walterstucco666

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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Smoking (or other forms of nicotine administration) is self-medication for a significant portion of the population It is believed to be, but it isn't. We could make the same argument for alcohol or even heroin, that stop a cough a
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
My uncle has been smoking for 50 years, suffering no consequences whatsoever. It must be because cigarettes are good for the health. /sarcasm That's exactly why speaking the truth is fundamental, being kind is simply a plus: we al
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
Yes, a minority of them share the same opinion. A majority of them studied and proved its unhealthy effects. Unless you wanna say that every opinion counts, no matter the opinion, we can safely assume that being vegan is like drinking or ha
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Any diet can be unhealthy Yes, exactly, so if I say "eating candies is unhealthy" I don't think there's gonna be any group jumping at my throat. Maybe is because candy lovers are not insecure cultists. They know it&
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Both of those statements have some element of truth to them, No, they don't. They are supercharged propaganda. > but they're obviously incendiary, as is your 'veganism is unhealthy'. Not at all. Saying veganism i
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> "Veganism is unhealthy," the issue is that it simply leaves no room in the conversation for the other person. Smoking is unhealthy, there's no possible conversation. It is, if you prefer to smoke, it's your choice,
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> I remember saying truthful things in very shitty ways during my younger years People prefer to be deceived than proven wrong. That's why young people are often thought of as shitty, because they have far less sovrastructures. The
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> That's what's happening at the moment in the Western world whether we like it or not. that's what will happen to the current generation of solar and wind power plants
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Whereupon the cleanup is huge, requires state intervention, and possibly decades. On today's news > Brazilian authorities said on Monday that they have no way of knowing how much more oil will wash ashore the country’s northeas
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> It is very hard to measure the reduced life expectancy due to radiation There's virtually no radiation, but assuming there was some amount of dangerous radiation, we should also account for death caused by coal or oil pollution as
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> You think Google lied under discovery? I think the known taxable profits are only a fraction of the real profits. Don't jump to conclusions, just because you wanna prove a point. > There is a country that has over 1 billion peo
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Some of those marriages even end up healthy and lasting long term. Survival bias. Most of those "relationships" don't even get past the first date.
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Microsoft hasn’t failed in the cloud - Windows has. as a server, maybe. as a client not really. > Android has only made Google about $33 billion its entire existence Yeah, they are good at hiding profits and they are an ADV company
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> Windows (not Microsoft) has failed in the cloud, the web browser market, and mobile. I don't agree on the Cloud, it's the strongest competitor to Amazon, and on the other businesses there is no competition: mobile and browser
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> If you’re doing the same exact thing 5 years later (let alone 10 or even 20) without any tweaks in your process, then frankly you have a job a robot should be doing. Banks and insurance companies tends to disagree with you. Maintaining
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> iPhones, iPads, and Macs Which is just two variants meanwhile Windows 7 support will end in 2020 and is still being sold https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-s...
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
That's very different from "algorithm-heavy interview" process. You could just ask "do you know when quicksort becomes quadratic?" > Just use a "Library". Not just a library, a battle tested one. A bad
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
I think it is often much better not to write them yourself, but rely on a battle tested implementation. Of course we're not talking about left-pad here, but implementing your own Diffie Hellman key exchange from scratch is usually a ve
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
https://archive.is/Xtb7c
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
But the point is you are not doing physics, you are at best tweaking some pre existing model. I did it in the past while consulting for a major bank, I studied CS, not physics, and I haven't seen any applied physics in banks. They hire
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
Ancient populations were digging holes in the ground before physics was invented.
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
Probably I'm being downvoted because I forgot the good old Apple, that builds its iPhones at Foxconn, where workers commit suicide due to work conditions. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/1
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by walterstucco666 7y ago
> The rich guy in Russia most likely had his competitors killed, literally, and the police turned a blind eye. Denying this is ignoring how the post-communist countries work. And the rich guy in the U.S. is a contractor for U.S. governme