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by kszxgz 7y ago
My impression is that German car brands usually do not focus as much on 0-60 accelaration as much as Tesla does. Especially for a Porsche, it's more about handling than drag race performance.
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by kszxgz 7y ago
Your statement only applies to the subset of countries where there is judicial independence.
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by kszxgz 7y ago
NIO is currently building a network of battery swap stations in China. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/24/nio-builds-battery-swap...
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by kszxgz 7y ago
Glycemic Load = GI * carbohydrates (g) ÷ 100. Accordingly, the GL in the example would only decrease if fat replaced some of the sugar. GL does not consider the totality of food intake but can be calculated for individual foods. ( https:&#x
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by kszxgz 7y ago
Network effects in social media are high and protect Facebook from competition. Barriers to entry in the taxi industry are lower.
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by kszxgz 7y ago
In empirical studies, there can be both strong evidence and weak evidence. evidence noun The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. ‘the study finds little evidence of overt discr
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by kszxgz 7y ago
So which characteristics do you describe when you're asked to describe a person? Which features do you imagine? The shape of their head? I would assume that most people have some form of non-visual, database-like memory for each person
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by kszxgz 7y ago
While I previously thought I might have aphantasia, I now tend to think that most people lack the ability to imagine face or other complex objects. HN threads tend to confirm this. In other words, while I can't imagine my family member
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by kszxgz 8y ago
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by kszxgz 8y ago
For comparison: Harvard Healthy Eating Plate https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-... At least among the Harvard faculty, there appears to be a consensus that healthy fats are important, which th
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by kszxgz 8y ago
That's my own experience as well. I would guess that this is how most people experience 'imagination'. Same with faces: I guess nobody can really 'see' a face in their imagination, at least not for more than a few s
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by kszxgz 8y ago
If Apple doesn't expect to achieve a satisfactory return on investment they shouldn't enter a new business area, regardless of their liquid assets ('money reserves'). If expected ROI is too low they should return the mon
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by kszxgz 8y ago
> By the way - 10% in 3 years would be a perfect milestone to 100% in 30 years. That would be a reduction to about 35% of the original after 30 years.
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by kszxgz 8y ago
This looks like a textbook example of spurious correlation, great for introductory courses in statistics.
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by kszxgz 8y ago
Why do they not replace the kiosks with QR codes on the dining tables? You scan the code and order directly from your smartphone. That's the experience I know from China. Are there any restaurants in the US that do it similarly? Or per
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by kszxgz 8y ago
"According to the new book Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker, the director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, the sleep people get on sleeping pills like Ambien is not true sleep. Drugs like thes
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by kszxgz 8y ago
(1.) Peace through humility. * The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. (2.) Establish constructive, rational ways of thinking. * Constructive thinking is defined as "the degree
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by kszxgz 8y ago
"Hate when companies not doing well try to dodge by blasting 'traditional accounting rules' when these rules have been crafted over the years to accurately reflect the value of said company." I agree that criticism of tr
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by kszxgz 8y ago
This sentiment seems to be strongly related to the 'paradox of hedonism'. In short: Pursuing happiness itself may not lead to happiness. Pursuit of something other (greater?) than happiness may in fact result in higher levels of h
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by kszxgz 8y ago
Isn't face blindness the inability to recognize people? What about the case where you recognize people but you can picture no human face in your head?
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by kszxgz 8y ago
Why do you think there's an implied causal relationship? In my eyes, this statement is an analogy between two separate observations. The author is probably aware that correlation does not imply causation.
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by kszxgz 8y ago
"He cannot picture his mother's face." How common is the ability to picture people's faces in their heads? Is it more close to 60%, 90% or 99% of the population? I'm asking because I also don't have that abilit