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by bprieto 11y ago
Technical excellence is usually secondary to anyone except technicians and a few power users. It was the same with VHS/Betamax. The network effect and the set-up cost are much more important for the majority of users than technical exc
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by bprieto 11y ago
Gibraltar
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by bprieto 11y ago
It depends on the value of "You". Even if we are talking only of USA and not any other country, you don't have the same probability of being killed by a police officer if you are a white person living in a rich area than if y
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by bprieto 11y ago
I didn't know what a DPF was, nor what an injector was. This January, a 4000+ euros repair bill educated me. This is a seven years old car and taking this bill and the higher car price in consideration, I would have been better buying
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by bprieto 12y ago
How exactly would you achieve that balance? Rejecting good male candidates in favor or worse female ones? Creating make-believe positions for women? If the percentage of females working in IT reflects the percentage of females with IT studi
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by bprieto 12y ago
Yes, you can, both EU residents and out of EU residents. But you need an official address in UK (registered address) for your company, where Government can send you official mail. There are companies that give you this service, so it'
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by bprieto 12y ago
I do. Maybe I'm just one and every other person on Earth thinks otherwise, but I just can't see the "catastrophic" unless it is stated in relation to how radical this climate change is and in what direction. Many more pe
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by bprieto 12y ago
Central planning in the USSR and China led to huge famines with millions of deaths. And you should check what happened in Germany after the WWII: one country, split in two, one with central planning, other with mostly free market. Guess wh
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by bprieto 12y ago
I don't have medical experience, but I had a heart attack a year ago. This is what I felt: - Feeling diffusely sick, no specific pain, but a feeling that something was wrong. - Oppression in the chest. - Mild pain in the left arm - Col
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by bprieto 12y ago
Thanks. Maybe it's not climate scientist then, but the version of climate science that we get through the media which runs as "science is settled, scientist already know what will be the mean temperature on Earth in 2100".
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by bprieto 12y ago
OK, it was a figure of speech. They are not saying that. They are acting like that. The climate scientist who are trying to find the "missing heat" instead of reconsidering their models and revising their predictions of warming.
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by bprieto 12y ago
That blog post is from 2009. Five years later, there has been no temperature spike. In fact, there has been no increment. But what is interesting is not anyones definition of pause or hiatus or whatever. It's the comparison between pre
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by bprieto 12y ago
Measures are not falsified. Hypothesis are (or should be). When you have a hypothesis, or a theory, that can't be deemed false by new data or new experiments, you don't have science. And this is the problem with those "a post
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by bprieto 12y ago
This and also Windows made more important the office suit. Before Windows, integration between apps like WordPerfect, Lotus 123 or dBase wasn't so important, so you could buy each piece of software from a different vendor. Solid copy a
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by bprieto 12y ago
Mostly. In most countries that I know of, either there is a limit under which you don't have to pay taxes or don't have to register a business. Perhaps your country taxes that kind of income as personal income. And in the worst ca
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by bprieto 12y ago
Zara started as a pop and mom shop.
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by bprieto 12y ago
Except this only makes information disappear from Google, not from the web. If a news site has an articule about that time you were arrested for drug dealing, it will be there and you have no right to make it disappear.
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by bprieto 12y ago
I'd say it's less rude and distracting than looking at your phone
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by bprieto 12y ago
Disproving climate change is virtually impossible. Every scientist agree that climate changes, it has done so in the past, will do in the future and is doing it in the present. That is not an interesting question. The interesting questions
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by bprieto 12y ago
It may be that people who drink diet soda consider it a treat, so they doesn't indulge in other fattening treats. The people who drink plain water might succumb more easily to temptation. But we don't know it this is the case, bec
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by bprieto 12y ago
I don't know about the security part, but to say that "The problem with LAMP is that it doesn't scale" or that "SEO bots take down your blog" is simply wrong. I host a WordPress blog in a $20 DO box and load ti
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by bprieto 12y ago
My first son learnt to swim before he learnt to walk. A cousin fell into a swimming pool when he was two, almost died and has severe brain damage, so we wanted to be sure it couldn't happen to a child of us.
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by bprieto 12y ago
Because a potential intruder is more probable to try "root" than "akerl_35" to get access. It's no big deal to login as any other user and then use sudo (if needed) or even su
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by bprieto 12y ago
The post might not be as shocking as it appears. In most of the EU you seldom can fire an employee without weeks of notice. The way she tells the story, it seems as if the employee was told his contract would terminate, but he was still wor
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The Most Important Book Ever Is All Wrong(bloombergview.com)
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by bprieto 13y ago
I'll try to explain my rational reason. State-sanctioned marriage has a meaning if it's purpose is to promote reproduction. Which is what marriage was for up to 50 years ago. It's an institution that has benefits to society,
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by bprieto 13y ago
Read 1984 and you will understand why haircuts are important.
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by bprieto 13y ago
You must hire that employee according to the laws of the country in wich he/she lives. So if that person lives in Portugal, you should make a contract according to portuguese laws, and you must pay for social security in Portugal.
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by bprieto 13y ago
I had a "wordpress as default" blog hosted at DreamHost and it handled up to 1.000 visits a day without crashing. More than that, and DreamHost turned it off to prevent it to impact other users. Now it lives in a Digital Ocean&#x2
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by bprieto 13y ago
Cuba is not well off in (lack of) oppression. Not at war right now, and not suffering famine, but also right now there isn't war or famine in Iran.

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