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by ndr42 1y ago
I do not think kids and everybody else are standing a chance against all the money that is thrown at making and keeping them addicted. So I fear if we do not want them to be addicted we have to prohibit things (it does not need to be smartp
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by ndr42 1y ago
Since we are taking about the planet about "the planet at stake" I am not so sure that nuclear in france can play such a big part. Climate change will make it much more difficult, this is from Wikipedia: As of early September 2022
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by ndr42 1y ago
Science (including all the fake stuff) advanced humanity immensely. I can not imaging that cutting research founding to do less science (with the same percentage of fake) is helpful in any way.
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by ndr42 2y ago
I had to look up what "seppo" is. Now I get why you were offended. I just would have thought that a nation that's proud of its first amendment and build on the foundations of enlightment would not go down to the darkness wher
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by ndr42 2y ago
Well, yes, it is clearly a thing in the USA [1]. I hope I get you right, but you seem to insinuate that somebody else is worse and therefore its not "an American thing"? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_c
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by ndr42 2y ago
What is "ME" referring to?
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by ndr42 2y ago
I was lumping all these behaviors together (as the abuse of entrusted power) but of course its better to be precise (thank you for introducing me to "nepotism").
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by ndr42 2y ago
I read a commemt in this discussion that Dorothee Bär has a case of corruption where she was employing her husband. „Source 3“: Well, if you are a minister for infrastructure in germany it is not part of our job description to bring money t
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by ndr42 2y ago
The CSU has a history of putting people in charge that do not benefit germany but bavaria (the only part of germany where the party CSU is active), e.g. Andreas Scheuer [1][2]. Notable recent examples of corruption are the Maskenaffäre [4]
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by ndr42 2y ago
I do not see the irony as it just isolates the US from the rest of the world. Of course it is a loss for globalization without the US but I don't see that the rest of the world follow the US to isolate itself.
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by ndr42 2y ago
I just looked: I had my first license of Devonthink in 2008. I organized all my teaching files in DT. Then I got a Scansnap and went mostly paperless with everythink. The OCR was/is quite good and it got a kind of auto-file feature. Ba
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Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown(cnn.com)
143 points by ndr42 2y ago|167 comments
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by ndr42 2y ago
The Quote: "AI can never fail, it can only be failed" is something to think about
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by ndr42 2y ago
In other languages (e.g. German) you can "fine-tune" the order and hierarchy of the attributes with a comma. private, robotic spacecraft (with comma) -> private and robotic are attributes to spacecraft, the order could be chang
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by ndr42 2y ago
Looks nice. Feedback: I was trying to enter "1000$" and "12%" (in the loan calculator) and it rejected my inputs ("Loan amount must be a positive number" and "Interest rate must be between 0 and 100")
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by ndr42 2y ago
Reminds me of the evolution of fish that prey on scales of other fish to have two distinct types with the mouth on the right or left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perissodus_microlepis Depending on which type is more
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by ndr42 2y ago
This article: "The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions" https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(24)00160-0 shows why this is pseudoscience and harmful
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by ndr42 2y ago
>Also, google him, he looks exactly like a evil movie villain, and he has this nasty villan look all the time. So the way somebody looks is half of your argument?
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by ndr42 2y ago
> mitochondria don't create or release (utilizable) energy? I'm confused: Where do my muscles (cross-bridge cycle) get the ATP from if not from mitochondria?
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by ndr42 2y ago
So the conclusion of the comment-article cited in the parent of your comment is false? "According to the current phylogeny, FCS appeared independently six times in the Betacoronavirus lineages, demonstrating that FCS insertion is compa
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by ndr42 2y ago
I found this recent interview with Christian Drosten [1] very interesting, he explains very good scientifically why it is much more probable that the origin is not from a laboratory. A quick summary of https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by ndr42 2y ago
The same is true for my students (german school system, iPads form 7th to 13th grade): They are marking, annotating and rearranging parts of the digitized pages as they like. It would be impossible with printed books. (ok, they could take a
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by ndr42 2y ago
From the article: "[…] web apps have caught up. They’re faster […]" Especially how can this be true? Maybe this doesn't matter because it's already fast enough but the difference in look and feel will be noticeable.
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by ndr42 2y ago
I had my eyes focused to see the hidden image the same way I always do. But this time I was scrolling the picture on an iPad and the next one was coming up and it was directly in focus and the next one too. This was real incredible - no nee
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by ndr42 2y ago
It depends on the species, we have Fagesia spec. (about 3m high) it is clumping not running. One of them is contained by a root barrier 1m deep, it stayed there for now 13 years, the other on is planted without a barrier and after 8 years i
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by ndr42 2y ago
No I do not. I was not aware of the vast ghettoes. But some kind of middle class has to exist as the article headline talks about air conditioning - in Germany air conditioning is not common even in the upper middle class - this may be diff
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by ndr42 2y ago
I‘m curious, Texas seems to get a lot of sun - how common are private solar installations on the roofs? Combined with a battery you could lower your electricity bill and would be safe from this kind of problem. In my neighbourhood in northe
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by ndr42 2y ago
There is a correlation with education - longer access to it leads to lower birth rates [1] so in this regard humans are not like any other species. [1] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s..
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by ndr42 3y ago
I use all kind of german localized apple operating systems for extended periods of time daily and never ever had any problem with legibility of the interface. I would like to see a real example (not a constructed one like "Illiad"
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by ndr42 3y ago
I see it as a chance to wean off of twitter.

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