bprieto

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by bprieto 9y ago
If anybody wants to know the truth, you can just go to the official Catalan Goverment education page: http://xtec.gencat.cat/ca/inici/ The page itself it's only in Catalan, with no translation into Spanish av
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by bprieto 9y ago
Both would be having an illegal referendum. Make it some major of a southern village, or even the whole State of Alabama, if you prefer. It would't make the question about Jim Crow laws more legitimate.
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by bprieto 9y ago
The problem here is that a court has determined that the referendum is illegal. So helping to do an illegal act is not allowed, and preventing it is one of the exceptions of free speech. I think advertising for drug dealers in the USA also
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by bprieto 9y ago
What do you think would happen if some racist group would held a referendum in USA about restoring Jim Crow laws? Will the majority of voters would go out to vote No? Or would they just ignore the loonies?
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by bprieto 9y ago
A couple of thing you get wrong. - Catalonia has never been an independent country. It was part of the Aragon Kingdom. - The only mother tongue that students are limited to use in Catalonia is Spanish. All public schools use only catalan, e
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by bprieto 9y ago
"more than I need, less than I deserve" But seriously, I think that it's better to not answer this question, at least not with a hard number. The only reason they ask you is because they are trying to gauge if they can get aw
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by bprieto 10y ago
It's mostly the same in Spain. Our IRS equivalent sends you a draft that you can approve digitally. If you have something to add or change, there is an online form that you can pre-load with the government data and then edit anything y
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by bprieto 10y ago
I think it wouldn't, at least in Spain, if those receiving the emails are acting not as individuals (final customers) but as company representatives. So it's OK to send an email to Jane at jane@somecompany.com but not to send anot
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by bprieto 10y ago
Just yesterday: Tourist couple arrested in Abu Dhabi for sex before marriage after police discover woman is pregnant http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tourist-couple-arrested...
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by bprieto 10y ago
Neither the universe or the planet has finite resources... in a practical sense. 100K years ago, all resources of Europe were barely enough to sustain a few tens of thousands of humans. With agriculture and metal technologies, it went up to
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by bprieto 10y ago
It is if you care about the poorest. It isn't if you care about your message and narrative.
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by bprieto 10y ago
Google Maps works offline. You can select a zone in a map and download it. Although it's not perfect and has quirks like not being able to plan a walking route offline.
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by bprieto 10y ago
The oldest maybe, unless there is other code written previously by Simony on the wild. It's called hungarian notation because Charles Simony is hungarian and he was the father of both hungarian notation and Word's source code.
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by bprieto 10y ago
unprecedented equality != perfect equality Unprecedented equality means that in a capitalistic (Western) society almost everybody eats a hot meal everyday day, has free time to enjoy, has an assortment of clothes, furniture and things, has
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by bprieto 10y ago
1957 Fords were made in a capitalist society under less regulations than todays cars. Cold War era Trabants, Skodas or Ladas that were made under a socialist economy were neither as durable nor as desirable as those capitalist cars made in
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by bprieto 10y ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has an interesting point that for human creations the expected lifespan is the same as their previous life[1]. If a book is read 10 years after it's published, you can expect that it will be read for another 10 ye
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by bprieto 10y ago
Smoking weed in Spain is legal since a couple of decades. Selling a small bag is illegal, but this isn't really enforced as it's hard to prove that the bag was for selling and not for self consuming. Usually police will turn a bl
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by bprieto 10y ago
In Spain 20 euros buys you a liter of the best specialty extra virgin olive oil. This is why good olive oil poured over a toast covered with pureed tomatoes is such a popular breakfast.
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by bprieto 10y ago
Try spanish olive oil. I'm spanish, so I probably have a bias. You can have pretty decent olive oil for less than 4 euros / litre here so olive oil is the only oil I use. If you buy oil bottled in Spain look for the "extra vi
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by bprieto 10y ago
It isn't. It's a sugary contraption that makes your salad sweet and brownish, which is attractive to the eye.
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by bprieto 10y ago
Don't know about watches, but my wife has needed a new pair of shoes just because she had nothing that matched a new dress, and then a new purse and belt to go with the shoes, and then a jacket or a coat...
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by bprieto 10y ago
Yes, sustainability is possible. No, we are not living beyond the capacity of the earth. Yes, it's possible to sustain this many people, and some billions more. Because the very concept of "resources" is not fixed. In the Pa
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by bprieto 10y ago
Arrington nails it. If Buffett was really willing to pay more taxes, he could just stop using loopholes to avoid paying hundreds of millions every year. Or stop litigating with the IRS to get to pay less. He doesn't want "the ric
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by bprieto 10y ago
Yes, you do. Please read this: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/brainwash.pdf Maybe "training to be slaves" is hiperbole, but as Seth Godin puts it, training to be "cogs in a machine" is quite
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by bprieto 11y ago
My son has a BQ smartphone, and battery life is much better than his previous Samsung's.
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by bprieto 11y ago
Except for the Kuwait invasion and Gulf War, and between 500.000 and 1.5M people dead in the 9 years of Iran-Irak war in the 80s, and tens of thousand palestinians killed by jordanians in the 70s, and several Israel-Arab wars since 1947, an
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by bprieto 11y ago
I agree that a private company should be free to choose to not deal with some people because of their political positions. But I also think a private company should be free to choose to not deal with some people for their sexual choices. So
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by bprieto 11y ago
I think he meant larger in the sense that 24 bits is larger than 8 bits
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by bprieto 11y ago
I have taken my children to the Prado several times, and also to the Thyssen and Reina Sofia. They enjoyed their visits, mostly because there were specially made for kids: they had a guide for a group of 10-12 kids, the visits had a theme l
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by bprieto 11y ago
Facebook pays for the NHS healthcare and pensions of all its workers. It's separate from corporation tax, wich goes to fund the UK government. Facebook also collects VAT and pays VAT in every country where it is generated, including UK

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