Joe-Z

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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Since I consider myself part of HN, please don't speak for me, since you're obviously incapable of understanding the most blatant satire and clearly have no business in telling people what to do or how they should feel about thems
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Just goes to show that you can sell any idea, if you just stay vague enough in your pitch. Honestly: What was I supposed to learn from that?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I'm not immune to satire (as opposed to apparently everyone else who replied just to vent their offendedness) and I understood your critique of the typical American 'work or die' mental
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Apparently there's a documentary coming out about Alex Honnold's free solo ascend of El Capitan. It's called "Free Solo"[1] [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7775622/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
No, that does not become the question. They chose money over morals, that's it. It's not like they are helpless victims to economic principles, so they have no other choice than to work for the scummiest types of companies because
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Exactly. It's not so much the technical knowledge as it is the domain knowledge. So "fixing bugs" and "making meaningful contributions" is a lot easier if you only focus on syntax and not on what the software should
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>What do the rules look like for this in other nations? In Austria we pay a "Sozialversicherungsbeitrag"/social security with each month's pay. Your employer also chips in part of it. I don't even know how much i
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Yes, I was a little disappointed by that too. It even has a "gopher://..." link at the end and when I click on it I can't even open it. Just tell me how I can open the one example you provide man!
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Well of course, everyone wants free stuff without paying for it. That's just as much an economic principle as the one you brought up. However, I don't think services which offer a free-but-with-ads-version are the issue here. Afte
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>Unless you can expand on why this piece is "propaganda" or what exactly the article got wrong, why not enjoy the piece (or not) as a travel diary with the BRI as a broad geopolitical context? Because it does not market itself
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Yes, cleaners do provide a lot of value, but there‘s also a huge supply of people willing and able to do that job supply/demand
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Netflix doesn‘t have anything they „think is good“. All they have is shows tailored to fit very specific audiences. No heart behind it.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Good point. But the problem with regulation, especially in as of yet poorly understood domains, is it's hard to craft laws that target the behaviours you want to have punished without inflicting too much collateral damage on behaviours
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Indeed. I found GP's comment quite insightful until it suddenly called for regulation on the internet. Why would that change anything when we just established that not the technology but learned behaviours are the problem? Maybe 2018 w
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Nobody likes smoke! The whole premise of the article is screwed because of this weird assertion that people somehow like to breathe the smoke of burning wood for comfort. Me personally, I don't know if the heavy smoking or the drum pla
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I don't get one of the three premises the author is making: Nobody likes a campfire for the smoke, right? I mean, I get the whole 'now let me tell you why what you love is actually a bad thing'-experiment, but latching it ont
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Yes, I think there should be a difference between companies A and B and obviously Netflix has its upsides like no Netflix-unrelated) ads. However... your edit sums it up pretty nicely ;)
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>This is the big thing that sets Netflix apart for me from other internet companies Oh please. By some miracle every Netflix-produced thing has a >90%-match with my preferences, yet somehow when I type in movies that I want to watch I
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Thank you!
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Would you care to explain what 'CNS' is?
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Are you arguing that the lead Norway has in EVs stems from Norwegians just being morally superior and not „#1 price conscious“? Because from what I‘ve heard the Norwegian government is pumping out a whole lot of subsidies to push EVs (inclu
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
How are gasoline or diesel powered vehicles running in areas where there is no fuel distribution system to support them? I guess either people bring along what they need or they don‘t work. However I don‘t think EVs will fail because of a l
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Thank you! I actually already read "A Guide to the Good Life" and was planning on re-reading it this winter.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Meh, maybe it's not that bad. Sure, you'll get the occasional psycho trying to kill his pop-star stalker-victim. But for many high profile people - politicians, mega-corp CEOs, media tycoons - it might be a good way keeping them i
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Hey! It sounds like you know what you're talking about. Could you maybe point me to some sources on where one could read up on how military leaders decide to go to war, what set of morals they need to come up with to be able to send pe
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
Last year I played "Little Nightmares". It reminded me very much of Limbo (also loved that!). Maybe you'd be interested in checking it out if you haven't already. It's weird, because I've played through Limbo s
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
I don't know if this'll get me to shop in the women's section the next time I need something (because that's when I go shopping for clothes: out of _need_), BUT: I do think women have fare more variety and selection at t
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
But just the fact that your parents emigrated makes you part of a fringe group. GP's point, as far as I understand, wasn't that it's impossible to move up the social ladder, just that it doesn't happen for most people.
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
>It would be interesting to see what else COMT levels are correlated with especial religious and social beliefs. Very interesting indeed! Maybe it's my 'I'm such a rational thinker'-pride, but I guess I'm in the
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by Joe-Z 8y ago
To counter some off the off-the-cuff comments here: These researchers (specifically molecular biologist Kathryn Hall) seem to have found a link between an enzyme called COMT and response to placebo treatments. That is, people with a genetic

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