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by logifail 3y ago
> This is obviously different from "typing things out on a computer" Why is it 'obviously different'? The OP's title is How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using [a computer]
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by logifail 3y ago
Appreciate this may not be what the HN audience wants to hear, but there is evidence that writing things down helps you remember information better than typing things out on a computer. https://www.newscientist.com/article&#
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by logifail 3y ago
> if they fail, they cover damages Umm, most providers' standard T&Cs exclude liability for indirect or consequential loss following unavailability of their service.
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by logifail 3y ago
> Given that homelessness is at record highs, I wouldn't worry too much about those with more homes than they can use [..] Well, apart from that homelessness is not just a housing problem[0], and that homeless people in Western coun
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by logifail 3y ago
> There's a reactionary political bent on HN [..] There really isn't! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870
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> as is almost always the case [..] the places with fewer immigrants voted more harshly against them Well, the very opposite of that happened in the UK regarding the Brexit referendum: "More than 50 per cent of the population growth
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by logifail 3y ago
> It's too late to worry about protecting the jobs of locals What does one offer to locals to show them that they matter? Remember that all locals - even if they are poor or unemployed - have a vote. If one washes one's hands
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by logifail 3y ago
> problem with the joke [..] denying that it's sexist or misogynist Opinions differ on this. There are women who find the joke funny and who don't think it's sexist, and FWIW my wife is one of them. > VdL is a terrible
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by logifail 3y ago
> You did not spend tax money on their education so far and are reaping all the benefits That is one possibility. Another is that the foreigner may have got the job instead of it going to a local. It's also possible that as a resu
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> having more smart people eventually benefits Dutch society Given that most of them don't stay for even five years[0], how does their temporary presence benefit society? [0] "80% of expat employees use the facility for 5 years
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by logifail 3y ago
> As for flight readiness: that has nothing to do with how many children von der Leyen has Indeed not. Perhaps that's the reason the joke is funny? We could sanitise the joke to become "Germany's defence minister had more
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by logifail 3y ago
It's not my joke. Perhaps the joke makes some people feel uncomfortable. Jokes can be like that. If a NATO member had only 4 (four!) fighter jets ready for use out of a fleet of 128 (one hundred and twenty eight!)[0] we should also
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by logifail 3y ago
> besides the RAF being British Umm, my ex-RAF friends worked all over the world, including being stationed in Germany, and participated in NATO exercises. "Der Spiegel reported that there are only enough missiles to make only four
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by logifail 3y ago
> One wonders how much of it is incompetence and how much just plain corruption Well, one doesn't need to look very long at Von der Leyen to work out it's probably both. Look at what she did before becoming EU Commission presid
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> don't punish individuals and companies trying to get work done and benefit your economy Getting work done is one thing, why should locals support tax breaks for expats? "Technology companies including ASML Holding NV and Adye
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by logifail 3y ago
Perhaps, to again (mis)quote Boromir: "One does not simply leverage genetic insights"
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> I don't think 23andme's strongest asset point would be in direct drug discovery, but rather in helping target sub-populations for clinical trials Was there an issue with targeting sub-populations for clinical trials beforehan
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> It would be far smarter for them to try to sell the data to drug companies. Haven't they already been trying this ... for years? (Way back in 2018): "GSK and 23andMe sign agreement to leverage genetic insights for the develop
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> needs a pivot where you can change the public's perception from a one-time test to continuous health monitoring through blood markers or something similar, expand to tests other than genetic and make it a repeatable, accurate test
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> certainly all contributed Thought experiment - vehicle A disregards a stop sign and pulls out directly in front of vehicle B* and there is a collision. I don't see how vehicle B "could have prevented or mitigated a situation&
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> I wouldn’t say the auto industry, broadly, has the greatest reputation for integrity Compared with whom? Boeing?
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> The reality is almost always that everyone is at least partially at fault That seems like quite an astonishing claim.
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by logifail 3y ago
I don't think a page which is basically not particularly compelling content built around an affiliate link deserves to be on HN. Surely we're better than that :(
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by logifail 3y ago
> That would make it harder to make money with this project if it becomes successful in the future This may actually be a feature, not a bug.
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by logifail 3y ago
Indeed, but neither do you. Be very careful that fail2ban isn't actually exhausting your own resources faster than you believe you're exhausting the attackers' resources... https://www.google.com/search?q=fail
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> to move charging to the streetside My experience is that roadside parking outside residential property is in pretty short supply across much of Europe too.
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> I am somewhat surprised that gas stations didn't jump on EV chargers immediately, since charging takes a while and those customers might be more likely to make other purchases while waiting At least in this part of Europe, there i
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> Coupling and decoupling a load of hundreds of kilowatts to and from the grid presents significant life safety issues [..] Am I the only one who read that bit and immediately started thinking of all the things that can - and very occasi
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by logifail 3y ago
> why is this in pubmed? [...] > because he is a professor Ding ding, we have a winner! (EDIT: to clarify, I'm not being snarky, if you've spent your adult life contributing to a certain class of publication [which happen to
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by logifail 3y ago
> For five flights, the airline would have a problem swapping out the planes because there's likely only one plane on hand at that airport at that time. This is disingenuous at best. Assuming you're talking about flights where

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