datenhorst

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by datenhorst 6y ago
I think you overestimate how big the flat earth movement actually is. There's no way anyone of them actually makes any significant money off youtube ad revenue when even the most well-known flat earth videos ("flat earth clues&quo
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by datenhorst 6y ago
> The worst cases I have seen is when executives take a problem and ask data scientists to "do some of that data science" on the problem, looking for trends, patterns, automating workflows, making recommendations, etc. While I
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by datenhorst 7y ago
> Effectively I always asked them what they think the code "should" do and what the results should be. https://rubberduckdebugging.com/
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Is it also data-collection free?
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by datenhorst 7y ago
I believe Harvard Business School and its ilk deserve a lot of blame for the instilling of a profit-at-any-cost culture across the US.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
This article reads like metric ton of BS but sadly I don't understand enough about the substance to be able to tell reliably. 1) I thought the reason cement production is bad for the environment because CO2 is released from the calcium
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Examples that I've seen with GDPR requests are: * Scan of ID * WebID - video call where they take screenshots of ID and your face * Cookie - kind of makes sense since 3rd party web trackers Quantcast rely on cookies to identify
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Just rotate through the 10 different $10/m streaming services
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Come on now, if you "remembered" anyway, surely you'd have nothing against the information being removed from an index? This is more about the right not to have everything you ever did tattooed on your forehead.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Some years ago I read a book about a banker who took a summer off to work an Alpine pasture (ie. a summer farm) without electricity and company. Just him and 50 cows. I've been dreaming about that ever since.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Wouldn't you have to whitelist multiple domains (30+ for theguardian.co.uk) for a feature like "reload without blocking"?
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Yeah I listen to a somewhat niche podcast from the UK, and recently I've been getting ads in my native German in it.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Probably to allow it to pick up some steam when sales slow down
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by datenhorst 7y ago
> (Vienna, Austria) - a country that has long since decided to upgrade the standard of living of its people through smart economic policies designed to reduce dependence on petroleum. As someone from a bordering country, that is a surpri
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by datenhorst 7y ago
In the wikipedia article it actually says that there is a theory that his body was placed on a nearby burial mound and moved by the ice to the location were he was found but: > While archaeobotanist Klaus Oeggl of the University of Innsb
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by datenhorst 7y ago
we-nternet
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by datenhorst 7y ago
I can only speak of Salzburg but at least there the issue that the city faces is the opposite, namely that a huge % of visitors are just in town for a couple of hours congesting the city while not consuming anything.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
> Taking a picture, of you, or just an `identical` is not why people travel. As some who just had the dubious pleasure of sharing a vacation with his 19yo cousin, I can tell you that for her it was exactly like that.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
> I predict that long, slow, possibly "eco" trips Anecdata but I can see this already happening in my circle of Friends in a big German city. Friends telling of weekend trips by plane are increasingly met by snarkiness, and I p
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by datenhorst 7y ago
The countryside in Italy doesn't necessarily mean you're away from tourists, see the Dutch on Lago di Garda or the Germans in South Tyrol.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
> But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines I'm counting on the German cease-and-desist industry to kick-start that - now that I think about it, I'm actually surprised it has happened
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Upwork rules require you to have their desktop app installed and let yourself be filmed for the duration of the task? Holy s
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by datenhorst 7y ago
This category: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=monplas
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by datenhorst 7y ago
Pretty much, yeah. There's a good range to choose from as well these days: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=monplas
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by datenhorst 7y ago
In Europe, people have started purchasing so-called public displays instead of Smart TVs and just hook up a Chromecast/Pi/Fire TV Stick to it. This is especially common in countries where one can avoid public broadcasting fees by
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by datenhorst 7y ago
The thing is, those don't have DVB-T receiver, which some people out there still require to watch cable TV.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
It's so they can spot people reading more than 5 articles a month, which is their "free quota" before they hit you with the pay wall, if i recall correctly.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
The white paper will be published next week, then we'll know more.
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by datenhorst 7y ago
As a citizen of the EU, I really want to find out what the advertising industry has on me. I once filed a GDPR Art. 5 request with Quantcast but forgot about it - they give you a link to S3 with a promise that there will be a ZIP containing
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by datenhorst 7y ago
I actually like that their approach isn't like your typical SaaS website's where there's only buzzwordy elevator pitches and it's impossible to find out what the product is actually about. Here I take 5 mins, read throug

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