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by rwissmann 12y ago
There were/are a few, but generally you are right. Creationism is not really a thing in Europe.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Awesome. Definitely forwarding to all the teachers I know.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
Personally I am also not convinced that LHV theories will every describe the effects correctly. But whether the successor of QM ultimately contains true randomness or not, there is no reason to think it will forever stay an 'inexplicab
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by rwissmann 12y ago
No reason to be so pessimistic about quantum randomness. Quantum theory is barely 100 years old and our understanding of it is still evolving massively. Though the latter is not always appreciated by the public.
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by rwissmann 12y ago
You are confusing lifestyle choices with lifestyle constraints. Europe in general has a much less developed culture of going out for food. People will do it occasionally, but often prefer to prepare there own, even in a social setting. This
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Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange enters administration(ft.com)
8 points by rwissmann 12y ago|2 comments
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Those companies can be fantastic environments to grow and learn. Not everyone knows at 21 that they want to be an entrepreneur, much less has a great idea that they want to pursue. Muse uses technology to tackle very traditional industry-ty
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by rwissmann 13y ago
A someone who has just applied for an H1-B with a tech start-up, it is really not that simple. Modern countries need medium- to long-term visa programs for specialised foreign workers. Whether it is always used to for that purpose I questio
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Apologies for the late reply. Do you have a source for that request of Merkel's? You specifically mentioned "forget their role in two world wars". That is not the same as stating the - historically accurate notion - that Germ
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Exactly. People wonder why salaries are so high in finance. Part of that is intense recruiting competition. Finance pays out a fantastic amount of profits to the people generating them, i.e. the employees, rather than just the shareholders.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Good point. Airlines seem to have caught on to this with ideas such as extra legroom and premium economy seats.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
I am curious where you get your information from. Got any source demonstrating the 'the Germans' - which I assume is meant to describe either the majority opinion or the official government stance - want to rewrite history regardi
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by rwissmann 13y ago
I think this is completely wrong. Just because one area - in this case, social media - works well does not mean others do not. Stop defining yourself through success relative to others. Yes, social media is a particular low hanging fruit -
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Not that alone. Here in the UK SMS is often unlimited. People still prefer to use Whatsapp. I and most of my friends have virtually stopped using SMS. Another advantage are international SMS. Again more relevant for say Europeans than for A
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Facebook is running 2b+ in Ad profits at an 8x YoY growth. If owning social networking and communication stays this profitable and Whatsapp helps solidify Facebook's dominance, the purchase is entirely justified. Remember, Whatsapp bas
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by rwissmann 13y ago
If you think your equity is worth zero you either work for the wrong company or do not understand how to use mathematics/probability theory.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
This. All this hate for the European health care systems is just misguided and ignorant. Health care delivery is one of the few sectors of the economy that the US is not world class in (despite having the best medical research). We all have
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by rwissmann 13y ago
1. Hitler has said a lot of things regarding military matters and they weren't always very smart. The opposite argument has also been made by many historians: That removing a lot of the military leadership pre-war weakened the initial
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by rwissmann 13y ago
No it doesn't - these are not mutually exclusive choice. How are expenses for US health care and aid to foreign countries related? You could just as well budget the money for the latter against the expense for a coffee, an aircraft car
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Where does this myth come from that universal healthcare systems like the European ones deny coverage for black swan events? They don't. What procedures are covered has little to do with whether the system is single payer or not.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Liquidity during trading hours is important because an open market with little liquidity makes it difficult to to sell and buy assets in significant quantities. Even reasonably sized transaction start having massive effects on price. Short-
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by rwissmann 13y ago
The whole discussion is baffling. The US health care system consumes almost 20% of GDP. That is twice as much as any other developed country - without seeing better health care results. Making changes to a system that corresponds to one fif
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by rwissmann 13y ago
A lot of very large-scale military and space research, which has provided a lot of the technological basis on which modern Silicon Valley is build. Most basic research, whether in natural sciences, mathematics or the humanities. The equatio
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Those three are just the co-founders. The whole team seems to be much bigger. The arxiv article linked above cites seven names already.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
The easiest short-term solution is to work for or intern with a great company in Europe for a while, most likely in London. Your best options are a brand name tech company - Google, Palantir, Microsoft, etc. - well connected start-up - Spot
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by rwissmann 13y ago
HFTs are not any more a tax on stock transactions than previous market makers. In many settings they actually do lower transaction costs. Just ask other market participants such as L/S hedge funds, systematic traders, mutual funds etc.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Just to point it out: The comments under Readers' Picks and NYT Picks are really worth reading as well.
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by rwissmann 13y ago
You are wrong. It is not even a question of perspective or moral position. For something to kill me that something does not need to have agency or volition, it simply has to cause my death. A volcano or an asteroid certainly have neither, a
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Protesters charged with 'Terrorism Hoax' for too much glitter on their banner(vice.com)
240 points by rwissmann 13y ago|115 comments
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by rwissmann 13y ago
Now that is the kind of article I come to HN for.

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