Hermel

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by Hermel 6y ago
Why can't this just be reached by market pressure? In a free and open market, producers offering unpopular products should not be able to survive for long.
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by Hermel 6y ago
The reason people don't trust "fact checks" is because they are often created by people with an agenda. I myself have rarely ever seen a good and neutral "fact check".
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by Hermel 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Fortunately, Scott is wrong on this. Crypto does not only subvert old forms of coordination, it also allows new forms of coordination. Whether this will is a net win remains to be seen.
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by Hermel 6y ago
Economically, this is a nice illustration of “externalities”. Each individual’s choice negatively effects the outcome of the others. I wonder if the efficient outcome is restored again by allowing agents to pay each other to take a certain
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by Hermel 6y ago
IANAL, but all of this probably depends on a tiny detail: did Revlon instruct Citibank to pay the $176.2 million to Brigade Capital? (1) If the answer is yes, then this qualifies as a payment instruction. In a payment instruction, a bank se
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by Hermel 6y ago
It’s the large numbers. One of the Swiss Sunday newspapers has published the latest numbers today. Depending on the canton, foreigners are between 15% and 50% of the population. And among children below 6, the Swiss have become a minority i
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by Hermel 6y ago
I hate the fact the both Apple's App Store as well as Google's Play Store do not offer basic search filters. In particular for my kids, I'd love to be able to search for games without ads or in-app purchases. But Apple and Go
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by Hermel 6y ago
If you give every resident a nice check every month (the universal basic income) and have open borders, your country will soon be overcrowded with immigrants. And if you give the universal basic income to citizens only, it it not universal
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by Hermel 6y ago
Universal basic income is not compatible with open borders. This is the main reason the left struggles with promoting it.
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by Hermel 6y ago
Not all glass is equal. There is a trade-off between being scratch-proof (harder glass) and shock-proof (softer). Apple seems to be particularly aggressive in going for the former. Also, Apple tends to sacrifice robustness for elegance. Bot
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by Hermel 6y ago
Why? They sold us a product claiming it is fit for a particular purpose and then it turned out this wasn’t true. A device that cannot withstand being dropped from minimal hight is not suitable for children. Period.
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by Hermel 6y ago
And I firmly believe that if a company sells you a product and claims that it is fit for a particular purpose, you should be able to get your money back if it turns out that this was not the case.
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by Hermel 6y ago
They refused to replace an iPad whose screen shattered after falling from a chair less than two weeks after my wife bought it. One should note that it was specifically recommended to her in the shop as a good device to let the children watc
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by Hermel 6y ago
It might for example require reddit to ask you for your credit card before it lets you see an nsfw subreddit. And then again the same procedure on the target site. Not everyone is comfortable with giving adult websites their credit card inf
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by Hermel 6y ago
Interestingly, "public" has a different meaning in English than in German in the context of a company. In English, a public company is a company whose shares can be freely traded by the public. In German, a public company is a com
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by Hermel 6y ago
The usual tests (including the anti-body tests) only detect the more severe cases.
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by Hermel 6y ago
A very eye-opening event for me was when I visited Berlin in 2003 (?). We watched ZDF (government-financed German TV) news and saw a huge crowd protesting against Bush’s war in Iraq. Wanting to join them, we found a mostly empty square with
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by Hermel 6y ago
It’s still lying.
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by Hermel 6y ago
Of course, Reddit has the right to fight for free speech while at the same time suppressing it on its own platform, or at least tolerating the suppression of a free discourse in the most popular subreddit. But doing so makes it seem reddit
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by Hermel 6y ago
A16Z has a few interesting crypto investments, the imho most promising one being DFinity, which tries to build an “Internet computer”.
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by Hermel 6y ago
What about Taiwan? We could have learned a lot from them, but WHO chose to ignore their advice for political reasons. Also, I generally think local decision-taking is faster than centralized decision-taking. So if speed is important, you sh
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by Hermel 6y ago
Would you really have preferred the states to have less and the federal government to have more authority in this matter? Yes, this is a global pandemic. But at the same time, I prefer a response that is fine-tuned to local circumstances an
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by Hermel 6y ago
Also, the FATF seems utterly incompetent at writing well-designed regulation. It is for example very hard to make sense of their definitions. Here is their definition of "virtual asset": "A virtual asset is a digital represen
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by Hermel 6y ago
No, we're in an age in which innovative projects are suffocated by shady politics before they even onboarded their first user. Remember the letter sent to Libra consortium members by US senators? [1] They threatened Visa, Mastercard an
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by Hermel 6y ago
That sounds almost like the original agile manifesto.
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by Hermel 6y ago
Misinformation is nothing new and just as the amount of misinformation has increased, the amount of information has increased too. I would bet that the average citizen is better informed overall today than say 50 years ago.
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by Hermel 6y ago
You should be much more worried about bias than about sample size. See also this calculation, where it is discussed that a sample of 400 is more reliable than a slightly biased sample of a million participants: https://marginalre
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by Hermel 6y ago
This is a link that works for me: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-pati... You should note that “Der Spiegel” is left-leaning and has probably never lost a single good word on Trump ever. Wi
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by Hermel 6y ago
But trauma is what increases their likelihood of committing crimes later in life, according to an excellent paper in AER (?) I recently read but can’t look up right now. :)
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by Hermel 6y ago
Even if you only find half of all infected, it would already help a lot. The infection rate is cut in half if half the infected are immediately quarantined.

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