Htsthbjig

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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Ohh, yeah, so you force everybody to understand the command line when something does not work as expected. 95% of the way means it is not finished. When I buy a car the seller better does not say that the car works 95% of the time. Installi
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
First time I traveled to Israel I was surprised to see so many Jews that were actually atheist or non religious practitioners.
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
America's fragmented culture? I suppose you refer to South America, because the North is not BY ANY MEANS fragmented. You can go anywhere in the US, from West Coast to East Coast and you see: Everybody speaking the same language. Some
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Carnot limit is over 60-70 percent in fixed load power plants. 70% is something only could be attained with very exotic materials(expensive and difficult to manage) that could handle high temperatures. In a mobile system you could get 50% w
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Did you win the korean war? Nobody won the korean war. It was a draw,a stalemate. The US won on the South, they won on the North. The war officially never ended.
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I know lots of successful people. IMHO You should not trust successful people advice more than unsuccessful people in general, but TRUST WHAT THEY DO. I remember when I was young(16 or so) and wanted to learn from the best men with the girl
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I am not scared about Apple getting a monopoly. They are not going to sell as much as Android because they only care about the high margin stuff. I am more worried about Microsoft though, with Windows and Xbox they force millions of people
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
PS: Things like compilation of shaders really made us suffer with OpenGL/CL. Those guys did not want to do it, so simple, and they did not do it for years, because they could. No matter what feedback from developer were, those people d
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"Of course Apple had to remain the jerks they are and not support Vulkan natively, forcing developers to write translation layers[2]..." We write programs that use DirectX,Metal, OpenGL/OpenCL, and now Vulkan and I disagree.
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
What is so good about smoking? I smoked as a teenager because for some time I was stupid in order to fit with stupid friends. I always found that a brainless bad habit, but it was interesting experience in the sense that I learned that to b
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
That is what I used to say when I was living in Madrid, with the lower temperatures in winter being 2-3 degrees under 0(celsius), but sun most of the year. But living in Germany was a completely different story in winter going under 30 degr
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
One of the things I recommend everybody to do is learning languages. This article is one of the reasons for doing that. You are manipulated by translators' interests. The original in "WirtschaftsWoche" does not use such a str
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I believe this man is confusing lots of things. I had lived in China for more than 5 years, Boston, Japan or Korea for more than 9 months each. In my opinion, minimizing conflict has nothing to do with being poor, and a lot with being Chine
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I made some companies out of ideas that I had. I told everybody my ideas. When I created my first company most people thought I was crazy when I told them my idea. It turned out to be a brilliant idea that worked very well but most people d
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
The number of things that could go wrong is limited. The will learn all of them. The same happened with airplanes. Just something so simple as breaking sound barrier control inversion meant hundreds of pilots dying until someone figured it
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Do you realize the US supported a coup against a democratically elected government in Iran? Do you realize the US funded Sadam Hussein in a war against Iran? Do you realize the US invaded Iraq? Do you realize the US has supported terrorist
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
> And then we have fingerprints, which are very secure and onerous to imitate Fingerprints are SO EASY to imitate that I taught a group of 10-12 years old to do it successfully with something as simple as a drinking cup, superglue an sma
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Next time it goes dark in the night, look at the streets light in your city. Whenever you live, if you live in America, Europe or Asia, there is already a big electrical infrastructure installed. This lighting infrastructure goes unused by
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"We had a rockstar team with backgrounds from top tier companies and engineering schools, but no aqui-hire materialized out of thin air like I thought it might. We built kick-ass technology, but nobody was interested." If nobody w
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
The same applies to 3D printers today. It is easy to mock this guy, specially the phrase of "because I can't imagine it, it won't happen" but at the time it did not exist so you had to imagine it, and most people can&#x2
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"why are these laws never symmetric?" They are, in a cooperative company, that is, in a company owned by their workers, it is symmetric and transparent. In a company that is owned by someone else, obviously this someone else decid
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
That is the idea of a patent. A patent is a document that makes it possible for someone else to replicate your idea. You exchange this knowledge for a monopoly as the only seller of this product in a given country. But if other sources can&
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I would not trust her main point "China is far beyond copying the West." for 3 reasons: 1.Everything on China is in the end Central planned, an article that criticize anything about the Govertment-country and you are out of busine
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Cross breeding does not induce mutations. Cross breeding mixes genetic code that already exist on the original plants. Random or induced mutation like they do in GMO has lots of unintended consequences(for example radiating it). It is like
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"The same effect is noticed with GMO foods. They're better in all regards, yet there are people who are afraid of them because "not natural"." No. People are afraid about GMO because they expect private companies in
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Have you seen the clothing of the man who fires? Clothes is one weak point with real time CG today. Another is grass, trees. There is a reason there is no green in those pictures, and they try to only draw people in rigid suits.
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Wow, this man is convinced that North Korea is a far right country. For me right has a total different meaning from Japan culture. In fact left and right comes from France cultural system. It looks like this man personally attributes everyt
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Not really. South Korea is used to it, in fact war never officially ended between NK and SK. North Korea always had guns and South Koreans are prepared for the worst. The only way the NK regime could survive(international aid) is looking c
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"but there's something fun about not knowing the result instantly." Let me guess, you have never ever used a super 8 camera. I have, and FUN is the last word that will come to my mind about those machines. Using a new cartrid
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I had an accident (bad landing parachuting) and thought I was going to die. Friends took me to the hospital and watching doctors not emotionally care about me was a tremendous relief. I expected doctors's face to show how serious the i

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