jk2323

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by jk2323 8y ago
"There's a huge difference between being first world poor, and third world poor." True. "but my first world poor friends, without exception are all bad with money." ROTFL. What about your third world friend? This ma
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Look at restaurants. A large percentage fail, about a quarter in the first year. But can you think of one restaurant that had really good food and went out of business?" Yes. In fact I know a shitload of restaurants with excellen
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by jk2323 8y ago
For a developing country to increase life span in general, it makes most sense to decrease child mortality and increase vaccinations. Old and sick people don't matter much for the statistic, since a child dying with 2 years is much wor
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by jk2323 8y ago
Well, Asians are a different race but they also eat more rice than wheat http://healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/09/china-study-ii-...
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Anodized aluminum and titanium don't rust - and if by whatever means you DO allow them to oxidize, the oxygen-bound outer layer forms a protective barrier against further rusting." So what? But they do melt. And you can&#x27
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by jk2323 8y ago
No, it is you that has the clear agenda. You don't accept anything else than your own view of the world. > I don't trust random blogs. The blog has 4 links, it basically quotes only from these four links. That are: 1. Welt.de (
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by jk2323 8y ago
Which statement do you doubt? I will search a FOCUS or SPIEGEL link for you. Maybe it is your world, that is clouded. That Merkel's open borders are a crime based on German law. If you are able to read German, take this as a start: ht
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by jk2323 8y ago
Colombia caught my attention when I lived in the states. But before I come to Colombia, lets talk about Brazil. I fell in love with Brazil many years ago. Many people did, some may still do. It was an amazing place. People were super friend
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Der Linke schreit, daß die Freiheit untergeht, wenn seine Opfer es ablehnen, ihre eigene Ermordung zu finanzieren." Gomez DaVila
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by jk2323 8y ago
A 20 year expat (speak, before the Ethiopia hype( told me this joke: How to shoot an Ethiopian? Aim 1 meter above his hear. You have to hit his ego! Yes, they are a special kind of people and they take proud in it. If they ever throw me out
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Merkel personally voted against it." Hey man, Hitler may have voted against raiding Russia but it is the outcome the counts. Fact is, that Merkel's politics is a left wing come true. Proven by the support of people like Fish
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by jk2323 8y ago
I don't care about what you think about "black stereotypes". But try to see the difference between welcoming Uganda (based on a statistic they are the most welcoming nation to foreigners) and Ethiopians. Yet, they are nearly
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by jk2323 8y ago
Ethiopia is an interesting place. You can smell the money in the air. "Ethiopia hailed as 'African lion' with fastest creation of millionaires" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Merkel is solidly centre to centre-right. " Cough, cough. Look, I gave REASONS why I think she is extremely left wing. Pointing out that she is leading the conservative party is not enough to counter my point. What in her politic
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by jk2323 8y ago
By the way, the day I went off gmail, I used a script like this to download all my emails: http://taoofmac.com/space/projects/imapbackup
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by jk2323 8y ago
"some of their personal e-mails are also blocked as well. " Never, never ever use a gmail account for anything important. I learned it the hard way and once nearly lost a domain because of this. gandi.net offers domains with free
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by jk2323 8y ago
Look. Posting on facebook "lets lynch some {ni..ers, Jews, Arabs, minority of your choice} also gets you into trouble with the law in the states. I doubt that anyone claims this is free speech. But questioning the Open borders situatio
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by jk2323 8y ago
(The same seems to be true of elevators.) The solution to this is called "Pater noster". Just kidding....
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by jk2323 8y ago
"They got ripped off after the cold war/ the wall fell " Also the buildings and land they stole from the Germans? It is a dog eats dog world man!
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Better schools for your kids" You have better schools in the US if you live in the right neighborhood. Also, getting called "pig eater" is likely not tolerated in the US. "safer cities" Europe is trying hard t
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by jk2323 8y ago
" including an Italian girlfriend." Try to bring an Indian one. Or Chinese. "I'm sorry if something unpleasant happened to you" It is less about me. I have been there three times and I can take a lot. On my last tri
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by jk2323 8y ago
Many of the East European countries are not very open and friendly to foreigners. Speak Poland, Czech Republic for example. Travel there and see for yourself. Sometimes it is country specific (e.g. Russians and Germans in Poland) or Ethnic
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by jk2323 8y ago
Before you downvote, give a reason. All these are interesting places. I likely prefer to live in Budapest or somewhere before I live in Berlin (again). Yet, this does not make these places a silicon valley contender. Lisbon is a great place
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Mark my words, Berlin will be Europe's Silicon Valley within a few years." Doubt it. Lack of professional attitude. Disastrous politicians. 3rd tier universities. Lack of capital. Large underclass, big welfare spending. It i
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Warsaw, Sophia, Tallinn" Doubt that any East European city will be close to a "European Silicon Valley" because of many reasons. Language. Xenophobia. Capital. Location. Culture. Bucharest comes to mind but because of o
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by jk2323 8y ago
I don't buy it. Be patience. I am not worried about the strength of China at all. It comes with too many weaknesses. What worries me is the weakness of Europe, but not the strength of China.
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by jk2323 8y ago
They already have the MIPS based Loongson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_3 Out of curiosity I tried to buy the Loongson 3 one year ago on Taobao (Chinese ebay/Amazon). It was basically impossible
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by jk2323 8y ago
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/enhancing-ublock-ori...
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by jk2323 8y ago
It is also good to have several lines of defense * Host File http://www.hosts-flash.com/ https://oldj.github.io/SwitchHosts/ * Browser: uBlock uMatrix * Facebook: https://addons.mozilla.org&
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by jk2323 8y ago
"Facebook serve their own ads inline. " It is never too early to say goodbye to ads https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/socialfixer/

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