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by nosianu 4y ago
Both examples you picked were at the very top of their profession - and then some - even at their time. I'm not sure if looking at the Newtons, Einsteins, or Mozarts and Bachs of the past tells us all that much for the current discussi
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by nosianu 4y ago
There is the huge confounder that everywhere in the developed world - and even in the less developed world like East Germany, where I grew up, a lot of infrastructure was added and improved over the decades after WWII and it has nothing w
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by nosianu 4y ago
The medical limit for lead is zero (you can find that statement in various forms on all the major - official, main stream, government, education - sites that have something to say about the subject). The reason we have non-zero "offici
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by nosianu 4y ago
I still don't see any evidence for your claim "controlling the EU". The Nord Stream II stuff is well-known, but how does Germany getting gas from Russia let them "control the EU"? They are also far from the only EU
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by nosianu 4y ago
Or misjudged that it's not only about human-to-human communication, but computer-to-computer. We have a lot of industrial systems from inventory to production talking to other systems, connections that previously just did not exist. Do
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by nosianu 4y ago
> affects mortality? Why would you only care about mortality? I had some unfortunate experience with heavy metal poisoning (university clinic diagnosed - mercury, shown by lab tests). There was zero danger of dying and I doubt it took
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by nosianu 4y ago
You don't eat only for energy, you also eat for nutrients - and they are a lot more varied and complex than the standard list of protein, carbs, fat, vitamins. To use an extreme example so that it's easier to relate to: You can ea
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by nosianu 4y ago
This was my grandfathers calculator, which he used for some business calculations (he was a "master ('Meister') craftsman" painter in East Germany, responsible for a team) into the 1990s even after he already had an elec
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by nosianu 4y ago
> This doesn't stop the junior talents that are highly influenced by foreign media I don't understand. They are not influenced by the local media, somehow? Only "foreign" one? What is the magical mechanism behind th
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by nosianu 4y ago
Hint: They won't say "develop software to oppress the people". It will say "develop software to track child abuse and criminal activity" and "develop software to track people's preferences to be better abl
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by nosianu 4y ago
> but saying "we are not doing nearly enough, therefore we are doomed OP did not write that at all! He only wrote a single sentence, why did you create new text to criticize and attribute it to OP? I myself keep pointing to the NO
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by nosianu 4y ago
Homepage for the project: https://www.neom.com/en-us 170 km long 200 meters wide 500 meters tall This is ambitious to say the least. I'm actually intrigued. The scenes from inside could be from a sci-fi movie with utop
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by nosianu 4y ago
Yes it is about tests in general. I think it fits the discussion and many comments very well, this does not really seem to be about only unit tests specifically. Many comments are more general in tone. The very comment at the top of this su
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by nosianu 4y ago
I think it is of at least slight interest to some who missed it, to bring back this thread from 2018, about Oracle code (I too once worked on it so I immediately saved that comment link when it was posted): https://news.ycombinat
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by nosianu 4y ago
Not quite sure about where we ended up here, but just to clarify, just in case. I don't think it is whataboutism when it is relevant. I think it should have been considered in the initial argument, the one I replied to, to begin with.
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by nosianu 4y ago
> genocide > confiscation of their property and land Which is how they got it too, so at the very least I would be careful about using that as justification. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti
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by nosianu 4y ago
At university, many years ago, one lecturer referred to the BUSY pin signal on a chip as the "bus ypsilon" signal. English was his third language, as an East German German first, then Russian second, so we did not think it was a j
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by nosianu 4y ago
I generally agree and I'm one of those responding similarly in similar contexts. However, thinking about it, I think there may be a valve here that prevents this from happening: If costs get too high Asian companies win, setting an upp
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by nosianu 4y ago
I don't know the statistics, I was a kid in the GDR in the 1980s. At least in the late 1980s until the end of the GDR we had plenty of 8 bit computers, both GDR made (Z80 CPU clone based KC 85 line [0], or PC 1715 [1] as IBM clone, als
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by nosianu 4y ago
> but the reality eerily matches this hypothesis, Of course it does, since you developed it to fit the data. Try making a prediction about things you don't know yet instead of creating a hypothesis for observed data, which is easy
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by nosianu 4y ago
https://archive.ph/lCUG9
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American Factories Are Making Stuff Again as CEOs Take Production Out of China(bloomberg.com)
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by nosianu 4y ago
> How this is not one of the top comments is beyond me. Uhm... Exactly this is mentioned in the article: > He also gave himself an excuse to sell a bunch of Tesla stock near the highs. So Levine already mentioned this.
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by nosianu 4y ago
> The majority of healthcare is for routine and known in advance procedures Yes what kind of procedure is needed often is known in advance. The details often only emerge after it's been started though. Just because it's rou
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by nosianu 4y ago
I'm not sure cars as an example work for health care. Each model has orders of magnitude less complexity, it's not living tissue, and variability within a model is very small. And it's all logically engineered instead of the
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by nosianu 4y ago
> the purchaser does not know the price of something at the point of purchase. This is only solvable for the cases where what needs to be done is completely known and certain in advance. Which for very complex human biological systems
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by nosianu 4y ago
> The German state pension system basically amounts to a Ponzi scheme Yes and no - that is how the world, how life works! The currently working take care of the currently too-old-to-work. No matter what layer and labels you put on top,
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by nosianu 4y ago
You don't buy USB, you buy a device that has USB. If you do buy USB (e.g. for extension or multiple ports) it's also because of your devices, not because you care about USB specifically.
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Could it be sabotage? Given that even Russian pilots in Ukraine have been found to be using GPS, it looks like that would not even be necessary. https://www.globaldefensecorp.com/2022/06/21/exposed-capt
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by nosianu 4y ago
Just an aside on the topic of German research. In Germany a lot of research is not done at the universities but at various institutes such as Max-Planck, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, Leibniz and a lot more. General overview, research institutes

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