Tarsul

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by Tarsul 6y ago
We don't need 100% automation to have a giant effect on employment. We can get to 90% automation and cut a lot of the workload of accountants which means in the long run less accountants overall. My expectation is that big companies wi
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by Tarsul 6y ago
maybe a and b are connected? You can't have the ultra rich or at least such a discrepancy between the top 10% and the bottom xx% without built-in systemic inequality. Nonetheless, it wouldn't hurt the US at all if the poorest had
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by Tarsul 6y ago
"you'd at least be fun at dinner parties." could also be read as "you'd be laughed at at dinner parties" (well, maybe not even invited anymore). But I don't like to end my posting on such a sour note... Th
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by Tarsul 6y ago
question would be if a trained human is better than a machine. AlphaGo was deemed stronger than humans only once it beat the best Go player.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
that we have so many pro nuclear articles here on HN is remarkable to me, too. However, I come from Germany where the general sentiment is negative. I'd guess in the US (where probably most of HN users come from?!) the sentiment is mor
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by Tarsul 6y ago
we see a lot of moral stories here. However, many fairy tales (Märchen) in earlier times were just good stories without this clear moral codec. There were a lot of horror stories or just entertaining stories. Here's a good article abou
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by Tarsul 6y ago
Germany has 80 million people, 70.000 died through covid. US has 320 million (so roundabout 4 times as much), 500k died of covid (so roundabout 7 times as much). Thus, more people per capita died in the US than in Germany. https:/&#x
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by Tarsul 6y ago
maybe it has something to do with the confidence of the posting: "no prob, I built the next best thing". Might come off as arrogant and that probably triggers people.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I don't believe those numbers (the site it comes from has interest in telling people that influencer marketing is worth much, so grain of salt.). But anyway, even if they would be true today, they won't hold tomororow because ever
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I had/have the same problem. I now invest in companies that are big in sustainability. Saying to myself that even if the earnings fall flat, at least I can look in the mirror and live with it.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
Strange. I type with 10 fingers since 20 years or so (self-learned with some programs back then) and actually my only real problem comes from the number row since it just doesn't come to me intuitively, like it's simply wrong (and
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by Tarsul 6y ago
in diablo 1 you had to click for every single attack of your character. In diablo2 you didn't have to do it, however most of your attacks would be special attacks, meaning you would have to click all the time anyway (except maybe if yo
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I really appreciate you talking so openly about it. It really can be one hell of a drug. I don't really think the personality traits are quite different to people who go to casinos or lose all their money on the stock markets. It'
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by Tarsul 6y ago
sounds a little like an experience out of another time, like a live museum with actors.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
EA makes 1,5 billion with FIFA ultimate team cards. It's disgusting.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
well maybe there could've been an uptick but Amazon ruined it (or maybe even amazon was responsible for the uptick in 2015?). I know from Germany that short, phonetically nice sounding names are "in" and I'd guess it&#x2
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by Tarsul 6y ago
sunk cost fallacy maybe? Maybe they didn't really have the numbers either or didn't trust their own (real) numbers. Or their total revenue was up and they didn't quite get the causalities right... Anyway, it happened.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
at least that voting was in 2020 not 2021.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
well, if only we hadn't have forgotten that corporations work for the people, imagine the world we could live in.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
actually it's a little (tiny) bit offset by paying less taxes proportionally. So your net income would be like 84% instead of 80%. Doesn't change your overall point, though ;)
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by Tarsul 6y ago
If you were using the same arguments about the French instead of the Germans, I'd agree. However, for (us) Germans I wouldn't say it's so much proudness as it is about having a huge market by itself (like GP said) and also it
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I think so too. There have been studies that show that more attractive politicians get more votes (just for being more attractive), also attractive people get better jobs/wages. I'd even wager that Trump wouldn't have been pr
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by Tarsul 6y ago
It appears to have nothing to do with the game.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
Doesn't mean it's wrong, though. I found the part enlightening about America not being able to compete with China in manufacturing (if they wanted to) because health care, housing, education is so expensive in the US. Of course ev
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by Tarsul 6y ago
perfect meme. However, i found what happens in the background to be too little for it to be actual news.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
don't know if you're sarcastic. However, just because a company makes money, doesn't mean value is created. Like when you win in poker against someone, you're making money but not creating value.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
in the wiki article it's stated twice that they feared coming back due to this (once going back only disguised as a Chinese person. Although the second time he came back it appears he did not hide his identity). I'd bet it's
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by Tarsul 6y ago
The assumption that freed capacity would be gobbled up by other consumption (100% of it) is a strong one that I wouldn't agree on. Reducing consumption (e.g. internet, meat) means that less would be produced in the long run, thus it do
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by Tarsul 6y ago
funny thing is that the first "who wants to be a millionaire" winner in Germany had him as million [Deutsche Mark] question ("who climbed the mount everest with Edmund Hillary" or something like that). And that's wh
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by Tarsul 6y ago
well, as president he could always give them a pardon, couldn't he? (actually, I have no idea for what he could give pardons. And he won't be presdient long enough to do it for those people. But still...)

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