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by nosianu 5y ago
A few years ago, 2013, there was a study in Germany where a lab had tested various espresso machines and found lead. My memories are fuzzy and incomplete, but I remember that nothing ever happened because there was a big uproar from manufac
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by nosianu 5y ago
I quit flying because I found that I didn't want to go from A to B without having a car on the other end, that "just flying" was pretty boring, that aerobatics was real fun but also a huge commitment, and that I did not car
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by nosianu 5y ago
Is it? Maybe it's good if the decision to abandon ship is distributed over more people? It hinges on one thing that I don't know: How likely are already failing companies to recover? Probably with the added condition that incoming
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by nosianu 5y ago
> on a choke point widget So a single data point? I didn't see it claimed that there is not a single small thing that can have a big effect. It's about large numbers. I think individual examples obfuscate more than they help us
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by nosianu 5y ago
"Nothing really new" - or in other deliberately twisted around but I think still valid as a point words "it's always the same atoms only in a different configuration. This universe is so boring". Your perception of
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by nosianu 5y ago
Uhm... this thread has a specific context, which is CO2. So your comment makes no sense. Would it be too much to ask to make replies that take the context into consideration, instead of using "autobot" mode posting generic standar
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by nosianu 5y ago
Like asset seizure? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seiz... https:&
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by nosianu 5y ago
I don't like adding more noise to the comments, but since you seem to have a serious question as to why: > It is ok if you don't like sports (which is obvious from your comments about Tokyo, London, and Paris which all have no
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by nosianu 5y ago
What the OP is talking about is that we brought up a lot more forest back from below ground than we could possibly plant above. Below ground are many generations of forests, above we can only have one, unless we invent vertical stacking or
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by nosianu 5y ago
> a no fly zone. Uhm... Finland is several countries north of Ukraine. This is about the eastern Baltic region. I guess you are referring to the rejected NATO-maintained no-fly zone over Ukraine? Or do you mean a no-fly zone imposed by R
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> Add the cost of CO2 into the price of gas. Is there a cost? I would say it is priceless - because we do not have any mechanism to funnel that money into undoing the CO2. And no, planting trees are not the opposite of taking oil from de
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by nosianu 5y ago
I thought the subject was cars right now. I see the point of bringing up something for a larger perspective, but this here is just whataboutism. With this "argument" it's useless to talk about any source of pollution - becaus
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by nosianu 5y ago
This is less about the user but about 3rd party "out of network" repair shops. The manufacturer's control over everything increases. It used to be that you could take your device to anywhere, now it's all about "i
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by nosianu 5y ago
Funnily enough, in Russian the double negative is completely normal and that is a normal way to express many negatives. It always triggers my brain when I have to say a double negative in Russian, "just do it, it's completely norm
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by nosianu 5y ago
Here's my contrarian perspective, I'm 49. I'm only going to give a small part of my thoughts, there's more, but let's keep a narrow focus for the forum format. I'm less and less willing to submerge myself deep
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by nosianu 5y ago
In the bigger context, we always did and still do. Even going so far to actively support some of them and not just tolerate. Especially when they were supposed to keep "communists" in check. Just some examples. Those lists are for
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by nosianu 5y ago
Thank you for coming clear about Russian aggression Which is why we need to up our defense spending, as I said. In your last comment you drop all pretenses. "We can do whatever we want, no arguments necessary". I'm not sure w
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by nosianu 5y ago
Thank you for making it clear, exactly what I wrote. Absurdity! > fighting against the Westernisation of Ukraine What business is it of Russia to dictate what other countries do? Insanity! In your first comment you spoke about Russia
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by nosianu 5y ago
What does that have to do with the West? That is a Russian problem! Since when do Western governments govern Russia? At no point were laws in Russia made and enforced by anyone but the Russian government. And I did not know the oligarch
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by nosianu 5y ago
I saw it on a major German site, and you can find many links pointing to it. Just the first link from Google (I searched for "Russia prepared (and accidentally published) a press release"): https://news.yahoo.com/r
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by nosianu 5y ago
Ukraine was the same last time I checked. Which, admittedly, was 2006 when I bought cracked software on an Odessa book & CD market (lots of small vendor stalls, a permanent market). I've been to both Russia and Ukraine a few times
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by nosianu 5y ago
I didn't, originally, the doctor determined it after the lab tests came back, which included heavy metal tests. He said I'm in a gray area and he could justify starting chelation, but he thought that explained only some of my issu
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by nosianu 5y ago
Really? Okay, so TL;DR Heavy metals == bad and can be a factor for tinnitus. Which is why I wrote a comment, the overall subject is tinnitus after all? The rest of the comment is to provide the greater context and more info. I mention that
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by nosianu 5y ago
I am well aware of that. But why do you think I'm stupid? I even said I have a good background, even as far as statistics and reading medical papers and even a few courses on setting up and evaluating clinical trials. I never had &quot
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by nosianu 5y ago
Just to say that in advance, although I'm a CS guy, I also have quite a bit of background in life sciences, so what I'm saying is not from someone naive about bio-chem or physiology. I got rid of my tinnitus - which was not even t
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by nosianu 5y ago
I picked up my new German passport two weeks ago, It took less than ten minutes total. When I ordered it though - last October - I had to make an appointment just to order a new one - two months later, middle of December. Then it took 8 mor
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by nosianu 5y ago
> I doubt you have ever penetrated deep enough into the favorite German pastime. You don't know me. Many years ago, early nineties, I worked in the kitchen of a New Jersey summer camp for over two months through a student exchange
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by nosianu 5y ago
Having lived in the US for almost a decade, I did not see any less bureaucracy (for example, two tax returns - Germany is a federation too but I only need to file one). I also hear nightmare stories from other countries far surpassing anyth
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by nosianu 5y ago
I don't know. I think you may not have seen much yet. Depending on what happens under climate change, there may be some pretty big and unsolvable conflicts ahead when entire regions are affected. Overall, assuming the universe has some
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by nosianu 5y ago
Right. What little is left of the medical system now is only a million and twenty three times overburdened instead of a million and twenty four. I guess it's good to inject some humor into dark situations.

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