Karnickel

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by Karnickel 9y ago
> I am arguing that some do. What is the purpose of finding someone, anyone , who holds some fringe opinion to attack it as if its common? You can find any opinion about anything out there after all. > Quoting some articles arguing
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> The "America is too spread out" argument is total bullshit. In support of this statement, here is a map of "mega regions": http://www.america2050.org/sync/elements/america2050map.png Sourc
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> the bold statements about no difference between men and women brains, everything is nurture/nothing nature, etc. You are attacking a position that is not the common scientist position at all. Your whole comment is a bit surprising
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by Karnickel 9y ago
It's not paid by taxes but by health insurance. We have both a private and a semi-public system (managed by "Krankenkassen", independent insurance entities, that compete for members; it's... complicated, but less so than
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by Karnickel 9y ago
On the other hand, at least in the cities there is a ton of pharmacies - sometimes even across the street form one another, and easily every few hundred meters along major routes. There are way too many. When I walk through downtown Nurembe
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> it should be up to me if the pain is server enough to warrant opioids It is! You do get the drugs you need. If you actually ARE in pain. But this woman, as predicted by her doctor, was not. If you read the article, she did not have t
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Not sure how you manage to come up with such a comment after reading this particular article. Clearly she did not have the pain she feared she would have. She said she took two Ibuprofen - that she did not need ! So why would you think she
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by Karnickel 9y ago
In most common cases, like shallow clones and cloning simple objects, are already well-covered and solved, often with very few lines of code or even just a single command (`Object.assign()`). Stage 4 draft (i.e. it will be in the next versi
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> You haven't provided any argument in how they are different You are quite the joker. Or maybe you have some real problems reading English? Try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197689 Of course, it&#
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> that your claim that there isnt at all is wrong. Well, it isn't, as I already pointed out. Is the main strength of your argument how often you repeat it? > So your claim is simply wrong. Ah, yes, as I suspected. A strong co
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Do you seriously compare the total amounts of something HUGE and something tiny? The size of the cash universe still is orders of magnitude larger than Silkroad ever was - and you compare the totals ? Seriously?
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I don't understand what your question has to do with anything I wrote. Unless your intention is not an actual honest discussion, but to mislead - but surely that cannot be true.
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Not like cash at all. You can't pay with cash unless you are right there. Also, paying with large amounts of cash is hard or suspicious or even impossible.
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I think your comment raises some very interesting points, but that you go too far. There are costs (in the wider not just monetary sense) and benefits to various approaches. The reason you had to resort to crypto-currency first of all seems
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by Karnickel 9y ago
As a software architect (current title, but I had a technical education, "electrical/mechanical", incl. technical drawing, lab work, metal work, decades ago, before studying CS) , who prefers text most of the time I still ca
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by Karnickel 9y ago
if bots can produce 'worthy set of opinions' we would be totally useless Are you useless because other people write comments? What is the difference between it being a biological human and an artificial human - should we
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> I'm pretty sure no one is seriously remotely claiming that machines understand text better than humans. Just some of the headlines: - http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/15/technology/reading-robot-a
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I've been a heavy user of Flow for - two years now? I also occasionally use TypeScript. I don't contribute to the code (in the Flow case, I don't speak OCaml, I contributed a bit to the type library and the online docs; in t
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I won't dispute it because of the general "If you've never seen a black swan, is that proof that none exists? (No)" fallacy, but speaking as a German, I cannot remember having seen one in Germany, ever. So even if one ex
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I know I won't get any updates for the system for my 2012 Dell XPS 8500 (256 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, i7 CPU - I don't see a need for an upgrade, it's all there). Does that mean I'll just be left out cold? That's how I un
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by Karnickel 9y ago
One of the Walzwerk founders (Christiane Schmidt [2]) is from Saalfeld, a town very close to where I grew up. I've been to the restaurant a few times, usually with American coworkers, once with a friend from Saalfeld, so there was a lo
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I'm originally from one of those former GDR states (they became states after reunification, during the GDR they were smaller districts - "Bezirke" [0]). The countryside is slowly dying, even though it still looks pretty nice
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by Karnickel 9y ago
IMO there are a lot of needlessly downvoted comments on HN these days. A few months ago I was trying to stem that tide and upvoted downvoted comments when I saw no reason for those downvotes. It really looks completely random many times,
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by Karnickel 9y ago
1 Get a die 2 Decide which numbers on the die represent which decision 3 Roll the die 4 Use that random decision . ... time passes ... 5 You really dislike the decision made by the die? Go with the other one 6 Should you dislike the oppos
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by Karnickel 9y ago
I don't think that that is the idea. I think the reason is similar to what was shown for seat belts: When you know you are protected you take more risks. If criminals can protect themselves they are probably more likely to use violence
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by Karnickel 9y ago
> I'm extremely curious about how you found out Exclusion and desperation. I got nothing from various doctors despite problems that I thought should be treatable. It had very, very slowly gotten worse over two to three decades. It
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Keyword here: "acute". Nothing about chronic exposure, which is what is relevant here. Even if they did have a long-term study of low-dose exposure, it would be an extremely limited one (rats, mice, controlled conditions) missing
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Independent of knowing who he is and how "famous" he is, I'm only looking at the one thing I got from/about him: This interview. What I see is a very, very shallow article, both questions as well as the answers. Elevat
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by Karnickel 9y ago
Speaking from Germany: While lots of professionals speak English more or less well, what is telling to me and a big indicator that the situation does not look as good as some people want to believe is the fact that there is hardly any Engli
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by Karnickel 9y ago
People who can go to a doctor freely go sooner and don't (have to) wait until things get really bad - at which point treatment also gets far more complicated, lengthy and expensive, and that relationship is not linear. I don't nee

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