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by wukerplank 6y ago
The "draconian" was a reference to a different comment by parent ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25038688 ). Whatever your opinion is about taxes and the middle class: It's easy for the wealthy to not pa
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I'm not against taxes, it was my cynical way of expressing that it is impossible to evade them for most people while it is quite easy for those who already have more than enough.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
So, what is this? His passion for the Mediterranian? Reconnecting with his ancestor's roots? BTW: All tax systems are draconian, at least to the middle class. Not to people who can afford creative lawyers.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
As a layman: How is immunity defined? The German virologist Drosten said in an interview (a while ago, sorry, no source) that it is expected that survivors will stop producing white blood cells at some point. The next time they get infected
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by wukerplank 6y ago
The thinking is that faster hardware is cheaper than developer time. E.g.: https://blog.codinghorror.com/hardware-is-cheap-programmers-...
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by wukerplank 6y ago
What makes you say it is hard to maintain longer lived projects? (I used to be a RoR developer for a few years, so I'm curious about other people's experiences.)
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I read (maybe here on HN comments) that Vitamin D could only be the indicator. People who live a certain lifestyle have low risk of the mentioned diseases AND have good Vitamin D levels. But you have to live that lifestyle, not just take su
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I suppose earthquakes and other disasters happen (and possibly tilt the reactor) however Earth is shaped?
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Also, the Death Metal Relentless Doppelgänger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtVkPKx3RA
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I found your comment quite cynical and hand wavy. The nuclear fallout affected a huge area and still impacted parts of central Europe. This goes hand in hand with increased cancer rates. Yes, better than dying immediately, but still not a f
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by wukerplank 6y ago
The metric seems to be: Everybody who is not in intensive care is counted as a mild case.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Haven't looked into this for a while, but most projects I saw were using Amazon's API, which I guess has the largest international catalog of books. The typical next result is GoodReads, which would be awkward to lean on for build
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Be sure to post here when you go live, I want this! I used Delicious Library to keep track of my books but it seems abandoned. I guess the challenge is to have an extensive catalog/API that makes it easy for users to add books to their
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by wukerplank 6y ago
I started writing a master thesis in a MediaWiki a long time ago. Did not work for me, maybe lack of keeping a proper index. It was a data graveyard. On the other hand, so is my whole home folder...
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Honest question: What has it done for society? If Amazon dies today, there is nothing I'd miss. Nothing that makes it irreplaceable.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Justifing this pile of money by saying that there are other billionaires (Jobs, Gates, etc.) is kinda weird. I'd rather compare his with the median wealth of Amazon's employees. Makes for a way more interesting discussion.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Yes, this also calls for regulations as to what the collecting companies can or can't do. GDPR was a first step into this direction.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Made me feel like an idiot when I saw how well this works. Physician have been banging this drum for decades. Exercise, drink enough water and eat clean.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Fair point about Germany, but locking down like the rest of Europe is not a question of gloves or medical equipment. There must have been different reasons for that decision.
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by wukerplank 6y ago
Apple has a history of doing everything in their own way if feasible. Not sure if one should extrapolate from them to the entire market.
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by wukerplank 7y ago
Fair point!
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by wukerplank 7y ago
Wow that's creepy. It lists apps where a) I didn't use FB login/signup and b) used a different email address to sign up. How do they cross-reference that to me? Hand how can I prevent that outside of their tools (which I assu
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by wukerplank 7y ago
I suppose it depends on the Yoga flavour. I had severe back pains after turning 30 (had to lie on the floor because I could not sit anymore in the office). I started Yoga a few years later. Doing it for 4 years now. I have a strong core and
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by wukerplank 7y ago
> There may come a time when you could be jailed for what you wrote. What kind of stuff are your writing (about)?
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by wukerplank 7y ago
A few years ago I came accross Systems Theory[1] that seems to explain phenomena (like ant colonies) quite well. But I think they call "systems of higher order" or "emergence", not collective intelligence. [1] https:&#x
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by wukerplank 7y ago
So, what's your point?
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by wukerplank 7y ago
Let me be sarcastic: Yes, it is very easy to have sufficiently fast internet (or even a computer) in a non-industrialized country. Even in the US it is perfectly viable to work 2-3 low wage jobs to keep your family fed and healthy and then
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by wukerplank 7y ago
> feel any shame quitting for a better job Yes and how do they find a better job without education? You are very fortunate that you were able leave that behind you. But do you realize there are millions of people in this world who have n
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by wukerplank 7y ago
Have a look a low wage/low skill jobs. There is no such thing as security, employees are subject to their employer's benevolence. They even have to accept circumstances that might violate laws. They can't fight it because the
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by wukerplank 7y ago
If it's part of the OS, it's probably not cross-platform... I still use Dropbox because it runs everywhere: NAS, Windows, Mac and my phone. (At work we use Google Drive, it it just sucks. File Stream is super buggy and the web UI

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