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by chki 9y ago
Previous discussion on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15008276 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002040
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by chki 9y ago
How is this judgemental or, to be more concise, how is this inappropriately judgemental? The parent comment is explicitly talking about how they "feel" about people using their phones and then continues to explain their situation.
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by chki 9y ago
Isn't that the very definition of something being predictable? That there is a pattern which predicts a certain outcome? For example a certain simplified weather pattern (e.g. "if it rains for three consecutive days 9/10 time
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by chki 9y ago
From the perspective of a German who follows a lot of american news this seems to be exactly right. I would love to hear from someone originally from the US who follows German news/lives in Germany. Interestingly there is -in my opinio
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by chki 9y ago
That might be true but it was not my point. I was merely arguing that not seeing many cases actually go to trial is not an argument that can be made in this case.
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by chki 9y ago
If those elevators worked they would actually solve a big engineering problem: Very High Buildings can only have a limited number of elevator shafts. But it takes a significant time to use them which makes it problematic if there are a lot
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by chki 9y ago
But wouldn't the fact that trials might be favoring conviction (I'm not saying they do, but just as a hypothesis) also drastically change the outcome of those non-trial cases (mainly plea bargains, I guess)? If I expect to be conv
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by chki 9y ago
Consumer protection in the EU generally follows the minimum approach, meaning that every state may implement higher standards and the EU wide standard is only the necessary minimum of protection. This would probably be the case with this ne
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by chki 9y ago
You should probably read the article, because there are no actual people involved.
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by chki 9y ago
Thanks for actually pointing out all those things that made me feel as if the story was made up. I would add the general style of the write up. It does not seem like a person being actually keen to receive an answer but is written like a ta
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by chki 9y ago
While there is definitely some truth to the effects of the value Euro being "too low", I don't think that is the "main reason" for the number of German middle class manufacturers which the article is talking about.
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by chki 9y ago
I think the difference is that Go is played on a psychological level as well, while weightlifting is (mainly) not. Somebody mentioned this in another Go Thread on hn a few days ago: Professionell Go players do not like to play against &quot
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by chki 9y ago
Facebook does actually allow something similar, at least I have seen some actual (offline) Facebook ads in Europe that described your exact problem and introduced the possibility to share only with "close friends" or "family&
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by chki 9y ago
The demand is probably too low, especially if you consider that Europe is itself quite big which means producing in some central country like Germany will only reduce the international shipping costs but not eliminate them.
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by chki 9y ago
I'm studying in Germany and Jodel is in my experience astonishingly popular among students. At a University with about 40.000 students there is an active community of 1000-4000 users and definitely more group communication than on Face
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by chki 10y ago
It is quite interesting how I as a European citizen often come to think I would understand American culture (because I'm constantly confronted by it on reddit, hackernews, the NYTimes etc.) but get disproved a lot. Is it generally acce
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by chki 10y ago
I'm not really sure about the amount of money needed to have an actual impact on a stock like Amazon but maybe somebody more knowledgeable might have an idea: Does this measurably lower the market valuation of Amazon? If there is const
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by chki 10y ago
I'm aware of that and just wanted to point out why this american perspective can be questioned, which was -in my opinion- the intend of "08-15".
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by chki 10y ago
That is a very american perspective though. In Germany you are not allowed to fire someone for these reasons (you might be able to dismiss him for no reason at all but the contract will not be over for quite a long time) So the authority of
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by chki 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure why but this seems a bit unethical to me. It is quite clever but maybe you should make it more clear that you are doing a survey and not actually selling your book.
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by chki 10y ago
Well Kiev is in Ukraine and Madrid is in Spain, so that is just the full width of Europe which makes it really funny for those who know (and those who know are - to honestly reply to your concern here - those who read The New Yorker)
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by chki 10y ago
It is probably for the "non-scientific" reader who thinks "1 Tesla seems very low to me, that's not really impressive. Now 10.000 Gauss: I can imagine that to be pretty ... much"
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by chki 10y ago
Thank you a lot for linking the "Is God a Taoist?" Essay. For somebody as young and easily influenced as me (who is currently not very involved in philosophy and religion) it might actually have a great impact on my understanding
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by chki 10y ago
Does this data weigh the importance of certain locations? Because to me it seems that it doesn't which would seriously harm the informativeness of the set. As a consultant you surely don't travel to every part of the city as frequ
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by chki 10y ago
I think that there is also an interesting connection between the common concept of willpower and "free will" itself. When discussing "free will" it often comes down to the "free" part of the brain that exercise
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by chki 10y ago
right, but banning everyone is clearly not in line with a "usually".
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by chki 10y ago
Sorry but this is not an article or an elaborate idea but rather just a single bullet point. It _might_ be interesting if there was at least some discussion going on... but that is simply not the case.
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by chki 10y ago
But even if investing is about luck it is still not comparable. Investing was originally (well ... kind of.. ) people betting on which ships would come back from the new world. And it were only those bets that made the game possible, establ
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by chki 10y ago
Yeah, sadly; this could have gone viral. The las time I checked there were about 200 views and a 22 to none like/dislike ratio. Although it is probably better this way.
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by chki 10y ago
Isn't that just the fundamental problem with financial analysts? If they were always right they could be really rich really quick. But I've never heard of that..

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