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by joaomacp 8y ago
Again?
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I bought it before I committed to this decision, and as others have said it's nearly impossible to avoid Made In China products completely, but here goes: USA companies: Corsair - case, PSU; Intel - CPU; Razer (also has HQ in HongKong&
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I have personally decided to avoid buying 'Made in China' products whenever it's possible. It's hard, but I don't want to support their work conditions or predatory geoeconomics in any way.
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The purpose of ads is not just eyeballs. It's to get people to buy a product. If a lot of kids that watch YouTube all day see a Nike ad, it doesn't mean they'll buy sneakers. There are more and more people that do nothing but
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As much as I dislike the Chinese state, I must say that I also want to learn Mandarin for this reason. I learned English for cultural reasons that are also related to the imperialism of the USA, so why not Mandarin? Can anyone advise me on
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Honestly, with Shkreli's level of ambition and intellect, I doubt he'll ever be broke or unsuccessful. I'm not a fanboy or anything, but a big percentage of rich people have done some illegalities. They still end up on top. I
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by joaomacp 8y ago
In my day we had to invent tools first, but before we could do that we had to evolve from unicellular microbes.
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Since you mention Grindr, I remember in my company there were guys who would sign up as gay, just to see who in the company (and I guess in their social circle) was secretly gay, and tell it to other people. The irony is that they would fin
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Another reason is they could make Reddit 'sink' comments criticizing the Chinese. China is playing a really good geopolitical strategy game. If any other country was doing the same attrocities as them, they would be criticized and
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by joaomacp 8y ago
This is just gossip, not news, and not that scandalous. The only nice thing is the hilarious story that Lauren Sanchez's husband, which she was supposedly cheating on with Bezos, after hearing the story was found going out with a model
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I live in Portugal. If this summer is as hot as the last one with several 40c+ days I will move out for sure. I just can't take it, and like most people I don't have ac. I could get ac, but if I have the option I'll escape to
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"Why do humans have teeth? To chew food" Doesn't look bad to me, and it's the same exact point.
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Oh god...
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> "If a guy brings me his code, and it has mistakes, it brings insane pleasure from how smart I feel" This quote made me laugh from the exaggerated "insane pleasure" in other's mistakes. But I feel this way somet
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by joaomacp 8y ago
This x100. Unfortunately China is pulling too many strings to ever be punished for these behaviors. Let's hope they start getting some backlash from citizens about these practices. Otherwise it's going to be an interesting power-w
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Of course software can play a bigger role, but don't underestimate the importance of contact with human teachers and colleagues of high expertise, as well as feeling valued by other humans instead of making a virtual skill-level go up
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Ah, so that's why I've been seeing lots of videos and posts about Fyre... I thought it was weird, as the incident was so long ago. I had no idea Netflix had a documentary coming. I guess I was successfully targeted with undercover
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by joaomacp 8y ago
My aunt (about 65) recently retired and she kept being active: she goes to yoga classes, hydrogymnastics, classes where they do memory exercises/games, and she helps my cousin with his car-rental business. This is awesome, but part of
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by joaomacp 8y ago
These kinds of things need to be considered when arguing about privacy: you could argue that having completely private payments with no link possible to the receiver is bad, because it facilitates this type of crime: Before crypto, you had
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by joaomacp 8y ago
> How do you sell first? In a podcast [1] a mattress company tells a story about how they got started: they just built a one-page site where you could buy a mattress, but the company didn't actually exist: after a certain point it f
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by joaomacp 8y ago
A counter-example: in Portugal, Lenovo's support representative took my yoga 500 and replaced the motherboard for no cost. Don't remember the duration, maybe 1 or 2 weeks
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by joaomacp 8y ago
I think everyone with an interest in spaceflight should play Kerbal Space Program. It gives you a sense of scale, both of space and time (luckily you can fast-forward to 100.000x), and also teaches you the basics of making orbital trajector
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At the end of the day, what difference does it make? You can't change the past. Also I'm pretty sure knowledge like "he's not my real father" will stay in the back of your mind and pop up from time to time, making t
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SNIP sounds cool, and makes sense as well: Systems for Neural Information Processing
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Wait, I had anemia all my life and I thought this was bad. Does this mean I'm actually healthy now?
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by joaomacp 8y ago
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲... 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲.𝗴. 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘃𝘀 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗻𝘁.
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by joaomacp 8y ago
Probably the best solution would be a combination of the two: the ML algorithm would also learn from human examples and corrections. I think this will be the solution in a lot of problems and industries: ML does the boring and repetitive wo
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by joaomacp 8y ago
This battle between the US and China for influence and control over the world will be interesting. We all know the US are far from harmless in their foreign policy. But still, between a US-centered world (which is still where we are in the
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by joaomacp 8y ago
That launch is already considered an innovative turning point. What he shows is basically what exists now in phone tech (apps, good internet, GPS...), and it's the same only-screen device (today's are equal, only larger). And it&#
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I do this. Some colleagues don't leave work until they've finished the feature/bug they're working on. If it's 6pm and I'm stuck solving a bug, I call it quits and go home. Often the next day I have a new persp

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