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sebii··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
Should have booked with an EU airline and you would have gotten 600 Euro...
sebii··on CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think
This distinction was my take away from the article.
sebii··on If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again
A comment in The Journal of the American Medical Association on Taiwan:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

and a timeline:

https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/...

sebii··on Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
The problem is they're privately owned by a foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
sebii··on Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
According to her Medium post it only appears on two websites.

> I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy. The notification said: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”

https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for...

sebii··on Thousands of German researchers lost access to Elsevier journals
So it did happen and about 60 institutes lost access to current subscriptions from Elsevier. The archive can still be accessed.

https://www.projekt-deal.de/vertragskuendigungen_elsevier/

sebii··on Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project?
Which were dictators. Anytime someone claims to be a socialist, but doesn't have democratic foundation is just labeling themselves for another purpose. Socialism has many varieties. There is no singular "socialist" position on anything but this: that production and society should be controlled by the workers.

North Korea calls itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea, should I criticize democracy because North Korea calls itself this way?

sebii··on Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project?
Socialism is the opposite of dictatorship. It wants the democratic control from the bottom up instead of top down.
sebii··on AMD Gives More Zen Details
http://bugmenot.com/view/seekingalpha.com
sebii··on Request For Research: Basic Income
There is non-profit startup in Berlin trying to do this, they mainly fund themselves by raising the money from the crowd. It's a lottery system where one can win 1000€ per month for one year, which in most parts of Germany gets you somewhere. They already funded 29 people analyze and blog about who won. Most people actually didn't do dramatic life changes, which also could be because it's just one year.

Warning German: https://www.mein-grundeinkommen.de/start

sebii··on Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance
Not killing innocent people around the world?
sebii··on Ask HN: What should I save for offline reading during 5 weeks without Internet?
5 hours of lectures on deep learning:

http://www.trivedigaurav.com/blog/quoc-les-lectures-on-deep-...

sebii··on Pushing iOS
Weather and Calender you can check from notification center and Music from control center. It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. If there are any problems on the subway, you get a push notification. You find all your notification in notification center, also your last messages and so on.
sebii··on Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days
Click rate could be down.
sebii··on Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites
More evidence: http://shadyseo.com/
sebii··on Thank you HN, sorry HN
"Depression comes from not keeping up on tasks and losing your streak."

I think you mixed up cause and effect. Depression mostly leads to not keeping up with what you're doing, which is the starting point of a downward spiral. Depression isn't "solved" by motivation. Depression is complex, but most times a common source is a overwhelming emotional event, which is re-felt in every down turn.

sebii··on Dan Benjamin: Regarding The Talk Show
You have to listen to The Critical Path, Horace Dediu talks just the information, and nothing else, these information are mostly eye-opening. Some are interviews with bad quality and not that interesting, but most of the others are crown jewels.