hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
even better
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hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
no, switch to xylitol.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Mitmproxy – Open-source console-based proxy
I'd say, it's not just a web based interface, it also is a console.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: How to get enough protein without meat
Bingo
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]
technically there is nothing new in this clip. People have been singled out and murdered for since we exist and sometimes nobody is singled out but everybody killed with a bomb. nonetheless there is something undeniably creepy and unsettling about being killed by a soulless machine.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]
a hydrogen bomb has never been used.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]
to develop countermeasures is always way harder than developing an assaulting technology. like firing a rocket is easy, but catching it mid flight is very difficult.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]
it also seems that most people are too optimistic with regards to involvement of robots and ai in war. first of all an asymmetric kill power distribution will lead to asymmetric war anyway - that's what is referred to as terrorism. if an opponent has no chance fighting a 1on1 battle they will resort to planting bombs in malls. and the idea that robots Will fight for humans is also very naive because if the robots are done on one side then humans will be back fighting.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Germany replaces US as country with best international image
the Bürgerämter are an issue in all large German towns. Hamburg is a catastrophe and Munich is also maxing out its capacity since mass immigration.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Germany replaces US as country with best international image
you definitely have a point. but Berlin is still without doubt am exceptionally exciting town to live in. and public transportation is just as broken in Munich.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Germany replaces US as country with best international image
> I have almost nothing in common with the people of Alabama.
seriously? you have very much in common with them. you want clean water to drink and air to breath, healthy food to eat, peace, a non-corrupt and efficient government, safety, medical infrastructure and so on ...
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: A Chess Novice Challenged Magnus Carlsen
the text is not superbly written at all. it's an advertisement with lots of plot holes and utterly absurd formulations of any kind. just the sleep/sister analogy is so weird and pointless it made me cringe ...
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the Rich to Avoid Taxes
people from country A can only hide money in country B if the number of people from B hiding money in A is not significant to the government or society of B and vice versa. otherwise A and B would sooner or later have an agreement to avoid this because both will make more money then through taxes. that's what happend with Switzerland and the EU.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
as my fake username suggests - I'm a German.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
yes, but the English spoken by most non-natives is actually something like an Esperanto. the pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar is almost normalized and an artificial dialect. i think English is a very good compromise. the only problem are French people and other communities who disdain English for patriotical, historical, or political reasons.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
FG probably would allow advertisers to bypass FB products for identification of potential customers and hence is not in best financial interest of FB.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
this is how I met my until now best friend about 15 years ago.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: Why do we care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
the scroungers are visible while the rich are rather abstract and invisible.
hans_mueller | 8 years ago | on: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
sadly that's just positive thinking. most people don't toughen up, they just break and maybe commit suicide.
hans_mueller | 10 years ago | on: Did you buy that latte 2 hours ago? Think about leaving the coffee shop
A coffee shop is not public space. It's a private space opened to the public under conditions defined by the owner of the shop.
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