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by jbmorgado 9y ago
This is really interesting - in a geeky way. Until now all fundamental units were defined in terms that depended on the constants of nature. For instance: - the metre as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 79
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Sad truth is that you buy bananas in lbf and in most of the world we use Kgf. This world is lost I tell you, can't even pay for something according to it's mass.
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Well, the wirecutter is not really an independent source anymore (if it ever was one). Studies by the consumer associations are a much more accurate view (the French one is particularly good BTW). About the quality of the job. My issue is n
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "Portugal shouldn't overly acknowledge the slave trade, they barely kept any in the mainland while profiting off their sale and work for centuries." We are just going around and around in circles. Again and for the fin
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "If they refused, the offer would go out to their rivals. " Ok, so what? Both you and you rival have something to sell. If I don't buy it from you, I buy it from your rival. Let's face it, the Europeans created a
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "I don't really care if any men get hung high here." What kind of place are the moderators of HN running here where this kind of comment is allowed? It's absolutely ridiculous the double standards going on here.
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "it's because ideological battle is not what the site is for" If this is actually true then why do you keep removing flags from ideological submissions and force them into the front page when me (and others like me) keep
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Let's hope so that he doesn't have time, but I think people are fooling themselves by thinking he will get voted out of a second mandate. If he lasts that long without an impeachment, history tells us that it's highly improba
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Because he seems to be actually creating an oligarchy in the USA, firing and hiring people for top administration like he sees fit in order to concentrate power around him.
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
I see, I was interpreting the GP comment as that the OP stopped talking altogether after knowing she had a boyfriend. But you are right, it can also be interpreted that after the OP knew she had a boyfriend he changed from "small talk&
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Where in that sentence do you get the idea that he "stopped 'making smalltalk'" after "they told [him] they had a boy/girlfriend "?
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "By saying it was the Africans who did the kidnapping, you're putting the crime on them. But if they refused, they likely would have been enslaved or killed." Way to go and completely distort all historical evidence to
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "The only thing we're trying to optimize HN for is being interesting (a.k.a. "gratification of intellectual curiosity" as the site guidelines say)" Care to explain us how removing flags from posts that aren&#x2
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "As for burden of proof, I don't see it. It's like saying that asking people to lock their houses is a burden, when thieves are the criminals." This is surely the poorest analogy I've ever read in my all life,
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "If you're really truly worried about false accusations then here's another fix you can have for free: record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders and/or don't meet alone." Well, there are
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "If an employee of yours said they were raped by another employee, would you make them go to the hospital and get a rape kit before believing what they said?" Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but are you adv
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "Paying someone else to do the work doesn't change who was responsible." Never claimed Europeans weren't responsible (in fact I clearly stated the opposite), I factually stated something wrong in the original articl
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
It is quite deceiving to mention so greatly - and more than once - the slaves that where kidnapped by Europeans like they where a representative part of the slave trade, they were factually not. Portugal is without doubt a big culprit in th
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
I want to vouch for Matplotlib, I can see it gets a bad reputation when compared to these new shiny frameworks like plotly, but it's vastly more powerful. If you are a researcher and you want to publish in B&W (something still very
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Well I can agree with that, but it still doesn't change anything of what was said above, i.e. what you see and what you are allowed to discuss in HN is not what the community decides, but what the moderators decide.
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "On HN, the community decides what is acceptable having seen the comment." Not really, that's just a common fallacy perpetuated from the ones that see their political views represented by the heavy handed moderation arou
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Google Photos adds smarter sharing, suggestions and shared libraries(techcrunch.com)
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
You are setting up a framework of thought where no matter how much data you gather that shows some group is indeed more violent, you are allowed to just dismiss it on the basis of some situational perceived discrimination.
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Are you actually putting newborn children in the mix to pretend that only 19% of Americans wanted Trump there?
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Well, when you think that the Sun is now about 5 thousand million years old and happily living the quiet times of its middle age, you can see you "young" is Betelgeuse.
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
> "If the best example you can come up with is someone who literally got a blowjob from a hotel maid in his room " See your way of reasoning in which you automatically assume that whenever a woman accuses a men in power than
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
Not in a culture like the one we we are living, where a woman only needs to accuse a men - without any evidence - of sexual harassment and automatically ruin all his carer and possibly his family life. Even if the case never gets to trial
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
I'm thinking about doing something similar, what do you use to write it down? Pen and & paper, or some digital format like Markdown?
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by jbmorgado 9y ago
I'm curious, but why didn't you rate your drivers 1 star rating evertime they would break the Uber agreement and try to coherce you into tipping them in cash?
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Supreme Court rules: Offensive trademarks must be allowed(arstechnica.com)
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