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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I love this bewildered recounting of what is (or at least used to be) the standard German shopping experience :) FWIW their "knock-off" brands frequently, but not always, are the same thing as the premium brands. They sell cheaper
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The 20-50% are not what’s expected for Monday. It’s a quote of the company’s expected rise in wholesale prices. As far as I can tell, only some prices will rise today, and 10-20% seems to be closer to the truth.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
This bullshit, again? Far too much was wasted on studies to mollify the HC@ crowd. For vitamin d, there’s no definite answer, but it helps either not at all or too little to be worth it: https://inews.co.uk/news/vitamin
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yea, but that isn’t rhe choice. It’s about quality of life, not life itself. Ask your teenager if they are willing to let grandma choke to death or spend two years with just family, and rhe answer will be different.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The mechanism I described isn't one to disagree or agree with. It's math: For <x> even parts with chance of failure on any given day <y> (including some variability <z>), the expected first failure is at some poi
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Oh, it must be one those terms that changes meaning to suit the argument. I love those terms! (FWIW I had picked the first two examples I know of from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming#Deplatforming_in... )
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It can either be an unrelated incident or an extreme example , not both.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, I’m sure Alex Jones had some very good reason to hatefully accuse the parents of murdered children of staging the event, the funeral, and their professions of greed. And that Milo whatshisname guy, he certainly had some totally legit j
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
For most consumer appliances, it’s vastly more wasteful and energy intensive to run them for 20 years than to replace them at ten. That’s true for cars, refrigerators, washing machines, and obviously IT. That’s because energy efficiency doe
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
If I understand it correctly, this is mostly about cargo losses resulting from voluntary actions, i. e. throwing containers overboard to lighten the ship to get it unstuck. The idea is that the crew should not be put into a position where t
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, like "sockpuppet". Or "RfD".
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
My entry, best I can do: https://twitter.com/KarlXOblique/status/1509679102260822028
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, „form follows function“ is the version of aesthetics best suited for the enjoyment of people who are unwilling to admit that they can enjoy something without the need to legitimize their emotions with a sciéncy backstory. More broadly,
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
By causing a previous rise in food prices in the region, which caused a hungry merchant to immolate himself, which caused widespread protests and, ultimately, unrest including the Syrian war, which allowed Putin to test his air force, creat
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
If anyone else is wondering, the largest ships carry 300,000 DTW, which is 300,000,000 kg each of which has 3400 kCal. Daily caloric intake of 2,000 may be suitable average, meaning that one ship can supply all energy needs for 1.5 million
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s quite a phenomenon that tech seems culturally committed to a disdain for anything it deems “not real”, such as emotions, aesthetics, law, or philosophy. …especially if you consider that even product that don’t end as ‘vaporware’ are of
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The site guidelines recommend an assumption of good faith. That’s something that may just be advised more broadly these days, and you are failing it quite spectacularly.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
You’re associating A/B testing with the practice on the web, where it is often used close to users’ spending decisions. From what we can tell, This here is not a trial connected to revenue. It’s connected to Siri and other ML-framework
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
People have some well-founded respect for the procedures that medical trials have to go through, including informed consent. That’s spilling over/being misdirected to the use of the trial mechanism in other fields, even though it makes
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Facebook has consistently disappointed anyone working on any of these issues, from Islamic State recruitment to Myanmar's ethnic violence. Because young people in tech are generally thought to be smart and happy, i. e. Democrats, these
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Got a link? Because while I don't doubt the logic, it just seems too esoteric to be an actual "issue" that people know about. Plus, I can't find anything.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
GDPR Art. 4: „ personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)“. This is a business, not a natural person.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
There is no liberal censorship in the US. The only censorship that is allowed in the US is based on ideas of obscenity, a rather conservative concept. The major battleground seems to be school boards. And besides mentions of anything outsid
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Escobar sold drugs. The margins on that stuff are rather large, allowing for a few inefficiencies. But I should have really said: cash doesn’t scale down . Escobar can put people with briefcase on planes to pay his suppliers on all contine
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Cash doesn't scale, doesn't work remotely and, in any case, cash is actually useful for legitimate purposes, like snorting cocaine.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yea, of course! Thanks for noticing! I believe the two do have similar risk profiles. Lead has always been more abundant and used, however.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Status: https://www.wikimediastatus.net/#day Yes, they know: https://klaxon.wikimedia.org/
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One of those hypotheses is easily testable: bridges can collapse and you will hear about it. And yet.. it rarely happens? There was one in Italy and one in the US recently but, to a decent approximation, it’s a non-issue. Maybe we should ha
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Mercury is just straight up nasty stuff. It causes cancer. It makes you stupid. It is one leading hypothesis as the reason violent crime happened at 2x or 3x the rate just 50 years ago. The collapse of the Roman Empire probably wasn’t cause
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The sum of "news" that you consume is close to the totally of the information you base your decisions at the ballot box on. In a world without news, democracy cannot function, because the link between action and reaction (such as

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