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Htsthbjig
10y ago
Smashing record? What they had done for humanity? In my opinion is a bad idea to add too much pressure to kids, making them compete in contest with absolutely no useful outcome. When I was a kid I entered Mensa but went out soon because of
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Of course. Do you eat pesticides for breakfast? How do you supposedly kill mosquitoes without chemical dangerous products? Products that will kill people with cancer, asthma or birth defects. How do you kill mosquitoes without killing bees
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10y ago
Great tool. Years ago we started teaching kids Openscad(we volunteer teaching kids to make things with 3d printers, cnc mills, laser cutters, drill machines...), but right now we teach mostly to use freecad. Openscad only for the most advan
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10y ago
I am owner of different electric cars. I have an IT company so for us electric cars are more than a battery on wheels. It is a car you could put sensors on and do lots of stuff easily, like automatically drive and so on. I don't consid
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Hayek and Mises responsible? Everybody in power is Keynesian today. Everybody. That is an ideology created from Keynes books once he is dead. The last part is important because if you get to read Keynes, which most Keynesians have not, you
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10y ago
I do speed reading: It is real, I am part of a group in Europe that could read a novel in 30 minutes. We are more than 50 people. The big drawback: we can't read anything that fast. We have to format the content in an specific way that
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Quite interesting that people could only see barbarism outside, only the straw in the eyes of others: How is that possible than an North American entity talking about barbarism totally ignores the extermination of native Americans? Is there
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Agreed. I lived in Canada like 5 months or so with some friends. The country is so big that we used private airplanes to move around, which was very normal there. The prices on Toronto smells Bubble so much that feels dangerous to be near t
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What is happening in the UK today is what happened in Spain 10 years ago, or what happened in Japan before Spain: A bubble created by easy money. In Spain it was money coming from France, UK, and Germany. In UK it is money coming from Chine
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In my company years ago we tested every single manufacturer 3d set for engineer applications. We were never excited about it, so we did not follow. Personally I was not excited about it. Most people were never excited about it, only manufa
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"Why are actively managed funds paid via fees, and not based on performance?" Simple, As Warren Buffet said when he created an investment firm, he expected to be judged over the general market wave, that is if the market crashes
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Because their oil is expensive to extract. If the price of oil extraction in Venezuela for a barrel is 60 dollars and the market price is 40(the price in Saudi Arabia is very low), you have a serious problem. You will even have to LOOSE mon
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Where did you hear that story, in Norway? Had he had information about the Vikings, he would had used the Viking route going around the coast that is way easier than strait on the Ocean. Don't you believe?. In Columbus times, there wer
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The problem is when people in power seizes people's banks account like it was done in Iceland because "the country needs sacrifices" and they themselves don't do the sacrifice. Before banning possession of gold, FDR and
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Not so, real profits are low. Companies are doing buybacks because the Fed is basically siphoning all the wealth to big business and the Government via 0 per cent interest rates. In the past companies had to offer their stock in exchange of
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From your point of view. From their point of view, they are fighting against a dictator(true) in order to create a regime most of the people there want(a theocracy). While doing so they oppress other people, like the communist did in the Sp
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Go look around statues in Ankara or Istanbul to see what you mean? Turkey was a Muslim Empire, or as you say, club. They took Christians and enslaved them or made them fought their wars with exclusive privileges only to Muslims. Let's
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It is interesting that you insult everyone that disagrees with you: "Fucking racist". It looks like you are so unsure about your own arguments that you need insulting them to feel better. The main reason EU closed the door to Turk
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I disagree. I also had been following VR closely. Studying what happened to photography cinema or radio we can predict VR as the new media having a great success over time. Today VR lacks media designed for VR. Right now, VR is opening to t
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In a word: Privileges. In the US lawyers and physicians are rich, but in the rest of the world it is not so. In the US those professions have privileges. The main disruption to wealth has been central banks redirecting the wealth to themsel
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She never told that. That was fictional phrase written in a novel by one famous writer, and attributed to Marie Antoinette, in order to discredit her because those who did benefit from that. You should contrast your sources.
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If it is regional, it is not an empire... China was an empire, and was forgotten. Today I could go to the book store and buy "Historic Atlas of the world" that completely ignore China. I have lived in China and of course the Chine
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Well, most people that stand all day in retail actually harm their health. The biggest problem is shoes: Most of those have heels that actually unbalances the body,the spine and muscles, specially women. Heels are responsible for the bigges
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When I started working standing up the first months were painful for my muscles. I realized my entire body was changing, and after those months I enjoyed it a lot. It improved my posture and people realized. My health improved. I was alread
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How is standing up new or fashion? Someone told me an architect studio was selling old stuff and we could probably be interested on some things so we could pay a visit... I was socked when I saw they were replacing an entire room of drawing
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"What if the heirs need that data or third parties, lawfully?" Law states that banks have to give a notice to heirs when the original owner dies. "What about discovery in court cases? What if someone comes up with malware whi
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Why it has to be transparent? There are projectors that do not use transparency but reflection. Think DLP or LCos on the digital world but with analog masks.
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"Im curious what is stopping some other countries (even micro-nations) from instituting a policy that forfeits all patents on medication." Simple answer: The US will invade that country in no time, or give millions or billions of
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I don't believe this is shaking up anything. What this person is doing(I know personally the guy, I was born in Spain) 2D presentations(plotters) has been done by cookers manually for decades. IMHO 3d printers are going to be very impo
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Well, for me electronic cash should be the future. Something with the anonymity of cash and the easiness, portability of electronic transactions. Well, in fact cash is traceable, it has serial numbers on it, and you could trace it easily, s
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