louprado

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by louprado 9y ago
Honestly, I have only heard the term fly-over states when someone is mocking how liberals hypothetically mock red states.
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by louprado 9y ago
This video involving insects and children made me reflect on my childhood passion and the day it ended. Like most children, I loved insects. In 2nd grade I wrote a poem about insects that so impressed my teacher that I was promoted from th
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Or to hedge against the US immigration policy that could hurt their labor supply in the long term. It was not lost on me that half my engineering grad school classmates wouldn't pass the Bannon/Miller test.
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by louprado 9y ago
For me chocolate causes acne (usually on my back). It happens to my father too. When I eliminate that one item from my diet I am fine. Every few years I eat chocolate in hopes that my body's reaction will change. But 30 years later i
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by louprado 9y ago
On the other hand one of my childhood memories is waiting ahead of an African American family to view an apartment. The landlord said can you please "just say you are going to take the apartment on your way out". And this was in J
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by louprado 9y ago
If Dad has a lot of stories like this, you should check out this link. https://al-anon.org/
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by louprado 9y ago
Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion. For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. He immigrated t
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by louprado 9y ago
Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion. For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly
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by louprado 9y ago
Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion. For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly
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by louprado 9y ago
Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion. For the record my father grew up a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly lo
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by louprado 9y ago
I often wonder what uplift the U.S. economy gets because consumers are lured by an initial low price that doesn't include service fees, taxes, gratuities, etc. It's like an accepted form of bait-and-switch , which is a proven tac
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by louprado 9y ago
A bit off topic but lets say you and your co-founder follow the canonical YC advice. You form a Deleware C-Corp, register your California foreign entity and grant yourselves ISOs with a 4 year vesting period and a 1-year cliff. But then you
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by louprado 9y ago
Discussion regaring profile options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855004 For years I resorted to hacking /etc/hosts to block HN. Mentally, I just assumed that no website would have such settings so I neve
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by louprado 9y ago
> not only tokens but anything else that can be bought or sold. Ownership is a combination of possession, control, and enforcement. Blockchain solves the issue with tokens, maybe helps with digital assets, but anything ? I own my hou
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by louprado 9y ago
The city of Oakland has not only has a wildfire problem, but an arsonist problem. This summer a construction site with a 7-story structure (196 new apartments) was burned to the ground in just a few hours allegedly by one person. I didn&#x2
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by louprado 9y ago
The documentary "Under our Skin" details Alan MacDonald's breakthrough research on how Lyme disease causes Alzheimers. The 4 minute trailer is worth a watch[1], but basically Lyme disease is found in 7 or 10 brains of Alzheim
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by louprado 9y ago
Fun fact: You can use a dry erase marker to erase the writing of a permanent marker. Assuming a smooth surface, scribble the dry erase marker over the permanent mark and erase.
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by louprado 9y ago
>> People or characters from TV shows aimed at children below 12 are not allowed to do any product endorsements, in any context. I wonder how this is handled when the ad context is implicit. Isn't Spiderman's image, for ex
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by louprado 9y ago
Your Acme example is similar to a Dutch Sandwich[1]. Dutch Sandwich, the Double Irish, a Bermuda Black hole... if my accountant started using such slang I'd start referring to him as my consigliere . [1] https://en.wikiped
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by louprado 9y ago
Forest M. Mims III was a master at using cartoons in his electrical engineering books. Just look at the happy and sad lightbulbs on page 1 of Getting Started in Electronics [1]. Using cartoons a great way to disarm the reader, especially c
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by louprado 9y ago
Does anyone have a link to the article on the lead detector ? To comment on your question, my favorite past time as a child was walking the aisles of a hardware store or Radio Shack hoping to find a tool or device I had never seen before. I
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by louprado 9y ago
> Who said that just because you don't have a social life you must be miserable or depressed? Well it depends on how one defines social life . But historically a lone human is a dead human. Depression does have an evolutionary adva
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by louprado 9y ago
Sorry, I was making a general comment and I didn't read the article because others warned it was too disturbing. I find blaming oneself is always the best strategy in life especially in a close-call life-and-death situation. Agreed, it
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I saw a PSA the other day reminding pedestrians that you do not have armor and that cars act like they own the road because they do. The best thing you can do as a pedestrian or cyclist is to assume your are invisible and to not escalate r
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by louprado 9y ago
Jesus' full fish basket has a capacity of 0.1 cubic meters. Each fish in the basket has a volume of 0.0008 cubic meters and a packing density of 1.25. Jesus then distributes 33 fish. How many fish remain in Jesus' basket ? Since t
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by louprado 9y ago
> The petrochemical revolution guides the way we've conducted foreign policy should have received top billing. Unless you were intentionally excluding items not in both sets.
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by louprado 9y ago
The body provides many signals when you are stressed. But for those who are chronically stressed the signals are always present and therefore undetectable. It wasn't until my mid-30's where I was able to have some downtime and lea
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by louprado 9y ago
Gold-bug has at times been used as a pejorative against people who criticized central banking and favored gold. I wonder what pejorative will be coined for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Banana-pants is just too broad. /s
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by louprado 9y ago
The alternatives proposed in the article are also known as Proof of Luck and Proof of Time. Both require a trusted execution environment, which is what Intel's SGX enabled processors provide. Perhaps Intel can find new blockchain appl
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by louprado 9y ago
I definitely am not recommending holding in your sneeze. Exhale what air you can. When the sneeze comes, open your throat wide so to minimize the air velocity. It takes practice.

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