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by bumbada 5y ago
Given the fact that Saudi Arabia is an US' puppet regime, they(the US) could do everything they want with it. If you go to Saudi Arabia you will see that Arabia is made of hundreds of different loosely integrated ethnic groups, Saudis
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They are just deferring taxes. Taxes will be paid anyway in the future. In some ways I prefer to pay taxes now because you are free with your money and that is wealth in itself. A new crazy Bernie comes and changes the rules and you are f*c
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by bumbada 5y ago
I don't think so. I have worked in the Germanic side of Switzerland before the pandemic and will go back after it. IMO the main reason is that Switzerland has no natural resources so for this reason it was not invaded. You go to Africa
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Documenting everything they do is a requisite for everyone on my team. Doing it "beautiful" is not. You can do it just drawing in paper, scanning it and linking the document, fast, almost inmidiatly. That is very important. You co
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>At least until the revolution comes and a living can be provided for all. At least until revolution comes and you become a slave that must provide for all or else.
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You should only work in the most important problem of the world if you have a high rate of probability of solving it. Usually only young and naive people try that because they don't know something is impossible and they believe they ar
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by bumbada 5y ago
Surviving in different places in the world requires different amount of work. If you live in Brazil or Cuba cold weather does not exist and you can wear a t-shirt swinsuit all year long and survive. If you live in Germany,Japan, Norway or B
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by bumbada 5y ago
A friend of mine organized a safari business in SA. It was a normal thing for the workers he had to receive the salary pay and disappear for a week until they had burned it, and then will come back. So he had to pay different people at diff
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by bumbada 5y ago
There is a very important thing to mention: Both the US and Europe depended on China's supplies in order to fight the virus in the first place. Guess what Chinese officials did? They called each individual country prime minister and sa
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You have no idea what you are talking about. No idea. I have lived in China. Freedom of press and Rule of Law(they don't exist in China) are amazing inventions. You just don't have an idea how lucky and spoiled you are. I recommen
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You are speaking about your personal experience. You never wanted to work remotely, you never prepared for it and as a result it has been a traumatic experience for you. On the other hand there is people out there, like me, that have been i
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>Thus, every cent spent on this project actually takes us farther away from a renewable-energy future, vs. that same money put into building out wind and solar capacity and storage. I believe you don't understand there is a law of d
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by bumbada 5y ago
The NYT is extremely sectarian. They have been doing exactly what they now critizice for people in their right for a long time. And it is impressive what we are seeing today with corona and Wuhan lab, all those media were basically calling
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by bumbada 5y ago
Don't do that. Don't tell people too much that you love them. Have you seen all those commercials in which they tell you how important you are for them? Then you call when you have a problem and they make you wait one hour in the
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by bumbada 5y ago
Why there is no light on space Sci Fi series or movies?. I find it extremely hard to believe that people that master ships at the speed of light, that have nuclear and possible antimatter engines just can't effort proper lighting, like
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by bumbada 5y ago
Very few things are intuitive. Is it intuitive to brush your teeth? No it is not. I spent years brushing my teeth incorrectly and paid for that as a kid until a dentist showed it to me. Is it intuitive to tie your shoelaces? No, you learn i
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by bumbada 5y ago
Not really. Batteries like AAA are already being recycled because it makes economical sense. In fact thieves steal it and need vigilance. You are confused with "electrical components" that are mostly plastic, very hard to disassem
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by bumbada 5y ago
Stop reading books, stop getting courses and start doing things. Some people have tendencies to never learn from other people, and they make the same mistakes other people have done again and again. Other people, like you (it is obvious), g
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by bumbada 5y ago
Because cryptocurrencies are basically a pyramid scheme, the money for early investors is made by huge amounts of new people entering the pyramid. Lots of people enter the pyramid because they have seen early investors benefit greatly and t
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>and it's impossible to avoid a vehicle battery cracking open in a bad enough accident If you watch old car racing competitions, you will see that they were extremely dangerous because of the gas deposit burning at the minimum crash
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by bumbada 5y ago
As always you need to understand the context. It is typical for HN to bring an article, take some specific point devoid of context and raise conclusions on a different place and context. Japan is not the US, Japan is a very small country th
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by bumbada 5y ago
For those that learn a new language, it is a good idea to suspend criticism on the language while you learn it. Every language has its pains. German using Sein and haven for auxiliary verbs in the past makes things way more complicated to l
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by bumbada 5y ago
The article is an oversimplification. I have worked in the US, Asia and Europe, and they are completely different places with different realities. For example, in the US it is normal for medicine doctors and lawyers to be rich. That concept
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I have my old Spectrum and Atari ST and from time to time I run them. My friends had Amigas and Apples(or their parents had them) that were super expensive at the time. I bought one Amiga from a friend when it got old. I also got old consol
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Who cares about NDAs when the company that breaks the law is thousands of times bigger than your company. They have a football team of very good lawyers working full time in order to delay things for years. You can be right and go broke jus
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This is a classic. It usually takes an experienced engineer a 15 minutes tour around a building watching the machines to know exactly how you have done anything. It takes years an millions of dollars for your company to iterate on the speci
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It is also important to be extremely arrogant and not know your limitations in the sense of Donald Knuth: Had he known his limitations and the time it will take he would never have started Tex or TAOCP, in his own words. Non knowing my limi
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Let me guess: You are from the US of America. How do I know? Because the Russia is evil mentality. This comes from media in the US and lack of knowledge of History and geopolitics. Let's take some History lessons: Who sank the USS Main
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Spaniards or Italians take Olive oil seriously, just like in China you could clone or adulterate anything but tea, silk or porcelain. If you fake phones or handbags or sunglasses nobody cares. It is forbidden but authorities turn a blind ey
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>Even people that I know owning olive plantations and processing installations don't consume a lot of it, they can't afford to. I don't know what people you are referring to, but of course people owning Olive oil plantatio

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