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Comment #27648358
For sure they can. Someone with an appeal to power will take advantage of these people and tell everyone how smart the decisions are (s)he is making and that everybody else should …
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Comment #23654920
You can call it, "economy of attention". Same could be said about the Paris case.
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Comment #23478233
It is as if someone makes runs a company at a profit...
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Comment #23468756
The reason wood is considered neutral is, that most of the wood is used for construction and other stuff. If you burn it and happen to burn fossil fuel as well, nothing is neutral.…
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Comment #23405358
It is because tech people think of tech solutions. Just as this whole pandemic was handled in the countries by virologists - who think in terms of viruses. Reading about the app I …
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Comment #22717069
BTW: You can use something like a small washing towel (I do not know what the proper english word is - in German it is Waschlappen). So you do not have to touch your shit:)
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Comment #22716942
Well take a guess why the left hand in some regions of the world is considered dirty even there is water around to wash? Because toilet paper is seen as improper cleaning.
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Comment #22716834
But are all these graphs comparable? Testing and reporting is not comparable in these countries.
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Comment #22716796
You do not need much. A pot and a shovel will do for the starter. Try potatoes or carrots. Potatoes sprout anyway if you do not put them cold and dark so there is not so much to do…
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Comment #22716730
I really do not understand this toilet paper thing. I mean as long as there is water, why people do not wash their asses. It is cleaner anyway... When I was young and we visited gr…
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Comment #22691053
Would a false positive bad in this situation if social distancing is required? False negative would be more bad or am I missing something?
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Comment #22642364
What you say is an argument from ignorance...but anyway: you should not imply intent if incompetence works as well. And the latter is strong in.the current US government;)
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Comment #22642173
So this is the main problem if all is driven by optimizing to a single value.
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Comment #22632470
Japan is already in recovery mode...
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Comment #22632303
Sanctions are part of a war or often a preparation. You could also call it blackmailing. If people die from not having access to medical goods etc because of sanctions it just chea…
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Comment #22510299
Just search for the Movie Overgames on YouTube. It shows how the psychology was used in gameshows of the 50ies to reeducate Germans. TV was thought of as means to heal. I think ser…
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Comment #21557349
So the code is inflated because the machine does the code repetition for you. The structure of your program is not getting better I think. I do not argue against annotations but in…
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Comment #21556889
So you introduce a new library that does "magic" instead of using one more line? To me this is the opposite of good code. Let alone that the given example would probably live in so…
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Comment #21289033
Oh, I hear you: fail early, fail hard, fail often...wait...
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Comment #21124591
And again, this board is not capable of reading sarcasm.
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Comment #21121713
They should have played videos of soldiers marching or something the like. Then it would be considered less harmful.
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Comment #21059137
Ha ha ha. The church would not have lasted that long if...
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Comment #21053728
Do not think you can prepare:) I have two - 5 and 2. We did these birth preparation courses that are offered here in the hospital. It was good to get a glimpse of what follows. How…
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Comment #21045926
> If the US imposed sanctions against my country, I'd just shrug. You obviously do not understand that sanctions are usually a way to prepare for war with weapons. Sanctions bring …