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pipio21
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I was never into luxury cars, with the exception of a Tesla that I love I bought because I was interested in the technology more than in the car itself. But I always dreamed about having a good yacht so after selling my first company I boug
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As a company owner where most work is done remotely, I believe it is just education, people have been brainwashed all his life, and it takes time and work to make people operative remotely. Working remotely means you can life whenever you w
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People personalize too much: They believed in Obama like he was a Prophet or something and now they make Trump the devil. People can not see that around Power there are lots of interests, companies and people that fight for their own benefi
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pipio21
10y ago
I want to give you brutally honest feedback, please do not take it personally. I looked for something similar in Spain, a house in a rail wagon, something like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nEZddcafnkk/SAoPN_PCK_I
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For anything you want to learn in your life the best thing you should learn: Learn from the Masters, do not seek advice in random people on Internet. It is called "modeling". Pick your masters-mentors carefully. For example we hav
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How do you know he was not an spy? Spies don't have the name "spy" on the forehead, but are people that serve their country obtaining information from another (preferably)with some excuse or alibi. History tells us that anyon
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why not? Propaganda is a very good way to be informed. Precisely because the first law in good propaganda is "you never lie, just do not say anything about what you don't want mentioned". A lie like the weapons of mass destru
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You did not HAVE to accept anything unless you are not an adult. You accepted good money. You chose it and pick your master(as the Bible says you can't have multiple masters). You want it all. I chose the other thing, something that pa
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IMHO good animations are good design. Apple does a great job here. They display the minimum animation necessary for you to understand. You open an app and you see it opening. Text terminals are terrible for something I need to do every sing
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10y ago
"The basic question is: would you pay $1 a month to keep in touch with friends without ads?" No, I would pay hundreds of dollars to keep in touch with friends without external entities stalking-spying my interactions with them. No
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You say that 99% is fully deserved because you know the person or his family personally? How relevant it is you believing that is fully deserved? Are you really good informed? I remember hearing about Mark Shuttleworth by acid critics in th
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10y ago
I have created some companies and managed lots of people. In my experience, the moment I hear someone calling someone else "jerk", it tells me more about the person telling it than about the "jerk" itself. In particular
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Oh, yes, lets do it! Having worked in OpenGL-DirectX for decades we suffered immensely from "standard by committee" and lack of competition in OpenGL. When I was young I was naive and thought things would improve, but it was so pa
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In my company we work using computers for real world applications, in the physical world: Regenerative medicine: understanding DNA code and restoring cells and organs, making eternal youth possible. It will take decades of hard work. Ending
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The article does not make sense. Propaganda comes from the Church and means "Spreading the news", basically what Jesus told disciples to do. The meaning later changed to spreading partial information with the objective of controll
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Well, I don't see any problem in the first three photos. I also was very tall and skinny as a kid and it is very normal(and healthy) to become a man and get some weight. I personally met Michael long ago and don't remember thinkin
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"That being said, it makes me laugh a little to see that Valve and the HTC Vive managed to outpace Oculus." It was the other way around. Valve had been working in VR for years before the first oculus prototype. Oculus contacted St
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This is extremely inaccurate and misleading. First there was lots of international actors in the Spanish civil war and England was probably the least important of all those. Of course UK media like the guardian will grossly exaggerate the E
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Well, in Sweeden you can't go out and enjoy your country in Winter, it is just so cold and dark to do anything but stay indoors, read a book,play and instrument, play computers...all artificial things, specially after working in front
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One of the biggest Aha!! moments I had happened when I created my first company and realized how important joining people of different personalities together is in order to make them prosper. Making teams instead of solo work. For example a
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nearly-all-of-silicon-v... http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-donors-favor-h... Here is what Paul Graham and Sam Altman had donated to: https:/
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This data could also be very dangerous. You can be tracked in everything you do by the power that be and this will be used for nefarious purposes. So I think it is not unlikely that people revolt against the progressively erosion of liberti
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"3D" has nothing to do with VR. Period. In fact, 3d is nothing but a marketing scam, it is not really 3d, but a fixed stereoscopic view. When I tested the "3D" on a TV, it was clear that it was going nowhere. Why? Becaus
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It is not wrong when you benefit from it. This is a human trait, people do not see the wrong on the things you benefit from. For example, did you ate beef or fish lately? When was the last time you thought about the animals that were killed
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One of the main causes of accidents are vehicles left on the road and other vehicles impacting them or the people as they take for granted that traffic will be fluid and are distracted or whatever. You should never leave your children and f
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"Moreover, if it works on Firefox/Linux, how can they prevent someone grabbing the video from X and the audio from Alsa?" Well, that's exactly what they want to remove. HDMI for example forces all companies that use it t
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One of the big troubles with OSS volunteering is the current state of technology to communicate with others on the Internet. In our company we have been working from home for years. Using the telephone or teleconference is basic in order to
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As an entrepreneur and former manager and engineer I find this analysis too simplistic. In particular he talks about outdated methods making work negative and while I agree, most of the time I find the opposite problem: most programmers wan
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The world is not the only planet in the Universe. This is not immortality, this is eternal youth, until you die for some reason (war, an accident, suicide, whatever) . Thermal engines were a radical change in society, it let us do things th
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5. You are being manipulated by mainstream news. You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happe
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