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https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Seeing_Media

writeup from the author linked in the video description

Have you had a look at the EU One Stop Shop scheme for VAT? (It's only been introduced with the VAT overhaul this summer)

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/vat-e-com...

Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.

This directly contradicts the excess mortality data published by CDC itself. [1] From the article it's unclear to me what evidence led to the claims presented. So far the article seems very unconvincing. Seems like John Hopkins has good reasons to take it down.

Also bear in mind that the excess mortality we've seen so far is with all the measures to limit the impact of the pandemic. It's fair to assume that excess mortality would be a lot higher without those. Our World In Data has a well explained international overview and analysis. [2][3]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-mortality

Ask HN Threads with similiar topics/recommendations:

* Books you wish you had read earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851

* What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155833

* Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851

* Books with a high signal to noise ratio? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027102

They took care of that themselves: https://medium.com/postzen/mapzen-alternatives-aa6d857e3532

It's not as nicely formatted though. The Internet Archive has it too and it's closer to the original: http://web.archive.org/web/20180102173058/https://mapzen.com...

Do you know any blog posts or similiar where this is described in more detail?

Something similiar already exists if i understood you correctly. Look up 'community supported agriculture' (CSA).

To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm.

I did read it fairly early and it had an quite an impact on my life and thinking. It put into words a lot of my discomfort with a life focused on materialistic success. And it was inspiring seeing an intelectual combining so many of the thoughts and topics he developed during his lifetime into one coherent and approachable book.

For those who'd rather have the article displayed as a single page: http://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/snowdens-box/?single=1

As far as i understand it, it's not so much that you can't do that anymore but that it's not automatic anymore. You can still let your mind do it's thing, e.g. hop on the thought train and let one thought lead to another. It's more that you choose to do that whereas for most people it just happens (automatically and subconciously)

Hmmm, the following seems to contradict that; instead google recommends verification by DNS lookup: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553

'Google doesn't post a public list of IP addresses for webmasters to whitelist. This is because these IP address ranges can change, causing problems for any webmasters who have hard-coded them, so you must run a DNS lookup as described next.'

I guess the mentioned article is http://blog.markwatson.com/2014/07/practical-internet-privac...

Have you modified your approach since then?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'statistically' above.

In general you can't say whether a sample size of 2000 will get you within a specific margin of error without additional information. It very much depends e.g. on what the hypothesis you're testing is or what you're trying to estimate.

They seem to have made available almost their complete catalog up to and including 2004: http://link.springer.com/search?showAll=false&facet-content-...

This search yields 110 041 results across all disciplines covered by springer that should be free to download in complete. Only 11 451 books from the same time range are 'preview-only'.

I'm not certain that this is intentional. I haven't found any statement by Springer that they make available all ebooks older than 10 years. Does anyone know more?

I tried locating the paper "Novel Phase of Carbon, Ferromagnetism and Conversion into Diamond" by Jagdish Narayan and Anagh Bhaumik which is given as one of the sources for the artikel and was supposedly published yesterday. I can't find it though :(

The DOI doesn't check out and it's not on the Journal of Applied Physics homepage. Can anyone point me to it?

Meta-Analysis of 209 studies published 2013 in Clinical Psychology Review: "Conclusion: MBT is an effective treatment for a variety of psychological problems, and is especially effective for reducing anxiety, depression, and stress." [1]

[2] is a recent meta-analysis published in the same journal and looking into identifying the underlying mechanisms of mindfulness-based therapy aka how it works: "These findings are largely consistent with the theoretical underpinnings of MBSR and MBCT. Evidence for mindfulness, cognitive reactivity and emotional reactivity as mechanisms support the key theoretical premises underlying MBSR and MBCT that the cultivation of mindfulness skills leads to insight and non-reactive acceptance of one's experience which in turn lead to positive outcomes."

The underlying theory of this course is sound and has been shown to be on a similiar level of effectiveness as other therapies including pharmacological ones. Whether this specific online course (or any online course) is effective i can't comment on.

[1] http://www.verksampsykologi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/K...

[2] http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate_Cavanagh/publicatio...

I'll save you other curious people the search: The quote is from 'The Win Without Pitching Manifesto' by Blair Enns.

https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/read-it-online/the-passio...

Gummiboot recently added support to create a single EFI executable that contains the /etc/os-release file, kernel parameters, bzImage and initrd [1] You should then be able to sign this file and configure UEFI Secure Boot so that only files signed by you can be booted. I guess that's the reasoning behind it.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+KaySievers/posts/GisPmPBsqfK

I'm mostly using Linux. So that's where i would start should i decide to start something myself.

I'm interested to see your list should you get around to do it :)

Curious side note/question: What makes you think Bill Gates or someone involved with the website reads the comments on this HN submission?

I can recommend the book 'A Course in Game Theory' by Ariel Rubinstein and Martin J. Osborne . You'll probably need some mathematical and economic background knowledge to gain the most out of it. Note that it is more abstract than illustrative though it is aimed at a beginner in Game Theory.

The book ist free to download after a simple registration at http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/books.html

The german states have their own different data privacy laws, e.g. see http://byds.juris.de/byds/009_1.1_DSG_BY_1993_rahmen.html for Bavaria.

Those regulate how personal data has to be handled within the state and communal administrations. Those regulations concern private businesses in so far as administrative tasks are delegated to the corporate sector.

Naturally it defines all of higher intelligence and everything that any human can do (as opposed to things animals can do).

Wrong, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

You're right. I changed the title accordingly.

Although noone replied directly Matthias Andree wrote:

"(I have read Eric's folloup to Linus' mail I'm replying to, but not following that one up in AOL style. I second Eric mentioning the "curse of the gifted" from own experience. You start something without design, it succeeds for your talent, experience, whatever, it evolves and grows and eventually disembogues into a rewrite from scratch, that time with a design before the implementation.)"

My guess is that most of them thought Erics Mail too off topic to continue in that direction on the kernel list. I'd like to know what they thought of Erics arguments though. Exspecially Linus opinion at the time would have been interesting ...

Source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/23/103

The X60 has only a resolution of 1024x768. That was one of the main drawbacks of the X60 imo. The better resolution display was only available for the X60t. Some people hacked the X6x to use those [1].

[1] http://ithinkpad.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/x6xipsguide/

I'd like to read more in depth about these transnational comparisons on the effects of patent systems. Can you please point me towards a source which serves as a good starting point for further reading?

Thanks for posting. Well worth the time spent reading it :)

direct link to the whitepaper: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/cloud-app-found...

Oracle argues that open source for military applications would be 1) more expensive and 2) less reliable than commercial software. The whole paper is a rehash of an old oracle whitepaper from 2009 [1]. Ironically both points are refuted by the DoDs own FAQ on Open Source Software [2]. It's noteworthy too, that the DoD has long years of experience using open source software and has published its take away lessons [3].

So what's the reason for Oracle to rehash its old FUD right now and picking a target that obviously knows better?

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/046045.pdf

[2] http://dodcio.defense.gov/OpenSourceSoftwareFAQ.aspx

[3] http://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/FOSS/OTD-lesso...

I agree with you. Care to list the attempts you know of?

The ones i can think of of the top of my head:

- https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/

- https://www.gnu.org/software/social/

- https://diasporafoundation.org/

- https://owncloud.org/