ricardobayes

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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
It's an awful country to be honest, they reject any kind of social progress. Even animal rights is too much for them to bear or hear about. A dutch woman was denied a swiss passport during the naturalization process because she campaig
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Sometimes it's the other way around. Lockers for packages were first introduced in Germany (Packstation) then they were rolled out in the US almost a decade later. Not having a lot of credit cards and the associated rewards is actually
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Most of Europe tips too, and increasingly there is a service charge too (at least in the UK it has become standard now).
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
A tongue in cheek comment from me is that in Spain we have all this beautiful infrastructure but no money to send. I would rather have money to send via a slightly more inconvenient infrastructure.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
It probably does work good however Switzerland got dangerously close to "something happening" this year with the 10M referendum. And it was very close, with major parts of the country showing an absurd level of ignorance - sadly I
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
For what it's worth I'm also drawn to radiology tech - I guess because it's one of the most "techy" fields out there in healthcare? Hope all goes well for you.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
It's a different target market I guess. I welcome innovation like this - it's possibly tackling the loneliness epidemic in however small ways.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I have already added googly eyes to mine to give it a bit of a flair. It's hilarious to watch it roam around.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yeah, totally, it could even scale the stairs if needed. How about battery life though, can it go to sleep then be woken up on demand?
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I tend to stay away from topics like this which generalize and basically tell a whole continent they are living their lives "wrongly". But I have to say, AC is not "banned" anywhere in Europe, apart from certain cantons
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Anyone could comment or speculate what this enormous valuation stems from? Sources list their revenue as $150M? If true this is likely one of the biggest valuation gap I've ever seen. IMO hugging face is not something could not be repr
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That's a pretty interesting move. Any other experience you are willing to share about France compared to Portland? I'm actually curious and have always considered Oregon to be one of the nicest places in the US.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
At the same time a software developer earns 40-50k, perhaps a little higher in Milan or Rome.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
AFAIK also SF was long known as "hobo capital", meaning many homeless or drifting people just ended up there. So it's much more complex than that, since many of the homeless are not even locals.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That's right. We seem to have "allowed" or tolerated petty crime in most Europe. When I tell my foreign friends what kind of stuff happens in my area they always extrapolate and tell me I live in "8 mile". But it&#x
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Interesting that "coding" is now part of the marketing brochure as one of the use cases, while that was historically kind of missing. Is this new?
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
512GB unified RAM is going to be really good for running local LLMs.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yet many European countries have high household debt. Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, some of the highest in the world. I guess it has to be mortgages, since it's true they are not that "big" on credit cards. Altho
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Nuh-uh. Sadly tens of thousands (official figures around 70-80k) of young people emigrate from Spain each year.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That's completely right. If your village appears on CNN Travel, it's basically game over.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That's definitely very apparent, even places like Indonesia - which is practically as different from the "western world" as it can be, is now turned into someone's fantasy/caricature of an exotic place.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
True, I never got why so many real estate ads mention distance from an airport. How often do you need to travel for that to be a deciding factor where to live?
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Well, yes. That's why I labelled it as a "quirk", however as it looks people really seemed to have read a whole lot of other things into it.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
In my opinion, low birth rates can't be attributed to income, or income inequality. I feel like it's more about optimism, to have kids you have to be optimistic about the future.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
That's a good question. Good service is something important to the overall dining experience, so much so, higher end places regard the "maître d'hôtel" aka the service/restaurant manager equal to the chef. Great ser
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
One of the biggest cultural differences - for Spain - is that servers are seen as equals, not as a client-provider relationship. This reflects heavily in the language often used - "when you can, bring me X". Just one of the quirks
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
This seems to be directly linked to the lowered maritime shipping emissions, especially sulphur aerosols. Perhaps we should stop doing ad-hoc interventions until we can figure out a good, global path to tackle this challenge. ps. please don
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
I wouldn't even mind the speed limit beeping if it was paired with correct data. But the rental car I recently used in Germany actively reduced the engine power when it detected going "over the limit", which was frequrently t
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
Yes, however the trial succeeded. But by "how much", is not yet released. This trial was not against placebo, but the already existing, and effective Keytruda treatment.
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by ricardobayes 2mo ago
According to Gemini, Moderna uses machine learning to speed up sequence selection and mRNA optimization. After all, this is not a mass-produced vaccine, but a personalized one.

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