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by fab1an 6y ago
I've always suspected that obsessive interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect is following an inverse curve of the effect itself :) Graph: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1253647480966852610
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by fab1an 6y ago
I found this way of thinking - where you pool risks across the entire population - never particularly useful. For example, the risk of drowning, here quantified as "1 in 1,128" is actually pretty much 0 for people who don't g
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by fab1an 6y ago
This is a very plausible explanation.
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by fab1an 6y ago
I don't have the table but the conclusion of the relevant authorities in the EU is basically that the risk of the vaccine-induced mortality is at least comparable to the risk of COVID19-mortality for younger women under 60 specifically
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by fab1an 6y ago
It doesn't work like that alas - the AZ thrombosis is a pretty serious condition and the best theory we have right now suggests it can't be just treated with an aspirin.
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by fab1an 6y ago
Great to see stuff like this on HN. Curious: there is an unbelievably huge wealth of this type of "content" that lives almost exclusively in history books, or at least seems profoundly difficult to find on the internet. Then there
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by fab1an 6y ago
That's not how music works. My bet is we will see crappy music for ads replaced with AI generated stuff, but NFTs etc may actually mean a much more interesting market for real musicians moving forward..
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by fab1an 6y ago
Meh. This is an extremely basic drum machine / step sequencer with a larger number samples, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the "sample cloud" approach lots of times by now in various VSTs. Probably still fun for folk
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by fab1an 6y ago
Not sure...if "total collapse" is the test case that something must survive in order to hold any value, virtually nothing that we consider valueable today would be valueable in the first place. That said, maybe you're right,
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Show HN: Thoughts as NFTs
3 points by fab1an 6y ago|2 comments
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by fab1an 6y ago
Really cool. One thing the most boring part of my mind is wondering about when seeing these is related to the legality of stuff like that: many of the drone videos this is trained on are obviously copyrighted, and the system has used them t
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Non-Fungible Thoughts – Thoughts as NFTs(nfthoughts.com)
2 points by fab1an 6y ago|1 comments
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by fab1an 6y ago
The clotting with AZ is very different and more serious than what the thrombosis associated with the pill - about half of those who get it die even with best medical care. It predominanctly affects folks who would have a miniscule risk of d
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by fab1an 6y ago
I don't think that's the case, the US isn't exporting any vaccines afaik and the EU doses are primarily produced in Europe.
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by fab1an 6y ago
Looks like this may be a bit more relevant than many of the snarky comments would suggest - the relevant German authority on this said that they have seen a unexpected increase in a specific type of blood clotting issue that usually is very
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by fab1an 6y ago
Germany has a "homemade" vaccine (BioNTech), in fact it was the first reliable vaccine on the market, and pioneering an entirely new medical paradigm at it, but the EC botched the process of acquiring it.
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by fab1an 6y ago
My completely unscientific perception is that companies that focus too much on getting the perfect domain name from the get go are doomed to fail, and especially so if they buy a domain for more than $1k..
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by fab1an 6y ago
Yes, but if the error consistently results in you getting paid more than you should have, it's not really an error, is it? No, we would in fact call that fraud.
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by fab1an 6y ago
No, in fact you should consider it a relevant signal contributing to the UX of a site: if you're appalled by seeing this on a site, you are vrey very likely not a good fit for them and vice versa.
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by fab1an 6y ago
No offense, but you do sound a little triggered, and I completely understand why (in some sense). That being said, there are many different types of wrong/right, and the way in which the self-vaccinating Rationalist is "wrong&quot
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by fab1an 6y ago
Not a lawyer, but in German labor law an agreement to hire usually already constitutes a contract that you can't just cancel - they should have probably paid a lot more to get out of this!
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by fab1an 6y ago
The absurdity of the American health care and insurance system will never not amaze me. It's just sad and weird, and even weirder that you will always find a bunch of intelligent folks to defend it. Wishing the author, who btw is a be
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by fab1an 6y ago
This is the type of content we're here for! Thanks.
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by fab1an 6y ago
Back in the Web 2.0 days, I started a "users' union" at the then largest German social network StudiVZ. It was only half-joking, and to my surprise quickly attracted the attention of the network's founders, who reacted i
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by fab1an 6y ago
This is to be commended, though I wish the market itself would provide this value as an emergent feature as it does in some other areas (e. g. Leica cameras and lenses, hundreds of thousands of which are still being used after _decades_ - I
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by fab1an 6y ago
This reminds me of the very fun and oldschool tracker paradigm for music production. Incidentally, this is experiencing a bit of a renaissance due to the wonderful Polyend Tracker hardware - I also recommend Renoise / Redux, which is p
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by fab1an 6y ago
I am curious about a thing I read about Sweden, and would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this as a Swede: is it true that nursing home inhabitants per default (and regardless of a pandemic) do not get ICU level care anyway? In Germ
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by fab1an 6y ago
This is very interesting - I had recently read about the empathy lowering effect of Paracetamol and the cynic in me could not help but wonder if any corporate folks may have (ab)used it to become more sociopathic (which is a requirement for
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by fab1an 6y ago
It's a little weird, especially since the musicians aren't visible to the audience - why would you play live?
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by fab1an 6y ago
I did a hike a few years ago with nothing but a drawn map and a compass - it's a very enjoyable experience indeed.

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