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by corty 6y ago
Funnily enough, Das Schloss is often interpreted to be a criticism of the church and organized religion in general. The castle and its workings are seen to be like the clerical teachings, arbitrary, incomprehensible and illogical, but nonet
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We once had a young teacher, who had to pass his own entrance exam for a permanent position. He was to be tested by teaching us, while a senior teacher sitting in the back judges him. A week before his test, this young teacher then goes thr
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by corty 6y ago
I would also add that in gaslighting, the victim is unwilling and unknowing. In the described manipulation, the victim is willing to be manipulated and often even knows that it is being manipulated. So while gaslighting needs quite some eff
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That is a common technique taught in rhetoric and management courses. People are quite fond of their own ideas and implicitly devalue the ideas of others. Therefore, if you don't care about owning an idea but care about getting it done
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Yes, but why? How? I'm a non-native-speaker as well, and these things might be obvious to you, but they aren't to me. Is it a "should not use it", "must not use it", "maybe" or "it's fashion
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Why not sanitize it once when accessed, write the sanitized result back to the database and set a flag on the record. Use only presanitized strings if the flag is set. After some time, when enough of your strings are flagged, run a sanitize
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by corty 6y ago
It is a law of engineering that every engineer will claim his code is the most efficient, his car the best and hist nuclear power plant the safest. WWER-440 has no closed safety vessel, poor emergency cooling and no redundancy to speak of.
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Fukushima ended with very little contamination over land due to the prevailing weather at the time. But if winds and rain hadn't cooperated as nicely, things would have been more serious. So I wouldn't say evacuations were pointle
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I'm not sure why everyone seems so focused on the cafeteria thing. I'm not sure people and their attitudes towards amenities are really the problem here. From my understanding, the differerence is the companywide attitude to risk.
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In German states, the citizen initiative process is to propose a law that can be voted on by the people if enough signatures have been collected. In some states, even changes to the constitution are possible this way. The federal and Europe
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There is, just many email marketing people leave it out to cut down on the unsubscribe rate. Subscribing has to be easy and in-the-face (like those 'helpful' popups on websites), unsubscribing has to be almost impossible. Not tota
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In their relation with blogs and social media, traditional press is at the "fight" stage of the three-stage Ghandi progression "first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win". Can't wait for stage three a
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Well, there is a ton of them, basically one for every food that has a protected tradition or origin designation. Not all of them are useful as a recipie though.
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If you need just a thorough recipie, there is always that EU regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
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by corty 6y ago
Coeducation and joined competitions still aren't a thing in sports, even chess. It isn't a problem to separate, if there really is a difference imho. > That actually strenghtens the point though, doesn't it? You can also h
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by corty 6y ago
After some thinking, I've got a theory: Deaths lag behind the infections by say 4 weeks. If the infections are falling after a peak, deaths are still rising or plateauing for 4 weeks. That means the ratio deaths/infections will pr
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Hm, yes, I think you are right. That is odd.
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Right. But still, don't worry yet, worry when it hasn't shown improvement in a few weeks. Edit: Also, when you look at the JHU data (e.g. via google), it shows a peak at Jan 15th in the number of cases followed by a steady decline
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by corty 6y ago
Vaccinated with a second dose means full immunity 1 week after, possible death 3 to 7 weeks after (1 + (1 to 2) + (2 to 4)). So a decline should start to be visible since last week maybe. But I wouldn't get nervous for another 2 to 3 w
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by corty 6y ago
I was trying to prompt the obviously necessary reflection on what you said. But I'll make it explicit, if irony is considered too snarky: Exposing more gifted children to less gifted ones might be beneficial in small doses, it isn&#x27
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by corty 6y ago
There are two possible strategies for the problem you describe: Either you vaccinate everyone world-wide at the same time as quickly as possible. Then mutations that make the virus resistant to vaccinations only have the time to occur durin
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It isn't sufficiently researched if asymptomatic, vaccinated cases still spread the virus in the same amount. The virus load spread by a vaccinated person can be expected to at least be lower, maybe even negligible or nonexistent. Also
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There are CSV-backed "databases" that you can query with SQL. Selecting a row and returning it is basically copying a string once and replacing all CSV-separators by record separators. Doing a projection requires you to copy the s
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The rest of the world will get it's vaccines after the first-world states are all vaccinated. And while it sucks to live in a third-world country where vaccinations will come 2022 or 2023 maybe, I can't see any other way, except i
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Well, really owning up to a mistake that will cost a few tens of thousands of lives would at least be a resignation.
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> How do you decide which factories to build? All of them. Or at least all of the different kinds of factories (mRNA, vector, live vaccine) for the most promising candidates. If there is a shortage of something, force production, apply
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Death usually comes 2 to 4 weeks after hospitalization which comes 1 to 2 weeks after infection. So the drop in death rates should be visible 2 to 4 weeks after the drop in hospitalizations, and should be less steep initially.
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That is not quite true, it doesn't only target the UK. The export requirements apply to basically everyone except third-world countries through Covax and Switzerland/Norway/Ukraine/Israel due to existing treaties. But it
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Belgium is as disorganized as you can get. Most of the time over the last 20 years they didn't manage to form a government, just an endless chain of interim solutions that quickly broke apart. It shows...
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Up to now, no one dared to task the EU with something as important, because it was always clear from the start that the EU isn't capable of handling tasks that are complex, time-critical and important. But since the production chains o

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