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by chki 8y ago
I've recently been shown a lot of ads for a service called "blinkist" where the idea is to provide short summaries of non-fiction books and I think your comment captures why that is a very bad idea. Reading and capturing an i
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by chki 8y ago
"The European Court said the conviction was correct" First of all, I think the argument that can be drawn from one Court decision is not very strong. Second and possibly more important: this was a decision by the European Court of
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by chki 8y ago
I don't follow the first example about jury deliberation. Isn't the criticism in that case about the method which might harm the behavior of the jury and not about the knowledge gained? I guess that the point is that it renders re
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by chki 8y ago
Wouldn't this completely prevent small local organizations/business owners from running their own websites and push them in the Facebook/Google/etc ecosystem? or do I not understand what a "renewal" is?
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by chki 8y ago
While I'm generally all for opt-in and free decision making I think some lines should only be crossed in special circumstances. Similarly to medical procedures that are only legal if the patient is very clearly informed about all poten
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by chki 8y ago
I'm pretty sure a recent bill has actually changed the number 2) situation by requiring back pay for those that didn't work as well: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/trump-signs-back
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by chki 8y ago
I think if you divide the food on the plate over the course of a day that might be a reasonable amount, maybe a bit too much. Generally the site tends to focus too much on the problems of overeating while some people (myself included) might
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by chki 8y ago
I can of course not assess your breathing difficulties at all but maybe it's just the non-pathological https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle ? Although the Wikipedia article says that usually one should not no
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by chki 8y ago
Just had a law class (in Europe) and our professor told us that this is one of the main reasons that arbitration exists (and is so prevalent) in the US: to prevent class-action lawsuits.
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by chki 8y ago
I have not seen a lot of "circumstantial evidence" of Russian interference as you are describing. However that is not to say that there has been none whatsoever and regarding the very close result of the vote this could theoretica
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by chki 8y ago
When I was about 10 years old my parents took my siblings and me on a 5 week vacation to the US (I'm from Europe). It was a lot of fun, but I distinctly remember that it was impossible for me to eat the bread that we would buy at the s
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by chki 8y ago
But sanctions do not just happen from one day to the other (usually). At least in the case of Iran my understanding was that there was a political declaration to withdraw from the Nuclear Deal and impose sanctions, but not immediately. So b
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by chki 8y ago
Well, sideways or rather upright (possibly in a seating position) is probably better but seems not very aerodynamic. I think those are the three possible orientations. But I mean are we seriously considering a transportation system where pa
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by chki 8y ago
Do you mean this in an ironic way or in an actual "construction of a Boeing 737" way? Because while larger airplanes do have seats directly in the front of the plane (with the cockpit being on a higher floor) the Boeing 737 doesn&
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by chki 8y ago
By that standard you could also propose that the poor should be fined even heavier because they are the lazy ones and should get punished for that. There is no actual reasoning in your arguments why the fines should be the same for everybod
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by chki 8y ago
Same for me. Ironically if you click on the "unsupported" link it wants you to install Chrome.
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by chki 8y ago
That seems like a good idea, although it is maybe difficult to bring it into reality. Only thing I would change is not basing the percentage on the number of views because this will (just like ads) make an incentive for newspapers to promot
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by chki 8y ago
If you honk: do you know how many people you are annoying with that? I would guess you can probably hear a honking car in a radius of at least 300 m outdoors and 100m indoors. So in any well populated area there are probably there are prob
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by chki 8y ago
To me the connection between performing multitasking and therefore loosing your ability to memorize things is not at all obvious. And for it to be obvious (I think) one would probably need to know a lot more about the brain than we currentl
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by chki 8y ago
What does that mean though? Are you suggesting that there are other problems that are already done by robots which in consequence means that these concrete tasks will also be done by robots at some point? How does that have anything to do w
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by chki 8y ago
Oh, thanks for clearing that up! Although the name can be either female or male (and is probably even more likely to be female) and the article doesn't indicate the gender I just assumed that it was a guy. I guess it shows that my perc
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by chki 8y ago
Does he actually believe this? It sounds like a marketing fluff piece that some intern had to make up. I mean the guy is Facebook VP for Europe and probably knows very well that business reports (for example) are not digested "in a qui
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by chki 8y ago
But how does that make the chance of the proposal becoming reality slim? It makes it impossible for Zuckerberg to be removed without his consent, right?
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by chki 8y ago
I don't think schools ban Wikipedia because it's a secondary source. Because then they would also have to ban most textbooks.
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by chki 8y ago
>Dooring is not an issue here either since Dutch cyclists tend to anticipate very well. Two points to this: Obviously (and you probably implied this but I want to make it clear:) it is first and foremost the duty of the car driver openin
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by chki 8y ago
>To estimate the impacts of wind power, Keith and Miller established a baseline for the 2012‒2014 U.S. climate using a standard weather-forecasting model. Then, they covered one-third of the continental U.S. with enough wind turbines to
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by chki 8y ago
I'm not sure why you thought that would be possible, as it says "web elements" in the title.
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by chki 8y ago
I don't think that Martin Winterkorn (the former CEO of Volkswagen) was arrested. Maybe you are talking about Rupert Stadler (CEO of Audi, a Volkswagen daughter)
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by chki 8y ago
But why wouldn't it give us the "right" to destroy it? Is there a "right and wrong" without any sentient life making an ethical choice?
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by chki 8y ago
I think your view doesn't make sense to me because of that old question: How can there be anything "beautiful" or harmonious" without humans being around and observing those beautiful or harmonious structures in nature?

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