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by nelaboras 6y ago
Sorry for not being more clear, I meant Langer's classic study. A critical/write-up here: https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/2014/11/05/re-examining-elle... Langer gave houseplants to two groups of nur
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Someone else already pointed out that this is actually quite significant, just the time might have been too short but there is clear indication something is there. For me the key question is: what is the key ingredient (or the right mix of
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Free will has a lot of different interpretations. For personal life I find this one the most practical: if you have the impression that you have free will then you have free will. Even if your choices are in fact determined rather than choi
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by nelaboras 6y ago
There are even stories of amazon selling fake books... Their way of acquiring themselves and of course intermingling goods makes the whole of amazon hard to trust. In Europe a number of companies (most notably shoe company Birkenstock) are
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by nelaboras 6y ago
EU bank cards will mostly allow free withdrawals across Europe (with some strange exceptions). Some countries like Belgium have fully prohibited national banks from charging customers of rival banks. It's not a technical/financial
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by nelaboras 6y ago
This seems very odd. These sites add features over time when new patterns are discovered, so I'd doubt that they delete any parts not used today because they might be useful in the future...
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by nelaboras 6y ago
I pay taxes Taxes go to FBI/Europol etc Security services pay these shady data brokers with my taxes to access data Shady data broker buys hacked data from criminals with my taxes Cybercriminals live off my taxes. Cybercriminals hack m
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Not data per she but an official point of critique by the EU > The business environment is improving, but strengthening Italy’s public administration, justice system and anti-corruption framework remains a challenge. The digitisation of
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by nelaboras 6y ago
It's there but with the clear and explicit intention that the free version will lag behind the commercial offers.
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by nelaboras 6y ago
You are very lucky to live in a country where you can't even imagine that's an option. In countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ... doctors won't see you if you can't pay. In some places you even have to provide do
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by nelaboras 6y ago
I think you're missing the point and purposefully misinterpreting this statement. Its not about tracking these people, its about allowing them to participate in today's world - from healthcare to mail.
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by nelaboras 6y ago
I'd love to see some numbers on this. As far as I understand they are used for freight because it's better than to let them sit empty (and pilots and ground staff have to be paid too), but it still is not profitable.
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Ah yes, you caught us supporting a drug network with 60k members, we will sue you for harming our business.
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by nelaboras 6y ago
That depends on many factors. Living in a crowded European city I have plenty of shops in walking distance, protected sidewalks and a traffic nightmare. It would take me longer and I'd be much more likely to get into an accident when
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by nelaboras 6y ago
No, this was by design. The US and Europe wanted to encourage trade by developing countries, so built in cheaper rates for them. This also still makes sense for Rwanda or Nepal, less so for China which simply developed at an unexpected spee
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Three counterarguments: - if the opportunity costs are high, would it nonetheless not be better to have fair rates? - if you believe in the market, why are there not already offers with more acceptable rates? Is there just not enough capi
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by nelaboras 6y ago
While it's good to have some data I would be careful with the assumptions. E.g. is 3 years a long enough time horizon? There are also very different kinds of private equity, with the bain-like 'activist investors' the most no
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by nelaboras 6y ago
No matter whether or not we are actually looking at an extinct variety here, I found this article on an archeobotanist approach fascinating: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fruit-in-renaissance-a... Essentially t
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by nelaboras 6y ago
They ask questions by feature, so I assume Kia fares well just because they have usually far less features in their cars? No surprise to see Tesla low, but others (Porsche, Toyota) low is really surprising
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Rumor was always that Skype used to have E2E, then Microsoft bought it for a susprising amount of money and as first action removed server-side encryption... And therefore of course the rumor/assumption thay the NSA or similar was in t
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by nelaboras 6y ago
They ask questions by feature, so I assume Kia fares well just because they have usually far less features in their cars? No surprise to see Tesla low, but others (Porsche, Toyota) low is really surprising.
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Time for a GDPR information request to find out...
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by nelaboras 6y ago
There are plenty of apps that can do this of you want it.
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Sample size n=1 but a friend of mine was in the top 3 of CS in Hong Kong university and thus got to go abroad for a year. He described that back home they had to learn hundreds of specific 'best solutions' by heart and then regurg
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by nelaboras 6y ago
There are some built-in biases favoring some of the minorities, but there is a reason for this: to avoid that those minorities protest and push back against the PRC/Han China which in the mind of many is still an occupying force. Contr
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by nelaboras 6y ago
> "I don't trust anything they write without checking the facts." I am not sure you are aware but your statement makes no sense whatsoever. How do you "check the facts" if you don't trust professional journa
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Oh no, the government knows which movies and series from a very limited and pre-filtered catalogue i have legally watched. Assuming Netflix has anything to do with mass surveillance seems rather absurd; or maybe I just haven't found th
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by nelaboras 6y ago
Can I ask why any private website even needs analytics? I just don't see the point. Is it just vanity, or making sure anyone actually reads the articles/content, or trying to adapt to audience preferences/search queries/
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by nelaboras 6y ago
There is no replication crisis. The correct approach is always to just see each study as one data point and in Popper's suggestion each time a study points in one direction this lends the relevant theory more weight. You might be able
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by nelaboras 6y ago
I am 100% s believer in science but the challenge is the signal to noise ratio - there's so much outputs that even niche experts struggle to follow their own field; for the population it's really hard to follow what is or isn&#x27

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