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by facepalm 11y ago
Thanks to your list I realized there is one in a building I walk by almost every week. Guess I'll be riding a Paternoster soon :-)
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by facepalm 11y ago
They are quite rare actually. I have never seen one (living in Germany all my life). You'd have to actively seek one out to encounter them.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe huge post it notes on the coffee machine as a reminder?
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by facepalm 11y ago
I usually like to read Coupland, but I disagree here. Seems to me there were always ways to experience different moods: simply by doing things. Watching a sun setting would evoke different moods than chopping wood or reading a book.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Berlin is rapidly becoming more expensive, too. So don't wait too long.
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by facepalm 11y ago
What is it?
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by facepalm 11y ago
Except, as I said, some previously productive regions were eventually destroyed for good. As I also said, we have only been doing this (modern way of farming) for a miniscule time span. We have no indication whatsoever that it can go on ind
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by facepalm 11y ago
Pure propaganda and manipulation. Guess it goes with the medium. If the worry is "not enough young people", what is the logical continuation? When we produce lots of young people now, and those become old, we need even more young
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by facepalm 11y ago
Afaik nuclear is also a limited resource.
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by facepalm 11y ago
What is today's hype?
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by facepalm 11y ago
"But that is purely down to distribution problems, not capacity problems." Are you sure? There may be or have been superproductive farming areas in the world, but do they last forever? In the US there seems to be a water shortage.
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by facepalm 11y ago
There have been occurences mass starvation throughout history, so human ingenuity does not always find a way out. I think many Irish people live in the US today because of one of those starvation events not that long ago. Jared Diamond&#x27
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by facepalm 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you never expose kids to musical instruments, their likelihood of becoming rock stars is much lower. Classical education was created to produce worker drones for the industry. There is nothing in classical educa
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by facepalm 11y ago
Sounds great, actually, if I was living in SF I would sign up my kids immediately.
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by facepalm 11y ago
When they capture a city, ISIS kills all men older than 14 years and turns the women and girls into sex slaves (or force marries them). It seems likely that in situations where women are forced to take up prostitution, men are not living in
706.
by facepalm 11y ago
So about 700 victims uncovered per year? Although it would also be interesting how it is defined.
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't expect her to reveal sources. I just had troubles following the story. I didn't understand how the banana story came into the story out of the blue.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Do you have some numbers+sources? I live in Germany and the official statement from the police seems to be that it is not actually a huge problem.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Maybe I overlooked something in the story, but I don't quite understand how she did it? For example she describes three girls locked into a backroom of a family, living on a couple of bananas a day. How did she get that story? I don&#x
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by facepalm 11y ago
I wish they would at least share that data with me. For example I always read before going to sleep, so with that data I could track my sleep habits.
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by facepalm 11y ago
The bank account issue at least is solved by Bitcoin. Maybe some businesses don't need to be real businesses - especially illegal ones :-/ I wonder about the consequences of running an illegal business on the blockchain, though. S
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by facepalm 11y ago
Thanks, I will!
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by facepalm 11y ago
Great idea with the molecular model kit, and I remember the graphs of the orbitals from school - they are nice. The kids are too young for Quantum Physics, but I'll need some time to understand it myself first :-) I think I can stomach
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by facepalm 11y ago
What I don't understand about the Blockchain hype (and I say that as a fan of Bitcoin): isn't the primary problem it solves the avoidance of double spending? Or in the case of Ethereum, perhaps double contracts. But still, the iss
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Ask HN: Best physics book / what should I tell my children?
2 points by facepalm 11y ago|6 comments
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by facepalm 11y ago
And an article about here is being pushed through HN and social media every two weeks. Hardly forgotten.
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by facepalm 11y ago
Addendum: if it's true that there are vastly more male scientists than female scientists, then it seems extremely likely that more work has been stolen from male scientists than from female scientists (odds per individual are of course
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by facepalm 11y ago
Sure it's possible, but the problem is: we are all ready to believe it, in fact, downright jump on it. Because it fits into the general narrative (evil men, angelic women). I think it would be better to back such things up with researc
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by facepalm 11y ago
I don't know who has this happen to them more often, but I know a lot of stories about theft among male scientists as well. And think about the whole system of PhD where students to the work and the supervisor gets the fame. Not convin
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by facepalm 11y ago
I think those articles are silly. If you ask random people on the street, they usually won't be able to name a lot of scientists. So male and female scientists tend to be forgotten. Also, I'm sure Marie Curie would also be in the

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