victornomad

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by victornomad 9y ago
The way of measuring happiness is nonsense basically asking people, "are you happy?" There is a gigantic cultural bias. In many cultures people say that they are happy because they are expected to say that they are happy. Itd just
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by victornomad 9y ago
it used to be like that but nowadays they are superb. I own a Huawei P9 and even the Google Pixel looks cheapo compared to it.
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by victornomad 9y ago
you can do the same with one line in imagemagick :) http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#map I used in an old project to create color palettes in artworks and worked quite well http://victordiazba
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by victornomad 10y ago
damm, then we will get a subscription model flying car!
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by victornomad 10y ago
One day I entered in one of the labs in a previous company and found a few piles of "old" macbooks pro ready to trash. I would say easily around 500' They seemed quite new to me so I asked if I could get a bunch and reuse par
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by victornomad 10y ago
Just arrived from a one year trip in SE Asia with my girlfriend and we never got sick :/ Its normal that a 1.5yo gets sick there... like in any other place of the world if you still dont have your immune system working... If you get a
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by victornomad 10y ago
Laos and Vietnam are really beautiful countries... nothing sad about them!
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by victornomad 10y ago
Oh! so sad :( I just arrived from a one year trip in the area and really liked Vietnam and Saigon. I hope it doesnt become Singapore II... I think is my least favorite city in Asia...
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by victornomad 10y ago
I found Hawker centers in HK way dirtier than eating in the street in Bangkok :P and waaaaaay worse food... In Singapore was OK but like the rest of the city everything feels too clean and boring! Bangkok has already Hawker centers but its
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by victornomad 10y ago
Most of the stores you are referring in Bangkok are mainly big chains or shops run by people with lots of businesses. The people who really struggle are the people who run the stalls :/
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by victornomad 10y ago
I find these studies so biased. Asking questions trying to figure out how positive a person is, its just a bit non sense without taking into account culture. Im from south Europe where in my opinion we are quite happy, but at the same time
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by victornomad 10y ago
Your last argument is exactly the same as Ive seen in other places in the world (rich areas pointing to the lazy bastards that dont want to work) I understand it, but at the same time you cannot (and gladly) have all the cities shaped for m
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by victornomad 10y ago
sadly not... it was my first personal project ever and I didnt know that documenting projects was a thing :) I'll try to find the phone, get the logs and document it next time I visit my hometown. Thanks for the interest!
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by victornomad 10y ago
8 or 9 years ago, I made a tiny program for my symbian s60 phone that scanned constantly bluetooth networks and stored the mac and the celltower id to know where I was (no gps at that time). Next time my phone saw an already saved bt mac a
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by victornomad 10y ago
have you ever been in a farm? it sounds really cruel, yes, but thats quite similar to the majority of the meat production... sadly :(
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by victornomad 10y ago
I generally like what Elon Musk does, but this sound to me like a patch for the cities that works extraordinarily well with his other business Tesla. What we need is more and more sustainable public transportation. Trains, subways, etc that
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by victornomad 10y ago
I did both Interrail and Erasmus and its probably the best things I did in my life. I will be more than happy to contribute to that with my taxes to give opportunities to young people to become more open minded.
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by victornomad 10y ago
So basically you are saying that the US emissions are more than 2x India's. Taking into account that India has 3x the population of the US then it means that US emissions are 6 times bigger than India in terms of population <sarcas
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by victornomad 10y ago
I own a Thinkpad X1 second generation with a touch bar, its not as sophisticated as this or the new MBP but I really hate it. It lacks feedback when pressing the button. Trying to find the correct button without looking to the keyboard is q
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by victornomad 10y ago
They give tax benefits to companies under certain conditions, similar to what happens in Dublin. It doesnt have to do anything with the ETH or EPFL. As far as I know most of the people working at G Zurich are not swiss. Regarding your firs
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by victornomad 10y ago
it keeps been true. that article refers to "superpower" which is a technology developed by a third party that hacks the android audio subsystem for certain models, so its not general. I have like 30 android models ranging 2.1 to
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by victornomad 10y ago
after 6 years writing Android code I still struggle, specially with anything UI related. I do as well web and Qt which I find vastly superior in terms of user interface creation. If you stick to "material templates" you are ok, b
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by victornomad 10y ago
I understand and respect your points but I still think it is just a western/us-centric vision of the world. Things can be seen from many angles.
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by victornomad 10y ago
I dont consider Cuba as a Zoo, I want them to develop of course. The main problem is that "opening Cuba" without been carefull will create a really unstable society, few people getting rich really fast, some others becoming extre
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by victornomad 10y ago
oh man... what a vision of the world... I cannot stand these america-centric visions... One of the things that we talk among the people who keep going to Cuba or have relation with it is the fear of change to what the US capitalism will bri
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by victornomad 10y ago
Same I asked to some Cubans few years ago. Apparently it's illegal to start a hotspot there. You can end up in jail. in fact if you scan networks you wont find any. There is some local wired intranets between neighbours though
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by victornomad 10y ago
I guess they want to pay even less taxes... Ireland is getting too expensive perhaps?
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by victornomad 10y ago
its funny, I was searching for a library doing this a day ago :) I guess this is going to be mainstream soon, once the windowed mode gets out :)