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by quonn 9y ago
> literally lighting billions of dollars in funds on fire Figuratively. But even that's not true, since customers have saved real money and spent it elsewhere.
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by quonn 10y ago
It's apparently an active area of research, so there are _some_ clues. More research will be done and then, hopefully, we will know a bit more. Just like in the 80s climate change itself was on shaky ground and now it is well researche
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by quonn 10y ago
> which only offers traditional food Bavarian restaurants are just one of many other options and they "only" offer traditional food, just like an Italian restaurant only offers Italian food, for example. It's quite delicio
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by quonn 10y ago
I'm sorry to say, but this reads in parts like a stoner philosophy. But perhaps the article does not do the book justice.
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by quonn 10y ago
> The suggestion that the Enlightenment may have erased several millenia of human wisdom is interesting If this were true, then what about previous influential european philosophies, ideas and religions?
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by quonn 10y ago
So successful that people have to wear smog masks in the cities.
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by quonn 10y ago
The first one is only for one firefox version. You have to sum them and it comes out equal.
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by quonn 10y ago
The Euro is not the same as the EU. > mechanism to transfer wealth from the northern countries to the southern countries and to make exports easier for Germany I agree that it works very well for Germany. This, by the way, also implies t
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by quonn 10y ago
> designed to be the counterbalance to the United States That would be news to me. The EU has never claimed it is a counter-balance to the United States. Some people argue for a stronger, independent EU, but this is surely not the primar
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by quonn 10y ago
There is not doubt that in Germany the moderate parties will win again (SPD, CDU/CSU, Green Party, Liberals currently get 75% of the votes; The parties that constitute the current government would get 60%; The party that is currently o
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by quonn 10y ago
The UK was never a very convinced member of the EU, so Brexit is not a good example. But more importantly, the EU is not falling apart, it is merely facing a crisis. A pro-EU US administration could help to save it while Trump will likely a
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by quonn 10y ago
After putting some documents in word2vec, it gives you a vector representation of each word (1). Words that are close to each other in this space might be similar, for example. Famously, it's possible to do neat computations, e.g. king
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by quonn 10y ago
Nitpick: More like a third (0.36).
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by quonn 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13289040
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by quonn 10y ago
This article quotes Robert M. Lee, but omits the important paragraph below, which seems to directly contradict the headline: "The White House’s response is ultimately a strong and accurate statement. The attribution towards the Russian
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by quonn 10y ago
> It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything th
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by quonn 10y ago
I have read just a day ago that Germany produced 85% of the electricity needed during the holidays using renewables. The problem is the huge surplus generated by cheap coal that is being exported.
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by quonn 10y ago
This was a very real issue, but it was successfully adressed by banning CFCs etc.
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by quonn 10y ago
They don't create jobs, so they should not be taxed? What a surprising statement! It's possible to make a point that a company that creates jobs should not be taxed (although I think that's wrong, too).
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by quonn 10y ago
> if the Commission wants to drive US tech companies out of the EU Apple has very few research and development or production jobs in the EU. It's mostly sales. For those sales they should pay taxes. The EU has nothing to loose here.
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by quonn 10y ago
Moving at 100 mph in a car does not seem exactly natural either.
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by quonn 10y ago
I don't understand this argument. (It keeps coming up.) The two issues I have with this are: a) Self-perception does not seem like consciousness to me at all. In meditation, if done properly, there is very little self left. It feels mo
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by quonn 10y ago
You can also take other analogies. Complex systems usually have several layers of planning or decision making and if you randomize on the top layers, it will still appear to be structured, because the top layers have different degrees of fr
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by quonn 10y ago
We should learn from the failures of the past (PGP) and not forget that in practise all electronic communication (by phone, email, etc.) has been completely unprotected for pretty much everyone. With large services like Gmail and Facebook m
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by quonn 10y ago
The ex-pats are almost by definition opposed to the regime. No surprises here. Meanwhile, the liberal arts students may have learned to compare Cuba to other and similar countries and draw their conclusions. I have referred to the HDI in a
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by quonn 10y ago
> but the economic and societal destruction of communism is in its own category The Human Development Index puts Cuba at position 40, despite the huge economic disadvantage of the embargo. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by quonn 10y ago
I think his general point was that there are basically no homeless people. True or not, this can easily be checked by traveling there. It is possible to travel freely and I certainly got the same impression while I was there.
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by quonn 10y ago
I don't think this is accurate. I can't point to a source right now, but I have read a lot about the revolution in the last decade and my impression was that some of the revolutionaries were Marxists, but there was no official ide
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by quonn 10y ago
I think there are two levels: One is if the information is ultimately true. The other is if the information is correctly reported according to the impression a journalist would get (at press conference for example). In other words, is the
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by quonn 10y ago
> Until employers start scrutinizing education in terms other than "No degree? No thanks.", then we will continue to have this problem, in my opinion. Requiring a degree is fine. Just waive state university tuition. In Germany

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