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by netrus 4y ago
It's complicated, but it's not wrong. [1] [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildung#Begriffsbildung:~:text...
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by netrus 4y ago
The point is not that its deadly, but more deadly then previously thought (as indicated by the title).
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by netrus 4y ago
Maybe because MLM advocates tell these stories 24/7, both in media and private conversation? Why does no one talk about Madoff actually being a great success (for a while), at least for himself and the people around him? It's easy
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by netrus 4y ago
What does it take to produce cheap CO2 sensors? Ikea would be my best bet to provide a large enough market for good-enough sensors to bring prices down. A CO2 sensor should be in every classroom and every office, but it's not affordabl
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by netrus 4y ago
I was subscribed to TIME magazine around 2008, and it was astonishing to see whole issues with hardly any ads. I think it is as you said: When money is tight, it is comparatively easy to cut marketing spending for some time (easier than lay
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by netrus 4y ago
... but certainly not ALL songs? I would think they notice if you download more then one minute of audio per minute over a long time.
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by netrus 4y ago
Tells you something about the alternatives they have.
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Spotify latest tech name to cut jobs, axes 6% of workforce(apnews.com)
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by netrus 4y ago
That is true, but accidents at higher speed are more destructive/expensive. Mercedes can afford to pay for many dented cars, but at higher speeds (more) people die.
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by netrus 4y ago
Mercedes Benz is an IG Metall company. So this is on top of the 13th-14th salary that is standard throughout the whole industry. This is basically their way of going above-and-beyond the industry Tarifvertrag (that is already considered to
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by netrus 4y ago
General Works Council is the Betriebsrat (100% employees, not mandatory, but employees cannot be stopped from forming one), the board is the Aufsichtsrat (50% employees, mandatory for large corporations). It works really well most of the ti
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by netrus 4y ago
At the beginning of the article, I thought the process were ridiculously inefficient. But it turns out they are quite aware of the economics. The approach reminded me of the Panopticon: If you do not have the resources to observe everyone,
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by netrus 4y ago
Pretty sure the Titanic was paid in GBP -- the 1.5M GBP number is correct, the exchange rate was bit different back than. https://steemit.com/money/@lixtiklipbalm/exchange-rate-of-br...
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by netrus 4y ago
After seeing the URL, I was a bit disappointed they do not let sneaker heads make drawings of shoes as a CAPTCHA. Don't require any artistic skill, just some creative effort - worst case, the bot makers will make some interesting contr
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by netrus 4y ago
VW produces >400k EV this year. And that's about 5% of all cars they produced. And they are scaling up _fast_. Tesla has been an incredible first-mover and bootstrapper - but I do not see how they can keep their lead in the long run
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by netrus 4y ago
It's more like forbidding Kellogg's to put toys into their cereal boxes. MAYBE they cannot sell sugary cereals to kids without, but most likely they still can. Only one way to find out :)
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by netrus 4y ago
It worked for them because they kept releasing new version with new licenses, not updating Photoshop 1 in perpetuity.
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by netrus 4y ago
Insurance is a bet for the person taking the insurance, not the one offering it. Just as casinos are not gambling. Law of large numbers and all that. I agree that it's a weird business to be in (and certainly the US has not figured out
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by netrus 4y ago
It's borderline accepted in some cases, usually when corporate travel is also benefiting the employee in some way - attending cool conferences (especially widespread in academia...), or for "fun" team-building trips. Luckily
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by netrus 4y ago
"Die Erfindung der Currywurst" by Uwe Timm, which claims that the Currywurst was actually invented in Hamburg, was required reading when I went to high school in Hamburg ;)
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by netrus 4y ago
It's a shame that stuff like that is (at least in my experience) not taught in school. Years of lurking on Twitter have taught me about background-talks, "sources close to XYZ", how leaks, PR releases, and whistleblowing work
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by netrus 4y ago
We can see in real-time how the 'hacker' moves the stolen money around, we get to read SBFs private conversations with Elon Musk, and we can track his private plane. For all the shit-show that is going on, this level of transparen
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by netrus 4y ago
So ... it was sus from the beginning, and you still had money in it? How does that compute? It totally collapsed, but not a big deal, because you were smarter than others, so they took the loss in a zero-sum game ("who gets to take the
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by netrus 4y ago
Aren't landfills close to civilization usually, so it would not be hard to transfer the electricity some miles to charge Teslas, heat homes or power etc. Where are landfills too remote to transport electricity away from?
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by netrus 4y ago
Well of course they makes record profits, something they have increased in value (storage, stock, permits...) But they cannot buy more gas now and sell in the future than they already do - as we can see from the prices.
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by netrus 4y ago
The argument is that it is obviously never easy to make money in a transparent market - because SOMEONE with money would do it until the prices adapt. The difference between todays spot market and futures tells you something about the chall
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by netrus 4y ago
For the same reason you "cannot" drill for gas in Germany: it's very hard to do something that someone else can do cheaper. It requires constant work against the market, either by tarifs or subventions. And desalination will
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by netrus 4y ago
I am with you that it would be nice to provide some sources. On the other hand, after spending time around math students, engineering students and other students and in groups for students with a talent for math, these statements are obviou
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by netrus 4y ago
I cannot imagine a happier person right now than the owner of a LNG tanker. Sure, using it as a dumb storage is a good business, but it's sure a better business to move the ship around to do arbitrage between gas markets with crazily d
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by netrus 4y ago
The stock dropping 23% tells you that it's (much) worse than expected. That bad news were anticipated (and priced in) makes it even worse.

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