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Pain is definitely undertreated in Germany (e.g. dentist). It is overtreated in the US. I had two Surgeries in the US and was given stuff like Vicodin to take home. Never took it. Would have rated the pain 0 out of 10. But I am very pain to
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You could eat it with pepper, to increase potency.
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"The Navy is about slow influence -" ROTFL. The Navy is only of use to intimidate some 3rd tear nations and for "mine is longer than yours"-comparisons. http://www.johntreed.net/sittingducks.html BTW, ha
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Yes, of cause. The new China hubs (giant market, gov backed) are the reasons for the Downfall of HK and SG. (tiny market, geolocation not great). https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-19/ominous...
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Most comments about the A380 here are US-centered. 1. The A380 can be upgraded and can be made more fuel efficient. But this is an investment Airbus would have to made. 2. The hub model is not dead. There are major hubs that are dying (Sing
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This is really bad news and reminds me of: https://www.amazon.com/After-Empire-Breakdown-Perspectives-C... This guy predicted the downfall of the Soviet Union in his mid 20ies based on statistical indicators like life expec
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This reminds me of a quote it once read on a board. Someone claimed that his gold "became much much more". The other guy replied: "Lucky you. I checked mine. It did not become more at all, it is the same amount of gold that w
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"This author is well known for incorrect predictions, and for not particularly caring about the truth of what he writes" ROTFL. This really describes Krugman well. Of cause bitcoin is "evil" since it limits his ideas of
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Germany's energy policy is fucked: https://icmvv6qxwpktq0do-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/... Inverse Robin Hood. Take from the poor, give to the rich.
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Because it was not developed to the final stage? Worst investment yet, was solar Energy. PS: Fixed this for you. Sorry, did not know you are a bullshitter! It started generating electricity on April 9, 1985, but did not receive permission f
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"Germany's energy policy is far from perfect, but probably one of the most future-proof in Europe (which costs money)." Really? Germany has one of the LEAST future proof energy politics. I would like to see a country that act
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Germany has 1) one of the highest prices per kWh for the normal consumer 2) prices are still increasing http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/strompreise-steigen... 3) produces more CO2 than France. So what
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"That’s exactly Marx’s point when he discusses his theory of Surplus Value." Actually, no. This has nothing to do with Marx "surplus value". And his idea of "surplus value" was wrong by several reasons. The fun
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May I ask why? Installation is a bit cumbersome but it seems to be an outstanding program to me. I have been looking very long for something like this. I have not tired yet how it reacts to huge amounts of data. But best thing: NOT written
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"down 10,000 innocent lives" I doubt this number. And let's not forget that they let them protesting for some time. An highly unusual event in China. Problems occurred when protests did not stop. "threatens democracy and
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"This guy expects a market loss of about -65%" Which is very possible. Or how did Mandelbrot say? "speculating on the stock market is riskier than you think" The current highs are only possible because interest is so low
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As I posted below: Own words? Most of the blog posts are done by people much smarter than me. I could do a 1 or 2 hour PPT Presentation trying to get to the point. I think only a few people would be able to follow me. Not, because I am so t
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Read the second link. Own words? Most of the blog posts are done by people much smarter than me. I could do a 1 or 2 hour PPT Presentation trying to get to the point. I think only a few people would be able to follow me. Not, because I am s
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"The simplest: No exhaustible has been depleted yet" You are correct. In fact, they never will be depleted. Same with the oil. Most of the oil that is still in the ground will stay there. "These forecasts are made possible by
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Hey Dude, keep Bullshitting! "There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)" http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-stat... Limits to Growth–At our doorstep, but n
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Do they run their own crawling server or do they "repack" search request to google like DDG, Startpage or ixquick? If they do it from scratch, kudos.
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In regards to social media and fake news, I am thinking more and more about a talk that Professor Peter Kruse gave three years ago about the tendency of such systems for hysteresis effects. If you understand German you can watch it here (6
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1. VPN Overview https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ 2. oVPN.to is probably a good idea, as long as you are not based in China 3. Pay anonymously for the VPN. If it need to be really secure, only access VPN via TOR.
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Interesting point. But p/e so long, and they are never paying dividends, what is happening with that money? I don't think of ebay highly, desides what they did to Craigslist. They had Skype. They could have been Facebook, but no.
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Slightly OT. I am a big Fan of the hypothesis that Siegfried (the main character of a major old German story) is Armenius. E.G. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27701032?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co... (PDF is free)
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Linux OCR is priced like this. Unfortunately. http://www.ocr4linux.com/en:pricing:start This pricing is prohibitive expensive for most private users.
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Now you can also make secure voice calls with Threema, the secure chatting app. [Disclaimer: I feel like I should make a little bit free advertisement for this chatting (and now phone) app, which originated from Switzerland. It has >3 M
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Secure Voice Calls: Now with Threema Work
(threema.ch)
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My professor always said: "ideas are like hemorrhoids, every asshole sooner or later gets some"
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It is my understanding that MS has given up on ARM. Sooner or later there will be x86 based phones, which partly solves the "app" problem. They just run a regular windows on the phone.
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