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by mrleiter 9y ago
Information bias - most people understand what revenue is and hence use this metric to judge a company. And mind you, I am not saying that revenue is irrelevant to evaluating a company. It has its place in "the bigger picture". Bu
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Again, this is not reddit.
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Immanuel Kant foresaw all this. In his seminal work "Critique of pure reason" he argues that our pure reason, as opposed to the pure mind, always tries to look for the absolute, the absolute of all conditionals. This leads our rea
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Articles like that are very annoying. Annoying, because this is not actually the highest salary an engineer can make, but the highest salaries reported. The word "can" is used in the wrong fashion.
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by mrleiter 10y ago
So parts of BBC can't be viewed in the UK? Ironic.
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Simply: this is not reddit. Voting happens based on the content of information added by your comment. Not a joke or a wordplay, unfortunately.
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by mrleiter 10y ago
>The government could give the indigent vouchers to use the pay toilets. Wouldn't work in Europe - Art. 18 TFEU.
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Currently no.
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by mrleiter 10y ago
The problem with his first argument is that it is a logical fallacy (affirming a disjunct). Just because one does not say A, does not mean that it automatically must be B. He says "most likely", but even this is not certain. I agr
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by mrleiter 10y ago
The issue with your definition can be shown when thinking about the absolute zero point (that is, 0°K): as per definition in this state, particles lack any kind of energy. Common tongue would say that it is "frozen". Now if this
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Very interesting move. But companies deciding to take equity funding from a variety of investors without proper knowledge of finance (and the market for the product) can be dangerous for both companies and crowd-investors. On the one hand c
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CubETH – a 10x10x10cm high precision satellite(space.skyrocket.de)
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Speaking from a global perspective: every nation has its own way of writing and linking their laws. Although civil law countries, and case law countries respectively, have a lot of similarities (historically induced), they are still unique.
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Lehmer sieve(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mrleiter 10y ago
It's an interesting signal to see a very focused language moving up into the Top 5. At least to me this confirms that R is a)top notch for its purpose and b)the significance of its application is constantly rising.
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by mrleiter 10y ago
I feel like this is becoming a small scale "war" between facebook and Snapchat. First, Instagram copies some features of Snapchat; now Snapchat copies a feature of Whatsapp. While I do see the usability of the group feature, this
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Reminds of me of a scene [0] in the movie "Fight Club", where they talk about the meaning of owning things. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxM0gryue4
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by mrleiter 10y ago
Well, if that's the case, it's off the table now.
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Jacksonian Democracy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mrleiter 10y ago
That is incredibly accurate. Well said.
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I also feel that moot a.k.a. Christopher Poole made a point for anonymity online. [0] In his talk he states that by eliminating voting mechanisms he ensures that every opinion has the same weight in a discussion, as simply chronology matter
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by mrleiter 10y ago
>eliminate downvoting What you are asking here is to eliminate freedom of expression. By downvoting I voice my disagreement with your statement. Preferably there is a comment added, but that must not be necessary. Eliminating such a feat
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Spain seeks to jointly govern Gibraltar after Brexit(uk.reuters.com)
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by mrleiter 10y ago
What a beautiful comment, thanks.
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by mrleiter 11y ago
Thank you Austria (and Europe) for the tight Consumer Protection Act - makes all this illegal.
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Marriage by capture(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mrleiter 12y ago
Kudos for pointing it out to us, then.
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Credit card information may has leaked from Brian Krebs' publisher of choice(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by mrleiter 12y ago|0 comments