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by sanoli 13y ago
A lot of human, throught humanity's history, had the material means to live a pretty pleasant, labor-free life, and yet chose a different path, away from hedonism. I suppose this will still be true many centuries from now.
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by sanoli 13y ago
I'm pretty ignorant of these details, so: why do atomic bombs only take us to 8% of the speed of light? What happens if we're at 8% and explode a couple of more bombs?
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by sanoli 13y ago
I posted this comment on an older thread about the same topic: "If radio signals is the best way for us to detect alien intelligent life, and vice-versa, aren't we doomed to keep quiet then? I mean, how long until we phase strong
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by sanoli 13y ago
...gypsies. About one quarter of them died in WWII. But hey, who gives a crap about gypsies? To this day, nobody seems to give a dammn. "It is not known precisely how many Roma were killed in the Holocaust. While exact figures or perce
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by sanoli 13y ago
Sometimes. Sometimes there actually isn't a more effective means of interrogation (for ex., when you're pressed for time). What do you do in these rare situations, like in the incident about the kidnapped girl below? If it comes d
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by sanoli 13y ago
Probably true. I wonder why nobody ever counts Africa in these discussions. It's always "but what about when all the poor Asian workers start to earn higher wages and there are no more cheap countries left?".
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by sanoli 13y ago
Modern Art = "I could have done that" + "Yeah, but you didn't."
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by sanoli 13y ago
I read a good one too, I think it was here on HN: "If you drop a truck from 50 feet on a group of people, and two managed to survive, it doesn't mean they became more resistant to a truck falling on their heads."
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by sanoli 13y ago
No, it's not widely accepted on HN that palo or keto is the only healthy diet. However, suger is pretty widely accepted here to be highly addictive and to offer no known benefits besides tasting great.
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by sanoli 13y ago
I agree with you, except on the timescale. I'd say next 100 years. For your prediction to be right, we'd need a pretty good prototype of the 'brain cap/scanner' in about 20 years. I don't know if that's en
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Brazilian mechanic finds cheap way to substitute light bulbs (during the day)(nydailynews.com)
2 points by sanoli 13y ago|0 comments
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by sanoli 13y ago
Emacs would be perfect for this, if it weren't so dammn complex/complicated. The learning curve is too steep for someone who just wants to write and isn't a programmer.
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by sanoli 13y ago
So? With a camera they also have to sort of point it at you. Your second point, the problem is: if someone is wearing glass and talking to you, they can record me in the same way. So Glass will force me to be suspicious of everyone wearing
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by sanoli 13y ago
Why this is, I don't know, but when nerds get famous (not rich; famous) they suddenly begin thinking they have a fashion sense ;)
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by sanoli 13y ago
My main work tool is a Thinkpad keyboard with the trackpoint buttons below the spacebar mapped just like the Leap keys on the Cannon Cat. All of my work is inside two text files, one with what I'm actually working on ATM and the other
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by sanoli 13y ago
I've always been a fan of the way the Cat works. So much so that my main work tool is pretty much a copy of the Cat on modern hardware. It beats, and has been beating for a bunch of years now, any alternative that I try to give a go. P
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by sanoli 13y ago
This Uruguayan had the opposite to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905503
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by sanoli 13y ago
Just get the 200m2 penthouse and you can stop worrying about #6 ;)
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by sanoli 13y ago
Yes, they apologized 5 years ago, and now there's a pardon. As an important abolitionist from my country once wrote, "Justice that is late is not justice".
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by sanoli 13y ago
As Rui Barbosa said: "Justice that comes too late isn't justice."
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by sanoli 13y ago
Well, I recall an interview with a Williams engineer saying that (in the mid 2000's, I think) the state of Formula-1 technology was so advanced and geared to its own brand of racing that, by the time it would eventually get to road veh
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by sanoli 13y ago
tl;dr: Huge number of fine restaurants serve Nespresso-capsule coffee. They are more consistent than barista-made coffee; the whole process is controlled, and even came out ahead in blind tests. Author however still argues that there is a p
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by sanoli 13y ago
Which is the main issue with Brazil's choice of the Gripen -- range. Brazil is huge, larger than the US's lower 48. From this point of view, the Rafale was a clear winner.
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How attached cats are to their owners? (Psych study)(youtube.com)
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by sanoli 13y ago
Actually, that's pretty accurately what their website says: "Can ABIN arrest people? No. ABIN doesn't have police powers/attributions." Original in Portuguese: A ABIN pode prender pessoas? Não. A ABIN não tem atrib
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by sanoli 13y ago
>note how it doesnt say designed in America. Ha! I hadn't thought about that untill your post. What the hell is this 'designed in California' thing? Boy, Apple really does try hard to look cool. Someone probably said &quot
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by sanoli 13y ago
Good point. What happened to those official Apple hardware clone makers when their cheaper Macs started doing good?
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by sanoli 13y ago
As a brazilian, I have to say you're right. Maybe the younger generation, much more focused on and exposed to computer/electronics brands, doesn't care much for Boeing or GE. But to anyone here over 30, Boeing is pretty dammn
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by sanoli 13y ago
and about 75% of the time, it wouldn't matter a tiny bit if I just let go.
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by sanoli 13y ago
Brazil effectively goes against the US when voting in the WTO. Most of the other times it is more about expressing its dissenting opinion on some issues, but not something like this.

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