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by nosianu 4y ago
Here in Germany I tested twice. Once, I took one of several online providers who send you a test kit - I think it was some 20 Euros or something similar - and you follow the procedure they give you and send the test kit back. You get an ema
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by nosianu 4y ago
If you seriously play the game you get good at... the game. Even within the same game genre that barely translates. People good at Starcraft I struggled with Starcraft II, people great at Warcraft made little headway in Starcraft II (e.g. W
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by nosianu 4y ago
Here is a pretty good Guardian article about the study, where I found this a few days ago: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/... The study is linked at around the middle of the artic
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by nosianu 4y ago
This is just one anecdote and to be treated as such, but I think it's interesting: While India still buys Russian oil, it seems they demand huge discounts: https://hindustannewshub.com/russia-ukraine-news/india-dem
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by nosianu 4y ago
> Kofman describes the Moskva as an antiquated rust bucket, with its defensive systems likely not even functional. You know, that is the kind of truth that actually adds to the story of how bad Russia is doing rather than mitigating
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by nosianu 4y ago
I have an anecdote from one of my trips to Moscow (I also spent some time in Ukraine for two months and one week, Odessa and Lviv, respectively). This was the one time I was there in winter. This was many years ago (10? 15?), but I have no
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by nosianu 4y ago
OP: one of the main contributing factors You: was caused by See the difference? I don't know that part of history, but I know it would be much more fun to read this discussion and learn from you guys if there wasn't a moving of go
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by nosianu 4y ago
The 42% income tax is the marginal rate and it's the one for singles. Try https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de/ekst/eingabeformekst.xhtml As an example, for 60,000 Euros (a more typical magnitude) your tax rate will
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by nosianu 4y ago
Yes and no, from experience, it matters a lot who sends that generic paper to another party. When they see it's sent by a lawyer the effect is very different from when a normal person sends it. You hire the lawyer for their title more
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by nosianu 4y ago
No it really does not, or at best barely, if you don't think too much. Brains are highly context dependent in how they work. I doubt a similar baking mistake would get a similar response than a wrong-order mistake in a restaurant. Mayb
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by nosianu 4y ago
The point is you don't need to know though. It's called __proto__ exactly because it's something internal that the programmer of course can have some fun with if they so choose, but it is unnecessary for using it. Unless yo
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by nosianu 5y ago
Funny. After the parent commenter says > Yes I know many data points that fall outside the curve too. But I'm talking about the curve. you respond with a data sample of 1. I have no idea who is right - assuming country=US in any c
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by nosianu 5y ago
>> it becomes harder to understand > Not really.. Oh Yes! As usual in blockchain defense, you must make a lot of assertions. > Yes. That's decentralization. Please not that tone. You don't assume you need to teach me,
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by nosianu 5y ago
You don't minimize trust, you greatly increase the complexity of it. There's a lot more entities and processes involved and it becomes harder to understand. You need to trust quite a lot more things now, only that it's much h
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by nosianu 5y ago
Except that we had articles like this one, telling us about severe and not easily solved problems at Samsung: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31064080
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by nosianu 5y ago
> The lack of understanding around this in some of the comments is really eye opening to me. I had my own physical bullying experiences in school, fortunately nothing constant. There was no way to get any help either (or maybe my uneduca
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by nosianu 5y ago
I think he's talking about later in life, middle aged or later. It is clear that kids have much less maturity and ways to deal with things and need help when an adult usually does not. Even if they could, they have a lot less options t
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by nosianu 5y ago
Too bad low-level support workers cannot do anything. All they will be able to do is read the AI-auto-generated text to you and answer your questions by reading from the prepared responses. You pay for having a human read to you what the co
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by nosianu 5y ago
I, German, once saw a mail-crime being done as the co-owner of a UPS associated package handling business. Some scammer had sent mail to people and they were sending back - to a post box we managed (we had not know what it would be for when
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by nosianu 5y ago
You compare an effect of a randomly applied poison to one done by the brain itself acting specifically (the early age pruning). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning In any case, I see no differentiation in th
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by nosianu 5y ago
I thanked my good star that when I was drafted into the German army (1991, freshly reunified) I got to be a Leopard 1A5 electronicd and weapons systems mechanic (EloWaMech), instead of having to fight in one. Closer on topic, that tank had
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by nosianu 5y ago
I think in the mentioned cases, and maybe in similar ones I heard of before, the alternative was not to revoke citizenship, but to let them rot in a foreign jail.
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by nosianu 5y ago
> So like notifications with extra steps? I don't understand how you missed the point after I even repeated it in the last paragraph (of just three). Also, nobody forces or even just asked you to do what others do.
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The machines for chip making are built in the Europe (ASML first of all, Netherlands), the US and Japan mostly. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/asml-the-biggest-company-in-... https://www.quora.com
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by nosianu 5y ago
What I do is, for the few threads where I think it's useful, I keep a browser tab open with only the specific thread I want to watch (click on a comment's timestamp to open only the thread below that comment). Alternatively, you c
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by nosianu 5y ago
So I was about to write something flippant in opposition about it possibly being the reverse, the many serving the few (powerful), but since I felt I don't really know what I'm talking about I googled. I found an interesting docum
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by nosianu 5y ago
Maybe you did? What are they buying with that money, or if it's siphoned off where is it sent? Especially military aid, if they don't use it to buy from Russia the money probably goes back to the US, as the nr. one arms exporter b
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by nosianu 5y ago
> I know with 100% certainty that unless I go fight for something like ISIS, India will take me back without any problems. No one else will do that. It's going off-topic now for the thread, but since you mentioned it: Some European
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by nosianu 5y ago
> I don’t believe the “ads work subconsciously” bs. A long time ago now, but when I left my parents house to go to another city to study, when I bought laundry detergent for the very first time in my life I ended up with the brand stuff
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by nosianu 5y ago
Blood only shows current exposure though. It's like trying to gauge what stuff a country has by looking at highway traffic. The levels will only be very small at any point anyway, the problem is long-term accumulation. Couple that with

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