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by nosianu 5y ago
So you found someone who had a perfectly reasonable explanation for his choice of tools. We started with drivers and now you come with a desktop app example? Now find not just one (anecdote) but a trend in HN comments that this tool is reco
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And when you try getting that hole in the roof fixed, you might run into even more problems: "Roofing Industry Faces Unprecedented Supply Disruption" (April 27, 2021) https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles&#x2F
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by nosianu 5y ago
Here in Bavaria, Germany, we just had and still have a normal German summer. Lots of rain, highest temperatures still below 30°C (86°F). The rains are more violent though, sudden, lots of water in a short amount of time, high winds, right
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by nosianu 5y ago
I think this is interpreting the story at that time two one-sidedly. At that time the dot com boom of the commercial Internet had just started. They also had very good credentials - I mean, two PhDs at Stanford still is a pretty good backgr
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by nosianu 5y ago
> The thread's entire premise is that lab leakers are only speculating while there is in fact direct evidence of natural origins. This is not either/or at all! It can be both completely natural AND also have escaped from a la
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by nosianu 5y ago
The country talked about as the one subsidizing their products, leading to the problem elsewhere, is not Mexico. Not sure what you were reading here. It's the USA. And apparently, see the current topic, Mexico too thinks having a funct
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I did not tell anyone what they should or should not do! Also see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127454
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by nosianu 5y ago
I did not propose anything . I pointed out what the actual problem is. If you want to refute that , feel free. Just because the problem is practically unsolvable does not equal it cannot be said out loud. Carbon above ground is going to i
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> One of the largest contributors to global emissions is large scale factory farming Unlike digging up carbon from below ground any activity involving only the carbon already above ground does not make the problem nearly as much wors
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> Maybe on the US level it makes sense, but I live in a small country In case you missed it, this entire discussion here is about the US situation. The "U.S:" even is in the article's subtitle (once you click on the arti
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by nosianu 5y ago
Having a functioning farm sector a food reserve is sooooo much better than having any amount of food in storage. You can only store so much, it won't last long given the huge amount needed every day. Disruptions that last years rather
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by nosianu 5y ago
> what a ridiculous statement Oh a personal attack, thank you! I on the other hand find your statement to be the ridiculous one. You fail to add any followable logic (not even an attempt) why someone working for the government makes
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> It’s just so hard to know what actions have what impact on CO2 production Not really. For some reason the actually quite simple problem is needlessly complicated in the discussions. Stop digging up ANY carbon from below ground where it
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by nosianu 5y ago
> government funds science to get the research it thinks is important How is this anything special about funding from governments specifically? This is part of "funding", period. Unless you setup an open bank account for free
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by nosianu 5y ago
Very late reply, but for context. I had done the upvoting of downvoted comments just a few dozen times total. > If a user however upvotes more negative comments than positive ones that is at least unusual. I disagree. There is no real
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by nosianu 5y ago
Maybe these firms prepare for the apocalypse when all technology fails and has to be recreated from scratch, with only a few half-burned books around. Of course, if that were true there should be some blacksmithing and basic herbology quest
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by nosianu 5y ago
He wrote "google" instead of "translate" so I think he was referring to the fact that Google keeps asking > Did you mean: Recursion when you search for "Recursion" so you can click on that search suggestio
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by nosianu 5y ago
That was not the case that prompted this reaction, so I don't understand the reasoning behind your comment? The case that prompted this reaction is described in the first paragraph of the linked article. The one you refer to in the sec
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by nosianu 5y ago
It is not a "Ponzi scheme" at all, rubbish. The pension system is not an investment theme. Currently working people provide for current pensioners. No "investing" involved. That, in the light of a shift in age distribu
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by nosianu 5y ago
There also is this problem I had (have?) on HN: I no longer dare try to go against downvotes and upvote downvoted comments that I think are perfectly fine. I did that quite a bit - and my voting rights where removed. When I asked by email m
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by nosianu 5y ago
And anyway, it all comes full circle, because "out" and "of" both have Germanic roots (google "etymology some-word" and you don't even have to go to any specific website, Google already showing a nice grap
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by nosianu 5y ago
Speaking from practice in a country where unions were strong for many decades, the German economy was doing pretty well all the time and if Germany loses out at some point it is hardly the union's fault (for example, the pressure to re
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by nosianu 5y ago
> If the restaurant has to pay, it's a cost like any other and they charge accordingly. Restaurants have way too few employees so it would not "even out". > They can do that because all restaurants are charging a b
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> it's much easier to replace a waitress It's not about replacements, it's about still getting paid. Try your argument again with the premise that that small restaurant now has to pay two people for that one position.
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by nosianu 5y ago
Ha, I wanted to suggest that too! For my region and all German speakers a (the?) relevant site is https://www.kaffee-netz.de/ It is pretty active and has a lot of topics around coffee and coffee making technologies and tech
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by nosianu 5y ago
I think you just described life (not that of any one individual, but all of it, the biological meaning). PS: I usually hate snarky one-liners, especially on HN which is supposed to have more substance, but in this instance I stand by my one
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by nosianu 5y ago
"Costs money" is not an argument that is of much use - for an economy . Cost is income. It's a circle. Only when you apply the mindset of an individual does that cost avoidance mindset make sense. Then "costs" repr
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Only a part. In Europe you could not even become big, each country is too much its own market. It sis much much harder, or even impossible, to build a large company for all or even only for many European countries compared to building one f
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by nosianu 5y ago
You might want to ask Google about two-photon microscopy links. Example papers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25391792/ -- "Two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications in neuroscience" https:&#x2
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The funniest Lem story for me is from the Star Diaries ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Diaries ). It's the story where he - alone - travels in his rocket ship and a tiny meteor destroys the steering mechani

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