EL_Loco

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by EL_Loco 6y ago
That would mean that there were plenty of mammoths around just underground, easy to find and within easy reach. If that is the case, wouldn't scientists flock to the area and collect them by the dozens?
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Same with phone messaging (like whatsapp etc) where it's much faster to receive a text message vs the same message in spoken audio.
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I saw a schnauzer jump from a (high) second-floor balcony to go after a bitch in heat.
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Yours and the other comments below are all saying "yeah, it's fine, you can do it if you don't have kids nor health insurance". Which basically means "it's not fine". A good standard of living is not measu
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Well, induced coma has all sorts of problems and some potentially very dangerous or serious side effects. It would be something like that, but fully safe and with no negatives.
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
A bit off the main topic, but I've always wondered when we'll develop some sort of anesthesia/hibernation hybrid where when a person catches a disease that makes life uncomfortable or miserable, they would be put in suspensio
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
The real worthwile goal is having a high GDP /per capita/. If you take the top countries by GDP alone, you have China, India, Brazil, US. None of them are at the top in quality of life measurements.
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Wait, I just realized now that universal free vaccination might not be a thing in the US. I live in a developing country with 200 million people, and the dozen or so most common vaccines are free to everyone, and everyone gets it and it is
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Except the number of people who received that education was much smaller than the number of people who go to average-quality schools today. Here in Brazil people complain about the public schools of today, saying that 50 years ago it was gr
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I would say the ability to think critically, coupled with a good literacy foundation, is more important than just literacy. I know many will say literacy is the building block to critical thinking, or something along those lines, but I don&
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
> We use the term as sarcastic self-mockery and as encompassing umbrella to identify ourselves with nations all over the world under the same predicaments. Yes, that's it. You said it better than I did.
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
> that term is offensive. Sorry, but 'third world' is really only offensive to people from first world countries who find the term 'third world' offensive. Oh, and it might also be offensive to people in developing co
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Off topic, but is 'fag' still used for cigarettes in England?
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Yes it does. What you can have, and usually do, is free speech with limitations, and this can vary greatly. What you have in the US is limitations, for example, regarding content that includes minors. In my country, racist speech falls unde
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Chess is good for kids, but I fortunately fell out of the "chess makes kids smarter" trap a few years before I had my own kids. Besides teaching self-control, focus, how to think more strategically, etc, getting very good at chess
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Indeed many Apple products from the Ive era show a lot of resemblance to some of Rams' stuff.
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
So if I'm run over by a car then part of it is my fault for not buying a car and choosing to walk instead?
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I sort of feel like a dunce reading this thread, as I can't get my head around the fact that Youtube removing a video is being called censorship. Doesn't Hacker News let readers downvote unpopular opinions until they're effec
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
That just means it's a low value conversation. The end effect is very different. In my country there are anti-racism laws that /can/ put you in jail for saying something considered racist. Btw, I'm not totally against th
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I'm pretty sure parent meant western Europe, not China and Russia. Who would assume someone means China and Russia when talking about countries with free speech?
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I would argue that if he had stepped down from MS in the early 90's, that some other company with a ruthless CEO would take its place. I mean, remember Apple's superbowl ad? Look at what is is today. Remember "Don't be e
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Every now and then somebody I know will post a photo with a proverb mistakenly attributed to some historical figure. It's not uncommon for the proverb to be very simple, not very deep, such that I immediately discard it as made-up and
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
I don't think highly of the NeXT logo either, but this comment on the article makes a good argument: "Considering how well recognized the NeXT logo is in the industry even though it was a minor company with barely any market, the
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Ok, I agree, but is a kid who spent several years on intentional chess practice better academically then a kid who spent several years on intentional math practice?
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
As someone in Brazil, it's equally amusing to me. And I know gun control is not a simple matter, and is not a magical solution, but man... this administration is going in the direction of not only less control, but less responsability
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Not only that, but in São Paulo a taxi license was in some places worth a lot of money. License owners would typically rent it, and would illegally hoard them, giving them to family members who never drove a taxi, just so he could have mo
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
Of course there's an issue with change. That's the whole point. If you were a pro Emacs/Vi user that used shortcuts to do pretty much everything and it made you fast and productive, what do you think would happen if suddenly
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
In Brazil we have "Capitalization Titles" that banks can offer to its clients. Usually you sign up with a fixed monthly fee (say R$50/month) for 1 year, and the chance to win monthly or weekly sweepstakes. When the period is
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
The HIV treatment program, provided by the brazilian government for free to everyone that needs it, has been very succesful and is a model to be followed. Not everything the government does is rotten, just a lot of it. "Throughout the
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by EL_Loco 6y ago
There's an interesting piece called "Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger’s Perspective" http://nmge.gmu.edu/textandcommunity/2006/Peter_Christian_Re... "Some like McCandless, show up in

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