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6t6t6··on Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

In this context, I thought it was obvious that I was talking about this red pill.

6t6t6··on Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
So, you took the red pill?
6t6t6··on [dead]
I just arrived at work. I think I will go back home... xD
6t6t6··on Spain arrests and charges Mexican Governor with corruption
Yes, I totally agree that they should treat the politicians of the current colonies in the same way they treat those from the former ones.
6t6t6··on Mountain View moves forward with 9,100-unit housing option next to Google
Where I live, once you rent a flat, the landlord is legally allowed to rise the fee only by a small amount every year (related to the CPI). Also, most of the rentings are long term and the landlord is not allowed to kick you out (except for some exceptional events).

So, when you choose a place to live, you know that you can plan your life there. Also, you don't need to be scared for the landlord blackmailing you.

I guess that both systems work. It's just different models of society.

6t6t6··on Mountain View moves forward with 9,100-unit housing option next to Google
That would allow a really dangerous behavior: the landlords would put flats under the market price, in order to get new tenants, and after one year living there (furniture bought, new friends, school for the children, etc.) the landlords would be able to rise the fee as much as they want.

The situations where there's an asymmetrical negotiation like landlords-tenants or employer-employee must be regulated by law in order to make them fair.

Law, not wealth, should give rights the people.

6t6t6··on Fermented foods probably deserve their healthful reputation
I really don't think so. Fermentation is something that happens at room temperature and warming a stew (even as much as 40°C) would kill all the yeasts.

Also, fermentation would render the stew sour, which I don't think is a good quality for a stew.

I think that the idea of the perpetual stew is the contrary: to keep the stew always boiling on the fire in order to prevent the microorganisms from growing and spoiling it.

6t6t6··on How I get my employees to work 80 hours a week
Actually, in most of European countries, AFAIK.
6t6t6··on China to begin two-child policy
Malthusian catastrophe. Population tends to grow exponentially, but not the resources. Historically, the excess of population have been controlled through wars and famines. The CP wanted to control with laws instead...

The thing is that in developed countries this kind of laws are not necessary because people just don't have children because they are too expensive.

6t6t6··on VLC now renders subtitles in South Asian scripts
The real news are that this didn't happen until the end of 2015...
6t6t6··on Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science
What apparently a lot of people fails to understand is that the IARC list reflects is how sure we are that a substance is carcinogenic, but not how much it raises the risk of cancer.

So we can equally be sure that plutonium and bacon are a risk for health. But we also know that eating plutonium is more dangerous than bacon.

6t6t6··on Morocco poised to become a solar superpower with launch of desert mega-project
No only that. Apparently, Sahrawi people don't have much interest in being part of Morocco. I guess that that counts too.
6t6t6··on Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot
Buying a house in the Bay Area is an investment that you should only do if you absolutely believe that there's not a technological bubble and that tech companies in the area will continue to pay the highest salaries in the world for the next 30 years.
6t6t6··on A Man in India Is Selling States Illegally Imported Execution Drugs
Are you talking about the richest nation on Earth?

Also, do you mean that it is Ok to kill a prisoner because it is too expensive to keep him alive?

6t6t6··on Investment in Spanish startups to surpass $500M in 2015 for the first time
I didn't know about this site. Thanks! Definitively, is a really good place to research about interesting startups.

King are hiring like crazy! I am curious to know how good must be working with them.

6t6t6··on The Economics of Male Birth Control
> Someone who uses a condom perfectly, each time, every time, still has a 50% lifetime (35 year) chance of having a child.

That statement makes no sense. If the condom is not broken or slips off, there's no chance that a woman is inseminated. Unless the man has magic sperms that can teletransport themselves into a woman's womb.

6t6t6··on Airbnb could disrupt the broker business model
Don't come to Japan then. Not only they are lazy and not worth the money, but also the tenant has to pay them an extra month of fee every two years, when the contract is renewed.

And if that's not enough, in Japan there's no law that regulates the rental contracts so, every time that someone wants to rent a flat, he has sign a bunch of abusive clauses.

In any case, being a broker must be a good business because Tokyo is full of them.

6t6t6··on Investment in Spanish startups to surpass $500M in 2015 for the first time
I am in the same situation as you but what keeps me from going back to Barcelona are not the salaries, but the kind of uninteresting jobs that are offered.

I would go back home for the quality of life, not for the salary. But only if I could join a company that is actually creating something, instead of just using products created by others.

6t6t6··on Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]
Thanks! You spared me from downloading the PDF...
6t6t6··on Chattanooga to offer 10 gigabit internet service starting today
I have 2Gbps in Tokyo. Connected by gigabit Ethernet to the router I consistently get over 500Mbps symmetric, but with the wifi i never get over 50/20Mbps. Probably because every single 2.4 channel is occupied by several networks.
6t6t6··on Why Every Country Has a Different Plug (2009)
That's the difference between regulations made to protect companies and regulations made to protect citizens.

Plugs in Japan are like the american ones and they look really scary to me. Specially because here most of the houses are made of wood.

6t6t6··on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached
Will it be ratified in a referendum?
6t6t6··on Terrorism is not about terror
The word terrorism now belongs to the "Newspeak".

A guy who infiltrates into an enemy army base in order to kill soldiers from a foreign country cannot be terrorist.

And a country that drops a bomb from a drone into a wedding party because someone suspects that there may be some enemies among the guests, is obviously practicing terrorism.

6t6t6··on World map of the difference between solar and clock time
There's a story about Spain.

Spain used to be in the same timezone as the UK. It made sense, as the Greenwich Meridian crosses the east of the Iberian Peninsula. But in 1942, the fascist dictator Franco decided to use the same timezone as the Nazi Germany and adopted the continental timezone (GMT+1).

The fun part of the story is that, as the Sun didn't actually move, the people kept doing their life at the same moments as before. That's why nowadays in Spain is usual to have lunch at 14 and dinner at 22. Specially in the West.

6t6t6··on Why are little kids in Japan so independent?
I am a Spaniard who lived in UK and I feel that this is the most sick aspect of British society. For them, every single man is a monster that will molest children if he has the opportunity.

Things like sitting on a bench to read next to the children's playground, or crossing a park next to them, can put you in trouble.

6t6t6··on Why are little kids in Japan so independent?
Right on red is OK. What is crazy is the lack of roundabouts.
6t6t6··on Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
> Why block them?

Because as I am already using an AdBlocker that blocks the tracking cookies, this message is irrelevant.

6t6t6··on L.A. to declare 'state of emergency' on homelessness
Is there any way a person with a mental illness get a proper treatment in US?

I mean, for some one who is unable to work because he has, for instance, schizophrenia, clinical depression or alcoholism, is there any option apart from indigence?

6t6t6··on Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Military
This law is about controlling oil wells in the middle east. Not about protecting a war otaku that went to play the soldier in Siria.
6t6t6··on Google Wants to Make Silicon Valley as Bike-Friendly as Copenhagen
Well. Happiness is really a personal thing. In my case, it makes me happy to let my bike without any lock in front of my house, knowing that nobody will touch it. On the other hand, it would make me quite unhappy to get an expensive bike stolen.

A carbon fiber bike would probably be 3 kilos lighter than my bike. But then I would have to carry a really heavy chain in order to lock it. So, I cannot see the gain. Also, the heavier my bike, the more exercise I do, witch is the point, isn't it?

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