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by bumbada 5y ago
In good income houses and apartments in Europe there is a specific place that is designed for hanging your clothes, that is not very visible from outside, like an internal patio, or an outdoor balcony with metal screens that let most sunlig
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by bumbada 5y ago
>If Alan Kay really wants to see the worlds next ideas birthed into existence, why isn't he at the forefront of free and open source? He was, he created Smalltalk, released the source code and made it as open as it can be. You can s
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by bumbada 5y ago
There is nothing inherently safer about using seatbelts per se. In fact seatbelts can kill you. I have a friend that went out with his has car and a friend 20 years ago, they did drink too much and had an accident. He was expelled by the ac
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by bumbada 5y ago
"You aren’t drained because you need more sleep; you suffer because you have a broken heart." With all due respect, what a pile of BS. I monitor closely my productivity. I have been doing it and improving for years. I am exception
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by bumbada 5y ago
The problem is not overthinking but losing contact with reality. Not thinking too much, but thinking too much on the wrong things that are not important. You focus your time, money and effort on the wrong things. Those are not the important
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by bumbada 5y ago
Where does your trillions comes from? It comes from dominating the world and specially oil. If the US does not dominate the world militarily then the US becomes poorer overnight. Would you believe that the US world be able to continue print
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by bumbada 5y ago
Musk said he was going to automate the factory and he is going to automate the factory, no matter what. Musk is a visionary, he lives in the future. For him the future is as real as the present, and has a clear pathway for it. He is going t
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by bumbada 5y ago
I only use Mac and Linux computers. I don't play games but became interested in VR, specially for programming 3D worlds . Valve basically forced me to install Windows in order to use vive headsets because the linux versions were proble
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by bumbada 5y ago
China is a communistic state precisely for that. You would also say that Venezuela or Cuba is not communistic. The only communistic country that had a moderately good public medical system was German Democratic Republic, and it was because
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by bumbada 5y ago
No, marketing is the study of markets, and the study of markets is very similar to hacking. You find a need or necessity of a market and look for a solution, sometimes it is even a technical solution to the need and you are properly hacking
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by bumbada 5y ago
OLED technology has two significant problems that will not be solved anytime soon: 1. Blue OLEDS do not last, they degrade much faster than the other colors. 2. Burnout. This is intrinsic to the technology. LED tech has not those problems.
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by bumbada 5y ago
I have seen complex macros a lot and talked with the people that made them. Most of them just were not conscious of the consequences of their behavior. E.g this behavior is typical of someone that programs for a living but does not debug he
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by bumbada 5y ago
>Have you ever envisioned the daily C preprocessor as a tool for some decent metaprogramming? Never had such a nightmare. For metaprogramming C you should use real macros like Lisp. We have been doing that for a long time. Using the C pr
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by bumbada 5y ago
Some people will understand those concepts better with examples: Imagine you are in the Sahara desert at night with no lights out there in new moon. You fire a candle so you can see. Your vision adapts to the candle illumination that is 1 l
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by bumbada 5y ago
You don't need gamma when you have floats. We use gamma in order to emulate human sensibility that is logarithmic, lot linear. Most machine sensors work in the linear space, they are either linear or linearized around a specific point(
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We should develop open source decentralized alternatives to it that are easy to use.
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by bumbada 5y ago
Actually I knew about Shi's work early on because I talked with experts on the field and I shared all this info without problems. The urge to ban that info in social sites came much later, when politicians got the message and considere
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by bumbada 5y ago
In the article they talk about right wing propaganda but after admitting the huge amount of resources Obama used to catch Assange, using nefarious means. It is not the right, it is not the left, it is power. Power (anybody in power) does no
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by bumbada 5y ago
I had that experience when I was a kid(of making things that mattered). I became a cracker when I was a kid and we published how to replicate our results on the early Internet. We were the first generation that could play with computers bec
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by bumbada 5y ago
I use plain A4 paper, a physical clipboards and lots of colors(more than 10) and mechanical pencil.If I need to digitalize them for archival, I use same the Fujitsu snapscan automatic feed scanner that I use to digitalize books. I can draw
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by bumbada 5y ago
Europe has much more density of people living in the same space. And Asia is even more dense. In the US there are things that do not make sense because people density is so low there, even in places like New York, most people live in indivi
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by bumbada 5y ago
>Vinyl flooring, vinyl siding, one-piece shower stalls, and laminate countertops are examples of innovations that reduce the cost and increase durability. Vynil is one of the worst thing you could have in your house. And the production o
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by bumbada 5y ago
Ohh, that is amazing! So you become rich but never use your money and then become the richest guy in the cemetery. That kind of rich is not rich at all, just "paper rich". As entrepreneur myself, it is not that easy to become rich
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This already is done in lots of places of Europe and Asia and have pernicious consequences. It means that old people bought a house working 10 years with just one person working and now both couples working can not afford to buy(or rent) a
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by bumbada 5y ago
I would add one thing: Understanding and controlling complexity. When you have multiple systems, you can isolate interactions between them or not. If you do not isolate complexity, the number of possibilities grows exponentially or factoria
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by bumbada 5y ago
Criticizing another country behavior is not xenophobia or racism. There is a totalitarian regime in China that controls the bahaviour of China. Modern censorship has the protocol of calling names to ideas or opinions that they don't li
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by bumbada 5y ago
We have physical machines that could do the (physical)work of thousands of people, in a much more efficient way. That is, a single person can lift, move, and manipulate tons. Recently we have machines(computers, electronics, AI) that could
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by bumbada 5y ago
This is not a myth, but History recording real facts that happened. Anyone can imagine a "flying car" or a "nuclear fusion reactor". It is a completely different thing having and putting the resources to work: the people
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by bumbada 5y ago
So what? This is the NHTSA job. In the future every single car accident will be investigated, like it is done with airplanes, that is the advantage of autonomous cars, they log everything before the accident. That is what made airplanes so
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by bumbada 5y ago
I was raised in Spain. We have the opposite problem. The catholic culture is "nothing is your responsibility", even things that clearly are. It is Mt 6,24-34 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the

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