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by facepalm 11y ago
I always thought it is just glass...
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by facepalm 11y ago
I assume data science is often used in place of astrology. People just want to have something to cling to, to get over their fears and insecurity. So if you can generate some reassuring graphs, who cares if they are based on solid statistic
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't understand how they keep the price stable with waning interest. Is it mostly stakeholders trying to artificially keep it up? But presumably at least the miners need to sell occasionally to finance their operation?
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by facepalm 11y ago
I saw something like that proposed as a solution against wandering thoughts. The problem is that you can not think "hm, I really shouldn't be thinking about x", because that would also mean thinking about x. So when you catch
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by facepalm 11y ago
I meant in the amount of water shifted - so you don't simply break a Tsunami like a wave, the water just keepscoming.
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by facepalm 11y ago
So the evilness of Germany is not donating Billions of Euros? Evil is not what it used to be anymore...
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by facepalm 11y ago
Tsunamis are not like normal waves. I think they might be more like a really big rise of the tides.
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by facepalm 11y ago
So how does Germany pull off that control? What gives it it's power?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Just as heterosexuals don't rape people all the time, most pedophiles probably don't either. I think an estimated 2% of the population are pedophiles. I feel sorry for them. However, if they prove to be a danger to the kids, they
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by facepalm 11y ago
I've heard that unwanted pregnancies are more frequent in the "wait till married" crowd. That is because they are unlikely to have condoms with them when their emotions overwhelm them. They don't account for their change
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by facepalm 11y ago
I had my first kid with 38 and I wish it would have been sooner. I love having a kid now. But I worry about staying healthy enough to do the fun things I want to do with them. And grandparents are a major factor, too. They are a great help,
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by facepalm 11y ago
There is also a point where kids are exhausted from playing or from too much human interaction. Many HN users are probably introverts, they might understand. When my kid watches certain TV shows or uses certain apps, he can be extremely foc
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't exactly understand your argument, to be honest. Surely the majority of people who care about that kind of rules are parents anyway? If parents would agree that kids shouldn't have iPads, then no legislation would be necess
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by facepalm 11y ago
Having children on my on, I am firmly convinced that especially in that realm, expert advice should not always be heeded. A couple of days ago there was an article about parents camping out for days to get their kids registered for a specif
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by facepalm 11y ago
Doctors opinions don't necessarily reflect scientific research. Please link to relevant research. There were some links in the article, but I find some of it inconclusive. The old problem of cause and effect. In general the whole discu
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by facepalm 11y ago
Does that mean you have tried giving your kids an iPad and found that it has detrimental effect? Or how else has having kids given you more insights into the issue?
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by facepalm 11y ago
I get that, and it's an age old accusation against speculation. But it's really not so simple, because limiting the supply also has costs and it might ultimately fail (it usually does). Do you have any numbers that show the specul
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by facepalm 11y ago
I still don't get it - how are they making money if they don't rent or sell those housing units? I get that they speculate on rising prices. But that is still a speculation, so it can go wrong. And by driving away people, they are
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by facepalm 11y ago
If it is so easy to fight hunger, why are our governments not doing it?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Of course it is the cool, nice places that become unaffordable. Pretty sure if you move further out, or to another city, it is cheaper? How much would you say contributing to the culture should be worth? And I still don't understand ho
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by facepalm 11y ago
How can an investor price somebody out? The investor only makes money if people are willing to pay rent for his property. So it is the willingness of people to pay the high rent that drives the prices up. Edit: HN doesn't let me write
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by facepalm 11y ago
Doesn't it already cost money to leave an apartment vacant (opportunity costs)? How would taxes fundamentally change that?
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by facepalm 11y ago
London is not creating the prices of property, the people are. They will be prepared to pay as much as they think living in London is worth. If eventually all the cool stuff is driven out by the high prices, prices will fall accordingly. Or
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by facepalm 11y ago
There seems to be a factual error in this: other than what the article claims the number of transactions should not change the amount of energy required. The Mining network mines a block roughly every 10 minutes, no matter how many transact
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by facepalm 11y ago
"If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past, said Truscott." Is that equivalent to "reality doesn&#x27
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by facepalm 11y ago
Doesn't Twitter ban you if you send too many @-messages to random people?
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by facepalm 11y ago
I meant online games. A lot of elderly people are not really mobile anymore, after several falls and broken hips.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Sure, but they might lack the social aspect of MMORPGs (guilds?)? And what would be good sites for those games?
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by facepalm 11y ago
If only there was something like World Of Warcraft that is suitable for the elderly. I'm not joking. I keep wondering if I should introduce my grandma to such a game, but I live far away and they all seem too complicated. Would be happ
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by facepalm 11y ago
They silently installed all the previously existing ones on my system, too. So did Apple on my Mac, and Ubuntu on my old notebook. Maybe I should, but I am not going to individually double check every root certificate. I don't think I

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