Hey, thanks for the reply! My kids are fluent in Portuguese and I would probably enroll them in public schools. So you think a 2500 monthly budget for a family of 4 would be doable? (I raised your estimates to account for emergencies, healthcare, etc - btw, sorry for bothering you)
In Jesus' time and region there were miracle workers by the hundreds, and he was just seen as another one of them. They travelled form village to village performing miracles in exchange for, I guess, money and food. If I'm not mistaken, on what I read about the historical Jesus, the difference was that he didn't charge for the miracles, but I could be wrong here, don't remember much.
Do you have a family, by any chance? I've been thinking about moving to Portugal, some smaller town but not too far from Porto or Lisbon, but I don't really know how much a family would need. (I have a wife and 2 kids)
What makes you think the war wasn't won despite pathetic and fumbling actions by leaders and governments? WW2 wasn't a showcase of efficiency and practicality. Ha, my country sent a small contingent (25k) to fight against the Axis in Italy. There were new uniforms made for this expeditionary force. Turns out they chose uniforms that closely matched that of the german uniforms (!).
From a book on this subject: "Another problem in the country's preparation was the production of uniforms similar to those of the German Army. 'They even threw rocks at us in Naples thinking we were the invaders'.”
I thought the rollout of the vaccines in the time it took, with the effectiveness it had, just went to show how the knowledge and technology of vaccines makes it one of the greatest human achievements, ever.
What makes you think the war wasn't won /despite/ pathetic and fumbling actions by leaders and governments? Ha, my country sent a small contingent (25k) to fight against the Axis in Italy. There were new uniforms made for this expeditionary force. Turns out they chose uniforms that closely matched that of the german uniforms (!).
From a book on this subject: "Another problem in the country's preparation was the production of uniforms similar to those of the German Army. 'They even threw rocks at us in Naples thinking we were the invaders'.”
I got on a taxi at a taxi stop (in my country there are designated spots where only the registered cabs for each specific spot can park) and the driver was speeding, hitting all the bumps on the road, zig-zagging, etc. My wife and our baby was in the car with me. I complained, didn't work, then I went back to the stop a couple of days later and complained to the other drivers of said spot. They all said they constantly received complaints for that guy, but since he was "one of the oldest drivers here, can't do nothing about it".
I don't value his political opinions above those of a political scientist, a historian (if they're good btw), but his opinions on politics aren't in the same level as that of a Kardashian, c'mon. You may not agree with him or watch him, but you know it's not the same level.
In my country of 200 million, it's pretty much gas everywhere. I have three gas cylinders and when they empty I have to either wait for the gas truck to come by with its song (like ice cream trucks), or I just take the cylinder to the deposit and exchange for a full one. I the biggest cities here you get gas coming from the ground to your home, but mostly it's still like that, you get your gas by the cylinder. I bet many, many countries still deliver gas to homes this way.
My last dishwasher had the analog buttons go bad twice, so when it was time to get a new one I went with the capacitive touch button one, just for that reason (no moving part to break there). Been about 12 years, not a single problem, and the buttons work all the time. Granted, I know a well spec'd/designed hardware button can last a lifetime, but that one didn't even get close, so for me the capacitive's been a pretty good choice.
Imagine you had 5,000 online bookstores in 1997, and 99.9% of them had some self described great new tech but none of that tech was being used by any publisher, distributor, printer, author, etc.
I did a lot of research on the top 50 cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers, for quite some time now, and it's appalling how only a handful (really, like 4) have real world use cases at a large scale and might have a future. Of course, what's more appalling is how people will put their money on all the other 4996 crypto and think that because the price was speculated up, it must mean that the tech is good and will be used in the future.
If you go to the OS language selection on your computer, you'll probably find 'Portuguese - BR' (Brazilian) and 'Portuguese - PT' (Portugal). Sometimes you'll find subtitles on Netflix described as either Brazilian Portuguese or Portugal's Portuguese. It's the same language, but the difference is way greater than australian and british english. Sentence structure varies, some vocabulary, etc.
>shelled out $500, and he had his MRI in less than half an hour.
What happens if you're poor and don't have anyone to turn to for the $500? Will it take the same time to get a free MRI as it does in Canada? Can you get it fro free at all in the US? (Real question, I don't know how it works and am curious)
edit: there's also a very good three-book series for beginners called Computer Science Logo Style, by a UC Berkeley prof whose name I can't recall... Brian Harvey maybe?
There was a famous (in the diy audio community at least) blind test where music was played in audiophile equipment with some premium audio cable that cost a lot, and then the same music was played with a bent coathanger used as a cable. The order was randomized, and the audiophiles couldn't tell the difference. There have been other blind tests with different equipment, like hi end amplifiers vs mid-level consumer grade equipment (like your average Sony) with same results. You can search audio forums for the details. From all that I've read over the years, and from my own experience of quite a few years listening to the best recorded classical music, pretty much every good consumer player, amplifier, dac today is good enough for every audiophile. Where you'll find the difference is in the speakers, and to a lesser extent, headphones.
TL;DR: If I had 5,000 dollars to spend on high end audio equipment for my living room, I'd spend 3,500-4,000 on the speakers. But I wouldn't, personally. I'd spend half of that and get 98% of the quality.
It is due to the decomposing vegetation under the water. However, it depends on what is under the water. Some hydro reservoirs actually are carbon sinks while others are worse than coal plants. You also have to take time of operation into account. Hydro becomes cleaner as time passes. A 50 year old hydro plant will have had a lot of the vegetation decomposed already vs a 5 year old one.
I'll second Algorand. Founded by Silvio Micali, Turing and Gödel Prize winner MIT prof who got a bunch of MIT people and now has probably solved the problems of speed, safety and energy consumption of the old blockchains. Check out their white papers if you're interested. I would also suggest checking out Hedera Hashgraph for a newer approach on distributed ledgers.
Well, take a hound dog, for example. He has many, many, many more olfactory cells in his snout than humans. Imagine you and a dog are hiking along some unmarked trail. The dog, unbeknownst to you, notices the smell of gas. Maybe it bothers her, and she decides to walk away from there. You follow the dog, away from the trail, and discover that a couple of hours later, there's an explosion at the exact spot. There was a leaking gas pipe a dozen feet below, and the dog had noticed it.
I lived in Brazil's capital, Brasília, for many years. Illegal land grabs were very, very common there. This wasn't in the jungle. This was a modern city, and there were as many middle class and upper middle class land grabbers as poor ones. This infuriated me. Since the upper middle class neighborhoods were becoming too expensive to buy into, rich people simply invaded protected land and started building there. Or owners of large farmland transformed the land into urban plots and sold the plots illegally, mostly to rich middle and upper middle class people. And everyone knew it was illegal. Everyone. Still to this day, a decade later, I still know people who have very nice homes in very nice neighborhoods, and they still don't have an official, legal land title. They have some semi-bogus, semi-official 'land use' sort of document, and they can't legalize it, and it is all a complicated legal mess, but hey, they got to buy very cheap land and live the middle class dream, right? Who cares if it was illegal, who cares if it the land was supposed to be preserved. And these are the same people who complain that we have corrupt politicians. Really, these are the same people. Everyone in Brazil blames our problems on corrupt politicians, but everyone pulls this kind of 'semi-legal' crap. That's why Brazil sucks. Too bad it's very, very good also.
>One might think Steve Jobs was an arrogant, perfectionist prick.
Because he was worried about an important aspect of an important presentation his terrible behavior towards others is justified? C'mon, there are almost a hundred examples of him treating others like crap. Was every case justified as 'something very important at Apple will crack if I'm not all over this employee'? It that was so, then they were the worst hirers of talent in Silicon Valley.
I don't understand, this is one of the main jobs of the U.S. Army's Special Forces (also known as Green Berets). Their whole thing is learning how to train and fight alongside indigenous forces.
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was just that, where literally a handful of SF operators joined the Northern Alliance and helped them capture several cities from the Taliban (in the process becoming the first US soldiers to do battle on horseback since 1942)
That would mean that there were plenty of mammoths around just underground, easy to find and within easy reach. If that is the case, wouldn't scientists flock to the area and collect them by the dozens?
Yours and the other comments below are all saying "yeah, it's fine, you can do it if you don't have kids nor health insurance". Which basically means "it's not fine". A good standard of living is not measured by how a person can live as long as she remains single and decides to forego health insurance.