pipio21

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by pipio21 10y ago
Backward countries in Europe referred to Spain and Portugal in 15 century is completely nuts. In that century Spain and Portugal were way more advanced that England or any other part of Europe. For example, Cadiz or Cordoba were way richer
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by pipio21 10y ago
"I think Iraq, Egypt, Iran and India were all as hot as they are now." Not really, we are talking 3000 to 4000 years ago and certainly climate was colder then. When we talk about Egypt we know there were very fertile land and citi
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by pipio21 10y ago
I believe is climate. I have lived in Germany and in Brazil. Living in Germany is like living in Boston, Chicago or New York, but probably worse: There is winter and you die if you are not prepared. As hard as it sounds, this is a reality t
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by pipio21 10y ago
That is the problem with jokes on writing. There is always someone out there that will take you seriously.
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by pipio21 10y ago
Well, we abort children legally, so it is not like we have improved so much. In Spain and other countries it is legal to abort creatures that would live if taken out of the womb. We rationalize it, because the mother will not be able to giv
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by pipio21 10y ago
I was in Colombia two weeks ago. I am Spanish so I could talk with the people. Not everybody supports the "peace process" like any Western media displays. In Colombia lots of terrible things have happened. There is people that had
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by pipio21 10y ago
Quandary? As a market matures, new markets appear. When LEDs become so cheap and you have all the light you need, you could add more light or find new applications. For example, right now using LEDSs for growing food is cost prohibitive, bu
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by pipio21 10y ago
I believe we live in Utopia of someone else. For instance Central Banks were created as a response to small banks bankruptcies, in order to make a "perfect world" in which banks could not fail. Everybody knows the consequence, the
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by pipio21 10y ago
Interesting that when I was living in China, I could not buy there things manufactured in China!! I had to go to US or Europe in order to buy them and them move again to China with it because most factories directly export what they manufac
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by pipio21 10y ago
I was not financially independent until I was 36 years old. And by independent I mean independent of my parents, independent of any company but my own, and take all the decisions and be happy(successful). I tried since I was 18. I had 250Ks
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by pipio21 10y ago
"Among all its services, it is perhaps its promise of a cashless economy, a recurring dream of the internet age..." I will correct that a cashless economy is a recurring dream of central bankers and their more fervent supporters,
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by pipio21 10y ago
Oh, man!! you accuse other people of having prejudices about yourself while making prejudices yourself. Your control experiment was "we put labels and we did not put labels". That is a very weak one. People in customs anywhere are
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by pipio21 10y ago
Isn't that amazing how much things improve when elections are coming? In my parent's country Spain, they have deferred some statistics two years in order to make it look better for the elections. The US is not better in this regar
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by pipio21 10y ago
You do procrastinate. What is happening is that you basically forced yourself to work when you did not want to for so long, your emotional system learned that work is pain, basically. Think of this like a Paulov conditioning a dog to have a
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by pipio21 10y ago
Most real (good) biographies are not written by the successful person itself(autobiographies). In most real biographies you learn a lot about the sacrifices the person had to do in order to be successful(success meaning getting the outcome
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by pipio21 10y ago
You know when the tax bracket was above 75%, and 91% there were rich people that basically paid nothing in taxes? This was the result of existing exemptions in the laws. You know the Rothschild? Rockefeller? In what period they made most of
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by pipio21 10y ago
There is nothing wrong about trade deals per se. I am not against any trade deals, but against this particular deal with those particular conditions because of some particular reasons.
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by pipio21 10y ago
"Nobody rips on the French when they say they have the best." Everybody does, it is called "chauvinism". There is nothing wrong believing your country is the best, provided that you have actually traveled to other countr
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by pipio21 10y ago
I don't know. Financial industry is a big bubble in the US right now. It has been a great ride for those that lived it. But when the bubble pops people are going to handle pitchforks against anything resembling "financial" on
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by pipio21 10y ago
I believe the main driver for "follow your passions" are not anti scientific parents, but scientific parents that regret having wasted their entire life doing something they hated doing like medicine or engineering.
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by pipio21 10y ago
Also there is great value not having pollutant particles in the air and in the water that will kill your father from cancer when he is 48. There is value not releasing radioactivity in the air from the natural isotopes you find in coal for
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by pipio21 10y ago
As an engineer and business owner one of my main concerns is how to bring value to my customers. But making anything new or innovative is incredible expensive. For me expending 159 USD in those earbuds in VERY CHEAP considering that making
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by pipio21 10y ago
Not really, there are reverse engineering efforts like this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nicholasclewis/inkshiel... But there are not Open source inkject printers because it takes millions to manufacture
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by pipio21 10y ago
A reply to European(mostly German) decision to try to tax Apple... US Government went furious with UE decision because they consider Apple more than 200 billion dollars outside America their own. As all governments around the world become p
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by pipio21 10y ago
How is young people moving to Germany contributing to Spain? Earning? They spend most of their money where they live. In the past engineers used to create wealth in Spain, creating 30 to 40% of the Gross product in Industry in Spain. Now it
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by pipio21 10y ago
Blame "too big to fail" and negative interest rates. When big banks had problems, the solution was to make even bigger banks and giving them free money in order to look good. They take savers money with negative interest rates and
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by pipio21 10y ago
Thank you Microsoft! That is what I wanted: Mandated Telemetry in everything I do so the mothership knows everything I do everytime from a product I supposedly bought. It is so great to know that today Microsoft and the US gobertment could
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by pipio21 10y ago
It is not ageism, it is supply and demand, as simple as that. How many people had access to computers 25 - 30 years ago? Very few, like me, and we were privileged. Getting time to learn with a computer was expensive like getting knowledge a
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by pipio21 10y ago
This is like saying that Leo Messy scoring goals is luck. As a business owner that meets other business owners every day I believe "luck" is not that important. There is a lot of space for normal business in the world, that solves
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by pipio21 10y ago
Ohhh, man. With negative interest rates companies have it easier to buy the competition that actually competing with them. Innovation is never obtained from big companies buying other big companies. On the contrary.

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