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by southerndrift 7y ago
Not literally, because farmland isn't that cheap.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
I don't disagree, but I think that switching back to Deutsche Mark wouldn't be such a big problem since it would essentially be the Swiss situation. The exchange rates don't have to be high because Germany could print money o
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Yes, I was thinking in the way of radicalbyte's comment and I take the dry values of carb sources which indeed reverses the ranking. But even with beef, it takes 800g to reach 2000kcal[1]. I am just wondering if this can actually be th
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Take a look at this list of wealth per adult [1] Germany is at no 29. It's not like the median German has profited. If anybody has profited then it could be the average German, i.e. the top 1% that has made some money. That said, why d
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by southerndrift 7y ago
What do you eat besides meat? Since meat has the lowest energy density, you most likely get your energy from other sources anyway. Even if you eat 500g / 1lb per day for a 2000kcal target, you would still get 1500kcal from other food.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
So what's the difference between marmalade and jelly? Is marmalade jelly made of quince?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>Chinese people today have lived through an economic miracle. I just want to point out that WW2 was fought with horses[1]. It's not like the West has always been fully industrialized. The development may appear as a miracle to the p
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by southerndrift 7y ago
... implying that happiness is not scalar. But if happiness is not measurable, what does utilitarianism measure? The amount of pain - or rather the lack thereof?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Seems like the father forgot about Dostoyevsky: >Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that. [1] [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Guess what buybacks are! The problems for anybody else are diminished returns and the limited amount of banks that are willing to give you money for nothing.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
What if WeWork is a bet on a future where no recession is going to happen? If the zero-interest money policy continues, then the amount of money increases and prices will slightly go up. No competitor can get the low rents that WeWork has
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Additionally to CPLX's point, they can also move profits into low-tax countries by licensing their brand. The fix costs for that are too high for a Local Coffee Co. to copy.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
How should I interpret the end? Does he mean 'yr boy' literally, as in 'your slave'? >To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself. >yr boy, >Hank Is Buk
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by southerndrift 7y ago
The difference between fear and 'Angst' is that fear has a tangible object of which somebody can be afraid and 'Angst' doesn't. So as far as I understand it, people are angsty because they feel afraid but they can&#
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by southerndrift 7y ago
I guess this goes against the grain and threatens the hope of many hn readers but you are essentially right. For sure, some people manage to have a startup and a job, like some people get rich by playing the lottery. But this setup is like
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>“The whole problem in Germany is the lack of fiber-to-the-home strategy by Deutsche Telekom DTEGY -0.52% and other carriers, No, it is not. The problem could have been solved decades ago. Helmut Kohl of the CDU (conservative party) turn
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Would the labor for the private clubs still be cheap if the money stayed in Bali?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Compare Australian wages to the rest of the world. If you go on vacation to other places you see that Australians make more than people from other industrialized nations. You don't see it because your plumber wants to participate, too.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Yes. Depending on your usage pattern, you are better off buying that cheap low-range car and paying for additional transport when needed.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
What do you mean by "80% vegetarian"? You eat 20% meat? Isn't that close to the recommended proportion of meat in a diet, which would make you a normal person but not a vegetarian?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>How do you go see your parents, or on holidays, or drop by friends a few cities over, or go to your cousin's wedding? Rent a car or go by train/plane.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
It works like this but I still don't understand why people trust a company that has the resources to buy a Superbowl ad. If they can afford that ad they must charge their customers more than needed. In other words, the product is more
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by southerndrift 7y ago
To add to this: The CDU (conservative party) turned back the decision to role out a fiber network across Germany that would have been constructed from the 80ies until the millenium [1]. If you actively burn your fields, then there is nothin
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by southerndrift 7y ago
You may have to activate this, but generally, press the middle mouse button, then you can scroll with the track point while the button is pressed. Problem on windows is that you have to choose between the middle mouse button click and the s
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Could it be the other way round and back-looking doesn't really mean 'looking behind you'? Could 'back' just mean 'further away'? If you move a box further down a storage room, you also move it 'furth
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by southerndrift 7y ago
On a smaller scale, the concept has been used in the Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher If there is wind, you don't even need the fans that are used in the basement of the Eastgate Centre.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
In other words, that beer gave you the motive to bring twitter down, which you inevitably did by asking that question.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
May it's not what it does but that it is written in COBOL?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Tribal people don't have weekends. It's 2*52 days + 18 days = 122 days out of 365. That's 5.3h per day. To me, that is close enough to 4 hours that people don't feel stressed to the point that there is a desire for chang
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Can't you use ssh and connect to localhost with the -Y option to sandbox an X app?

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