Treegarden

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by Treegarden 8y ago
Also humanity in the past was far more violent and gruesome. So if being tame means not slaughtering each other it seems like a good thing. This book from Steven Pinker talks about this topic and its one of the best books I have read: htt
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by Treegarden 8y ago
And yet I think that is much more interesting and valuable then the article.
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by Treegarden 8y ago
I think this is good. Reading and really understanding a text is not cognitively easy. It should be a privilege for a text to be read by me. I am a productive and I work a lot with my head. I in my free time I listen to a lot of Audiobooks
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by Treegarden 8y ago
I lived in Shanghai for 6 months and the internet sucked more then the air and thats when its hurting to take in a deep breath in winter. After returning to Germany I was more happy about the free internet (and freedom of speech and so on..
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by Treegarden 8y ago
I wish there was a longer docuementary about this
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by Treegarden 8y ago
I watched that same guy (just discovered his channel through that video) and its hilarious to me that I see him mentioned here and how you have the same reaction to that part like me. His videos are actually a good resource to the OP. This
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by Treegarden 8y ago
The way I understood it is: "By failing my business other people will think because I am a foreigner and I failed my business most other foreigners are failures as well and I don't want that" My point is that he shouldn'
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by Treegarden 8y ago
If I were you I would try to be realistic and cut my losses. Follow the advice of getting an accountant and focus on what is important for your company. If you had a good reason to start it then you should persist if it is appropriate, howe
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by Treegarden 8y ago
Are you kidding me? Don't get me wrong I love america for being the epicenter of western culture and its innovation - I even plan on living there for some years. I feel alienated by my own German culture with its weird lederhosen, moza
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by Treegarden 8y ago
is it so hard for the independent to include a link/name/source to the documentary?
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by Treegarden 8y ago
Whats the message in all three of them? I watch neiter disney princess movies nor animes.
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by Treegarden 9y ago
why is there no syllabus - as in a list of contents? I want to know what really is behind this buzzword stuff.
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by Treegarden 9y ago
Agreed, and if I used an alternative I would have to spend hours searching on google, trying to import "iContacts" or whatever format into whatever other format when I change my pc, phone, loose all the data, or whatever might hap
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by Treegarden 9y ago
That's too inconvenient. The nice part about facebook is that you can forget about people, but then they post a status update that they are currently somewhere in your country and you can meet them.
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by Treegarden 9y ago
I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no
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by Treegarden 9y ago
There is nothing I hate more then writing on my phone. In general I much prefer meeting someone face to face, but at least on my pc my keyboard it is much easier and faster to write a message.
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by Treegarden 9y ago
As much as I wish for flying cars in the future, Elon said they would be too loud and dangerous to be feasible. You can watch what exactly he said on the ted interview, would be interested in an counter argument to his position. Edit: here
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by Treegarden 9y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed it too. Why is "black swan" so popular here on HN though?
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by Treegarden 9y ago
> Equity isn't the only form of capital investment. Someone has to pay for the fixed costs. And its most common that an investor does that. Never said it has to be that way, just that it is common and offers many advantages. > We
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by Treegarden 9y ago
My point was more that the basic characteristics of our modern economy (our modern economy = capitalism) also apply to early human societies. Working a profession, cooperating with colleagues and trading goods are inherent human nature. Eve
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by Treegarden 9y ago
How can all companies be employee owned if you need to invest a lot of capital to start a car factory. Half of the fortune 500 companies are younger then 10 years - starting a company has a high risk on the invested capital. A company is ow
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by Treegarden 9y ago
I have been working on something very similar for the past year. I first build this prototype with the goal of generating sentences and then analysing the user translation because I wanted a feature to see if the user knows the word even th
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by Treegarden 9y ago
I think the part about gross cars is a trivial problem. You pay a 100$ deposit for the account and if you puke in the car you lose the deposit. If that happens to often you get banned or whatever.
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The algorithm that could help tackle the refugee crisis(bbc.com)
1 points by Treegarden 9y ago|0 comments
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by Treegarden 9y ago
I like that quote, but to be honest, being a German myself something I hate about other Germans is that they always are very limited in their head and scared of disruptive innovation. Germans are good at incremental but not at disruptive in
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by Treegarden 9y ago
Why did they shoot him though? Isnt a human life worth more then some car? This behavior from the police is unheard of in Western Europe, and there would be a public outcry if something like that would happen here. I dont understand america
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by Treegarden 9y ago
Same here. Really curious though if there is any service/api to harvest news articles from websites to experiment with text analysis with? Havent found any after some search, just apis that provide meta information but not an actual co
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by Treegarden 9y ago
Just another perspective: If a child in such an economically underdeveloped country would starve or experience otherwise grave consequences for not doing the work many equate to "slavery", then that country has failed. Its a faile
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by Treegarden 9y ago
thanks, that was a really interesting article. Unfortunately it focused mainly on what "willpower" is dubious and not so much on what it is instead that helps one resist a craving. Only at the end the author wrote that the drinkin
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by Treegarden 9y ago
Like what? In Germany? Like beeing an economic power house? Or our universal healthcare? Free Education/Universities? Our extremely low level corruption? The functioning bureaucracy? Our social net of Hartz4? Or do you mean that the w

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