Can we stop hyping blog posts by tech people writing about epidemiology and medicine? I'm shocked how much baseless speculation and misinformation is being shared on HN.
The tech billionaires of this world will not fund anything based on a layman's explanation. They want to fund ideas based on reliable research. The Gates Foundation is staffed with tons of specialists for this reason.
A Saudi government owned Tesla will lose me as a customer. If you're eager to do business with the Saudi government your moral compass is seriously out of whack.
Maybe better to change the article because it states the opposite:
"I found myself at a point where I got so desperate that I was close to taking all of my stuff offline. But in the end I didn’t. I decided for the middle way: For some projects it’s worth the hustle and for others not. One project I ditched was datenschutzhelden.org."
That reads as: GDPR compliance was such a hassle you almost closed all your projects, in the end you only closed some of them and replaced them with WBM.
I've just about had it with these GDPR shitposts on HN.
The website the author talks about (datenschutzhelden.de meaning "data protection heroes") was apparently a platform to share tools and best practices for online privacy. Now it turns out the same guy running that website thinks it's too much hassle to remove Facebook integration and offer a cookie opt-out.
I think you read that wrong. Quote from the article:
"Many of them have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company, and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document, the contents of which multiple sources have described to Gizmodo."
The Berlin housing crisis is very much happening almost everywhere. City-wide average rents increased 45% between 2009-2015. Rents doubled in some districts in that timeframe and even in the least affected areas (Marzahn and Spandau) rents increased by more than 30%.
This seems to be a great balance between helping new banks get off the ground while keeping a tight oversight regime in place. For an interesting example of what happens when you deregulate your banking sector too much: I remember doing research on the Ukranian banking sector about 10 years ago, there were over 900 banks in operation. Many of them seemed to be oligarchs setting up banks and leveraging their capital to lend their own/their friend's corporation a ton of money. The borrower would then simply default on the loan and the bank would go bankrupt...
Really depends on your location. WeWork Berlin has absurd prices for the local market. The city already had plenty of great coworking spaces at half the price long before WeWork showed up.
After reading the actual underlying study the article headline seems bogus.
The study simply found an association between the amount/quality of time spent with a person and closeness of the friendship. There's nothing in the study design that allows us to distinguish whether spending time together creates friendships or if spending time together is only an indicator of a friendship. Could simply mean that feeling close to someone leads people to spend more time together.
"Times does not list which investigators they have spoken to directly."
"Times does not indicate which "investigators" believes that."
Not disclosing your sources is journalism 101. You will have to choose to trust or mistrust the professional integrity of NYT journalists and editors. Integrity is the NYT's main selling point, so make of that what you will.
You could still pay the military with any other currency, including crypto. You cannot buy drugs online or easily finance terrorism anonymously without cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency enables new illicit transactions and marketplaces.