hessenwolf

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by hessenwolf 11y ago
"In August 1993, the phrase Generation Y first appeared in an Ad Age editorial to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who Ad Age defined as different from Generation X.[6] Since
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
I was going to ask, but I figured I'd google it. "Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates when the generation starts and e
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Somebody gave me the argument in NASA that the US didn't switch metric because the cost would be too high because they are so big. Ireland and UK have gone metric in our lifetimes. I mean, there are lazy people throwing out platitudes
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Cool.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Which makes it such a dreadful pity that die Mutti chose to go unilateral (whether she meant the broad invite or not, it was understood that way). The trick to having great power is not using it, until you really need it. She really shat th
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Do you mean Postgres's implementation of Excel pivot tables? ;)
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
It remains unexplained but things are correlated with it, and possibly have an unexplained causal effect.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
It's not 'unfair'. (are you implying I was unduly harsh on the gent?) Let's take sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Because of SIDS, it is now recommended in the videos I watched yesterday, that infants be put down on
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=infant-child-and-teen... Looks to me like infant mortality (under age one) has halved between 1977 and 2013. I understand the argument of "it worked fine for me", but, well,
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
But they tested it with fake liars, who, in my humble opinion, are less likely to exhibit emotions, and more likely to be too lazy to come up with good details on the fly for back stories. Maybe it is just me that is sweatier and wilier whe
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
1% of people in America are in jail. I don't know what is illegal. That is way outside of my risk management zone.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Doesn't it seem that acreage is more relevant? (I didn't read the article)
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
I'll not lie, I'm a 14, 14, 6, 4 kinda guy. Then Friday through Sunday is for playing, thinking, and reading, but mostly meeting up with people to exchange ideas, potentially with beer.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Multiple plan b's, sadly with a correlation of their go-bust probability of 1 in a scenario of economic stress, unless they are really diversified.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Anecdotally, I don't agree with the hypothesis that culture fit means they want to hire nice people. I've worked in a few places where people needed to be, for example, tough, tricky, bitchy, to survive. I think part of the reason
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
It depends on a few other factors, among which are wind and humidity. -18 C in Munich is lovely for a stroll. 8 C on the west coast of Ireland is omfg.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Paywall.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Alphabet just sounds evil, a bit like Umbrella Corp, E-Corp, etc. I am not a fan of the name.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Ha ha. Good one. In theory, yes. In practice, they don't for many reasons. Cross border business is still hella complex for insurance in Europe. Source: People pay me to do that stuff.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Tell that to the supply line risk manager at Boeing or Airbus. They might look like they are not vertically integrated, but the level of control they have muddies the water.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
How is the largest worldwide software roll-out, that happens to be the most important (debatable) operating system, not interesting on a daily basis?
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Any examples for the latter?
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
I do think it should be a personal decision. Also, euthanasia is certainly not preventable (I think of a certain gentleman that took the bottom of the river approach). I have seen a few old people live beyond their time and wait for death t
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Okay, so it certainly does not 'only' mean that. I am thinking a lot of the insurance industry, e.g, the wifi toothbrush ( http://beamtoothbrush.com/ ). This is what started my train of thought. When venture capital
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Ask HN: Does disrupt mean unnerve established player, so player must buy you?
11 points by hessenwolf 11y ago|8 comments
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Due to "rectangularisation of the survival curve", probably not (there appears to be a max age of around 110). Current rates are 3 months more life expectancy per calendar year. However, in the US and various other places the impr
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Yes. Hopefully euthanasia will be a thing should I reach the decrepit stage. One last party (perhaps with a bit of morphine), followed by drifting to an infinite sleep... sounds fairly dignified.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Let's say the treatment guarantees until life expectancy of 88, ignoring a few details. Do we say that 28 years of life is worth the same as 58 years of life, keeping in mind budget is fixed?
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
The NHS approach of putting monetary value on a year of life and comparing the drug costs to that is a good approach to reducing the spend on tired old bod's.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
I didn't until the Americans told me it was a significant problem. I was a bit surprised. Minneapolis.

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