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by nosianu 2y ago
This is not destabilizing this democracy. The FDP has done that same thing before - twice! In 1966 and 1982. Abandoning a non-functioning government and calling new elections is part of democracies. Just ask the Italians (68 governments in
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Wrong? I made no such statement! I was talking about the quality of the argument, not about the direction. I'm not "dismissing" anything either. I have no opinion on Trump vs. Harris, as strange as that sounds to those with
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by nosianu 2y ago
I just did. Unfortunately I did not learn much. The first few letters were pro-Trump, but with for me unconvincing reasoning, I think OP asked for something better - and I read it because I too wanted to hear something with more substance.
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> this is forgetting that the US exists. I did not forget this. I think you overestimate what the US can and is willing to do there, and also what the incentives would be for people to escape to the US. This is not Vietnam in the 1970s
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by nosianu 2y ago
I hear that statement repeated a lot, but I'm not so sure. What is the incentive? If China invades, anyone involved in destroying that asset will have a huge problem for themselves afterwards, China won't forgive. On the other han
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But zooming scales the fonts only. For pixel images you have the pixels that are in it and that's it. Scaling those either up or down does not produce good text. Now I'm just waiting for the inevitable "AI image scaler"
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One advantage of ereaders is that the fonts an be set to any size convenient for device and the person reading it. A fixed pixel size image of something you want to read does not go well together with rendered text at all. It's okay fo
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Related, research: "Humans solve problems by adding complexity, even when it’s against our best interests" Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/bias-prob... Study publish
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by nosianu 2y ago
That reminds me of this 2020 study of dentists in Switzerland, previously discussed on HN in January 2023: HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34322194 Study: "Health Services as Credence Goods: a Field Experiment
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That throws out anonymity. I don't see this getting approved, or people signing up for such studies, apart from those who don't care that there genetic data gets collected and stored. Even if there is no name saved with the geneti
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> If the work is any good it will work with or without knowing details just the same Counter example: Only because the twist of the actual reveal of what project Horizon Zero Dawn really was (in the game of that name) did it become a v
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I will not argue about definitions of terms, but there was a recent study that I found linked on washingtonpost.com I believe (Edit: found, added). WP article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024&#x2
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Try shaking out a piece of clothing in full sunlight. It helps you see the millions of future dust particles that will come off your clothing. Over the years I found that of all the dust in my home the vast majority comes from my clothing.
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That's it's not about how much money they use for their lifestyles, it's about how much of the economy you control. The more, the more interesting projects you can do - see Elon Musk. Of course he could live just as well with
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At least part of it is that we put the gains into increased complexity. For example, it used to be that you had a printed schedule on each tram, train and bus stop, changed twice a year (summer/winter schedules). Now we have electronic
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And I responded to the clear statement you quoted from the submission: > His heroes were compelled by a quest to resist politics and oppose it... > ...They ventured afar in spite of government, not because of it. :) Granted, readi
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I don't understand this "in spite of" and "vs." narrative. As far as I know my history the goals were aligned, not least because government was some of the same people, or connected people, and the goals were aligne
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As another Ex-GDR citizen here, I think the most subversive were the thick shopping catalogs of the big West-German mail-order companies (Otto, Quelle, Conrad [Electronics]). I don't remember how or why we got them, but for some reason
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> digital historic preservation When I hear "digital" I don't exactly associate long-term preservation with it. Do you also have a strategy for the "digital preservation" part? Websites don't live long. St
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Now I feel reminded of Monty Python' sketch "The Four Yorkshiremen" - https://youtu.be/DT1mGoLDRbc Back in my day we didn't even have a phone! 1980s East Germany, many homes did not have a phone. My pa
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I got the cheap standard case of the very first iteration (I was an original pre-order customer for the RM 2), not expecting to carry it around much (I was working from home most of the time anyway). I have to stick the pen somewhere else i
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Weelll.... I did that, and I use my Remarkable 2 mostly for reading epub novels and even leave the pen at home by now... :( Okay, knowing myself I never thought I would use it much for creative work to begin with (and I was right). I still
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> A man gets taken into a hospital. When the doctor sees him, he exclaims "I cannot operate on this person, he is my own son!". How is this possible? > Amusingly, when someone on HN mentioned this example in the O1 thread
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> Real discourse has tons of irrelevant information for all sorts of reasons. Real discourse was not carefully crafted to test you. So, when something is off in real discourse you can usually dismiss it or apply a correction yourself,
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As the other commenter said, and I would extend that to be even more broad. Humanity has developed few abilities to escape from ancient things like group think or propaganda (since long ago in the form of stories and unproven assertions abo
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This isn't nitpicking, what are you talking about!? When someone tries to give an AI "common sense" talking about exactly what I said is important ! Because that person is NOT going to do anything "common", (s)he i
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Uhmm.... I have to admit that I fail to see any connection whatsoever between your original comment that I replied to (included in the reply) and your reply...
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I have two examples where Google is really bad. A general one: Whenever I search for something that was relevant in the past, but the keywords are now hijacked by some current events. Note that setting an upper date limit does not help: My
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> that does not mean that 5 minutes of your eyesight is now worth something The advertisers paying to get their ads placed in front of those eyes disagree. And ye, since another comment questions this, data or "eye-time are simila
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This does not distract from the potential usefulness of the effort, since the work does not at all depend on some word's definition, so this is merely a side note, "FYI": It appears that the "common" in common sense

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