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f_allwein

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About f_allwein

Social scientist, Professor for Digital Transformation with IU International University of Applied Sciences.

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    Comment #48500655

    Realistic costs of owning a car are around 1.000€ per month - see https://assets.adac.de/Autodatenbank/Autokosten/autokostenue... (pdf, German, look for Gesamtkosten (total cost)) …

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    Comment #48397495

    > While critics will question the feasibility of this vision because it relies on a radical reform of global financial institutions and massive wealth taxes – both of which have lo…

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    Comment #48350579

    Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?

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    Comment #48220999

    dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304

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    Comment #48203881

    No. Takes decades to build/ projects run over time and budget/ where would you build?/ where would you store nuclear waste (bonus points for: in your region)?/ contributes little t…

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    Comment #47898818

    I have another one: What is lost when you put any of these in an LLM? Yes, we can get plausible sounding answers generated algorithmically. But these are great starting points for …

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    Comment #47750904

    maybe “The Only Way to Win is Not to Play”

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    Comment #47688539

    > Jobs saw the Apple Store not so much as a retail outlet but as a church for evangelizing to the unconverted. He wanted the world to know that Apple’s simple but powerful tools wo…

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    Comment #47688457

    Interesting, thanks for sharing! I really want to like the Vision Pro, but haven’t even tried it yet. Hope it will evolve into something good.

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    Comment #47558901

    „Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.“ Oscar Wilde

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    Comment #47164234

    triple submission - could they be merged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037772

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    Comment #46932029

    It is a global challenge. Climate change is caused by rich people in developed countries (the average Indian person causes very low co2 emissions). There are some good initiatives …

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    Comment #46931552

    Here’s the science: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/possible-nort... „Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key sy…

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    Comment #46897645

    I like the original title, „ Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn“. Why edit it?

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    Comment #46873493

    Still available in Germany („Rechenschieber“), eg https://www.wissenladen.de/products/der-rechenschieber

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    Comment #46848993

    Maybe it should be „forked“

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    Comment #46794206

    > In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days It‘s weird in general how tools/ w…

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    Comment #46707758

    on the other hand, WETI still seems to be up, so you could contribute there. http://weti-institute.org/

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    Comment #46662353

    Don’t live like a rich person in a developed country - they’re the only ones whose co2 footprints are too high.

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    Comment #46607626

    Power tip: replace the Word docs with Markdown.

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    Comment #46601160

    Interesting! I wonder a) how much of an issue this addresses, ie how much are people worried about privacy when they use other LLMs? and b) how much of a disadvantage it is for Con…