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Yeah and communist society is about who has the best connections to the people in the party who decide who gets what. And socialist societies are about not making too much money be…

Which is more than enough to put it out of balance, depending on where it is.

Do you have a link to the study? I'd love to check the study design

For private insurance in Europe you have to sign disclosure documents for all your doctors and medical history, at least in all 5 countries I have insight in. It's perfectly legal …

Same happens in brick and mortar stores. Im germany a drug store chain had a decade lomg partnership with an organic products / plant milk producer who did a lot to buold the marke…

That's not Western, but American. In Europe much weaker painkillers are prescribed due to risk of addiction, and in places like germany a lot of placebo (= overpriced homeopatic bu…

That's a bold assumption. Such algorithms are developed wwith training sets, not just by employees randomly clicking around. They wrote that 189 algorithms were submitted, there we…

Several countries have shown the capability of destroying satellites, not to speak of spy satellites and gps, and the fact that the spaceshuttle and its military sibling was design…

Thats exactly wHat GUIs are good for. Make infrequenlty used features and options accessible.

There is research showing male rhesus monkeys to have preference for wheeled toys https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/ We shouldn't discount possible genetic influ…

That's probabaly the wrong causation. Instead, parents of higher intelligence, education and cultures that values education make more money - and not only pass on their genes, but …

Just that you know - it's ok no to post, if you have nothing substantial to say. Spreading hateful slander adds nothing to the board.

No, you're completely wrong. Graph databases, document databases, K/V stores and so on have completely different models, guarantees and performance characteristics than relational …

Isn't it completely off topic for this board though? On reddit I'd agree with you.

Obviously, if you put all data into one table, it's not a complex query. (But then you also just reinvented document databases with its own set of problems.) Even having them in se…

Both of you are missing the point. Once you normalize, car color would be an attribute on the car table, and to map those you need many-to-many lookup tables. It can be done obviou…

When I let my 5 months old investigate my keyboard, he changed my code, started the compiler and locked the device within 30 seconds. The secret? They use both hands. The give away…

random networking issues

Reddit is definitely being gamed, started 1-2 years ago. And it's a lot harder / impossible to identify fake recommendations, so I'm very suspicious of it.

>Totally agree, but it takes a really strong product manager to stand up to a sales person with $10K in revenue from an enterprise buyer "if we just add this one feature they want"…

People do this because they want to know that you're available for the conversation. Like ringing the phone.

Problem solved: There should be no "opinion" at the workplace outside professional topics. Unless you're the person in charge of the Tibet strategy, your opinion should stay at hom…

That's not real, it's meant to be "satire".

5-htp is associated with increased anxiety / panic attacks. Found out after I got one. (Racing heart, palpitations out of nowhere, spent a night in hospital doing bunch of heart te…

... in muslims who sympathize with jihadist terror groups and play a computer game. No control group. Btw its scary that they asked 500 morrocan muslims in Spain and were able to r…