madballster

They are not asking him for a refund, they are informing him of a chargeback. That's a fundamental difference.

I wish these type of articles referenced a benchmark or baseline, such as "Corona virus damages XX percent more/less braun cells than recent strains of influenza virus".

Every taxpayer in Berlin is basically subsidizing these state owned apartments which are rented out at below market rates.

Can't wait to use this. This should allegedly be widely available in 21H1 which should not be too far away.

"which connected China’s best teachers "... I wonder why they choose the best teachers for this type study? Wouldn't a randomized, average sample produce more objective results?

It's great to see there were new Emacs users and developers coming on board, judging by the age of some of the presenters. Emacs has been proclaimed dead many times, I think it has long future ahead of itself. Yes its aged, and dated. But also very powerful. And cools things can still happen (gccemacs as an example).

Anyone remember BMX Simulator. I think that was my first game on my C64.

The stock is undervalued by 50% IMO. What the Samwers are doing is fleecing the public. I have sold my shares right after the announcement, not going to become a holdout. Surely it will take years until they will put a decent offer on the table for remaining shareholders.

So why are "mental models" the best way to make intelligent decisions? What other ways to make intelligent decisions exist? The blog post failed to explain that, it largely appears to be marketing material.

First thing is to ask this teenager why do they want to become a computer engineer? What do they think computers engineers do and why do they think they will enjoy doing that for a living?

This looks like straight out of Aliens, loading bay scene. Fantastic.

Single, old men are charged more in swinger clubs. Maybe that's where Tinder got the idea.

That's one of the reasons why the US makes it only to spot #25 on the democracy index and earned the "flawed democracy" label.

Not sure if we should extrapolate from one White House administration as to what the US believes.

I don't see an edge here. It could very well be that the stock sells off when the announcement comes because it has been well anticipated. This is not a risk-free trade as some make it out to be. Proceed with caution.

I feel reminded of "gym science" when it comes to a lot of parental development strategies for children. Everyone does it so there must be something to it. If controlled studies can't replicate any effects it does not appear to bother parents much.

Why is it so hard to accept that domain transfer does not exist. If kids learn chess for a few years, they won't be better at mathematics. After five years of practicing Violin kids don't find learning a foreign language easier. Adding insult to injury, learning Latin (like many Europeans still do) contrary to common sense does not improve scholastic results of students when learning other languages.

An intelligent human knows when they see a mask. An algorithm does not know what a mask is.

And this is exactly why no facial recognition algorithm should be called "intelligent".

I know this is off-beat, but I found Warren Buffett's annual letters invaluable as a resource to learn about corporate finance. They don't substitute a good textbook, but they give a great insight into real world application.

They're available for free on www.berkshirehathaway.com ("Annual Reports" -> "Chairman’s Letter"), for those who prefer a book Lawrence Cunningham wrote a great compendium with annotations and context called "The Essays of Warren Buffett".

I re-read these every once in a while over the years and found endless useful insights as my real-world business and finance experience grew.

If there is VC racism, doesn't that also mean there is a market opportunity for VC money to focus exclusively on African American tech startups. Even if there aren't many, there appears to be zero competition selecting investments.

The author is rightfully frustrated. But instead of focussing on lack of interest in their app, maybe there's a bigger opportunity here.

This is what happens is democratic societies with a demographic pyramid that's upside down: lots of old and relatively few young. Politicians want to get re-elected and cater to the largest, most influential voter group (old people) and disregard younger voters agendas.

Hegel (b. 1770) is purported to have used a version of Zettelkasten, as described by Hegel's sister: "He approached his reading as follows: Everything that seemed remarkable to him he wrote on a separate sheet of paper, which he identified at the top by a general label under which the particular content had to be subsumed. In the center of the upper edge he then wrote in large letters—not infrequently using Fraktur letters—the keyword of the article. These pages he ordered alphabetically ... and thus could by means of this simple method use his excerpts at any moment. "

A year or two ago, Canadian conservative professor and YT superstar Jordan Peterson announced he was going to free conservative and "alternative content producers" from the yoke of Valley owned online media companies by creating his own, conservative media platform. What ever happened to this? Vaporware?

It appears conservative content creators knew their days were counted on advertising-financed mainstream media outlets, yet they did not prepare accordingly. Obviously there is a market for their content, what is so hard in organizing and creating their own media outlet?

You can't be a free market capitalist and then deny a free capitalist business their own terms and conditions as to whom they choose to do business with.

>you quickly end up with a single folder with thousands of files, which makes it hard to manage, share, etc.

That's not a bug, but a feature of Zettelkasten.

"data-mining skills" -- I cringed at this phrase used by the journalist. Data mining is not a worthwhile skill, in fact its more of an insult. It's a curse any scientist worth his salt tries to avoid.

Chess has been declared dead so many times to online chess it seems to stage a big upturn with the younger crowd. I am happy to see it.

Remember: Luhmann's original Zettelkasten is pen and paper, see image link https://m.westfalen-blatt.de/var/storage/images/wb/startseit...

It's only the latest hype around digital Zettelkastens that tout the supposed benefits of mass-linking notes or generating fancy graphs (which I find to be a gimmick with little practical value).

Like any note taking system: Your potential output is what and how much you put into it. No note taking solution - digital or analog - magically produces results without countless hours of input.

IIRC, the initial Munich Linux Project ("Limux") from 2004 I think was somewhat of a failure. They spent millions migrating dozens of different Windows applications, but found that certain offices (e.g. the land registry) kept using Windows applications for obscure hard-to-replace services and databases, leading to friction.

Later they rolled back then entire migration just to re-announce a new Linux migration more recently, see https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...

I don't think one should suggest Zettelkasten to anyone who is looking for a simple to-do list or note taking implementation. Regular notes are perfectly fine if one wants to take regular notes.

Luhman's zettels weren't random thoughts or casual ideas that popped into his head during a stroll with the dog., but rather full, jargon-laden sentences that were close to publication-ready in quality, sometimes highly abstract in nature. He would take a couple dozen related zettels, arrange them on a table in sequence, rearrange them and eventually have a rough outline for an article or the chapter of a book.

Here's a random zettel from Luhmann's archive, translated by deepl.com. This is 1 out of 90,000 total:

1.6c1 "About an activity, at one time, central and centralization." -- In some ways comparable to the view of Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration, p. 183ff., e.g. p. 195: "Unity is always a process, not a product." -- But she confuses unity and unifying, and says below quite correctly (p. 195): "Business unifying must be understood as a process, not as a product." -- Except, of course, that the word unity does not mean process, this dynamic view is that the process can be described as valuable and characterizes the organizational view, from the finished fake unit to the unification unit process.

Source: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/zettel...