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schnuri··on The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page
My dad has the opposite problem: he wants his German Wikipedia page deleted, but he's considered too relevant.

He worked as a film director decades ago and won prestigious awards. Today he works as a janitor, living out of the public eye and largely forgotten by it.

The page is like an echo from the past and includes private information he shared in an interview years ago. Still, he's deemed too relevant for it to be deleted.

schnuri··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
I am in awe about how wonderfully engineered by evolution the body is. E.g., what we are able to do with it and how it heals itself when we have an injury. Sure, many people would not live long without external intervention, but many others would. I still want to see the robot that can survive 80 active years without maintenance.
schnuri··on The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?
I would not because it’s evil.
schnuri··on Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
I mean, that's definitely going away if all other employers also move to five-day workweeks, so it seems like you shouldn't factor that in as one of the benefits of this schedule.

1920 probably

schnuri··on Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated
That’s just a conspiracy theory. You overestimate Germanys power in the EU by far, it is not 2009 anymore.

Also, German car manufacturers will not profit from these tariffs.

schnuri··on Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated
VW is against import tariffs on Chinese cars as they fear repercussions (and China is an important export market to them). There are other car manufacturers in the EU which depend much more on domestic sales.
schnuri··on Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated
I think it’s important to point out that German car manufacturers and the German government opposed import tariffs on Chinese cars.
schnuri··on A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas
From the Ideas Page:

> The model has 4 (2²) possible symbols and 8 (2³) possible states, so in total 32 possible symbol-state combinations. Each instruction has 7 bits (3 for the state, 2 for the symbol, 1 for moving left/right and 1 for stopping)

And the tape is unlimited of course ;)

schnuri··on Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
Social science is science.
schnuri··on Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study
For me it’s the same. The moment I accept that I’ll be super tired the next day is the moment I finally fall asleep.
schnuri··on Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law
Is it just me or does someone else finds it curious that a post with 414 points in 2 hours and many comments is on page 2? There are posts with less points, and less comments in more time that are on the first page. Is the HN ranking algorithm public?
schnuri··on Show HN: Predictive text using only 13kb of JavaScript. no LLM
Cool thing!

But: The demo is not usable for me on my mobile device, the keyboard is missing a tab key.

schnuri··on Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance
> Founded in August of 2019, Sahan Journal is a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota.

https://sahanjournal.com/about-sahan-journal/

schnuri··on Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable phone yet
It’s more about sustainability.
schnuri··on Open Source does not win by being cheaper
I don’t understand your comment. Isn’t it the same if Amazon falsely claims to not have access to the data and if another company falsely claims to use some specific software?
schnuri··on Netflix Is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic
A TCP connection has exactly two endpoints. Netflix hypothetically could always decide not to sell their product
schnuri··on Satellite supergroup spots methane super-emitters
I‘d love to see a list of the largest emitters.
schnuri··on Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
Jo translates more to Yes or Yeah
schnuri··on Wall squats better at lowering blood pressure
Ok, this can also depend on the state or on the school. But in Berlin, they taught us this in PE
schnuri··on Wall squats better at lowering blood pressure
In Germany, it‘s a relevant part of elementary school.
schnuri··on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
It takes a shit ton of time if to weasel around the GDPR if your business model is to collect as much personal data as possible.
schnuri··on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
It’s just that there was a time in Europe (about 80 years ago) when among other cruel things, the honor and reputation of a lot of people were actively destroyed for arbitrary reasons.
schnuri··on “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.”
It's called “Godot”, of course you have to wait for it.
schnuri··on Before he was the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski was a mind-control test subject
Have you considered consulting a psychiatrist?
schnuri··on Dutch Cabinet wants minimum 15% corporate tax to cut down tax avoidance
Are there popular tax avoidance schemes using the Netherlands?

Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich seems to be deprecated.

Great that the Dutch cabinet is stepping up their fight against tax avoidance.

schnuri··on Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy
The plants in Germany would have been due for expensive maintenance and they are old. (Maybe not EOL old but old)
schnuri··on TSMC Preps 6x Reticle Size Super Carrier Interposer for Extreme Sip Processors
Haha, I totally know what these words mean.