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by mdemare 7y ago
In absence of guns being fired at people, guns are completely safe. There isn't even an association, let alone causation. > And it would be naive to think that eliminating added sugar and meat would prevent people from eating too mu
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by mdemare 7y ago
It's not just that meat and sugar are unhealthy, but also that presence of meat and sugar correlate with absence of healthier foods, such as vegetables, legumes, seeds, fruits and nuts.
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It mostly happens to "Deutschland", actually: Germany (English), Allemagne (French), Tyskland (Danish), Německo (Czech). Only in the Netherlands (and Flanders) is the name used that they chose for themselves (Duitsland). This app
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by mdemare 7y ago
Thanks, just followed her on Twitter. Can you imagine Dorothy Parker being on Twitter? It would have been made for her...
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Increasing GDP does not imply increasing consumption, and increasing consumption does not imply increasing pollution.
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According to the System76 site, they charge $1798 just for the SSD.
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by mdemare 7y ago
Worth reading: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...
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SQL on Rails, 2006 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9-l1up3r8
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The US has 34 people/km2. Aiming for lower population density is why the Netherlands turns sea into land.
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by mdemare 7y ago
I think you mean Amsterdam to Lyon
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It’s in IKEA assembly instructions that this maxim shows itself in its most harmful form.
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It was below 3 in 2016.
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You’re more likely to be murdered in the U.S. than to be killed in a traffic accident in the Netherlands. My point being, there is a lot of room for improvement in _both_ numbers.
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Why use anonymous functions for control flow? Nearly any other language would either return an error or throw an exception.
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The interest payments here would be from the bond holders to the German state.
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Because Germans prefer saving money to buying exports of Italy or Spain or Greece, or go on holiday there.
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by mdemare 7y ago
That text is over 1000 years old. This is Shakespeare, from 1599: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So
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Alleged cryptocurrency exit scam swindled $2.9B, but main suspects on the run(theblockcrypto.com)
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This also exists for voice. It’s called “Siri”.
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No, institutional investors never put vast sums of money in banks, regardless of the yield.
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by mdemare 7y ago
Yes. The difference in interest rates implies that the EURUSD exchange rate is expected to rise (slowly) in the coming decades.
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It could, but there still isn’t anything safer than German bonds.
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Excellent question. There is a company, The Narrow Bank, that has the same idea, but they didn’t get a banking license from the Fed. Matt Levine, whose newsletter you should clearly start reading, has the details: https://www.blo
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In the context of web development, they are generally considered as distinct.
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No, "Als achter vliegen vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen vliegensvlug."
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Facebook AI leads in 2019 WMT international machine translation competition(ai.facebook.com)
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Following your suggestion, I’ve read it now in its entirety and I’m considering adding “subjective experience” to my axiom, but that might be too aggressive.
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by mdemare 7y ago
My rule of thumb with regard to objections to Many Worlds is that if the article discusses consciousness, or brains, in any way, it’s not about Many Worlds, but about consciousness, or brains, and I will stop reading it at once.
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by mdemare 7y ago
I fed that sentence to GPT-2 last month. Brilliant: The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed. There was talk of trying to track down a mysterious man who, if not a gun, could be a helpful ally. For a moment, the
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by mdemare 7y ago
As I'm reading this article, I found myself agreeing, and thinking, so that's why a certain kind of people likes bitcoin - they're marks - too clever by half, doing well while doing good. "Especially if there’s also a po

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