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hans_mueller | 10 years ago | on: Drink Cheap Wine

>Europeans seem perfectly comfortable cracking open a 1-euro tetra-pak of wine for guests. Germans, for example, pay just $1.79 on average for a bottle of wine.

I stopped reading here, b/c that's simply not correct. It's true that most people don't spend more than 5 Euro on wine and that you get great wine around that. But except for students getting ready for a binge, nobody considers tetra packed alcoholic grape juice as wine.

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Take the Money and Run

I also wondered about this fast-food-soup or restaurant dichotomy. You can eat quite cheap and fast while healthy - f.x. full-wheat bread with avocado and onion.

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Tmux 2.0 released

90% of HackerNews is self plug ... so don't worry :)

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped

Spiegel went from investigative journalism decades ago to publishing very shallow and (in case of its online version) click-baity articles. Süddeutsche is certainly more insightful.

But at least it is safe to say that Spiegel is not much politically biased on a whole.

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped

> Note that Der Spiegel is considered a top notch news source.

By who? Certainly not by me ...

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: “Flower of Battle,” a combat manual created in the first decade of the 1400s

Not sure why - but this looks as fake as a six dollar bill ...

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand

you mean Pig Data?

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York

Well, Italians aren't just very patient at organising - so police will deal with those situations more impulsively:

"Once arrested, protesters, including five Britons, were taken to a police barracks where they were beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas, threatened with rape and forced to sing fascist-era songs."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/12/night-police-be...

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course

> whether they live in Moscow, Idaho or Moscow, Russia

That's a funny way to put it.

I can say from personal experience that actively learning to be mindful - meaning present and sensing - instead of constantly being obsessed with thoughts and mental picturing of the future and the past - has a very positive impact on my well-being and that of the people in my environment who I communicate and interact with.

I am definitely going to give this course a try.

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?

http://feedly.com/ is comfortable to use.

hans_mueller | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?

I am curious about the advantages of a newsletter over a blog featuring an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. The concept of getting mailed regularly seems so 1.0 and overcomplicated.

But my question is serious - I also maintain a data science blog and I'd like to evaluate offering a newsletter version of it.