ElViajero

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by ElViajero 5y ago
Maybe you are right and it was something else. But, it was very similar and the timing is quite close. I just feel to share it if it may help someone to build a timeline. And, as I have said in another comment, Osaka has many many Chinese v
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by ElViajero 5y ago
I had the same symptoms that I had the second time. The second time was confirmed by PCR-test. But, of course, it could have been an equivalent disease with the same symptoms: fever, mental-fog, sore-throat. It is just the timing, the fact
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by ElViajero 5y ago
I got CoVid in Osaka at the beginning of November 2019. The symptoms lasted around 5 months. I got it again in May 2021 and this time I was fully recovered in 3 weeks. I got vaccinated, even during the second infection I felt extremely tire
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by ElViajero 5y ago
Simple Queue Service (SQS) It's just polite to write the meaning of acronyms.
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> And I hate being forced into a _team_. Maybe you would like to be able to shit on the street, but there are laws against it because it would be unhealthy and probably also because people would find it "indecent". I know that
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> who will gladly put in effort to take your place. That sounds completely alien to my experience. I go on vacation around 2 months a year. I work only the stipulated hours. And I have a great job, with great conditions, working with ama
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> are you really that important? This is a very self-centered view of the universe. No, you are not important nor you need to be. I do my job, if I leave someone else is going to be hired to do it. That is how it works. If you are "
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> to pirate that work I doubt that copyright existed in the Stone age, so it's public domain. > they weren't sure it was good enough? A bit of self-conciousness on how my stick figures are a lot less realistic than Bob'
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> We know the rules of society are arbitrary, set up so that the show can be played out to its conclusion. This seems wrong to me. Most society rules have a reason to exist. Maybe, in the past century a few of that rules have become obso
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by ElViajero 5y ago
Each time it gets more one sided: efficiency VS robustness. The more heterogeneous a system is the better it scales. But errors spread fast as most of the system depends on a very small set of services. When I was a kid, if one of the neigh
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> “A younger-looking face creates impressions of higher physical and mental fitness,” the authors write. “Our results suggest that these impressions may indeed be a powerful driver of favorable employment outcomes.” It is possible that t
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by ElViajero 5y ago
I hope that the FDA has learned from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Boeing 737 MAX catastrophy. Credibility is easy to be lost and hard to be gained again.
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Elementary school children significantly increased their exploration of the dolls when their intuitions had been contradicted as compared to when they had been confirmed, frequently picking up the smallest and the biggest doll concurre
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> It will be as if they didn't exist. That is not how the world works. The fact that most people is not in the history books does not mean that they were not important. > History is for the meaningful, not the things that wouldn&
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> What argument can one make when the burden of proof is to show cultural regression? First, you will need to give examples of what kind of movies you find "creative" that were done in the past and there is no current equivalen
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by ElViajero 5y ago
For an example take the "Loading Screen Game" patent ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-pa... ) > According to the law, a person isn’t entitled to a patent if the claimed i
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> These are edits of popular movies that take place over the span of about 10 minutes but instead of being uploaded for review or critique, they instead aim to make viewing the original movies unnecessary. If a 10 minutes summary is enou
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> charging for products are a clear win-lose situation for customers That is not true. I pay money, I get a product I want. That is a win-win situation. I see TV and the TV channel shows ads is a win-win situation. I see YouTube and You
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Collecting data might be sensible, but it isn't too hard to ask. Collecting data might be sensible ... for corporations. But, it is rarely for the consumer. That is why it is so hard to ask. "Can I do this thing that you do n
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> People have a lot of money right now and they want to buy financial assets with that money. The article is very good at explaining the basic fact. Prices depend on demand. It does not matter how bad the product is, or how useless it is
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by ElViajero 5y ago
2008. Just wow.
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> If this isn't the case, then your org has bigger problems. That is completely true. To work together to build a product, to have everybody understanding what is what needs to be achieved, and collaboration in general is the way to
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> And by the way, this exact rule is the reason many South African startup founders incorporate in Delaware instead of locally, because it is extremely difficult to attract foreign investment if the investors know they will not be able t
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by ElViajero 5y ago
I completely agree. The trick is the same, create a complex product that is going to make it hard to regulate and sell it to unsophisticated investors that are blinded by the rapid initial gains. When it explodes let others fix the resultin
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> “The hungrier they are, the more likely they will tolerate bitter taste to obtain more calories.” I share that feeling with flies, after my 3rd trip to the fridge suddenly that > The researchers found that patterns of neuronal acti
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Who in their right mind invests in dog-named coin created 1 day ago? I guess that at least 2 types of people. On one side you have the pump-and-dump experts, they buy early and then promote the new crypto-coin. The second type are the
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Ministers back down after hundreds of government offices insist banishing fax would be impossible That is the problem of having a system that works. It is expensive to replace, a pain to learn for users and difficult to justify the ini
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> Lawmakers, privacy advocates, and civil rights organizations have also pushed against facial recognition because of error rates that disproportionately hurt people of color. When I was in China, I saw how many cameras there are everywh
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by ElViajero 5y ago
> The US has huge financial industry partly because the regulation is so extensive. People from all over the world invest their money in the US because they know what when liquidity crisis happens, they still get their money back. And th
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by ElViajero 5y ago
This is a very elitist and narrow way to look at society. It advocates to have an uneducated underclass that would not have the tools to improve or protest their situation. Brave New World is a good book to understand why this is a bad idea

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