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   by isolli 5y ago

   Agreed, but as a counterpoint, read this story on a very interesting housing project in Montreal (1967). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940074
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   by isolli 5y ago

   This is partly due to survivorship bias. I bet that anyone who bought Argentinian stocks in 1927 never recovered their investment. A lot of the dotcom investments simply failed and disappeared. And I'm sure there are examples of land b
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   by isolli 5y ago

   I used this service once, it worked as advertised: https://soundiiz.com/
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   by isolli 5y ago

   I have had only trouble traveling by train in Germany. It happened so many times that I believe it becomes statistically significant. In comparison, I can't remember the last time a train trip in France was anything but smooth. A few e
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   by isolli 5y ago

   Conversely, Einstein started as a patents clerk. He had his idea for general relativity when he read about a worker falling off his ladder. Then, with the help of a friend, he spent the next three years learning the mathematical techniques
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   by isolli 5y ago

   In Europe (in most countries as far as I can tell), electronic filing is administered by the government, and it's easy to use (often prefilled for simple situations). As mentioned in the article, in the US, electronic filing is offered
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   by isolli 5y ago

   I draw a distinction between active learning (which takes place when you practice a language) and rote learning. I speak quite a few languages (with varying success) and learned most of my vocabulary from practice (which includes reading).
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   by isolli 5y ago

   My brain works the same. When it comes geography, I tend to learn and remember a lot about the countries I visit. But empty learning just doesn't work for me.
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   by isolli 5y ago

   Yes, the article resonated with me because I lived in Berlin for 4 years. When your child wakes up at 4 am and the sky is bright blue outside, it's impossible to put them back to bed!
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    My Swedish winter: what does it feel like to live in darkness? (2019)(ft.com)

    1 points by isolli 5y ago|0 comments
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    by isolli 5y ago

    It reminds me of this article [0], a very interesting read on "surviving" winter in Sweden (and Northern latitudes in general). It ends with how in summer things are flipped and everyone complains about how poorly they sleep. [0]
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    by isolli 5y ago

    It reminds me of this anecdote (probably a joke): After the fall of the Soviet Union, UK experts flew in to help with the transition, and one of the apparatchiks asked: "We are eager to try this capitalism thing; now tell us: who is in
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Back in the early 2000s there was a browser toolbar from Google that allowed you to do exactly that. Maybe such a tool today would be too easy to abuse?
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    by isolli 5y ago

    What I would like to know is, for young males (i.e. those who are most at risk of myocarditis after the vaccine), does the vaccine lessen cardiac risks in a subsequent infection or not?
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    by isolli 5y ago

    I also heard that for this launch, Arianespace made sure to make no innovation whatsoever to the launcher (usually each launch is used to test small improvements). Source: podcast in French
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Related: I read in the Economist a few years ago that for international couples, there is a first-mover advantage. The person initiating the divorce can decide to file in any country: the country where they have citizenship, the one where t
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    by isolli 5y ago

    It's called precommitment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment
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    by isolli 5y ago

    According to this table [0], the risk of death after infection for a 75-yo male is ~2%. After the vaccine, it should be around 0.2%. [0] https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/11/18/covid-infection-fatalit...
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    by isolli 5y ago

    On this topic, I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
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    by isolli 5y ago

    It's why I love the possibility of deliberately activating or de-activating localization in DuckDuckGo.
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Could it be related to the "Everything is securities fraud" [0] theory? If it's easier to prove that someone defrauded investors, then this is what prosecutors will go for. Side note: I highly recommend subscribing to Matt Le
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    by isolli 5y ago

    There are such niche services for classical music. For instance, idagio.com is really excellent with metadata. You see e.g. all works by a performer or all performers of a work.
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Alright. I actually set it in a Docker container. It works well there.
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Hm, why? I'm a happy user of PYTHONPATH!
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Imagine having to diagnose a bug in the processor! http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/ "More experienced programmers know very well that the bug is generally in their code: occasionally in third-p
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Thanks for the updated link. What I read is: "Ivermectin has few unwanted effects." I don't think (and you also seem to imply) that any of the studies conducted for Covid were using much higher doses than the standard. On the
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    by isolli 5y ago

    That vaccines reduce spread significantly is possible, and we can hope that they do, but it is not proven yet.
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    by isolli 5y ago

    I don't know if ivermectin is efficient, but I doubt it has substantial side-effects. Your first link states that ivermectin is "proved to be safe at the conventional dose, although severe adverse effects have occasionally been re
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067118
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    by isolli 5y ago

    Same here! It's just easier to undo :)