Tarsul

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by Tarsul 6y ago
The question your posing for the author is how thorough s/he would have to go into the details to capture his/her audience. I don't know exactly the audience but I know that the argument (s)he makes is more than enough for me
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by Tarsul 6y ago
thanks for the discussion and your sources. I guess your numbers add up. Nonetheless, I don't think using inflation is enough as measuring stick. Upward mobility/inequality is not really captured in it. Also, it appears public ser
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by Tarsul 6y ago
well, yes. My point was more or less that I haven't seen an adequate inflation index whenever I read about this topic (which is quite often). So just saying "no matter which index you use" isn't worth much if every usual
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I don't know. If we're going down the route of what counts as "inflation-adjusted": Does housing, studying, medicare count there or only [or overwhelmingly] consumer goods? If it's the latter - which I would expect
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by Tarsul 6y ago
the problem gameplaywise for sonic has always been (especially compared to Mario) that it's not geared towards new players. For people who are unfamiliar with its gameplay it simply sucks because it feels quite clunky, the jump-mechani
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by Tarsul 6y ago
holy shit that's the same person [Mads Brügger] who over months impersonated a corrupt diplomat in africa in the documentary The Ambassador (must-watch). So he's been up to other dangerous (and mischievous in the best way) report
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I agree with him. Also, why is there no microphone mute button (or shortcut) integrated in windows? Seems like a must-have nowadays.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I'm sorry but the title is misleading. It's not that 30M young people (18-29) are living with their parents due to Corona but more that the number has grown from 24M to 26,6M in America [!] since February. Meaning the title should
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by Tarsul 6y ago
Cool! Maybe HN could add a feature that hides your own like-number (in the top right corner) so that even the last remnants of "gaming" your likability can be eradicated from HN? (at least for those who then do hide their number
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by Tarsul 6y ago
It appears to be a similar problem akin to facebook, twitter etc. which promote "every" content no matter how bad (e.g. trolling etc.) it is for as long as the underlying metrics (e.g. click rates, revenue) appear to go up. Howeve
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by Tarsul 6y ago
He's doing a PR tour for his new book ("no rules rules"), which is released today... already had an interview in the guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/sep/08/a-
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by Tarsul 6y ago
^^ the best part is that the first sentence starts with "This is home of user friendly [...]". That color-scheme is everything but that ;)
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I agree with your take on his look in that picture. Additionally, while his views of the Guardian have soured, it's more to the left than the quotes above might suggest. E.g. this opinion piece from today: https://www.thegua
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by Tarsul 6y ago
actually another HNer started a website exactly for this purpose after the idea resonated in another thread (don't remember the thread; user is stavros): https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I use a box that I can lock with a timer (called kitchensafe), which means I have no chance (except breaking the whole thing) to get to my cookies (in my case all kinds of sweets) after i set the timer (which i usually set after taking a fe
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by Tarsul 6y ago
yeah, I also liked this guide. Would love more articles about probabilities (but i always loved this topic :)), there's only one exception: the "3 door problem" (Monty Hall problem). In my opinion the general misconception a
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I'd add (or even put on top): Work out. There's nothing better than working your muscles to prevent injuries. Even hand grippers help already.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
so they say that having little grey matter (like early birds) correlates with "empathy, agreeableness and cooperation." But maybe early birds are only so empathatic and agreeable because their day/night cycle is not always di
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by Tarsul 6y ago
Wow, fantastic website! Would be perfect if the filenames of the pictures had the name of the picture + author in it.
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by Tarsul 6y ago
I agree. Also, there is a disproportionate amount of articles about esports. The only article I found worthwile (very much so), was the one about Nintendo's history in Sweden/Europe. It's also about money/distribution bu
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by Tarsul 7y ago
I can't say I understand your condition or your suffering. I can only say that I empathize (I know you can't buy anything for it). I think you writing and talking about it is the right approach. Maybe you can do it some more (via
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by Tarsul 7y ago
it's even worse than not testing enough in care homes: "Its advice to the care workers and nurses looking after older people such as Bondesson’s 69-year-old mother is that they should not wear protective masks or use other protect
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by Tarsul 7y ago
regarding going on after Goscinny's death, i just now read this passage in "The Complete Guide to Asterix" (p.21): "Following the death of his working partner of the last twenty-six years, Albert Uderzo did not have th e
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by Tarsul 7y ago
Since we are in a VBA thread, I'd argue that VBA is a great introduction itself into programming; especially with its macro recorder. Progamming by clicking (in the spreadsheets) and seeing how the code changes instantly is arguably be
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by Tarsul 7y ago
I mean my job is a little bit like that. I have automated a lot of annoying stuff with VBA (but have yet to start with python, it's on my todo list). However, it's impossible to automate everything - so in the end a worker is nece
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by Tarsul 7y ago
why would you want to own a house in your home country if you're working abroad?
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by Tarsul 7y ago
thank you.
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by Tarsul 7y ago
they can be. However, reading is probably "by itself" more active than watching TV, irrelevant of the content. Probably in the same vein that handwriting is better for your brain than typing.
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by Tarsul 7y ago
and if you spin the argument further, that also describes why AI is overvalued (at least in terms of how hyped it is in reporting): If you have no chance of knowing how the result (e.g. of an algorithm) came to be, how can you trust it? In
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by Tarsul 7y ago
thank you for your very figurative analogues, they are fitting quite well imo. The point you make about chess about having "no room for the slightest error" is also why I never liked it as much as Go (as most westerners, i grew up

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