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by adrianb 5y ago
> home owners are chained to their property As someone who moved across 4 countries in 10 years, I had the same opinion. Then I noticed that people who moved as often as me had no trouble to move out, rent their mortgaged apartment for m
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by adrianb 5y ago
The entire Test & Trace costed about 37 billion (at the latest estimate) and ministers admitted it has only a marginal impact on limiting spread: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/19/covid-19-test-and
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by adrianb 6y ago
The paper has earned an expression of concern regarding its peer review process, I don't think many scientists rely on it at the moment: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620987756
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by adrianb 6y ago
Not impossible, but how plausible is that a farmer sells his animals in a single location in a big city more than 1000 km away? More likely the animals would be sold closer to his farm or sold in multiple big cities igniting separate outbre
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by adrianb 6y ago
Viruses escaping from labs are also well-established, frequently occurring incidents [1]. Both should get attention and investigative effort. [1] https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/w
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by adrianb 6y ago
If anything, this is an amazing insight onto how the media will report anything from a press release without a minimum of investigation. The name change was essentially breaking news everywhere. - they're changing the almost 100 years
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by adrianb 6y ago
Obituaries are prematurely published all the time. I'm surprised April's Fools aren't published early more often.
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by adrianb 6y ago
Indeed, I wouldn't look too much into this. The article is more a part of the media's anti-tech campaign and less an indication of the overall investor sentiment. We'll see in the IPO how it actually performs.
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by adrianb 6y ago
Downdetector [1] shows some problems with other websites including Twitter and Microsoft as well. Doesn't seem like a cloud provider being down though. [1] https://downdetector.com/
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by adrianb 6y ago
Sure, but we're comparing making x in salary in Europe and paying out of pocket for private healthcare if needs arise, or making 4x in US and having employer-sponsored private health insurance. I know this is not everyone's experi
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by adrianb 6y ago
Obviously not data but here's something that's a common joke in the Netherlands: https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/news/2016/januari/take-a-parace...
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by adrianb 6y ago
Every inhabitant is entitled to excellent healthcare doesn't always mean they also get it. I lived in 2 European countries with amazing healthcare systems available for free or almost free but had either: amazingly long waiting times (
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by adrianb 6y ago
And I think a valuable COVID lesson is: once a natural process is started (the virus spreading worldwide) we don't have much power to stop it. But we can successfully mitigate it by developing vaccines in record time and manufacturing
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by adrianb 6y ago
And don't forget that countries have different ways to count COVID deaths. In the UK it's everyone who dies of any cause within 28 days of a positive test. Some other countries only consider COVID deaths if the patients had pneumo
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by adrianb 6y ago
That has been my question for years. Back in the day when I was only hearing of this thing called the Internet, people mentioned how they can read the New York Times online or another famous paper. Coming from a small town in Eastern Europe
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by adrianb 6y ago
The link posted is cute and all but such initiatives are so easy to dismiss - what, you guys can't live without going to a bar? What are you, some kind of alcoholics? You don't want to save some lives? When in reality the lockdown
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by adrianb 6y ago
Dutch young people do have student debt though afaik. Wouldn't rising rates affect their payments?
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by adrianb 6y ago
He's giving a few examples for work-life balance and I have completely different feelings about - from the 11 AM Yoga class (pretty ridiculous IMO) to taking a personal day (reasonable, people need their day off, maybe the personal day
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by adrianb 6y ago
What worries me the most is when people use the phrase "a majority of experts agree that..." and imply that is the absolute truth. It's not. A majority of experts, in their day, agreed that the sun is rotating around the eart
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by adrianb 6y ago
> media narratives - from reuters as well as others - about "reddit attention shifting to silver" That was amazing. It took a few weeks of WSB going on GME before the media noticed, and by that time I was sick of how everything
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by adrianb 6y ago
Interesting. How are these contracts supposed to work? In general when I buy something and have to wait, I expect to get it before everyone who buys after me. Not sure how these contracts work.
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by adrianb 6y ago
Philips the company now only operates in the medical market, the lighting division is a spin-off that still uses the Philips brand: > In 2018, the independent Philips Lighting N.V. was renamed Signify N.V. However, it continues to produc
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by adrianb 6y ago
The old software development model where users are buying the license for a specific version of a program and then use it and only come back to spend more when they need an upgrade is pretty much dead now. Most software moved to either free
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by adrianb 6y ago
This gives a good impression how much that reduces the footprint compared to the commonly blamed activities: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...
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by adrianb 6y ago
I agree. The unverified information needs to be investigated by the relevant authorities (prosecutors and the justice system). Under normal circumstances the information would be swept under the rug.
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by adrianb 6y ago
Yup. People in the West don't understand how much of an advantage social media has been in countries where media was always controlled by corrupt businessmen or politicians. The fact that information about government's actions can
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by adrianb 6y ago
Honestly, so much of this sounded familiar to me ... but from my own teenage years. My parents were appalled at the amount of time I was spending at a MS-DOS PC (not only playing games but also learning programming). So I'd say that no
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by adrianb 6y ago
It's interesting that all the big tech companies except Google are invested in OSM, but at the same time none of them bought one of the classic, "traditional" digital map makers - Here Maps formerly Nokia, formerly NavTeq and
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by adrianb 6y ago
No way it was a real lab. Too much risk to reveal something just from the tools or devices present. The viewers would analyze every pixel visible and it’s too much effort to clean up a real lab of what secrets it could reveal and a lot easi
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by adrianb 6y ago
Here's my understanding (also a layman but trying to read as much as possible): A new coronavirus jumps from an animal to humans. No human body has seen this type of virus before, so when it infects the immune system has to work a lot

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