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lamuerteflacaon Canadian Early-Stage Fund with Investment Decisions in 48hrs

Rule of thumb is to not bother family or friends. Not worth it for a lot of reasons. Also because you will most likely fail.

lamuerteflacaon The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Life on earth has around 1 billion years left(Sun will be too hot). Without intelligent life all will surely go extinct. We may be its ultimate saviors when/if we conquer the stars.

lamuerteflacaon Ten Days of Silence

>>Reads like a Scientology ad

After just reading the first few lines I started thinking what a bunch of bull. Then I read your message and I laughed because it's so true...:)

What worries me is that it is so easy to be taken in by this stuff. Specially if you are in a vulnerable state.

lamuerteflacaon Pixel City – Procedurally generated city (2009) [video]

Funny, I was just looking at this yesterday night to get some ideas on building design.

lamuerteflacaon What Poverty Does to the Young Brain

Thankfully you are being downvoted. Reading between the lines you are arguing that poor people are simply genetically stupid.

I counter that by saying that even though only a few can win a marathon most people with some training can finish it within a reasonable time.

Getting a doctor degree is the exact same thing. Sure, there are a few geniuses but you need not be one to become a medical doctor.

My point is that most people are intelligent enough. Hence most poverty is no because of the lack of it. Other issues are at play. Birth lottery is a strong one.

lamuerteflacaon The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

The United States supreme court is the closest thing we have.

lamuerteflacaon Winners of the 7th Underhanded C Contest

And in Spanish it is "pio" for tweet. Very close to the portuguese one.

lamuerteflacaon Let Snowden Come Home

The cynic in me tells me that instead people will be calling for his head.

lamuerteflacaon Surviving an Alcoholic

Airing things out is quite healthy.

lamuerteflacaon Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new life

If at all possible I'll wait version 2

lamuerteflacaon Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish

Not true. The customer will see the company getting punished which is worth a lot more. They will think twice about doing something idiotic next time. This is what I call using your lawyer powers for good (and profit).

lamuerteflacaon I would have hired Doug, but...

What have you done that makes you feel satisfied with your life? Just curious. I'm 37 and feel like I'm just getting started. Keep in mind that I have wasted very little time. Always working on some project here or there. Right now I'm planning my next fourty years. So it really makes me wonder how you can feel you are done.

lamuerteflacaon The days are long but the decades are short

I'm not part of the elite. I do what I love even if that means I'm broke. Saying that you cannot do what you love because you are not priviledged are just excuses. Sacrifice what needs to be sacrificed otherwise don't whine. Find a way otherwise you were never meant to do it if you give up too easily.

Most people are just talk though. They will do what they love if you hand them everything in a silver platter. Well the universe doesn't give a damn about you. You are just star waste.

lamuerteflacaon EU Formally Accuses Google of Antitrust Violations

Of course, what you do not include is that google has enabled businesses to make trillions of dollars. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

lamuerteflacaon My favorite bug: segfaults in Java

It completely defeats the whole point of a garbage collector if you have to resort to hacks like this. I understand why it is done. A lot easier to use the work around then to fix the root problem.

Unfortunatelly these types of bugs have a nasty way of showing up in other places where it can be even harder to debug. Long term these bugs need to be fixed otherwise your code will just be a ticking bomb. The worst part is when they combine with other bugs and they become even harder to debug.

lamuerteflacaon My favorite bug: segfaults in Java

That is a huge bug. I hope it's been fixed.

lamuerteflacaon Ask HN: I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?

Since you provided no citations yours is just an opinion at best. I'll throw mine in. You are wrong, IQ is about context. The more context you have about a subject the smarter you will seem. Your IQ will increase proportionally with the number of subjects you acquire context in. It is better if the subjects are diverse. Also, the more context you have the faster your processing speed will seem to get (In reality it stays constant, your neurons will only fire so fast)

Sure, raw learning ability, or memorization speed which is what you are talking about, matters. But as long as you don't have a learning disability it pales in comparison to context. And we all have pretty much the same learning ability. Also, those people that are really smart have put in thousands of hours to acquire lots of context. The genius who can absorb new material by reading any subject in a single pass is a myth.

lamuerteflacaon Spain Finds Cervantes' Tomb in Madrid

Is like saying that English accent (from England) doesn't exist. Of course it does. Every single region has its own accents. And yes, I guess within Spain accents vary, which I guess is the thing you are being pedantic about.

Well I would definitely not expect a mexican to write Mexico with a "j". So are you from Spain or not?

lamuerteflacaon Spain Finds Cervantes' Tomb in Madrid

For whatever reason I cannot help but hear a strong spaniard accent when reading this. I could almost swear that you are from Spain. I'd say that the "vamos" at the start is what is tipping me off. Quite amusing how one can discern nationality by little things like that.

lamuerteflacaon My Roommate, the Darknet Drug Lord

And a new law is born: La muerte Flacas' law: Try to use a valid NAZI reference and a clueless bastard will mention Godwin's Law. The Laziest form of counter argument.

lamuerteflacaon Notes on watching "Aliens" for the first time again, with a bunch of kids

For me it was The Exorcist. Watched it at 7 or 8. Had nightmares every night for a week. Didn't really learn my lesson though.

lamuerteflacaon For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions

I know the feeling. I wake up every morning hating myself for being poor.

lamuerteflacaon For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions

Just to be contrarian here is an answer that I stole from somebody: thaumasiotes says: Technically the answer is yes, unless there is a "compelling governmental interest". The supreme court once ruled that selecting college students so as to increase the diversity of viewpoints in a class satisfied this test, which is basically how diversity got to be the buzzword that it is today. Note that the rationale goes like so: "increased diversity among the students leads to higher-quality education, and therefore this diversity may be sought through the otherwise forbidden means of racial preferences". Where the goal is to benefit certain groups because you like those groups, the same process is notionally illegal. You have to say you're doing it to help everybody.<<

So I guess is OK if Hardvard does not become homogeneous all in the name of diversity. I'll swallow it.

Edit: Yes, I know it is legal. I cannot comment about peoples motives since I don't know them.

lamuerteflacaon Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions

I see this attitude a lot and frankly it is quite annoying. If the guy wanted a lecture he would have asked for a lecture. He wants to learn how to do something without spending 100 hours in it. I know that feeling, lots of us have been there. You are not his mama to lecture him.

lamuerteflacaon Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’

I've read several biographies of Edison as a kid and the man was a genious. No contest.

I read the part about Tesla and I still don't see the big deal. What exactly did Edison do to Tesla that everybody is so upset about? Edison wanted DC, Tesla AC and Tesla won. Tesla also made lots of money because of his patents too. He could have made more had he not given away large portions of his shares.

lamuerteflacaon Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?

Isn't it better to prefer the one with the most evidence supporting it?

lamuerteflacaon Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?

Nope, you are wrong. Is a peso sign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

lamuerteflacaon Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

I see no reason why make something up that would be quite easy to disprove by looking at old records.

lamuerteflacaon Techies Who Are Homeschooling Their Kids

Just like you I also have plenty of anecdotes.

lamuerteflacaon How four underdogs took on M.I.T. in underwater bot championship (2005)

Been in hacker news since the beginning and only recently did I hear about this. So, to answer your question: no.