gassius

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by gassius 8mo ago
First, of course I am talking about Socialist Dictatorships of the XX Century in an academic way, from what I have read, So I really don't know as much as what I have lived through in Venezuela. When I talk about Ideology, I am not ref
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by gassius 8mo ago
As a Venezuelan, I think the difference is not the Natural Resources, or at least is not the main difference. In 2017, the shortages and economic crisis generated by 15 years of communist policies has pushed around 4 million people out, and
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by gassius 2y ago
Is not the phenom in itself, is the fact that someone can predict/call upon it that was surprising. The fact that they had already given esoteric meanings to the phenom previously is just the icing of the cake. And I for one am gratefu
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by gassius 2y ago
The story has beed reused many times in Arts. One more example is in A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court from Mark Twain (1890) and I am sure is many more examples
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by gassius 2y ago
Diseases contagions between isolated populations is not an intentional act of agression from a bad invasor that wants to kill all the native population. There was also transmission of new diseases from native american populations to europea
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by gassius 2y ago
733927 Still remembered, always remembered
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by gassius 2y ago
I guess one can argue that, in North America, by the hands of anglo saxon protestant pilgrims, were some mass killing of native population over the course of 4 centuries (although calling it Genocide is a naive simplicity IMO). But this was
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by gassius 3y ago
I don't know the parent's brand but I have a CECOTECT CONGA 11090 that fills exactly the description. CECOTEC is a spanish brand tho, and may not be available everywhere, and almost sure they manufacter the hardware in China so ve
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by gassius 3y ago
> Imagine if the car in front could warn the car behind of an incident They can, that is why cars have all this pretty lights in the back! They can warn of several things, like intention of turning, braking, accidents, is amazing. And it
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by gassius 3y ago
Every time I find some idealized piece about the 30s and 40s, and specially in USA, I wonder what kind of history was taught to the writer and by whom was taught, what was the agenda behind this history instruction? I really hope we don&#x2
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by gassius 3y ago
Rule of Thumb comes from ancient measure systems (its basically an inch)
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by gassius 3y ago
AKA "bad trip" The risk of having one can be reduced with a good Set and setting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
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by gassius 3y ago
Thank you, yes, I missed the ECDSA vs RSA key part. Makes sense now
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by gassius 3y ago
Thank you. It makes sense
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by gassius 3y ago
And sorry to reply to myself but this is not great at all I manually added the new RSA SSH public key entry to my known_hosts file (like they say in the blogpost) Then ran ssh -T git@github.com and got Warning: Permanently added the RSA hos
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by gassius 3y ago
Actually I am not seeing the fingerprint they announce in the blogpost When I tried to pull from my repo I got the warning message, right I removed the old keys with ssh-keygen -R github.com Then, trying with `ssh -T git@github.comp` I see
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by gassius 4y ago
Slightly off tangent, maybe... but boy do I miss Macromedia Director. It was a big part on the beginning of my career. Director allowed quick development of Multimedia catalogs and even games. I wonder nowadays, what has taken its place? Le
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by gassius 4y ago
Thanks. We are all as good as we can be now, Life, aside of finding ways, continues.
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by gassius 4y ago
Life finds a way. My wife had generalized tonic-clonic seizure for an entire year (non previous seizure history) without any cause being detected by multiple MRIs. She was taking increasing doses of Levetiracetam that somehow controlled the
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by gassius 5y ago
There are extractors that work without a vent, they filter and release on the same space. I am not saying that was your case, or even if it was, the filters were properly maintained, just saying that those hoods exists. Searching for Recirc
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by gassius 5y ago
No. Venezuela had 'sanctions' starting on 2016, last year of Obama presidency. The scope of those sanctions is very limited to SOME individuals either in the Government and some business associates. There is no general embargo. An
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by gassius 5y ago
No. Not "equally" hostile AT ALL
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by gassius 5y ago
If the spokewoman that asked spotify to "do more" works in the White House, then yes
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by gassius 5y ago
I would say this, as someone who was deep into Bitcoin until 2012 or so, got out but still use it ocasionally as payment method. For me, coming from a country ravaged by corrupt politicians, that controlled the Central Bank, and destroyed t
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by gassius 5y ago
Well, is not like I know how to switch to it, but Datadog came back for me, probably because of that
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by gassius 5y ago
Funny enough, datadog, which I was using to investigate on of my vercel sites, is down too Yeah, Vercel is running some GCP services it seems
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by gassius 5y ago
It's an ongoing process, for sure. Even for me at 44, it is. But I think is worth the try, we all need to rationalize and interiorize the dark side of "tech addiction" instead of just rely on tools to control our compulsions
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by gassius 5y ago
My kids' school use Google Classroom. I do block access to YouTube at `/etc/hosts` redirecting www.youtube.com to 127.0.0.1, and it does work. But some assignments include videos and so it's cumbersome (although it can
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by gassius 5y ago
Yeah I didn't intend it like an antagonistic answer, because actually is not a binary issue. Price takes in account many consideration, fluctuations in production and/or demand are one, monetary pressure is other, but there are ma
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by gassius 5y ago
I don't know anything about lumber market and it's transitory conditions and fluctuations (other than a last week news where I live, northern Spain, that said that woods price are at all time high supposedly because demand is also

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