Hermel

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by Hermel 11y ago
Why should business units that are part of a large company be punished harder than those who are part of a small company? Do you also believe that people with high life expectancy should stay longer in prison? A fine should be based on the
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by Hermel 11y ago
Same for me.
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by Hermel 11y ago
I know it is hard to tell, but would you say there are adverse effects? Or do you ever need more sleep, i.e. after having studied for a maths exam the whole day? I for one notice that I "learn" a lot while sleeping. For example, w
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by Hermel 11y ago
Yes, that's why using a blockchain is only feasible for applications that do not generate too much data. With one transaction being 500 bytes in size, a billion transactions occupy 500 GB, which is still managable by an average PC. Onc
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by Hermel 11y ago
The implementation of FATCA alone is estimated to cost 100 billion USD. And that's just one regulation of many.
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by Hermel 11y ago
That's 600 MWh for 257 million USD. Tesla's powerwall has 10 KWh for 3500 USD. Interestingly, that's about the same price point. Efficiency-wise, the centralized Japanese solution makes probably more sense for large centraliz
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by Hermel 11y ago
In a world as depicted in Mad Max, people would probably choose to live in the mountains and near rivers, not in the middle of the desert.
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by Hermel 11y ago
As a very general trend, things are getting cheaper and time more expensive. Thus, the number of items that are worth reselling on eBay is shrinking.
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by Hermel 11y ago
Given that they had virtually 0 real users, I'm not convinced the strict fintech laws are a necessity. It seems like the free market on its own is alreardy pretty good at avoiding dodgy companies. One might think of Mt.Gox as a counter
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by Hermel 11y ago
Rising interest rates make it unattractive to hold long-term bonds. For example, when interest rates jump from 3% to 4%, the net present value of 10-year bond drops by 10%. So as soon as investors believe that the turning point has come, th
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by Hermel 11y ago
According this a recent paper ( http://www.voxeu.org/article/myth-europe-s-little-ice-age ), Europe's little ice age is a myth.
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by Hermel 11y ago
From the diary of Otto Geipel: “1942: The winter comes with full strength, hardly a way left to advance without missing winter equipment. Even the winter clothing is missing. (. . .) At midnight the temperature dropped to a new reported low
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by Hermel 11y ago
Here's some scientific evidence of the Russian winters 1940 - 1942 being particularily harsh: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1256/wea.248.04/pdf Of course, it did not help that Hitler thought he c
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by Hermel 11y ago
Once again illustrates that it basically was the Russian winter that stopped the nazis.
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by Hermel 11y ago
That's why I said "one factor of many". If you have ten factors like that and combine them, you'll get an excellent spam filter. That's how Bayesian spam filters work. They combine a number of factors that are not v
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by Hermel 11y ago
Maddox on how every company can instantly save 23% on wages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj_bN0L8XM
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by Hermel 11y ago
The justification is not "experience" and "statistics". The justification is that it works well. Just like the language of an email can help identifying spam, skin color can help identifying illegal immigrants. I would s
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by Hermel 11y ago
Still, even someone really good can be rendered unproductive with bad processes and misguided strategy.
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by Hermel 11y ago
How could they forget premature generalization?
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by Hermel 11y ago
Great to see someone actually doing some calculations instead of just presenting a cosy vision. For example, they argue that - contrary to what Elon Musk implies with his illustrations - the solar cells on the roof of the gigafactory will o
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by Hermel 12y ago
Ethereum is not shooting for the moon, they are shooting for alpha centauri. I hope they succeed, but I'm skeptical whether the world is ready.
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by Hermel 12y ago
One more reason not to use "finalize". Did you know that there is no guarantee that it every gets called? That's because there is no guarantee for objects to be garbage collected as long as there is enough memory.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Would probably be funnier in the original German version. For example the worldplay "Your Hellishness" instead of "Your Holyness" works better in German ("Eure Hölligkeit" vs "Eure Heiligkeit").
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by Hermel 12y ago
They only work for small volumes.
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by Hermel 12y ago
No, it is not a winning strategy as dogers have to pay a lot more due to punitive interest rates than those who correctly declared their taxes from the beginning. Furthermore, the same rule also applies to other crimes. The rule is called &
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by Hermel 12y ago
I doubt the assumption of government bond yields raising back to 10%. I would rather bet on a scenario with ongoing low interest rates.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Yes, I've seen situations like this. As a rule of thumb, problems that fit into the head of one person are more efficiently solved by one person on its own than by a team.
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by Hermel 12y ago
Considering that about 2 billion humans have a negative net wealth due to debt, this is not surprising. If you don't have any debt, you are already richer than the poorest 2 billion humans combined! For more details why this statistic
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by Hermel 12y ago
The inherent flaw of teamwork is that responsibility is actually atomic. As soon as you assign the same responsibility to a group of two or more persons, things will start to go wrong sooner or later. If you look more closely at successful
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by Hermel 12y ago
According to Thomas Jordan (SNB president), the previous policy was "not sustainable". Furthermore, the peg was presented as a temporary measure from the beginning. Their preferred scenario would have been a rising euro, which wou

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