mrleiter

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by mrleiter 7y ago
To put it in other fancy words: when challenging paradigms, expect resistance. If you want to non-obvious („contrarian“ in SV speak), look for paradigms and question them.
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Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems(twitter.com)
2 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrleiter 7y ago
Anyone who's interested to see how brilliant AlphaZero played against the best chess computer (then), with solid explanations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXJWPhDsSY
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Coffee Is Hard(stilldrinking.org)
768 points by mrleiter 7y ago|219 comments
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by mrleiter 7y ago
Yes, very correct. That is also the reason why the ECJ has autonomy over interpreting the words of treaties, regulations and so forth. An independent constructor of meaning in the EU.
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Discovering Skate Spots via Google Earth(youtube.com)
2 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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Take Better Screenshots(stilldrinking.org)
1 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrleiter 7y ago
> Memories are essential to the sense of identity that emerges from the narrative of personal experience. That, for me, is one of the main ethical issues. No matter in which society you live, a very large part of its identity is derived
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by mrleiter 7y ago
The milestone of reaching faster speeds with combustion engines seems to be a wrong goal in this day and age. Climate change is a fact, and the burning of material based on oil/coal is a major driver of this. The effects have been know
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Russia says radioactive isotopes released by missile test blast(theguardian.com)
3 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Introduction to Psychology?
2 points by mrleiter 7y ago|3 comments
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by mrleiter 7y ago
We have 40+ degrees Celsius or about 104 Fahrenheit in Cologne (GER) this week. Trees are dying in the city as well, obviously faster.
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by mrleiter 7y ago
I wish you all the best!
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by mrleiter 7y ago
As an Austrian, I‘m very happy that the just ten year old IST Institute made it to second place. What really sets this institute apart is its lack of departments and thus its organic multi-disciplinary approach and culture. An approach I pe
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by mrleiter 7y ago
If there is demand for it, I can go into detail why some price increases were deemed illicit and which business practices were unfair.
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Amazon must compensate customers because of illicit business practices [Austria](translate.google.com)
2 points by mrleiter 7y ago|1 comments
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EU fines five banks €1.1bn over foreign exchange cartel(ft.com)
1 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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The role of pawnshops in risk coping in early twentieth-century Japan(arxiv.org)
1 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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Lying with Conditionals [pdf](pages.wustl.edu)
1 points by mrleiter 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Money laundering is actually also covered in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Part 7. It is defined in the most abstract term possible. That is done in order to make the example you provided an offense as well: "A person commits an offe
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by mrleiter 8y ago
That is indeed strange. But one must always keep in mind that the media often gets the law wrong - whether it is the specific crime they were indicted for or the reasoning for a judgement. But, I cannot tell here. It just seems strange.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Recovery of criminal proceeds is regulated in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. There are certain instruments to recover illegal proceeds, either by restraint ("freeze") and/or confiscation orders. There is also a civil procedu
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by mrleiter 8y ago
He is a very keen observer. Yet he argues capitalism needs reform because it could lead to real conflict between people in a country and not because it is unfair. He wants to be safe, so do I, but I'm not a hedge fund billionaire. I wa
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Environmental Personhood(papers.ssrn.com)
4 points by mrleiter 8y ago|0 comments
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Double Irish Arrangement(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mrleiter 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Transcript: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58de89eb17bffc754e3c1...
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Naval Ravikant and Rob Reid on Existential Risk(after-on.com)
2 points by mrleiter 8y ago|1 comments
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Thank you very much!
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by mrleiter 8y ago
I wonder how they structured it legally. Does anyone have a contract, either in German or English? Can't seem to find it online.
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Thanks! Very interesting document.

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