EL_Loco

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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Anti-vaccine activists, or any activists for that matter, are completely free to post their videos anywhere else they want. Hell, they can even set up their own video site, and publish thousands, millions, tens of millions of videos champ
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I might be mistaken here, but from what I've read on lead, we already know relatively well what amount of lead is safe, according to body weight etc. We also know that our bodies can deal with these small amounts, by actually getting r
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
That's true for some countries, not all.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
My two heaviest marijuana smoker friends are 100% sure that any study that mentions some detrimental effect from marijuana is part of a big-pharma conspiracy. Their argument is that "it's a natural herb, it's impossible for i
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Hey, thanks for the reply! My kids are fluent in Portuguese and I would probably enroll them in public schools. So you think a 2500 monthly budget for a family of 4 would be doable? (I raised your estimates to account for emergencies, healt
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
In Jesus' time and region there were miracle workers by the hundreds, and he was just seen as another one of them. They travelled form village to village performing miracles in exchange for, I guess, money and food. If I'm not mis
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Do you have a family, by any chance? I've been thinking about moving to Portugal, some smaller town but not too far from Porto or Lisbon, but I don't really know how much a family would need. (I have a wife and 2 kids)
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
What makes you think the war wasn't won despite pathetic and fumbling actions by leaders and governments? WW2 wasn't a showcase of efficiency and practicality. Ha, my country sent a small contingent (25k) to fight against the Ax
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
What makes you think the war wasn't won /despite/ pathetic and fumbling actions by leaders and governments? Ha, my country sent a small contingent (25k) to fight against the Axis in Italy. There were new uniforms made for thi
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Stop this "why is this relevant for HN". If it's not, it'll leave the front page soon.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I got on a taxi at a taxi stop (in my country there are designated spots where only the registered cabs for each specific spot can park) and the driver was speeding, hitting all the bumps on the road, zig-zagging, etc. My wife and our baby
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I don't value his political opinions above those of a political scientist, a historian (if they're good btw), but his opinions on politics aren't in the same level as that of a Kardashian, c'mon. You may not agree with h
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
In my country of 200 million, it's pretty much gas everywhere. I have three gas cylinders and when they empty I have to either wait for the gas truck to come by with its song (like ice cream trucks), or I just take the cylinder to the
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
My last dishwasher had the analog buttons go bad twice, so when it was time to get a new one I went with the capacitive touch button one, just for that reason (no moving part to break there). Been about 12 years, not a single problem, and t
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
Imagine you had 5,000 online bookstores in 1997, and 99.9% of them had some self described great new tech but none of that tech was being used by any publisher, distributor, printer, author, etc. I did a lot of research on the top 50 crypto
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
In Brazil we study Pessoa too, at around the same age. Also Eça, Camões, etc.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
If you go to the OS language selection on your computer, you'll probably find 'Portuguese - BR' (Brazilian) and 'Portuguese - PT' (Portugal). Sometimes you'll find subtitles on Netflix described as either Braz
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
> I often think Fernando Pessoa is the #1 thing one misses out on by not speaking Portuguese. Curiously, I have this same thought whenever I read Pessoa.
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
>shelled out $500, and he had his MRI in less than half an hour. What happens if you're poor and don't have anyone to turn to for the $500? Will it take the same time to get a free MRI as it does in Canada? Can you get it fro f
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
There is a company that makes a couple of hardware logo turtles. They've been at it for quite some time too: https://www.terrapinlogo.com/products/robots.html edit: there's also a very good three-book series
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
There was a famous (in the diy audio community at least) blind test where music was played in audiophile equipment with some premium audio cable that cost a lot, and then the same music was played with a bent coathanger used as a cable. The
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
It is due to the decomposing vegetation under the water. However, it depends on what is under the water. Some hydro reservoirs actually are carbon sinks while others are worse than coal plants. You also have to take time of operation into a
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by EL_Loco 5y ago
I'll second Algorand. Founded by Silvio Micali, Turing and Gödel Prize winner MIT prof who got a bunch of MIT people and now has probably solved the problems of speed, safety and energy consumption of the old blockchains. Check out the
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Well, take a hound dog, for example. He has many, many, many more olfactory cells in his snout than humans. Imagine you and a dog are hiking along some unmarked trail. The dog, unbeknownst to you, notices the smell of gas. Maybe it bothers
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I lived in Brazil's capital, Brasília, for many years. Illegal land grabs were very, very common there. This wasn't in the jungle. This was a modern city, and there were as many middle class and upper middle class land grabbers as
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
It's expensive, sure, but the money would be there if the government wasn't so innefficient and corrupt.
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Plus, the first world inhabitants pollute much, much more than third world individuals. Plane travel, consumerism, person/car ratio, etc etc
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
>One might think Steve Jobs was an arrogant, perfectionist prick. Because he was worried about an important aspect of an important presentation his terrible behavior towards others is justified? C'mon, there are almost a hundred exa
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
JIT in case you were wondering like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_learning
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I don't understand, this is one of the main jobs of the U.S. Army's Special Forces (also known as Green Berets). Their whole thing is learning how to train and fight alongside indigenous forces. The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan wa

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