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721.
by isolli 9y ago
I've never heard that before. Do you have a reference? Edit: It seems you're right! http://www.pap.fr/conseils/achat-vente/votre-annonce-a-quoi-...
722.
by isolli 9y ago
Considering that scientists are reluctant to accept scientific evidence when it applies to them, I'd say no. https://www.wired.com/story/why-men-dont-believe-the-data-on...
723.
by isolli 9y ago
The argument as stated does not apply in all generality. For instance, you don't need a deep knowledge of numerology to criticize numerology.
724.
by isolli 9y ago
Turkey has long been one of the most expensive countries to buy an iPhone. The current model costs $1,200 there [0], and I remember that it was already the most expensive country 4 or 5 years ago. [0] https://9to5mac.com/201
725.
by isolli 9y ago
I would say your fears are the real problem here.
726.
by isolli 9y ago
Wikipedia disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act
727.
by isolli 9y ago
Exactly this happened in France about 15 years ago when movie theaters introduced unlimited subscriptions. They had to restrict entry on Saturday evenings, otherwise people would come only to disrupt the movie for everyone else (sorry, no r
728.
by isolli 9y ago
The article states that what happened to him was illegal. > In Hungary, according to the law, this was pretty much illegal.
729.
by isolli 9y ago
Importantly, he'll make plenty in fees in the meantime!
730.
by isolli 9y ago
Yet the whole point of smart contracts was that the code is the contract. Descriptions of what the contract was seeking to achieve were explicitly non-binding. It will be an interesting legal case if something like this ever goes to trial.
731.
by isolli 9y ago
What do you mean by that?
732.
by isolli 9y ago
Has a contract been signed in any legal sense?
733.
by isolli 9y ago
I wonder if someone plans to digitize these documents. That would open them to everyone, and even to data mining...
734.
by isolli 9y ago
Is it true that half a million Nest Protect units were recalled? Do you know more about how it happened?
735.
by isolli 9y ago
Maybe the "new" section should be the default one. The Economist once changed their default comments view from "most recommended" to "newest". Suddenly the advantage of being the first to post a moderately good
736.
by isolli 9y ago
Hospitals charge high prices because they can. They are often local monopolies, and behave accordingly. And with an utter lack of price transparency, which makes the idea that patients could shop around a joke.
737.
by isolli 9y ago
Isn't that true? After 2 years in Germany, it was my feeling that you could freely associate several words into one. I'll defer to your 22 years of expertise, obviously.
738.
by isolli 9y ago
I hate snake oil as much as the next guy, but not everything in life (and music) is linear. Percussion instruments produce a highly non-linear sound wave (and if you run it through a Fourier transform then you'll need all frequencies u
739.
by isolli 9y ago
Do you not use Seaborn?
740.
by isolli 9y ago
Why 2038?
741.
by isolli 9y ago
Because you're not used to it. Which is part of the problem: change is hard.
742.
by isolli 9y ago
Won't the local copies be DRM-protected in a way that makes them inaccessible when Spotify shuts down?
743.
by isolli 9y ago
He meant that with a second market crash he might have won.
744.
by isolli 9y ago
The point was about selection bias: just because you can observe n successful Graham investors in the wild does not tell you how many Graham investors there were to begin with. Nor does it tell you whether the proportion of successful Graha
745.
by isolli 10y ago
The problem is non-linearity. Moderate increases in temperatures can have catastrophic effects. While warming can be moderate at the planetary level, changes can be dramatic locally. Droughts and failing crops lead to massive migration (wh
746.
by isolli 10y ago
In a similar vein: Beaker notebooks ( http://beakernotebook.com/ )
747.
by isolli 10y ago
Drug routes are already moving to poorer neighbors of Mexico like Guatemala, who are even less able to stop the cartels. [0] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/latin_america-jan-june11... [1] http://ww
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by isolli 10y ago
I think its a joke.
749.
by isolli 10y ago
Any children's app recommendations?
750.
by isolli 10y ago
I have filed in four countries in my lifetime: US, UK, France, and Germany. No matter how you put it, the US is the worst in terms of complexity. Even people on a regular salary use assistance to avoid making mistakes.

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