EL_Loco

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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Yes, it is being censored, because in most parts of said faraway land there is a total restriction of content. How about "you can't criticise the government anywhere, but we'll let you do it when you're alone inside your
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
> My view is that, in general, companies should not censor. Free speech is good. Really? Should HN moderatos literally let every post go on unchecked? If someone starts posting links to a Kardashian selfie blog, or to NSFW stuff, why sho
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
There's a lot of schadenfreude on any crypto thread in HN.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
You're right, the example I gave is different from coding. I did change the subject a bit, sorry for that. By the way, my kids do some Micro:Bit programming whenever they want, and I chose not to force them into it, as in not having a
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Sort of. My kids love to play outside. They didn't have tablets and didn't use the computer. A great regret I have now is that during the pandemic we eventually let them play with iPads and got them Minecraft on a donated xbox. We
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Agree with you, there are many systems like this. What I'd like to know is if a system using public and decentralized distributed ledger wouldn't be cheaper and/or easier to implement effectively (on a poor, corrupt country).
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Yes, the first temperature times were typed onto a laptop, while it was still running. They were the correct temperature (unsuitable for the vaccines). I think they did temperature logs twice a day, don't remember well. Then it was fou
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I agree, but what I'm asking is if it isn't easier and cheaper to have a robust logging system with a public DLT. I'll give you a real example of how bad some of the database systems are in my country: a study on police gun a
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Sure, the temperature should just be logged automatically to the database, and the value shouldn't be allowed to change. However, it isn't. And I can see clearly how a database supplied by some vendor would yield to pressure from
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Oh, I agree with you, I can't even read discussion on crypto online, it's 99.9% about which or coin will value the fastest. However, I will still keep an open mind. For example, Silvio Micali works on proof-of-stake and he says hi
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Around eight years ago, there was a power failure in my town (a small town in a third world country). The freezer that stored the local health facility's vaccines stopped working for two days because the backup generator was broken. Af
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I absolutely hate, hate this NFT scam. I even hate all the metaverse talk. I've been watching every iteration of VR since the early 90s, and it still looks like a gimmick. But how is vaccine tracking, with temperature information, lot
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Regarding your advice on eating plants, do you know if it matters wheter they are cooked or eaten raw? I mean, is one preferable over the other, from a gut biome perspective. By the way, thanks a lot for your answers!
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Do you advise just fiber from natural foods, or do you take a fiber supplement (like those that come in powder form)? I guess the supplement route won't give me the diverse fiber types you mention, am I right?
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Yeah, that's a complete fantasy. Since in US society the riot police doesn't come around with tanks and machine guns mowing down protesters, people have created this delusionthat that if they grabbed a couple of hundred M4s they c
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Yes, but lots of software made for PPC began requiring OS8, then 8.6, and then a bunch required OS 9 to run.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I might be saying something wrong or outright stupid, but it seems you're not looking at all the areas this new tech is being used. I mean, I have looked at what The Coupon Bureau is doing with DLT tech, and I know it is /not&#x2F
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
doesn't efficiency decrease as you add more rotors?
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Ask HN: If helicopters are more efficient, what are the advantages of drones?
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Poland? Poland pales in comparison with Brazil, where there's a R$5.7 billion (about 1 billion US$) 'Electoral Fund' used for political campaings by the thirty something registered political parties. All paid for by the taxpa
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Thank you too for your reply!
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Thanks a lot for your reply!
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Sorry to ask you this, and please fell free to not respond. But I have wanted to move to Portugal with my wife and kids for quite some time, but the large number of Brazilians linving and moving there bum me out to an extent. Mostly, I don&
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
It's easy to have a brazilian sound like she's speaking portuguese from Portugal: just stop pronouncing the vowels. If you're brazilian, try it. It actually works.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Quirky anectode: I befriended an american hobo who travelled to Brazil in the 90's (he came here again every now and then). He didn't shower much, truly looked like a crusty vagabond, and when he found out about it, he absolutely
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Portuguese ranks sixths on number of native speakers, according to Wikipedia.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
This is, sorry, the same BS that I hear over and over, and over and over. This is alright, it's pretty good that it's happening, but that's the extent of it. Just good, just alright. The need for decent public education at th
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Same way as any industry/business that consumes energy can become carbon negative.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Why people mention Ethereum as a 'greener Bitcoin' baffles me. There are already some networks that are a thousand times greener than what Ethereum might be when it switches, and that is if the switch goes as planned and on schedu
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Well, even though there's a strong argument that around 50% of psychology studies fail to be reproduced when they try to, they are still studies which try to follow something as close as possible to the scientific method (some of the t

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