BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 11mo ago
The WHO hardly is a reliable, neutral source. It's a political organization that's subject to all sorts of outside influences.
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by BjoernKW 11mo ago
How would you suggest to improve it? In my opinion, for its purpose, UI - and UX - of Hacker News are pretty much close to perfect.
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by BjoernKW 11mo ago
> Every medication can have severe and permanent side effects SSRIs are by an order of a magnitude worse than any other common medication in that respect. Moreover, like I said there's little evidence these drugs actually achieve an
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
> "This person must have extraordinary grit and determination!" Because when a criminal gets out of prison, the entire system and the entire society is set up to try to oppose his rehabilitation and get him back into prison. Ov
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
The rationale is that most sexually active people have already been infected with HPV anyway, so the largest benefit of administering the vaccine is at a young age.
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
One rarely talked about aspect of this is that doctors - generally speaking - only trust other doctors. They won't buy an EMR system from someone without the necessary "street cred" - however well-designed that system is. I k
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
Quite to the contrary, the C64 instantly booting into what was both an operating system and a readily accessible programming environment to start creating with right away already was an immensely powerful concept - an empty canvas to fill w
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
The title is a likely nod to The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
I suppose they meant to say "espouses".
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
Switzerland is one of the few examples where such collective large-scale (i.e. state-run) endeavours still work. In many other countries it’s rather crumbling infrastructure and massive public spending and bureaucracy with little to show fo
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
What's the benefit here (other than the usual nebulous 'because data protection and politics', that is)? Where do you want to move previously cloud-based applications to? Who is going to maintain that non-cloud infrastructure
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by BjoernKW 1y ago
That's not true. At least not based on their R&D locations back then. Most of those were in Russia. They quickly - and rightfully so - closed these locations down when the war started and moved their activities elsewhere.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
It might be relatively easy to read, but for SMBs it's hard to actually implement in real life, because GDPR and the EU's stance so far often doesn't take economic reality into account. For small businesses, GDPR in many rega
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> You can't take the GDPR, and conclude that regulations as an idea is bad. Though I didn't make that claim, in fact I precisely think that more often than not that's indeed the case. Regulations often serve no other purpo
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Regulations like the GDPR precisely try to give incentives for competitors. It failed miserably at that, too. Apart from Plausible there's hardly any business worth mentioning that used GDPR as a competitive advantage. GDPR for th
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> That's quite opinionated. That's just a perspective from reality, where people are doing business rather than contriving impractical regulations out of thin air . > GDPR is not that bad. It has downsides but it is not over
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
No, whiskey might be. Whisky, on the other hand, of course isn't affected by US tariffs.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Canada, Australia, India, Vietnam, South Africa... there's a whole world of nominally friendly and economically viable suppliers out there Where generally EU-based businesses aren't allowed to move their cloud infrastructure
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Funny thing is, due to overly complex regulations such as GDPR, there are no EU-based alternatives to speak of and as an EU-based company moving your cloud-based business to other countries mentioned in this thread often isn't legal ac
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Moving towards a "European cloud" remains an eternal pipe dream, simply because such a thing doesn't exist, the reason being the EU actively regulating against businesses trying to innovate in this and other seminal areas.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
While this might sound reasonable on the surface, here's the thing: Not only are there hardly any homegrown options in the EU, but the EU is actively regulating against such homegrown alternatives. At the same time, people regularly ca
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
Because the EU seems to think it can just regulate such things into existence. I find it baffling that people seem to attribute miracle superpowers to an entity whose prime achievement these days is tethered caps.
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The Gentle Seduction(skyhunter.com)
2 points by BjoernKW 2y ago|1 comments
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> The EU is going to be thinking long and hard about the future of NATO now. Thinking long and hard apparently is all the EU is capable of. Trump's first term should have been more than enough to make the EU come to their senses. No
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Schlesisches Tor Quite a few years ago I saw this translated as Sileasian Gate on Google Maps (IIRC), which - for some reason - reason just brought up "Tannhäuser Gate" in my mind right now.
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Buddy, you're doing something called Source Bombing. You're doing something called "Moving the goalposts" by first asking for sources and then complaining because those sources don't support the very narrow con
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> You said most symptoms were permanent, don't back down now. Sexual Dysfunction is a pretty broad term, how would you even link it to being affected by an SSRI? There you go: https://www.tga.gov.au/news/safety
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Almost none of these would be permanent Sexual dysfunction caused by SSRIs in many cases persists for the rest of the patient's life. > and you certainly don't have a 1 in 3 chance of them being permanent. Where did you ge
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
With SSRIs you have a one in three chance for any number of the following side effects; many of them permanent, even after discontinuing medication (if you actually manage to do so, since SSRI come with severe withdrawal symptoms): - sexual
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by BjoernKW 2y ago
In London, that's called Cockfosters. Other than that, there's an intriguing Clive Barker short story on how lonely passengers on those late-night trains actually end up ...

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