hevi_jos

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by hevi_jos 7y ago
For your information, Mr Hitler killed over 5 million people. Mao killed way over 30 million. Absolutely incompetent, he manage to remain in power just using terror. The other day there was an 70th anniversary of the founding of PRC and thi
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Well given than in Spain vultures are feeded by the remains of butchers, while in Portugal those remains are burned down(I believe), it is not a big surprise. I have seen them being feeded in mountains at the north of Spain called Picos de
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
All of those ideas are generalizations of complex realities. For example saying that people in Spain or Portugal love living the good live and not working is a generalization. Today, when most work is actually done by machines and not human
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
I disagree completely. First, stop using the term "marketing" for "sales and advertisements". It is not. Real Marketting is "the study of the markets", that is, what people need or wants. Apple in times of Stev
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
The fact that the woman did something wrong does not change, but the law make distinctions and things like mitigating or even eliminating the punishment around some situations like you state. That is there are some new facts that could miti
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Now Thyself The first thing you have to do is to identify what is the real problem. I don't know you, most of the people here do not know you personally so even if someone here is an expert on human behavior and productivity, is is way
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Why not? Technology has consequences that are ethical issues because it has influence on the lives of real people. If you create a technology that is used to abuse other people(like facebook spying or manipulating masses or the military inv
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
He has. He talks about it at the start. If your body and brain in development does not receive enough nutrients, it does not fully develop. As a volunteer teacher I have seen African kids disconnect after just 2 hours of class because the f
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
"Do you think spacex is launching space internet satellites built by people who have plenty of time for their hobbies?" SpaceX is not revolutionary, it is evolutionary, as rocket's discipline was already well known when they
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
PS: As an exercise you can put things in perspective. 70 years ago, if you were to live in Germany, Poland or Russia, you will see your neighbors, friends and family slaughtered by war, your daughters or sisters or mother become raped, your
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Well, you will become the people you surround yourself with. You will not change them but they will change you. "Always talked and about things he hated or how things sucked. Rarely anything positive." I don't know if you rea
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
I believe the main reason for its use is that music is not compressed like with CDs. CD quality could be better, but thanks to abuse (Loudness wars), it is way worse from the music quality point of view. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
It is used. 3d stacking is called. Most memory devices, like pendrives use that.
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
It is not sugar per se. It is being able to concentrate and crystallize it and then eating it in a completely non natural way. Fructose in nature , on fruit, has lots od fiber(celulose), that makes release of sugar in the bloodstream slow,
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
>The dirty secret is that literally nobody has ever seen a brain rotate inside a skull and result in concussion. Are you sure?. We have a thing called tomography with things like xrays, magnetic resonance that let's us look inside b
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Only in totalitarian dystopias. I have been in socialist countries with diesel buses traveling empty everywhere most of the time. Then at peak hours getting full. The theory was that they are much more efficient, and they are when they are
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Charcoal is very useful for plants. It is extremely absorbent to anything, specially nutrients in the soil so they don't get washed away by rain or irrigation. it releases them slowly. I have done tests myself with very small quantitie
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
It is not just the market, it is the people and infrastructure too. Think about that for a moment, you are trained as a mechanical engineer. You know about motors, transmissions and all the complexity involved in creating a combustion engin
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
What makes you a master is the ability to predict everything before it happens fast and automatically. A master swordman does not fear novices precisely because they know their movements before they do. They look at (imperceptible for amate
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Not to forget Chemicals like PVCs plasticizers, solvents like benzene in paints, bis-phenol A in plastic bottles, flame retardants in our home that we breathe whenever we sit down in something soft, insecticides(air in cities is super pollu
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
"- community of unrealistic, brainwashed, tribalist fans who lack perspective and criticism" Why do you feel the urge to insult those that do not see the world like you do? You call them "unrealistic", so it makes you fe
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
The Chinese education system is certainly not MUCH better than the one in the US. It is in fact terrible. China is just enormous. Over 1500 million people(officially 1200 million), 4x, 5x times more than the US. Lots of Chinese people are j
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Well, that is because Russia IS Europe. At least a significant part of it. All the culture, the history in Russia is European. It is for sure more European than the USA is. Russia became isolated because of communism. Now the USA wants to i
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Wow, they solved one of the big problems with raspberrys, ethernet was terrible. Now for me there is another very important one for things that stay connected 24 hours: refrigeration. There is a need at least for aluminum cases with holes f
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Lots of people care. It is only that big multinationals like Bayer also care: They want to fill the world with pesticides, because it is in their own economic interest. Those multinationals have concentration of power and influence. The pow
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
I love glue traps, but not for rats, for ants. They are cheap and with just one bottle I can protect lots of trees from ants going up the tree and cultivate and protect aphids. Without ants to protect them, natural predators just do the wor
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
Well, what is says is true. Of course they wanted to do as much damage to the Soviet Union as possible. Most allied generals believed URSS was going to be the next enemy after Hitler. The nuclear bombs against isolated Japan were more a war
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
The creator of whatsapp cared a lot about privacy. So even after selling the company to facebook he warranted that facebook could not read the messages. That was because fb promised him that they had spent a fortune on the company but they
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by hevi_jos 7y ago
We used to call this "vaporware". Certainly with my own robots I can pick raspberrys much faster and better than those guys can currently do. This thing is extremely slow. I am wondering what kind of engineering those people have

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