should do something, people complain about government interference. When the government lets the market do something, but sets
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
That is good, because it is a lie that others are not following. People love to point to China for their emissions, completely avoiding that China, as the workbench of the world, essentially is burdened with the emissions of the world. Deve
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
> Certainly no one wants any of this. Yet somehow the rules pile up. Haha. May I introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Reform_Movement German precision was not only about engineering, it has always
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
Might still be a useless indicator considering that many of the low GDP countries also rank badly in other indicators that are often taken into consideration more broadly, like quality of life indicies, corruption indices or just the Gini c
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
GDP is not useful to measure how good an economy works. The core problem of GDP is that it does not account for usefulness of spending. GDP also ignores volunteer work and other non market transactions, completely dismisses externalities fo
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
There are a few noticeable differences between housing as an asset and AI datacenters. Beyond the obvious difference that a house has a depreciation in the order of decades, whereas AI GPUs are a few years. Then there is the fact that housi
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
I find the S&P500 to be interesting as a demonstration for currency risk. Denoted in US, it went up ~18% or so. For me as an EUR investor, it went up just 4.6% when accounting for the loss of the USD. Comparing that to indicies that usu
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by p0pularopinion 8mo ago
I try to see it positive. With the AI bubble, I finally habe a tangible example to point to when I say that GDP growth is a bad indicator for economic success
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by p0pularopinion 9mo ago
> That would be against everything european governments stand for. I really struggle to understand why the hell this is always only applied to european governments? The idea to take 1984 as a book of requirements seems to extend *far* be
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by p0pularopinion 9mo ago
I don‘t care all that much about cars, my n is soley based on the cars i got provided for business trips. One Xpeng (no clue which) was among thise vehicles. The main problem I see (beyond my i4 just being significantly nicer to drive) is r
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by p0pularopinion 9mo ago
DJI as consumer and professional drones seems like they‘re most certainly they are also an R&D leader given the fact that there are essentially 0 western competitors. When it comes to more commodity tech, batteries immediately come to m
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by p0pularopinion 9mo ago
BEVs most certainly aren‘t. Chinese EVs are strongly competing on price. Based on my own experience with them (n=4). They are very good as a EV, solid as a rolling smartphone, but not leading as being a car. Given the choice, I still would
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by p0pularopinion 9mo ago
I generally think both attitudes are a too simplistic look. Basically, the most common pattern with „commodity“ tech seems to be like this. Western companies go ahead and expend a lot of R&D to establish a new market or validate a marke
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by p0pularopinion 11mo ago
When I was 18, I demolished an asbestos cement wall - too bad the asbestos aspect was unclear until the work was already finished. I was only wearing a simple mask and was otherwise unprotected. Since this event, I have developed an excruci
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Ask HN: Will cancer treatments likely get better?
2 points by p0pularopinion 2y ago|2 comments
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by p0pularopinion 3y ago
> No one believes the "doctors and engineers" line anymore. I always found that line to be rather interesting. German is a very difficult language and hard to master. To go about everyday life as an immigrant, you'll eithe