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xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Houses are assets, not goods

"But at the end of each sales chain is either another landlord or someone who was previously renting."

Or, in many cities, on the end of many sales chains is a Chinese or Saudi who is trying to get wealth away from an oppressive regime.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Alcohol Belts of Europe

Many countries even have their own internal alcohol belts. Austria has many wine growing regions where Wine dominates alcohol consumption.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%

Yeah, but farming in general is different in Austria, just look at the rates of e.g. cage eggs in the US, where 95% are caged. Plus even in Austria you have to watch out, a lot of the cheaper meat is from large German farms with similar conditions.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%

No, what they are saying is that cows fed with seaweed AND antibiotics are still more profitable than cows fed only with seaweed.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, police and defence firms

If you collect the data, some of it will be exposed, that's a very real risk. Especially in cases like this with biometrical data that can't be changed. I wonder if something will change after a few big leaks in this sector.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Telegram introduces feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group

I thought Telegram was sending messages encrypted (though not E2E) per default?

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Japanese addressing system

How is this a purely technical problem? I'd argue it's a purely non-technical problem, especially in the many cases where e.g. the postal worker needs some implicit knowledge to make the right decisions.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: Escape rooms are big business

There already are VR rooms. I'm stoked to try it out (going next week), but from what I can tell it's still a niche even for the companies where you can do them.

xanipher | 6 years ago | on: YouTube faces creator backlash

But most of this content will get a negligible amount of views, which means that most of the conplaints come from a much lower number of videos.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: Let’s Destroy Robocalls

It hasn't always been the case, mostly because for most of human history attention wasn't the limiting scarce resource to things.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs

This is not about personal "pleasure in the physical appearance", but about the culture where using Playboy photos in a professional cobtext doesn't raise any eyebrows.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women

How is it reasonable that "this line that you will not cross" is pornography and not "an app that tracks and controls Saudi Arabian women"?

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: The Norwegian art of the packed lunch

Where are warm lunches for schools typical/expected? Have never seen them "properly".

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

Learning about the gods of old greece and their stories is still part of the curriculum in a lot of European countries. I doubt most would think of the Moon Landing first.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)

The bus stops are for the surroundings of Krumbach, which probably means about one per village. I doubt it will be hard to discover them, especially because there are still signs for the buses there.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)

>Some sort of privacy or seclusion area for women or children who have to wait alone

How is this supposed to work? Especially with bus stations of that size?

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: People with Depression Use Language Differently

Depressive realism is still a strongly contested theory. There is also a lot of evidence that depressed people rate themself worse than warranted.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire

It's the reality in most western countries.

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days

Are there no other options? I get that it's difficult if you want international payments, but surely for inter-American payments enough other options are available? (Genuinely curious)

xanipher | 7 years ago | on: Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record

But since not everyone that would be or could become a good software developer takes that path there are also a lot of people out there better than the CS grads described here.