Hermel

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by Hermel 6y ago
Cheer! Because with 28%, you are close enough to herd immunity that you can push R0 below 1 with social distancing. In fact, herd immunity does not require 70% of the population to be immune. It just requires 70% of all potentially transmit
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by Hermel 6y ago
I wonder whether taking the temperature is enough when combined with social distancing? For that, it would be interesting to know what percentage of people that are infectuous have an elevated temperature. 50% might already be enough, becau
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by Hermel 7y ago
I have received a packet from Milano yesterday (when I ordered, it wasn't clear that the senders logistics center apparantly is in Italy) and used lots of hand sanitizer while opening. It's nice to see these numbers now, indicatin
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by Hermel 7y ago
I’m paying Climeworks 1000$ to remove a ton of CO2 every month. Not very cost effective, but a start.
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by Hermel 7y ago
The scientific definition of fruit follows its function. That’s why botanists like it.
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by Hermel 7y ago
Yes, you learn something about its biological function. The biological definition of “fruit” tells you where the offspring of a plant grows out of. For example, the actual fruits of the strawberry plant are the little seeds at the surface
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by Hermel 7y ago
In case you understand German, it is worth reading the books (or watching the talks) of psychologist Manfred Spitzer. He makes compelling arguments on why in particular our children suffer from “digital dementia”. Among other things, he arg
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by Hermel 7y ago
It’s certainly much cheaper to simply block European users than to pay a lawyer to tell you what you need to change and then pay a programmer to implement these changes. Blocking the few European users is probably the right decision from an
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by Hermel 7y ago
Apparently, compliance with GDPR is not worth the hassle for websites that target a non-European audience.
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by Hermel 7y ago
No, these expressions exist in English, they just have a slightly different meaning. And in the case of “Entwicklung”, the English pendant “Development” even has the exact same origin: to unwrap or unfold (the opposite of envelope). There c
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by Hermel 7y ago
He probably confused profits and revenue.
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by Hermel 7y ago
Here's an even shorter one-liner: return nullableVariable != null && nullableVariable.someMethodCall() ? true : fallbackIfNullMethodCall();
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by Hermel 7y ago
The first example of luck they provide is how the country you are born in makes a huge difference. Of course it does! But with such a broad definition, even talent becomes a matter of luck, as talent requires the luck to be born with the ri
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by Hermel 7y ago
If you think something in the article is factually wrong, it would be kind to let us know. News should be judged by their content, and not by the messenger.
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by Hermel 7y ago
> Despite the good intentions behind the decentralization of power and the checks and balances that have been built into your system, you have ended up with a nation where the most powerful person has blatantly and publicly broken all th
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by Hermel 7y ago
It's the same for me when writing Swiss-style German. It's not only cumbersome to type the special characters like ö on a cell phone, also spell-check is a pain in the ass. For example, spell-checkers are not aware that in Switzer
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by Hermel 7y ago
If someone in a train traveling at 108km/h throws a ball at you while passing and you catch the ball two seconds later, you also received a ball from someone “60 meters away” even though the ball only traveled a few meters. The point i
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by Hermel 7y ago
Why are you so convinced that everyone would immediately want to use Libra? Do you think the Euro is such a mess? If that’s really the case, wouldn’t some people using an alternate currency be a step forward? If Libra is going to be more ec
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by Hermel 7y ago
That’s a very typical German mindset. You implicitly assume that nothing good can come out of Libra so it should be banned from the beginning. The pragmatic approach is to wait and see what happens. Most likely, it won’t be as successful as
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by Hermel 7y ago
If wealth and intelligence are correlated, then it measures both.
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by Hermel 7y ago
Have you considered the option of IQ being partially inherited and the parents also being rich because of a high IQ. In that case, IQ would still be the cause of the wealth.
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by Hermel 7y ago
You will get the latent heat back when the water condenses again.
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by Hermel 7y ago
You are exactly right and it’s astonishing how most of the commenters here are confident about their views despite not getting it. To provide another example besides the ICO: you can use a pegged blockchain-based coin to trade on Uniswap or
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by Hermel 7y ago
No, the way you state is is simply wrong. The study you link to confirms the correlation between the ability to delay gratification in the marshallow test and later success in life. However, it also says that when taking other factors in
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by Hermel 7y ago
For a long time, I underestimated the power of the mods. Then, I saw how a few of them could turn the sentiment of a technical forum about a seemingly technical question upside down, simply by banning the right users and removing the right
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by Hermel 7y ago
It doesn’t need to be the food, it could also simply be the case that they never got exposed to caries-causing bacteria.
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by Hermel 8y ago
We are shifting more and more towards a legal system where not only those who actually did something wrong (here the tax evaders), but also those whose services have been used to do so are considered guilty. Another example is copyright, wh
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by Hermel 8y ago
Same applies to Internet bandwidth. The more you provide, the more it will be used. And that’s good.
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by Hermel 8y ago
The thin glass screen of our iPad Pro broke only three weeks after we got it. It fell onto the floor from a height of about 50 cm. Of course, the screen is not covered by the warranty and cannot be repaired. I would not recommend the iPad P
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by Hermel 8y ago
Non-intervening usually means the vote according to the recommendations of the board, and not that they abstain from voting.

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