EL_Loco

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by EL_Loco 4y ago
I would have quit 10 years ago.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
I lived in my country's capital for almost ten years, and since a huge part of the population there are in public service (you get in through a selection exam and once you get in you pretty much can't get fired, and the pay is pre
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
I'll agree with anyone saying that this NFT craze is idiotic, and that most cryptocurrencies don't have any utility, but to say that crypto isn't fast, cheap or secure is like saying 90's internet couldn't have webp
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
You know I was talking specifically about poliomyelitis, the infectious disease caused by the poliovirus, which in many countries (mine included) is called 'child paralysis'.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
I live in a developing south american country. Whenever I'm in a conversation and someone starts questioning vaccines, the first thing I say is "Stop. Tell me, when was the last time you saw or heard of someone getting child paral
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Study Finds Vitamin Supplements Not Beneficial(studyfinds.org)
7 points by EL_Loco 4y ago|18 comments
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
What's also alarming is that a bunch of plastic is now clearly labeled 'BPA Free', and people think "problem solved", while quite a few studies show that these BPA free plastics have other, just as toxic, endocrine
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
It's also magestically equal that both the CEO and the homeless are entitled to the lawyers they can afford.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
One of my favorite cartoons growing up was the japanese series "Space Battleship Yamato", where in the future the Yamato was rebuilt as a spaceship. Good memories! (I wonder, though, if I would still enjoy it, were I to re-watch t
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
I won't cite them here because it will automatically be seen as trying to promote a crypto project for my personal gain.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
Endocrine disruption (potential) of plastics in constant contact with skin is something I sometimes worry about, more for my kids than myself, but I'd like to ask anybody more knowledgeable if it really makes a difference: aren't
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
I know they're not equivalent. But banks have broken here too, and people lost a lot of their money. By the way, credit card interest here is over 300% annually. Can get up to 800 depending on the bank.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
Maybe your money is pretty safe in your bank. My dad worked for 40+ years and paid every month his pension fund dues. When his company (a very big and old company in our country) went bankrupt, it was found that the pension fund was broke.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
All the people I know who've read the novel agree with me that it was supposed to mean static. I wonder if anyone asked Gibson about this, since the advent of the blue screens.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
Because moderation here works quite well and they usually aren't the ones being moderated. Like someone wrote earlier in this thread, why aren't the free speech advocates using less HN to debate hacker/tech stuff and using mo
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
>Now if you're not on the big platforms your opinion may as well not exist. This view somewhat misses the point. If you get on the big platforms and become famous, TODAY, you might have an opinion that matters to quite a few people.
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by EL_Loco 4y ago
Except you can argue that we don't have only one twitter. We have many, and potentially thousands. I can fire up my own version of twitter in a couple of minutes. I (or my group, clan, subculture, whatever) can fire up my/our own
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Neuromancer's opening line is probably one of the most remembered first sentences in american fiction. Every friend of mine who read the book, most of them in the 90's, seem to remember it verbatim. Now that I think of it, do youn
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
>their customer support is stellar, across countries. People in the US have no idea how bad customer support can be in third world countries. If I go to a store and buy something (pair of shoes, book, backpack, can of paint) and 5 minute
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
This is only ok as a way to know. The person could then argue "so one minute before 12:00 AM is 11:59 AM, right?" If the person's not familiar with the convention, it makes sense.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
You're right, there's probably more at play. Exposure to chemicals, pesticides in food, less time outside, more sedentary lifestyle, less sun exposure, more processed food. I was just saying that one car = one engine producing exh
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I buy lottery tickets when the prize is really large. My four best friends and I will chip in and we'll buy a few tickets. Then we'll spend the next week or two on our whatsapp group having fun about what dumb s*t each one will do
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I've known a bunch of hippies/anarchists/free spirits or whatever who took acid. I've also know a lot of squares/lawyer types/bank tellers who never took any acid (most never even smoked pot). Thirty years late
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
You're right. Each car is like one mini factory spewing out its exhaust into the air.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Right, religious fanatics don't really exist, it's just rhetoric. You can confirm this by noticing how they never really blow themselves up. All the temples from african religions that are burned or destroyed every year in my coun
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
No, no, no, no, no... you're wrong here. Mrs. Damares Alves, Minister of Woman, Family and Human Rights Cabinet really believes this stuff. She believes it 100%. And when Bolsonaro (the president) says that men wouldn't be gay i
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I'm Brazilian, living in Brazil, and I wouldn't mind heavy economic sanctions imposed on my country to force us to take preservation seriously. Our government will say "the first world countries destroyed all its forests to b
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Five years ago you would have been right. Today, many corporations in neighboring countries will gladly accept a million dollars in bitcoin as payment.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I think parent means that by weakening your government's ability to do things without due process is strengthening it. Assuming that your government has at its basis a respect for such things as due process, individual privacy etc.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Ah, fond memories of reading Mondo 2000 and Boing Boing, and there was also 2600 and a few smaller ones, and BBSs made you feel like an early resident of the future sprawl. I'll just link here to a cool comic that sometimes pops up on

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