ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The dissonance comes from three aspects: 1) people selfishly reason from their point of view: "there is a 2% chance I'll die". But it is more than 10% for those aged 70+. 2) people don't think systemic and forget second-
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Imagine that 1% of all software had an issue, across all of the economic tissue of the developed world. Now imagine that this software would start failing, all on January 1st 2000, everywhere around the world. Or better still, not failing,
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The Dutch would like to have a word with him.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
I believe what he meant to say was that if you have a 2-year old at home, it will be difficult to work at home.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Perhaps because he has a history of trying to escape the law?
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
You seem definitely better informed on the subject than I am (and on other subjects btw!) But I can't help but point out that the wiki quote talks about the time needed for the fires to go out by themselves, and the 6 months were for t
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
If you find that excessive, do you also consider that founders of startups should relinquish their shares "to the public domain" after some time?
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
People need food, healthcare, etc. Moreover, people are stubborn, selfish, and stupid. You will never manage to have everyone stay at home. The best we can hope for is to reduce exposure, slow down progression, and thus spread the developm
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The buildings in the video you mention typically have multiple entrances. It is more probably they are sealing up these entrances to ensure people go through the obligatory temp check gate.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Eliminating information dissymmetry, by showing to the rest of the world what -given the simplicity- undoubtedly many other people have already found out (but have kept for themselves).
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
What is often overlooked in these sort of discussions, is the fact that there is more to take into consideration than "efficiency". Certain tasks are in theory executable without specialised tools, if one is willing to pay for &qu
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
in fact it crashed because it was hovering over the (walled) compound, and those walls were modifying the air flow and causing a vortex ring state. Most helicopters would have suffered the same fate. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
And most importantly, it is not free in the sense that insurance fraud is not a victimless crime. Any money shunted away from the state is money that the state will have to raise additionaly.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Taxis are expensive because they require a human to drive them. Hence the reason the SDC could change that dynamic. A shared car that does not require an expensive human to drive it. Another model are shared cars, like dockless scooters and
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The dictionary definition of fraud: wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
This article is adapted from the book “Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think“ I imagine the idea is that if you want to go further, you buy the book.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
His point is that a phrase like "this [teacher|nurse|officer] only makes xx" can be deceiving when the local economic context is not taken into account. Cost of living is not equal. To give an analogue example : the same mechanism
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The example I always give: in the Netherlands in the 30's there was a census. Everyone gently filled in the number of people in their family, their ages, and their religion. Because, surely there was no harm in helping the state better
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Reminds me of last year, when images emerged of a "long march" rocket crashing a couple of hundrer meters from a village, releasing a decidedly not-healthy-looking red smoke cloud (after the initial fireball). http://sp
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Mind you, most peer-to-peer sharing protocols work by having everyone be distributor and downloader at the same time. This is why they are "peer to peer". The bittorrent protocol for example downloads files in fragments, and every
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Baby making activity is not randomly distributed throughout the year. Depending on where you live (i.e. when it is warm), the peak month changes. https://visme.co/blog/most-common-birthday/
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The reason it is being downvoted it is because it is using lazy debating techniques. Saying that "well but probably there are people that had it coming" does not add anything to the discussion. In fact it diminishes the quality. T
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Nobody said it was easy to solve these issues without collateral damage. The point being raised is that when you become a statistic, you have no recourse. Sort of like "we don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone co
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Someone else is paying for something they are using. Better still:they're getting paid to use it. Of course, nobody is twisting the arm of these politicians. But the fact remains that Ryanair is exploiting this weakness to avoid paying
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Well, the issues I'm aware of: Ryanair pay their staff poorly. And that is not cheap enough, so they also employ them under employment law from "cheap countries", to try and circumvent income taxes and other charges of the lo
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Correct. See acid rain and ozone depletion. Those were problems that had economically viable solutions, and (relatively) short term impacts. The same can unfortunately not be said of climate change.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Same reason we have OLAP and OLTP systems. Same reason it makes sense for some use cases to set up a Hadoop cluster, and for others to have a single but fast CPU: some tasks can be run in parallel, others can't. See Amdahl's law :
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
It is true, we will never know in the ultimate detail how each weight of each neuron must be placed and why. But that is simply because it is too intricate to understand everything. Just like we try to understand human behaviour not by unde
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
It depends on the subject being discussed. If it is something that the redneck is experienced in, I'd go with the redneck, and vice-versa. If it is something that I do not expect neither to have detailed knowledge of, I'll base my
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
You're right. I just looked it up to be sure. When I lived in the UK in 2007, Bulgaria and Romania entered the EU. There was some fuss about that, and initially those nationalities did not automatically obtain a work permit. These were

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