checoivan

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by checoivan 14y ago
You're right, My bad. I was thinking of narc as "Narco", the drug lords.
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by checoivan 14y ago
What I was saying is that, given how much money comes in from drugs, they are already able to own plenty. Even when drug money can't be spent freely or things done openly. If drugs are legal then 100% of the money is available freely to a h
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by checoivan 14y ago
This. The root of all the cartel's power is the army of kids who would rather trade their lives for a couple years of fast money. Lack of education,poverty, and all the other unresolved problems are biting back hard. Let's hope there's a re
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by checoivan 14y ago
They already do it, but it's the extend of it the worrying thing. There's plenty of known "Narc owned" businesses in mexico. I'm from there and it's quiet a thing to see strange things like 3 car washes in the same block, with no clients, o
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by checoivan 14y ago
There are so many ramifications, specially with what happens in terms on the national relationships once the money flow is cut to some with drugs being made legal. We don't know how bad things could get for Mexico, and which strings are bei
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by checoivan 14y ago
Since buying phones mid-air is though, I'd suggest an app that does binaural beats like ambi-science, or one that generates white noise like the sound of a waterfall or a fountain, that would drown the noise and the mind wanders off instead
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by checoivan 14y ago
Oh, this explains the results when I asked "Siri, Find me some girl scout cookies".
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by checoivan 14y ago
Thanks for doing this and putting them up, the talks are amazing.
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by checoivan 14y ago
Title should be: SpaceX Falcon9 manages to reach its destination despite the engine failure, delivers a pack of home made ice cream.
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by checoivan 14y ago
Doesn't make much sense to me. What would prevent people from giving away 2 gifts,one of item one of money, or a giving away to a 3rd party as escrows?
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by checoivan 14y ago
On the upside there are more visas, the side effect is it makes it harder for early startups to hire H1Bs due to the increased cost. 10K for the H1 plus 15K for the green card. Usually both are done together or really close since you need a
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by checoivan 14y ago
I think it was a good thing. No, the maps aren't perfect, but neither were gmaps( though way more polished). I can remember a the times where gmaps sent me to some random location. 3D generation is HARD, compare it with the google earth or
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by checoivan 14y ago
I hope the products aren't discountinued. I use silver effex quite often, it's the best back and white converter I've tried yet.
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by checoivan 14y ago
There was also a statistic about the percentage of people who open facebook for their dogs. I wonder if dog and stalker accounts are in that fake count, or if they do count as active as they generate puppy treat ad revenue.
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Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'(kotaku.com)
364 points by checoivan 14y ago|191 comments
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by checoivan 14y ago
Some might not see how awesome this is, but for example: My dad'd blood work came up perfect year after year, zero symptoms. Even 1 year before pancreatic cancer metastasize. There are already markers to detect it and it only takes adding b
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by checoivan 14y ago
There's a talk by Dr Donald W. Miller regarding how the original study claiming low fat diets lowered cholesterol was wrong, yet it was taken as basis for dietary guidelines by the USDA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY&featu
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by checoivan 14y ago
They're assuming high level people don't know who, or where the cartel people are. Stand outside of the ferrari dealership and jewelry stores in MX, I'll bet they'll find plenty of what they're supposed to.
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by checoivan 14y ago
Well, I've to admit I don't know the details of their closing, just what I've read. That they sold about 1.2 million copies according to VGchartz and an article quoted they needed 3 million to break even. Still, 1.2 million copies in 5 mont
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by checoivan 14y ago
I agree, people seem negative focusing too much in outermost layer like memory size, or that it isn't as powerful as an xbox. take a look at this: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/170237/Annual_US_game_ret... The trend is game sales are
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by checoivan 14y ago
Underpowered? I think not. Look at Nintendo DS: 67mhz Arm9. Who cares? Only developers because it's a pain in the butt to program for the thing. Other than that it delivers fun games and prints money(or so the meme says). Quad core and an e
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Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by checoivan 14y ago|0 comments
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by checoivan 14y ago
Establishing a connection and doing the full successful authentication through a client, pop, or web counts as a login. Incoming mail or a simple ping to the mail server won't counted as a user view. With all the spam, fake mails, and mail
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by checoivan 14y ago
If you don't login, it's not counted. If you don't log in for over a year then the account would be deleted.
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by checoivan 14y ago
Spoken like a boss. Look up an awesome photographer, like Sam Abell from Natgeo. Until recently he used 2 olympus film cameras, and 2 fixed lenses. No zooms. Which btw cost around 150 bucks on ebay each. Some dig into the "technical" detail
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by checoivan 14y ago
Even if they use ingredients from a single store it'll look 1000 times better in the picture. The photog gets to choose the best bun out of hundreds, the best tomatoes, greenest lettuce. In the end photograph, the bun will look perfect and
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by checoivan 14y ago
Kudos to them for promoting women in engineering. What I don't understand why calling it a gambit? It's more of a good thing and an achievement rather than a gambit.
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by checoivan 14y ago
This looks amazing.I tip my hat to those guys, and would love to see this in a Burnout game. I wonder how easy it is to incorporate this in a game model. In the truck model looks like each piece of the car is modeled individually and might
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by checoivan 14y ago
Yes. it's very,very difficult, expensive, and takes a long time to develop drugs. Though I still don't believe a hard problem justifies those sale prices. R&D is expensive but what % of the pharma company income goes to it? Let's take t
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by checoivan 14y ago
Even when some of these drugs are very expensive to produce and R&D is expensive, some retail prices are in one word greedy. Looking up a chemotherapy compound priced bulk online will show you how big of a markup these drugs are being

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