fmariluis's comments

fmariluis | 8 years ago | on: One year of cycling to work

Very nice seeing that much nature before and after work, I cycle to work but it's all within the city. It's great, but I would love to see more trees and water.

fmariluis | 9 years ago | on: Time Machine: H.L. Mencken's 1925 Review of 'The Great Gatsby'

A fine piece of writing: "The thing that chiefly interests the basic Fitzgerald is still the florid show of modern American life — and especially the devil's dance that goes on at the top. He is unconcerned about the sweatings and sufferings of the nether herd; what engrosses him is the high carnival of those who have too much money to spend, and too much time for the spending of it. Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness — these are the things that go into his notebook."

fmariluis | 10 years ago | on: Mutt 1.6

Since I'm an Emacs user, I recently switched from mutt to mu4e. It wasn't difficult, since I recycled most of the mutt setup: offlineimap, msmtp, mu, and of course the maildir.

Even more, I can still use mutt if I want to. But mu4e is so nicely integrated with the rest of Emacs that I think I'll keep using it.

fmariluis | 13 years ago | on: Google Play cut payments to developers in Argentina

"Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell paid applications. We're working hard to add more countries, but we're unable to provide any guidance on timelines.

    Australia
    Austria
    Belgium
    Brazil
    Canada
    Czech Republic
    Denmark
    Finland
    France
    Germany
    Hong Kong
    India
    Ireland
    Israel
    Italy
    Japan
    Mexico
    Netherlands
    New Zealand
    Norway
    Poland
    Portugal
    Russia
    Singapore
    Spain
    South Korea
    Sweden
    Switzerland
    Taiwan
    United Kingdom
    United States"
Source: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

That leaves out Chile and Uruguay as well, so this change appears to be unrelated to the current situation in Argentina.

fmariluis | 13 years ago | on: Google Play cut payments to developers in Argentina

> The main problem we have now, is that the government spends a lot of money on social plans to get people to vote them (instead of creating real jobs, obama care?)

So, even when it's not clear what caused this change in Google Play, you're blaming the government.

> what can you expect from a government that used to put bombs on the street and kill innocent civilians?

What?

> And most people in Argentine loves Kichner (54%) in the same way most people here loves Obama

It's called democracy. It works pretty well in most countries.

> At this point, we would love to have a "Second Amendment", the right to have a gun and defend ourselves, pretty bad we never had it

You can legally own a gun in Argentina.

Please, try to improve the quality of the information you bring here, so we can have a rational discussion about this news, which in essence is a change in Google Play that affects developers in Argentina. At this point, everything else is speculation.

fmariluis | 13 years ago | on: Project Cybersyn, a 1971-73 Chilean Experiment in Computer-Assisted Economy

And you are ok with that? You are ok with the fact that to implement Friedman's views it was necessary to exile, torture or murder thousands of people? Do you even know something about the horrors of Pinochetist dictatorship? You seem to believe that "American interventionism" is a perfectly normal foreign policy.
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