adventskalender

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by adventskalender 7y ago
The headline of the article actually says "BCH fans". Why does it say Bitcoin in HN? Hope it will be corrected soon.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
He claimed it is an US only thing and US imperialism. The example of Germany refutes that. So it is nonsense. But funny how you choose to believe his personal experience, rather than mine. All hail the narrative.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
That's nonsense. In Germany the default for contracts is that you need your employers permission to do side projects. Germany is in the EU.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Why not? If such things have happened before, it seems dishonest to use such imagery to conjure a scenario of doom. Maybe the risk is now higher, more frequent, different, whatever. Fine, then tell me so, show me the numbers. I don't w
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by adventskalender 7y ago
It's still a waste of my time as a reader, and appealing to emotions, not to rational thought.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Then they should say so in the article. All it says is "The Noordwaard polder was one of 39 such areas selected for the Dutch government’s “Room for the River” program, in which land was given back to the water." Shame on the Dutc
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Sorry I don't speak Swedish. But according to Google translate - don't we all waste too much time on the internet? It's really sad that HN now is more likely to darken my mood than to be an enjoyable experience, though.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"intellectually dishonest" - seriously, what the fuck? You give no reason why you think so, and I don't see why I should have to disprove your belief. (edit: presumably you refer to the lines where I say you claim to be an ex
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Am I the only one who gets angry at stupid "mood setting" in such articles? It leads with the picture of an abandoned settlement that has turned to marshland, only to reveal that it was deliberately given over to the sea. Why shou
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"I was doing the literal opposite of cherry-picking, I was digging into the arguments as they were presented to me. So far nothing has held up. If you can give me an argument with a proper source I'll happily look into that as wel
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"Name a few please." I already mentioned the Cook paper that gave us the "97% consensus" number. (Edit: for completeness sake, here is an article debunking the number. I haven't read it and don't know if it has
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"Yet as soon as you dig, the "scientific arguments" evaporate. For a beautiful example of this, see the comment I just wrote at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21820189 . " The opposing side has jus
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"is trust a big deal? And the answer is: we do not know" Trust is a very big deal. The biggest deal. As long as you are not a specialist on climate science yourself, all you can do is trust. That is true for all scientific endeavo
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by adventskalender 7y ago
"OR you can note that 95%+ (and probably well higher than that) of climate scientists recognize that human cause climate science is fact" You realize that those "x% of scientists agree" claims are yet again based on mode
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I don't know about their climate data, I just think their claims of the impact of carbon costs are pure speculation. If they had a calculator for determining temperature increase depending on carbon output, it would be more credible. T
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by adventskalender 7y ago
It is clearly made up data, as for example they predict the outcome of policies like carbon costs. Afaik even economists don't agree on the results of such policies. They are just making an assumption and the whole app is merely advert
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Thanks for the information!
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I would have expected BuzzFeed to be among the URLs that are banned on HN, or has the approach of banning entire media outlets been discarded? Iirc it was implemented a couple of years ago. Anyway, the twist is that the original T-Shirt was
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I wouldn't generalize over all books. However, I am pretty sure getting a degree in literature is mostly about signalling status.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I choose to believe that review, as I have only recently sold my unread copy of IF on ebay.
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Such books may exist mainly for signalling status, signalling "I can afford to spend time on useless endeavors". Like a whole university degree in literature, only more condensed. Presumably it works well because it really is ext
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I don't think so. The story here is "horrible things happen to underage girls who hang out on Instagram". So I don't need to be a doctor to evaluate "horrible things". Either horrible things happen, or not. In
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by adventskalender 7y ago
So the abuse is not actually a "pain" that outweighs the dopamine hits?
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by adventskalender 7y ago
All explained by signalling theory - signalling status, which is useful for survival of offspring. That's what I mean by it isn't arbitrary. And it isn't all about wealth, either. Walking in high heels proves a certain level
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I don't think that is true at all. If wealth was taken away, physical attributes would simply become more important. It's true that culture has effects on what is considered attractive. That doesn't mean it is arbitrary, thou
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by adventskalender 7y ago
The irrational decision to return to a environment where they get burned, again and again? Why? I am not talking about signing up for Instagram. I am talking about staying on Instagram after a flood of sexual harassment, as described in the
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Whenever the talk comes to equality and so on, I actually do think about women, or mating partners in general. While you could perhaps try to distribute property to everybody in equal amounts, so that (in your theory) nobody would have a re
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by adventskalender 7y ago
No it is not nearly at the same level as "parents burnt alive".
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by adventskalender 7y ago
Women just have to learn to deal with such men. As the current top comment says, she was first cat called at age 6. So women learn early that there are men after them. I don't mean it as victim blaming or shrugging it off, either. It i
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by adventskalender 7y ago
I would question why an 11 year old would remain on the internet, if the situation really is that bad. So if there are 11 year olds on the internet for a prolonged amount of time, it seems likely to me the situation is not really that bad.

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