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by febeling 6y ago
I'm looking at data in the JHU dashboard. I see the first cases in the Daily Cases chart in late February for Germany, and around March 17 for Turkey. It looks like an about three-week time lag.
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by febeling 6y ago
"Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled by people, either directly or indirectly; blockchains invert this power relationship, putting the code in charge." Great way to
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by febeling 6y ago
As someone with German perspective, I'm sure you have a point about Europe having a blind spot there. Still, it looks like Turkey also are earlier in the curve, which would explain at least some of the better fatality numbers.
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by febeling 6y ago
Why can't we reflexively refute things if they are wrong? Why does it have to be shaming so often these days? We need fringe opinion, we need new ideas. And new ideas on average means: bad ideas. Still need the process for the one bril
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by febeling 6y ago
The "rhetorical trick" is your construction here, possibly even unaware. I didn't argue for taking only positives into account. I could go on an say you use the straw man fallacy against me now, but let's skip that part
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by febeling 6y ago
He seems to have a rare skill for building large successful innovative companies with revolutionary products. Not sure if that’s below or above the level of accomplishment of the reference group.
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by febeling 6y ago
Being pessimistic just means having negative bias. Being cautious is emotionally neutral, we should strive for it, for sure. Acting only on negative predictions without weighing in positive predictions or the uncertainty of the original pre
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by febeling 6y ago
At some point you have to assume people get sort of religious satisfaction out of being pessimistic. God ("nature"?) is punishing us, because we have sinned. There are so many variables in play right now, which we don't know
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by febeling 7y ago
yes, the size of the data you can process is limited. I had reasonable results with something like 50MiB, after tweaking jvm parameters. One limitation I find annoying is that you can't easily strip your transformation from the data an
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by febeling 7y ago
I observe how this post creates the wish in me to say hurtful things to the author. Active Record is a powerful pattern - for it's usecase. You use it to build applications to find, create, update and delete objects. It's not usef
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by febeling 7y ago
I think there is a good chance this is just not true. Easy to imagine, that the tiny "exclusive" part was mixed in to make the piece more clicky.
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by febeling 7y ago
Magit, together with maybe Org-mode, is one of the Emacs packages that make it very hard for people to migrate off Emacs, to other tools, ever. Whatever IDE or editor I work in, I still use Emacs and Magit for Git interaction. Maybe that as
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by febeling 7y ago
Looks like the questions are actually collected in machine readable form in a JSON file, and only rendered to Markdown
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by febeling 7y ago
This is an amazing discussion of wealth in the linked reddit comment. Shows how easy it is to underestimate how different lives we all live, depending on our experiences and outlook - even in the same country. Money is probably just one big
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by febeling 7y ago
There is a whole essay by him about this class of ideas, "Things you can't say." http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by febeling 7y ago
> How would you like it if people sold information about you based on what they saw and heard you do in public? That sounds like a partial definition of journalism
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by febeling 7y ago
Understand the sentiment. But applying it selectively seems to be desirable, no matter how euphemistic the low-toxicity part is.
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by febeling 7y ago
Make 2FA mandatory. Apple did just that recently with their app stores. Someone authoring libraries should be able to handle that.
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by febeling 7y ago
Agreed. He has motive for suicide, too, though.
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Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by febeling 7y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 7y ago
„This time it’s different“ sentiment is necessary ingredient of any bubble.
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by febeling 7y ago
(2009)
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by febeling 7y ago
Start with purpose. My son only really went for it with Java, because he needed it for Minecraft plugins. Attempts before with Scratch weren't too successful, but once the Why was there, setting up Eclipse and all kinds of silly things
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by febeling 7y ago
I think the parent poster misses the reason with the point being made. I miss it too.
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by febeling 7y ago
True. Still an interesting idea, even if it needs verification (or falsification).
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by febeling 7y ago
Nice curiosity gap there. Where did the mercury come from?
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by febeling 7y ago
The avatars the various communication channels use online for their users stand in for the actual user an its actions. If they keep on acting after someone has deceased it’s weird to see. I’ve experienced it with my dad’s Skype account. I c
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MongoDB to acquire open-source mobile database Realm for $39M(techcrunch.com)
38 points by febeling 7y ago|5 comments
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MongoDB to Acquire Realm(realm.io)
3 points by febeling 7y ago|0 comments
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by febeling 8y ago
Nice examples, yes. I hope I didn't come across as someone from the if-you-don't-have-anything-to-hide crowd. I do think your conclusion is a bit quick, though. > Yes, in the real world data has owners Things happen in the real

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