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by louprado 8y ago
How would the engineers at Waymo know Tesla's trade-secret approach beyond the physical hardware ? Tesla is the only major player in the race to autonomous cars that has no patent. Waymo has 145.[1] [1] https://www.cnbc.com&
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Nicaragua university students under attack in political uprising against Ortega(miamiherald.com)
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by louprado 8y ago
On Chinese tour bus hired by our U.S. MBA class, our Chinese guide made several disparaging/dehumanizing off-hand comments about people from Tibet to the entire group. I still wonder if the Chinese government privately tells this guide
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by louprado 8y ago
A few years back our UPS driver arrived with our packages but could not scan them because his scanner is forcibly disabled during assigned breaks. So he hung out for about 10 minutes and expressed annoyance that he was being controlled. Per
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by louprado 8y ago
Some more info on kwh price. "Beginning Jan. 1, 2012, Chelan County PUD moved to a flat residential rate for electricity of just 2.7 cents per kilowatt hour."[1] "energy costs can run as low as 2.88¢ per kWh and average 4.13¢
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by louprado 8y ago
The article links to another article in the fourth paragraph. The use of the word seem implies we don't exactly know why. "That’s because decades of agricultural research has shown that antibiotics seem to flip a switch in young
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by louprado 8y ago
Starting a new business project is like owning a puppy. Everything is fun and the future looks bright because you think you will eventually have a useful and loyal dog that will serve you. But the whole time you had a wolf pup without reali
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by louprado 8y ago
The article doesn't mention, but the USPS no longer allows you to submit a change of address from a commercial address. I tried to do this last September when my business moved and I received a letter from the USPS denying my request.
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by louprado 8y ago
Which supplement you are taking and where are you buying it ?
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by louprado 8y ago
For a moment this was the best news I had read in years, until I noticed the story is a year old and the research paper[1] is two years old. Hopefully there has been some progress in the past years but if that were the case we would should
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by louprado 8y ago
From casual observation it appears that spouses who aren't introduced by mutual friends rarely like their spouse's friends. Friendships take time, are valued because of shared past experiences, and require a certain personality al
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by louprado 8y ago
"find a wise and prudent friend who leads a good life". By then it is too late. Because you aren't a "friend", you are a protégé at best or an opportunist at worst. You will never relate on a deep level because you
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by louprado 8y ago
It is hard to imagine one could become so prominent, accomplished, and well respected without having good habits and virtues. It would be odd he would share virtues that were not attributable to his personal success.
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by louprado 8y ago
Frankly if you were to ask anyone their virtues what often comes to mind is their personal aspirations not necessarily the habits they mastered.
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by louprado 8y ago
And then take that answer and invest even less given that, as an employee, you are already exposed to downside risk.
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by louprado 9y ago
There was remarkable moment in one episode where the company had made a really bad deal on a long term lease. Somehow Marcus solved the problem and I immediately grabbed my notebook and leaned in... After a commercial break you learned he
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by louprado 9y ago
> FYI, if you lose hearing from noise exposure, you'll generally lose it around 4 KHz I used http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ to quickly profile my hearing and found significant loss around 4.0kHz. I ha
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by louprado 9y ago
An acquaintance once told me she had accidentally inhaled a sewing needle as a child. She had loaded it into a straw and was planning to blowgun it at her little brother. But she made the horrible mistake of deeply inhaling after the stra
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by louprado 9y ago
This is science!, therefore, metric system. Also GPS navigation errors of 1 mile would have been something you would have noticed.
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by louprado 9y ago
Is that to say you don't like handshakes either ? I am genuinely curious as I currently do a slight bow and look down to preempt a handshake from occurring which is just exacerbating the crisis of touch issue. The shoulder shake was
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by louprado 9y ago
It's something I made up. I just fully extend my arm towards another person's shoulder and give it a brief rub/pat/shake with my open hand. The other comment where you rub shoulders and perform a tango dance move is defi
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by louprado 9y ago
I'm just going to start doing shoulder shakes instead of handshakes and see how people react. It's a warmer greeting than a hand shake and less likely to give me the flu. [update] -- I guess I won't given the down votes.
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by louprado 9y ago
Yes, I should not have implied otherwise since how one leans is really a reflection of how one defines their morals, not a deficiency of morals.
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by louprado 9y ago
Disgust is a challenging emotion to study because it is so intertwined in the brain. Moral "disgust" activates the same region as the "man eating a can of worms" example in the article. It activates the same facial expre
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by louprado 9y ago
While there may be HN readers who have little income and possessions and are therefore living in "poverty", true poverty is a lack of those things and a lack of hope that your situation will improve. If you are really feeling ho
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by louprado 9y ago
The scariest WSJ headline the week prior to when volatility started was the following: "New account creation hits all time high at E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, etc". The stock market engine has been hot for 5 - 6 years now and we just
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by louprado 9y ago
It's unfortunate this study didn't compare differences in tips. Do passengers subconsciously assume men are the primary wage earners in a household and inadvertently give higher tips to men. Is that subconscious bias is higher in
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by louprado 9y ago
In two recent conversations I was told that the coyete[1] rates are $10,000 from El Salvador and $8,000 from Mexico. The Mexican fellow told me he wouldn't return to the US not only because the rates were high too but the smugglers no
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by louprado 9y ago
>> the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it is quick, but also because it can hold an incredibly still gaze while pursuing prey. A bit off-topic but I have a theory on athletic ability when it comes to certain sports re
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by louprado 9y ago
Does anyone know if you can count a business you personally own and operate as part of your assets assuming you use reasonable valuation methods ?

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