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The ‘Golden Death’ Digests Worms from Inside Out(theatlantic.com)
3 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
If a local specialty doesn’t become global, there’s a reason for that. In any case, I never made the sort of value statement you seem to react to. I simply pointed out there’s a difference between “traditional, German food” and “food eaten
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by matt4077 8y ago
MODIS is trying to be MODEST.
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by matt4077 8y ago
As a German, I can assure you that every person I know, including old people, eats Pizza more often than any of the dishes on this list. The listed foods are the answer to some question, but it is one subtly different from “what people ea
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by matt4077 8y ago
The idea (and reality) is that government entities in democracy tend to follow the law. Trying to invent schemes to defend against the breakdown of the rule of law is sort of like buying insurance against the world ending.
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by matt4077 8y ago
You should really try to learn from the well-reasoned explanation of why your initial hunch was wrong, instead of continuing to try to argue the point with increasing levels of obviously wrong grammatical and legalistic hairsplitting. Law i
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by matt4077 8y ago
They are independent businesses. Most people have public health insurance. These are still entities distinct from the general budget. You can chose between different insurances, which have some minor differences in terms of extra services t
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by matt4077 8y ago
„Principal“ is borrowed from the political sphere, where it sets apart anyone elected from all those „just“ hired. In that context, it creates a hierarchy that is subtly different from the conventional. I. e. an assistant to the US Presiden
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by matt4077 8y ago
I really doubt anybody needs to be discouraged from frivolous open heart surgery by co-pay. Also: nobody does on any waiting lists in Ireland or Canada. Or, more accurately: There may sometimes be waits for elective procedures, and people m
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by matt4077 8y ago
I agree, and would add „lifestyle“ to the relevant factors. Cuba has a lot more „communal“ life. Eating alone, as but one example, just doesn’t happen. Even something like watching TV is more of a group activity. Even if the cause of that i
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by matt4077 8y ago
The power of preconceptions... I once worked with someone doing stats for a UN program. They used to say that the two most reliable statistics, in any country, are life expectancy and the murder rate. Because it’s quite hard to systematica
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by matt4077 8y ago
I doubt speaking German helps much. Or, at least, I know plenty Germans here with the same problem. If I ever have a child, I would probably join the church across the road just to get a spot for them. Sorry for not being able to help! I ho
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by matt4077 8y ago
There’s quite a strong drive underway now to increase construction, and thanks to some rather bad political decisions 70 to 20 years ago, there are quite a few lots available for it. The pipeline from planning to construction is a bit long
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by matt4077 8y ago
I believe they are referring to the relativistic drift experienced when comparing two observers moving with high relative speed.
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by matt4077 8y ago
That seems to go well with the general Dilbert philosophy of „everyone but me is stupid“.
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by matt4077 8y ago
So you always check hotel contracts for clauses forbidding them to film you?
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Arizona Mulls a Mandatory DNA Database(theatlantic.com)
1 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
People aren’t perfect. Asking for large-scale, across-the-Board improvements in critical thinking is identical to just advocating for the status quo. It’s also destructive. People prefer their existing believes to be verified. Making „trust
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Network Analysis of UK Parliamentary Votes(theguardian.com)
2 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
Contrary to libertarian paranoia, alternative currencies are perfectly legal, and neither the FED, nor the Feds, will come after you guns ablaze. Here’s Wikipedia on the topic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement
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by matt4077 8y ago
This really isn’t about New York. The problem is the race-to-the-bottom communities engage in when heaping tax subsidies on companies that would create jobs no matter what. For public finance, it is one of the purest examples of a prisoner’
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by matt4077 8y ago
Rain/snowfall is limited to a small(ish) number of days, while meltwater is on a predictable 12-month cycle. With rain that just flows down the mountain, you get a few days of far too much water, and the rest is dry. The glacier (and s
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by matt4077 8y ago
Awareness that free content won’t exist in a world where everyone uses ad blocker? I sometimes find ads annoying when, fir example, they change the layout. But I leave it in by default. What I don’t understand is what you think you have to
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by matt4077 8y ago
I’m not sure what your preferred outcome would be? A court ruling patents in general unenforceable is rather unlikely. “Patent trolling” obviously isn’t a legal concept, and would be hard to define. Any definition would actually just loop b
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by matt4077 8y ago
Japan is pretty much as rich as the US per capita.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Good luck trying to get cheaper financing after missing a few payments.
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by matt4077 8y ago
This must indeed be first comment ever using the terms „fractional reserve bank“, „printing money“, „fiat“, „gold“, and „debt“, but not „inflation“. Which is really a shame because it’s the obvious result. And also a very good way to specif
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by matt4077 8y ago
Berlin Tegel? That airport has no centralized check-ins anywhere. I have no idea how you would spend any amount there without just going to the gate indicated on the screens everywhere. Most people who don’t know it don’t even notice the di
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by matt4077 8y ago
The terminology was obviously not settled at this point. I’m almost certain ‚engine‘ refers to a reactor.
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Von Weizsäcker, and his family, are extremely interesting. The father was a somewhat reluctant ambassador to Britain. The four brothers all were highly successful, as a physicist, a politician (President of Germany in the 90s), an economist

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