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by fnordian_slip 6y ago
Of course they are increasing demand by being cheaper (because they can ignore fire safety regulations and a ton of others that hotels have to follow, therefore having an unfair advantage). They are increasing demand in the same way more an
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by fnordian_slip 6y ago
That viewpoint seems unnecessarily narrow. It's like saying we are in a decline because we went from Caspar David Friedrich to Banksy. It's perfectly valid not to like it even want to understand someone's work, as art is alwa
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by fnordian_slip 6y ago
I'll assume that you are not being difficult for some malicious reason and answer you as simply as possible: You order a quart when you want a quarter of a gallon in the US. You order a "Viertelliter" (quarter of a Liter&quot
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by fnordian_slip 6y ago
In that case they would still be subject to the GDPR.
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by fnordian_slip 6y ago
"Trepanation had been abandoned by most cultures by the end of the Middle Ages, but the practice was still being carried out in a few isolated parts of Africa and Polynesia until the early 1900s." Not exactly. As far as I know t
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by fnordian_slip 6y ago
How was that turn unexpected? Didn't the part that said "Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world countr
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by fnordian_slip 7y ago
There are brand ones that are rather expensive, but at least in Europe I know that decathlon makes really cheap silk and cotton sleeping bag liners, because that's where I got mine. They are made to go into sleeping bags, and I love mi
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by fnordian_slip 8y ago
Of course this is even more off-topic, but I wanted you to know that there is a name for that. It is the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon[0] or frequency illusion[1]. [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomeno
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by fnordian_slip 8y ago
Of course this is all anecdotal, but in my small German town in the 90s we did play soccer on the streets. Well, we also played in the backyards and gardens, but soccer generally played in the streets where I come from. It was a town of les
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
It is easier to learn when you are not fully aware that you are "studying", at least that is the case for me. Consuming different kinds of media like books, audiobooks, video games and movies in English can help a lot with that wi
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
Great article! I believe I've heard about their sporadic use in medieval Europe before, but certainly never in the context of humiliation of ones enemies. This really supports the whole "reality/truth is stranger than fiction
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
Pretty sure the parent comment is talking about Germany. Smoking bans in restaurants and bars have made a significant difference in most states. If I remember correctly, we had a non-binding agreement between the health ministry and our nat
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
79% if I understood it correctly, but you raise a valid point.
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
Just in case you are wondering why you are being downvoted: This sort of low-effort joke is generally frowned upon here. While it might be fun to some, it would ultimately lead to many more comments that do not add to the discussion, and th
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
What would I consider acceptable? That's actually a good question, maybe I am just a bit hard to please. Now that I think about it again after a few days, you may be right, and I may just be too hard on Germany here. It's probably
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
I didn't even know that there was an adaptation of Dan Simmons' Hyperion, and now I find out that it apparently isn't worth watching. Kinda sad, but one can still hope. As another comment said, it's nice to see more seri
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
Maybe my English skills aren't up to what I thought they were, so please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't "Bruttojahreseinkommen" "gross annual income"? On the left there is wealth (/assets, "Vermö
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
In addition to what ManuelKiessling already said, I can also report that in my bubble this is not the case, but it is hard to accurately judge our bubbles. According to this bar chart on wealth distribution in the EU [1] there is a huge dif
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
Yes, that alone is probably enough to make any system like that come with a huge false-positive rate. I myself only rarely post a review, and I could easily see how - in a vacuum - my star ratings might look like those of a bot.
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
At first your system seemed to me like a solution to bought reviews (mturk and otherwise) and bots. Then I realized that it would just incentivise bots to add 1-star reviews to random products once their creators figure out this mechanism.
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
Yeah, even though I agree that the article depicts one possible future, I would expect Google to find a new core business model sooner or later when this trend continues. I know that size alone does not make you immune to failure but come o
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
"Antivirus can actually open you up to certain attacks with memory corruption vulnerabilities in the file parsers that automatically run." Yeah, I thought the idea of firewall == snake oil was pretty well-accepted among computer-l
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
While it is hard to guess considering the ease of creating polls nowadays, as demonstrated in the article, I am unwilling to believe that the motive was actually greed and not just simple "trolling". If Delphi Analytica was create
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
"There’s a rhythm to speech in terms of what’s implied. If it’s raining in the book, there’s got to be something about the voice that evokes the rain." He really does provide great quality. I have listened to quite a few audiobook
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
This reads more like an advertisement than something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" (from the guidelines). I might be wrong though, since I am not too familiar with the etiquette here, just wanted to point it o
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
I'd love to report this but don't see a report button, probably because I am still a new user. So if anyone reads this please report this SPAM submission, or tell me where to find the report function. Cheers, and have a great day!
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by fnordian_slip 9y ago
At the risk of being off-topic: ""Blighty" is a British English slang term for Britain or often specifically England" Just because that might be a thing that other non-native speakers are unfamiliar with (I always though
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by fnordian_slip 11y ago
I know that +1 answers are generally bad form, but I also just wanted to thank you for that comment. It's something that really does make sense once you think about it, but I would never have thought about it like this in the first pla
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by fnordian_slip 11y ago
I don't know for sure, but there's been quite a bit of controversy about them in the last year, mainly because of their whitelisting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_... ). I switc