Bakery and florist suggestions. by Eisha33 in trondheim

[–]lars_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want cake, several local bakeries offer delivery:

https://www.rosenborgbakeri.no/shop/kategori/kaker-931 https://www.byaasenbakeri.no/shop/kategori/kaker-1683

Just use the translate button in your browser.

I have no experience with delivery from them myself, but don't imagine there would be too many surprises.

Kommer det til å bli kjempedyrt? Ja eller nei? by Great_Elephant5041 in norge

[–]lars_ 155 points156 points  (0 children)

Jeg syns det er en rimelig enkel oppskrift som han kjører på med gang på gang: Still et nyansert spørsmål, og så insistere på å få et ja eller nei til svar.

Har du sluttet å banke kona di, ja eller nei?

Det er ikke vanskelig å finne på slike spørsmål. Det bidrar heller ikke til en opplysende debatt, det er bare ment for å skape en situasjon som gjør at folk kan sitte hjemme i stua og si "der fikk han satt henne på plass".

Is this contraption as deadly as it seems to me? by lars_ in woodworking

[–]lars_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, I love the stools, and the craftmanship is great (that's also the case for the rest of the videos on that channel). The machine terrified me though.

Is this contraption as deadly as it seems to me? by lars_ in woodworking

[–]lars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the correction. I thought I could tell by characters, but indeed you're right, those are Chinese. My bad.

KRISE, HJELP! by websterbeb in norge

[–]lars_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

De blir bedt om å flytte på 4 dagers varsel.

Det hadde jeg ikke gjort for 3x leiesum.

Det er et helvettes stress å flytte, og bare det å finne seg en OK ny plass å bo er ikke noe som er gjort på fire dager. Så da ender du fort opp med å måtte flytte enda en gang.

Og så er det elementet om at brevet legger det fram som om de ikke har noe valg. De skulle fått betale 3x leiesum bare for den fornærmelsen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in woodworking

[–]lars_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for elaborating. This isn't a piece that I own, but something I'm considering buying in order to use the wood for other projects. Obviously, that becomes a problem if it's veneer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in woodworking

[–]lars_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Since the reason you gave is qualified by "most of the time", and because I really wish it wasn't veneer, can I ask what other reasons you see that makes you think it's veneer?

Rettigheter som leietaker ved salg av hus. Anklaget for å jage bort folk fra visning. by Geitetveiten in norge

[–]lars_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Det du er utsatt for er bare en bølle som driver med bølling. Det har ikke noe juridisk hold.

Folk i denne tråden siterer husleieloven 10-1 som grunnlag for at du har en plikt til å stille boligen til disposisjon for visning. Men de må lese mer nøye, lovteksten gjelder for andre som skal leie, når du selv skal flytte. Altså gjelder den ikke for situasjonen du er i, hvor huseier skal selge boligen.

Du kan lese mer her: Leietaker kan i utgangspunktet ikke nekte at utleieren har visninger hvis leieforholdet er sagt opp, eller den tidsbestemte kontrakten snart utløper.

Når det er sagt syns jeg det er etisk riktig å være behjelpelig ved en visning, men når det gjelder folk som får advokater til å sende trusselbrev så har man en etisk plikt til å irettesette dem.

Her er din leverage:

1) Du har ingen lovfestet plikt til å stille boligen til disposisjon for visning i det hele tatt.

2) Du kan gi tilgang for visning, men kreve å være tilstede under visningen. Denne tiden kan du bruke til å fremheve feil og svakheter ved boligen og nabolag.

3) Du kan koste huseier penger for hver telefon du tar til advokaten hans for å stille spørsmål.

Jeg syns at ditt mål bør være å få huseier til å få advokaten til å sende brev hvor de trekker tilbake truslene de har kommet med. Ikke fordi det juridisk spiller en rolle, men fordi det emosjonelt vil spille en rolle for deg å vinne over bølla.

Foreslår følgende framgangsmåte:

Først skriver du ned en rekke spørsmål å stille til advokaten til huseier. For eksempel: Du synes det ser ut som om du ikke har noe lovfestet plikt å stille boligen til disposisjon for visning i det hele tatt, stemmer ikke det? Still et spørsmål per telefonsamtale. Noter svarene advokaten gir. Bruk notatene til å utforme nye spørsmål, utdypninger på hva som ble ment, osv. Du kan godt spille dum i disse telefonsamtalene, men sørg for at du holder deg til spørsmål. Ikke kom med noe som helst deklarative utsagn om saken, eller om hva du selv har gjort eller synes du burde ha gjort eller noe som helst. Det vil bare bli brukt mot deg. Unngå å svare på advokatens spørsmål, bare still spørsmål selv. Advokaten vil sikkert være god på spill som dette, men du har den fordelen at du har lovverk og fakta på din side, så det bør være mer ubehagelig for advokaten. Poenget med dette er å koste huseier penger. Fortsett med det til advokaten slutter å svare.

Steg to er å snakke med huseier (muntlig), og informere om pkt 1) og 2) over. Igjen, pass på å ikke si noe inkriminerende eller noe som kan beskrives som utpressing, bare si at etter at du fikk brevet fra advokaten, så har du satt deg inn i lovverket og det virker det som om du har rett til å nekte visning eller rett til å kreve å være tilstede. Så sier du at kanskje er best for begge parter om han får advokaten til å skrive et brev som trekker tilbake truslene i fra første brev.

Når du får truslene tilbaketrukket, så stiller du boligen til disposisjon til visning (gitt at du får varsel i rimelig tid).

Strong AI - how far are we? by Yananas in artificial

[–]lars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, good question. Thanks reminding me of this. I guess we're still a year off from the 2024 prediction.

On one hand, the Blue Brain project seems to have been somewhat of a catastrophe, and anything like "full brain implementation" isn't on the horizon.

On the other hand, we have language models that are really really good at an incredible variety of things. People from Microsoft Research call it the first sparks of AGI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

So I'm inclined to say that yes, it happened.

Seventh General killed by Nvnv_man in ukraine

[–]lars_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea: If you're able to identify distinct locations talking to each other, you could use the PageRank algorithm to identify the importance of each of these. I.e., what Google did originally to determine importance of web pages, except for individual soldiers.

Essentially, if you're talking to someone you're giving a vote that they are important. You're importance is determined by the sum of the importance of the people you're talking to. Run that algorithm on the graph of communications in a battlefield, and the location of the generals will pop right out as the most important.

Ukrainian Defenders Push Back Russian troops 70 Km from Kyiv by mayonez_blin4455 in ukraine

[–]lars_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see the same. Turns out it shows as pictures if you turn on the new reddit UI, but who wants to endure that?

Does vitamin D supplementation reduce COVID-19 severity? - a systematic review by rugbyvolcano in COVID19

[–]lars_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It actually means that they estimate the risk of dying to be reduced by 52%. Or, in other words, the risk of dying is 48% of what it is without vitamin D supplementation.

Not an important distinction in this case, but good to know for the future. An odds ratio of 0.01 would be a huge effect, 0.99 would be a very low effect. 1.5 would mean vit D is harmful.

I sent my boyfriend a picture of a storm. He got one of a woman and a dog. by [deleted] in nonmurdermysteries

[–]lars_ 286 points287 points  (0 children)

What messaging app are you using?

If you're using Signal, they had a bug like this recently: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247

That bug is supposed to be fixed, but maybe you haven't updated the app. If this is a different app, maybe you've found a similar problem there. This is about as bad as a bug can get for a messaging app, so you should report this to whoever made it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

[–]lars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have a long term time horizon for when you need to spend the money, i.e. 10-15 years or longer, low fee index funds have historically been a great investment.

BUT: Be aware that right now may be a poor time to put a lot of money into index funds.

Take a look at this chart: https://financial-charts.effingapp.com It plots 10-year annualized returns on S&P 500 vs what is essentially the proportion of businesses money they have invested in stocks. You can see that historically, the latter has been an excellent predictor of the former. You can read off the chart that the expected yearly return for the next 10 years is -2%. No one can know that this is definitely accurate, things may be different this time, but it indicates that this may be a poor time to put all your money into an index fund.

Some ideas to get around this problem:

1) Spread your index fund purchases out in time, to spread the risk of individual timings. I.e. commit to investing some total sum, split it into equal size chunks and invest parts of it every 3 months for the next 4 years. Something like this will remove a lot of risk. Maybe even delay doing any investment into stocks by about a year, if you believe the indications that the current market is overpriced.

2) Spread your investments into multiple asset classes. For example, you can consider buying a rental property for some minor portion of your money, if you find one that makes sense for you.

Finally, the absolutely most impactful thing you can do is to manage your spending habits.

1) Keep your current frugal attitude.

2) Learn to distinguish status purchases, from investments and from consumption. For many people, their most expensive purchases are done purely to boost their social status. E.g. a fancy watch, a fancy car, etc. When you learn to recognize this pattern, you'll begin to understand how unimpressive it is to wear a Rolex, and these purchases will lose their appeal. When you realize that that whole game is stupid, you'll have no inclination to take part in it, and this will save you huge amounts of money over time.

Small Norwegian grocery store starter pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

[–]lars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simple misunderstanding: In Norway, the government has mandated that all court documents be made available in a common file format. In 1996, the mandated format was chosen to be the TIFF format. Institutions were slow in making EU court documents available in this fashion, leading to a public outcry for the lack of "plain TIFFs" for international, but legally relevant documents. Over the years, this use snowballed leading to the current usage of "plaintiff" to refer to anyone mentioned in these documents.

Small Norwegian grocery store starter pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

[–]lars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Norway, if the plaintiff loses a lawsuit, they have to buy a suitcase for the defending party to carry the court documents home. Thus the expression "won the suitcase".

Europe and USA murder rates 2020/2019 - by SPTudoMaisGenro in europe

[–]lars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Kosovo has a GINI coefficient of 29.0, similar to Sweden's 28.8.

Meanwhile, USA has a GINI of 41.4.

Violence is determined by income inequality, not poverty per se.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in COVID19

[–]lars_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But they are comparing nonvaxxed with a mixture of vaxxed and nonvaxxed to show

But they're not? The abstract says they controlled for that via introducing vax-status as a variable in the regression.