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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
It is obvious to me: American cities are designed around cars and only cars. Old cities in Europe and Japan were designed around people walking around, basically because there was not anything else when those cities were created. They had s
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I believe New York, or any other crowded big city, like Shanghai or Beijing is hardly the model of how things should sound. After having lived in those cities I enjoy a lot living in places like Switzerland or Spain where there is silence o
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
This is what a colleague of my father told him at work some decades ago with microcomputers. He felt calling those "toys" computers was some disrespectful for the real thing, the one with 125 MBytes hard drive, instead of the ridi
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Napping is necessary if you do high stressful work and you want not to burn out. The nervous system is composed of parasympathetic and sympathetic systems and only one could work at any given time. When people work too much, they use the sy
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"I'm not Chinese nor do I have a particular stake, but I was there for three weeks this summer and was overwhelmed by a kind of social optimism" It is normal to fall in love when you meet a different culture. It takes 6 month
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"But with plastics you can usually only repair broken plastic parts - maybe you shouldn't have bought a cheap plastic thing that breaks down fast in the first place." That's what I believed when I started. But you can &q
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Do you have a 3d printer? If you don't have, your urging advice is pointless. I know how to measure, drill and tap, saw and file. Everything you said I do, and do well, and probably much better than you do. I have also lots of 3d print
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Science is born the day that Socrates says ""I know that I know nothing". Science dies the moment things that are untestable becomes "a new kind of evidence". If we can't test something because whatever reason,
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I believe the Chinese culture is the antithesis of innovation, they are masters at following procedures, not at breaking the mold. I had to train Chinese people myself in China, and I don't know if you can innovate in the sciences with
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"Even the fear of losing respect of your equals (coworkers, friends, family), although maybe just a fantasy in your head, can still be argued to be external." How could that be? It is not maybe, it is a fantasy in your head. This
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“But there is no real evidence that intrinsic motivation even exists.” Yes, there is. I have a Labrador dog, every time she watches a puddle, she wants to get in. Most Labrador dogs do the same with every source of water. I have not told my
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I remember when I created my first company. Being young I was so idealistic and did bet everything on it. My parents believed I was nuts: "With no real world experience you should not create a company", they said, "first work
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Oh, yeah, and give me shadows in the land. I hate the idea because it has the potential for abuse: If it works it means blocking the sky for those under. Like making clouds to artificially rain on your land, while not raining where it used
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Normally EVERYTHING has both economies and diseconomies of scale. You model the price per unit as the sum of different curves. Complexity not only increases on Software, but if you design a thermal engine, or a plane, or a car. Working maki
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I lived one year or so in Japan and could not stand it, after living in Korea for some time and China for 5 years or so. I am European. When talking with European friends about Japan, they joke about the religion of Japan not being Shinto,
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
When I lived in Japan, the person who hired me was responsible for me on my renting apartment. It is standard practice in Japan, and works pretty well. There is the implicit belief that you have to respect others first."You" is no
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Is not Spain. It is from Colombia. Are you from North America? Canada or US? Because following the same rules you state the land in which you live is not yours, but from the native Indians you exterminated before. Or in a more recent exampl
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
"via" comes from latin, it means " a place to travel trough". For example in Spain "autovia" means via for autos or "tranvia" means a vehicle that goes over rails. "Via pecuaria" means a roa
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
As an entrepreneur I believe everybody should be an asshole when necessary, and nice when necessary. What happens is that we have "nice people by default" that can't be assholes even if they want, and assholes that could not
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I lived for 5 years or so in China and some years in Korea and Japan (and US). I am European. I believe this piece is total non sense. Japan is not what it used to be because they are getting older and older and because they have accumulate
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I was extremely lucky in my work life, I am successful as entrepreneur and I believe it is because of the way I was raised as a kid in Spain. When I went out of the school I was free to do whatever I wanted to do. I never did homework but w
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It is clear that they are testing the minimum height you can drop someone from a parachute in the same way that the excuse of scientific knowledge of the moon was used for recording Soviet Russia signals through moon reflection. They don&#x
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After you drive a Tesla, you feel everything else is outdated. Today I drove a conventional car and it just feels so clunky and slow. On the other hand, I prefer a normal key for opening my car, a simple, proven tech that works. Tesla has a
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Thank you New York Times, the News Group that Snowden could not use to whistle blow because it is a direct branch of US government, for reminding us Western how free we are against propaganda. We can really trust the 6 companies that own al
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So many people talking about how 3d printers is something impractical for everybody. The other day I attended a talk about the history of personal computers, and certainly it rhymes. At the time everybody was saying, a personal computer? wh
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I don't think a(n spoken) language without vowels exist. In the article the mention Tashlhiyt Berber but then they put an example that actually HAS VOWELS. In "ssrksxt" there are not vowels in the script, but there are vowels
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
For me boredom is the manifestation of a problem. I am introvert and could think on my own for days, but boredom never happens. Animals in the wild rarely get bored. I worked as an assistant in a zoo while teenager and you could see every s
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"How will Apple be able to make use of their experience in electronics when they move to a completely new industry?" Completely new industry? Who is the biggest user of lithium batteries in the world? Hint: It is a company with a
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
I have lived in China, Korea and Japan and in my opinion you are not right. Fist, US of America is requesting Japan to do what is has done. They are worried about China, not Japan. Also the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam want Jap
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by Htsthbjig 11y ago
Agreed. The world simply becomes different. I had volunteered, as I studied engineering in the past to give 3d classes to kids for free. We have PhDs like ObiJuan making videos and releasing them over the net teaching FreeCad, OpenScad, how

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