queeerkopf
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Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Have you had a look at the EU One Stop Shop scheme for VAT? (It's only been introduced with the VAT overhaul this summer)
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/vat-e-com...
Comment · 6 years ago
> Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
This directly contradicts the excess mortality data published by CDC itself. [1] From the article it's unclear to me what evidence led to the claims presented. So far the article seems very unconvincing. Seems like John Hopkins has good reasons to take it down.
Also bear in mind that the excess mortality we've seen so far is with all the measures to limit the impact of the pandemic. It's fair to assume that excess mortality would be a lot higher without those. Our World In Data has a well explained international overview and analysis. [2][3]
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Comment · 8 years ago
Ask HN Threads with similiar topics/recommendations:
* Books you wish you had read earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851
* What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155833
* Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851
* Books with a high signal to noise ratio? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027102
Comment · 8 years ago
They took care of that themselves: https://medium.com/postzen/mapzen-alternatives-aa6d857e3532
It's not as nicely formatted though. The Internet Archive has it too and it's closer to the original: http://web.archive.org/web/20180102173058/https://mapzen.com...
Comment · 9 years ago
Do you know any blog posts or similiar where this is described in more detail?
Comment · 9 years ago
Something similiar already exists if i understood you correctly. Look up 'community supported agriculture' (CSA).
Comment · 9 years ago
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm.
I did read it fairly early and it had an quite an impact on my life and thinking. It put into words a lot of my discomfort with a life focused on materialistic success. And it was inspiring seeing an intelectual combining so many of the thoughts and topics he developed during his lifetime into one coherent and approachable book.
Comment · 9 years ago
For those who'd rather have the article displayed as a single page: http://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/snowdens-box/?single=1
Comment · 10 years ago
As far as i understand it, it's not so much that you can't do that anymore but that it's not automatic anymore. You can still let your mind do it's thing, e.g. hop on the thought train and let one thought lead to another. It's more that you choose to do that whereas for most people it just happens (automatically and subconciously)
Comment · 10 years ago
Hmmm, the following seems to contradict that; instead google recommends verification by DNS lookup: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553
'Google doesn't post a public list of IP addresses for webmasters to whitelist. This is because these IP address ranges can change, causing problems for any webmasters who have hard-coded them, so you must run a DNS lookup as described next.'
Comment · 10 years ago
I guess the mentioned article is http://blog.markwatson.com/2014/07/practical-internet-privac...
Have you modified your approach since then?
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm not sure what you mean by 'statistically' above.
In general you can't say whether a sample size of 2000 will get you within a specific margin of error without additional information. It very much depends e.g. on what the hypothesis you're testing is or what you're trying to estimate.
Comment · 11 years ago
They seem to have made available almost their complete catalog up to and including 2004:
http://link.springer.com/search?showAll=false&facet-content-...
This search yields 110 041 results across all disciplines covered by springer that should be free to download in complete. Only 11 451 books from the same time range are 'preview-only'.
I'm not certain that this is intentional. I haven't found any statement by Springer that they make available all ebooks older than 10 years. Does anyone know more?
writeup from the author linked in the video description