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Having said that, we don't live in a free market, the economy is ruled by central banks who do central planning, thanks to free money for them, taken from the rest of us.

In the technology sector, we live in a world with business and software patents, and with lawsuits costing millions, which makes competing against the big guys harder and harder for little guys.

We played with sticks and stones, football, skate, bmx biking, hiking all the time in Spain.

You got hurt all the time too, but mostly scratches, you understood risk and knew the limits.

There were also bullies, but the best thing you can do against bullies is fight them back. There are some places with rules like "no fighting" that ironically makes bullies rule.

Now, not 20 years ago, if you want to be rich(or do anything by the way) there you need to be a member of the communist party.

And yes, it may surprise you but in communist party they discuss and study communism theory.

The "openness" is a survival strategy for them, a release valve if you wish. No way they could have survived that long without it.

Making trial version complete and so on. Some times it was really easy(just finding a jmp and changing it), other times we had to compare with the complete program, finding code blocks,patching the trial and making all checksums and stuff to work.

None of the software that we cracked was released to the public, it was just for fun.

At the time there was little exercises called "crackme" for exercising your abilities.

It takes at least over a year of work to start being really good at this, and is not like Obj.C, Java or Python, or even c, but way more tedious. Without having friends on this and clear objectives I would had found it boring.

It would be probably a better idea to buy a micro processor and code simple things in assembly, like blinking LEDs.

I don't believe so. Do you have kids?

kids care first and foremost about themselves, like adults do, but worse.

I had seen 10 years old killing a dog with wooden spears just for fun(or curiosity or whatever crazy reason), cutting the tail of reptiles or just smashing them with stones. Or beating , insulting, humiliating other kids for the same reasons.

Not that far from Romans wondering how much time it will take for a Lion to kill a slave.

You can say the same today. The problem with Argentina is that while it got a GDP equal to Canada in last century, the money was never good distributed, like in Canada, Germany or France.

So just a couple of people will own more than half Texas(Argentina is big) while the rest of the population could only live as servants.

Today big latifundistas still own most of Argentina, and they buy the gobertment like in the past.

Inductive coupling means a couple of inductances interact with each other. This is the reason it is called "coupling". And yes, this interaction means photons, depending of the frequency of the resonator of higher or lower frequency.

They use a medium, a channel, the most efficient one is ferrite, but it could be the air, that usually it is very inefficient because the electromagnetic radiation escapes and is absorbed by other elements or just dissipated.

You could improve efficiency making it use resonance, that is you trick your design so in normal circumstances you reuse the electromagnetic energy that is reflected by the geometry of the space.

The problem (of all open systems instead of closed circuits)is what happens when your body acts as a lower impedance for this radiation than the medium. It could in fact absorb a big amount of energy on a very small amount of time.

Geometry of the body is very complex, small parts of your body could resonate with some frequencies, and when there is noise like in transitories you add lots of frequencies.

Like you do?

Do you understand non ionizing radiation?

Some people are so ignorant, that they don't even know what they don't know.

I can kill a rat with non ionizing radiation. I could introduce it on a microwave or put it under a laser, or in the oven(IR).

With enough energy density, I could create devastating effects on any living organism. Nature protects against natural sources of radiation, like the light of the sun, but does not protects about artificial ones, it is very simple to blind someone with a IR laser she does not see.

You can use non ionizing radiation to make resonate the electric nervous systems like the US army is testing, with enough energy it kills you(we need electric operated muscles like the heart and lungs to operate to live), and lots of other funny things.

What was considered dangerous in the past is dangerous today.

It is what was not considered dangerous in the past what we know today it is dangerous, like x-rays(they used it with pregnant women and basically killed a lot of people for ten years), powerful RADAR, tobacco(yes you can see advertisements on youtube of how innocuous it was), benzene, asbestos, pfcs, nuclear radiation(Curie couple died from that).

It was only after being proven that a technology kills thousands of people, that this tech is controlled.

For me it is a great idea to find guinea pigs for testing new technologies, but don't test it with me against my will sending radiated energy in the air.

Reality is that today economy is central planned in order to protect the money from the people at the top at the expense of the one of normal people, who had seen taxes increase and life much more expensive as a result.

Don't get me wrong, I have friends that are rich, but the reality is that lots of people at the top got money speculating on bad assets or bubbles.

When it was time for correction,(2008) the governments entered in order to protect those speculators from losses, and bought those bad assets making miserable the general economy.

The problem is not solved, protecting malinvestors only makes them more confident to do it again.

How much DARPA research spends compared to civil society?

Obama spends most of his time going to eat-dinner with the same rich people that benefit from printing money. The rest of the time it is with the praetorian guard that "protects" him.

Anybody believes he is going to make the same people he surrounds most of the time furious? The same people that put him in charge?

This people are the eyes and ears of the "king of the world". He is living in a bubble.

Romans used water for mining too.

Why do effort when nature does it for you?

Two problems people raise:

Water pressure from 150m+ water column is too much. In the video they talk about dividing the hight slope channel into sections This way leaks will be also smaller.

Putting water inside. This probably is the weaker point of all.

But overall it makes sense. It will be great for a kickstarter to try to replicate it at a small scale.

A government powerful enough to distribute all assets is super powerful, and those that control this government(the party) have all the power.

Having all the power, they have all the material resources for them, their families and friends, even when they don't have "money". They want a car, they ask for a car with any excuse and the day after they have the car, they want to travel and so on.

The rest of the society live in conditions of near slavery. They could ask for a car, as they are "equal", but it takes years to come, and when it comes, it is a horrible car you could not choose anything about.

Also corruption is levels of magnitude bigger than anything in something near capitalistic(even paying more than 40% to the state) societies. If your wife is beautiful and the people of the party wants to fuck with her, they will blackmail her with the working conditions of her family. The same party that controls the media and justice and the only company that hires people.

That was the reason my family emigrated, all at once.

I backed some very interesting problems not mentioned that I am very happy with(more than 100 projects backed so far!!). Why? Just because they raised more money.

Kickstarter needs to include some feedback from customers, so they know which ones went better overall, not just how they started.

If I go with my reflex pointing to people in the beach people will get angry at me. As simple as people is there to relax, not to have to defend themselves.

People is doing top less in the beach and people could see it at the moment. It is a completely different thing that someone will store the date, the place, the people in the pictures and have millions of people look at them on the Internet.

I got to watch a woman, a sports teacher fired from a Catholic school because she made top less 8 years ago!! and one of his students got a picture from an ex- boyfriend asshole and soon all the school had the pictures. Half of the parents supported her, over a quarter were outraged.

People say stupid things all the time, when there is friends, I don't want my conversations recorded without my permission and having someone remind me constantly : you say this and that while drinking beer with the football team.

The same way Paul Graham was sold by a private conversation made into an interview by a son of a b*ch. When you are talking to someone else you are not talking to millions of people.

I hear this fallacy question again an again. It implies that giving total power to gobertment is "security". It is not.

Giving total control to Stalin meant hundred of millions of Russians got murdered in terror, giving total power to Hitler or Mussolini from democracies meant the total destruction of Germany and Italy with millions dead.

I think they are good ideas. So how is that you expect someone else to do the work for you?

As a founder I know how hard is to make an idea a reality, and my ideas had relative success(I managed to get things done and most people look to me now like "all I have was given" to me, or that what I created was obvious and easy, as it is obvious now, but the same person was arguing to me how it "was never going to work" in the past). Most people are not that lucky, but they try anyway.

So if you care about this, why you don't take action?

You expect someone else, who is a man (and does not care, there are more urgent problems to them), to do something you should be doing in my opinion.

The "frat house" is working very well and there is no reason to change what works. Different systems could work, but with different people, and different focus.

You could start working on this. It is impossible to do it alone, but organizing with others there is nothing imposible.

I have some friends in top positions and the first thing they learn is about this techniques. There are predators out there wanting to eat your hardly earned reputation for their own benefit or agendas.

You are not talking about CEOs. You are talking about normal people.

Normal people can't leave the home when the loan is not paid. People who earn millions dollars a year can leave the country and live in Brazil in Winter while taking his private jet like normal people take a car.

It is Europe we are talking about. You could live in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey or Greece without problems.

In fact, most of the CEOs I know do exactly that.

Can you illustrate us?

I am from Spain, in 1936 we had a civil war and a million people dead. The country got devastated for decades. And the wealthy, which was much better prepared and organized, won.

What you call plutocrats are only a very small part of the population. I also have family from eastern European countries, and communism was the worst thing that happened to them. There they had plutocrats of the public with more power than any capitalism could give(they could ruin your life or your families in an instant as everything was controlled by a selected few).

An article about WWs in the Economist should talk about economic data, about banks burning and destroying the savings of decades of the work of the people. They need to talk about Oligopolies, about Roosevelt(Teddy) trying to do something about that , but at the end the biggest of all(the Fed) being created in 1913.

They need to talk about Africa and middle East, and India colonies and commerce at the time.

But this has a problem: It is not as easy as "blame the Germans!"

"The second precaution that would make the world safer is a more active American foreign policy. "

Oh yeah, again.

"Barack Obama has pulled back in the Middle East—witness his unwillingness to use force in Syria. "

Wow, this is the better line of all. If something Syria has shown us is the willingness of US to use force in Syria, only being stopped by China and Russia.

"But unless America behaves as a leader and the guarantor of the world order, it will be inviting regional powers to test their strength by bullying neighbouring countries."

Today the US is the biggest bully of all. If any parallelism is to be extracted from WWs to today is countries like China behaving like the US of the past, as creditors of the world, while the rest of the world overspends and get in as many wars as possible to protect their turf.

Without him, they will spend most of their lives on mindless debates sucking their creative energy like a vampire blood.

In particular, you extract all the performance in OpenCL from knowing how to manage memory. We talk about orders of magnitude difference(100x-200x times faster).

This memory management is hell for anybody trained with garbage collectors, Object oriented constructors and so on. It is way harder than pure c and the feedback loop is way longer(unless you invest a lot in hardware).

I believe OpenCL is the way to go. I did a very simple Sega Genesis emulator and basically what you do is control with a very slow CPU a very fast hardware that does very simple things like drawing tiles.

You control the tile with something like a pointer with the CPU but it is draw by hardware. Same with sound.

It is not hard to do, it just takes time.

I don't believe that BitCoin is a reliable store of value like the dollar is not a reliable store of value. I went to the US after a year to visit family(I live in Europe) and was surprised how much prices had gone up. Probably you don't see that when it is incremental, but you get to see after some time out.

The same happens with civil liberties. US was one of the countries with higher freedom in the world, but the tendency is so bad, compared to countries that were really bad in the past, but the tendency is so good.

Paper money, or digital money by the way is a medium of exchange. And there lies their utility as Mr Krugman knows..

I am biased about Mr Krugman, for me he is a puppet of central banks that create money and compete against bitcoin. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial price paid by a central bank and he owes his position from defending Wall Street against Main Street.

This saves a big resolution picture with spacial info. With your computer then you see a smaller part of the image. 6200x6200 images is not too much.

Add everything that has to do with 3D. Life is 3D, not 2D.

I had been in countries in Africa, and people there have smartphones, not the latest model, and not everyone, but the person who has shares his with other people when they need Internet. Not fiber quality but enough for sending a message to mom or knowing the price in the market of something you sell.

When I was a kid computers were expensive, they had 16 or 256 colors!! and 800x600 screen resolution was luxurious. People will save for getting one additional megabyte to memory, and networking computers were a pain in the *ss.

Now everybody has access to thousands of times more in their pocket, but... there must be something wrong about that.

That is because IT IS a natural law.

If this law were not true, then there would be no humans on earth. It it scientific because there is evidence with real data to prove the hypothesis.

The fact is that humans are not only resource consumers but also resource creators.

It is you who misled science as science for "religion of the Doomsday". Science tells us that there is trillions of billions of stars, each carrying trillions of times more energy that we consume.

"Money is not wealth". Almost nobody that understands wealth holds money, money is a tool for exchanging things and its value decreases with time.

They hold real state, they hold precious metals, they hold stock, they travel, they know people.

The people that made money usually like making wealth and don't fear losing it so much, they learn all their life to handle risk with positive results. It is their children or grandchildren who fear it, because they don't.

The good thing about being rich is that you could be poor whenever you want. You could also help lots of people in your life, which feels amazing.