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by lumberjack 6y ago
As a business model it is quite interesting. I don't think the spin of being an alternative to university is fitting though. It's either a service where you take classes for fun. I can see that working if marketed to the right peo
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Yes but what's so bad about advocating for less air pollution? Why does this have to be a divisive political issue? Honestly seems to me like you are the one being misled by whatever politics. If you weren't you wouldn't reac
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by lumberjack 6y ago
I don't want my tax money to go fund SpaceX. SpaceX is American and all their capabilities are practically owned by American entities. Europeans like me cannot even work for SpaceX, so unless we have our own parallel programs we would
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Since everyone is talking about hype in ML, I wish there was some hype for good ole' conversional scientific computing. Yes, it's not so sexy, you have to build your own model yourself, and then the hard work is in finding and ver
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by lumberjack 6y ago
Amounts of 50,000€ are treated differently. Previously this was the maximum amount you could transfer. Now they just convert the transfer to SWIFT or some other protocol and you get charged accordingly.
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by lumberjack 6y ago
There is actually a connection with physics, although the invariants are properties of particular quantum field theories. It's the basis for topological quantum computing.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
At-risk people in Germany are getting infected at a slower rate due to their living arrangements. For example, it is maybe more typical for Spanish people to have their grandparents living with them, or maybe old Spanish people live near bi
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Western Europe, actually. Germany, UK and Netherlands in particular but I'm sure the trend is the same in other countries.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
They are not. They are being slowly dismantled, but they are very popular so they have to do it slowly to not cause too much protest.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Neoliberalism is the order of the day, in Europe, just as much as it is in the US and UK and Australia and elsewhere. The only reason you might think we are any different is because we have some grandfathered social-welfare programs that ar
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by lumberjack 7y ago
There are two versions of the proposal. UBI as a replacement for social programs is fantasy. The UBI cheque would have to be insanely fat to replace the welfare/medicare/housing/food all the other forms of assistance that dis
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Lots of countries don't have a dating culture, so you don't approach a stranger and propose a date. Instead you are supposed to introduce yourself, befriend them and then see if the interest is there and mutual to move beyond frie
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by lumberjack 7y ago
If you want to move to Germany don't underestimate how hard it is to have a social life around here, especially if moving alone. It is the one thing that seems a constant, whenever I talk with other foreigners. Even Germans seem to fin
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by lumberjack 7y ago
In the same way that money gets in the way of the right of people to own property.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
This sounds engaging and fun. Think you're onto something.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
> Regulations lead to lobbying. And lobbying leads to corruption. So instead we just give companies what they want in the first place to eliminate corruption! That "fixes" it! No, that's stupid reasoning.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Cannot be more of a death trap than a Renault Twizzy which I see quite often around the city, or any motorcycle for that matter. As long as they don't market it as a normal car, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Econ 101 as part of Gen Ed leads to lots of half truths which are then taken as gospel. Not sure why they would omit to mention the role of regulation in maintaining competitive markets? Is this done on purpose?
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Why is cycling sexy but public transport not so much?
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by lumberjack 7y ago
You bike, just the same. Some people wear raincoats or waterproof clothing, but most will just go in their usual attire plus a hooded jacket.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
If you adhere by the definition of wealth that pg lays out in his famous essay, then it is not true that there is finite growth. The more accurate statement would be that there is a limit to the amount of consumption and consumerism that w
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by lumberjack 7y ago
This is not just news. It is an academic article published by reputable institutions. If they had published the opposite article it would be even more noteworthy, being that it would be more revolutionary. Your comment would be true of opi
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by lumberjack 7y ago
In 15 years the effects of climate change will be much more pronounced than they are today, and today as a millennial, it is already possible to recall how the local climate has changed. So if anything in 15 more years, these people will be
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by lumberjack 7y ago
She said nothing that is incorrect nor did she do anything that is incorrect. Funny to see all the crazy people who raise their children with crazy superstitions and crazier worldviews talking about children being brainwashed.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Why is this bad? The further away Google is from news coverage, the better. They have the power to be extremely manipulative.
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by lumberjack 7y ago
You ignore the cost of "organically" figuring out the good from the bad. This is the same problem with free market economics. There are many ways of discovering the correct price/cost/idea. On one extreme, you have thos
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Cities are already working on building street charging infrastructure. But also those people will very likely be late adopters, or just switch to other kinds of transport. Currently the prime target for EV adoption are better off households
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Flying is only cheaper if you get lucky. For example, you can pay €40 for a 3 hour international flight and then have to pay €300 for a 1 hour intranational flight. And it's not very predictable. As for convenience, if you fly budget,
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by lumberjack 7y ago
Tomorrow I will be traveling all the way from southern Germany to northern Netherlands. 6 hour drive. If I go by train it's 220€ with return. If I fly from a nearby airport to a nearby airport (so with limited train use) it's 700€
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by lumberjack 7y ago
It's not a mental health problem. It's a propaganda problem. These people aren't clinically insane. They are just enveloped in hatred. In particular dehumanization propaganda brainwashed them into seeing others as not even hu

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