maporita

@maporita@unilem.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teach me some life lessons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some mistakes can screw up the rest of day. Some mistakes can screw up the rest of your life. Try to avoid making the former, but avoid making the latter at all costs. Hard drugs, an extramarital affair, drinking and driving.Think the consequences through before you do these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife was horrified to learn that we put our parents in a home when they get old. She’s from Colombia and such a thing would be unthinkable.

  Having said that I would never want my children to look after me. It’s not fair on them… they have their own lives to lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A previous owner of my apartment had for some reason installed a high security door. It’s 5 inches thick with steel plates inside and has 3 separate sets of 3 locking rods like a bank vault. Not sure what line of work they were in but, really, good luck to the person who thinks they can break in here easily. Downside is there is no way to put a digital lock on the sucker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the body's natural temperature is about 98 degrees (F), why does it still feel really hot when the ambient temperature is 98F?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason a fan works is because it increases evaporation of sweat. Evaporation involves a phase change which requires energy. That energy is extracted from the body surface. Without air flow the envelope of air next to the skin gets saturated meaning it can’t hold any more water vapor, so evaporation stops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many expensive homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Abolishing land ownership sounds like an attractive idea, the problem is that it doesn’t work well in practice. Ownership of land, and a legal system to protect it, brings remarkable economic benefits. It allows owners to raise capital using the land as collateral and then to develop the land. A free market ensures that land is correctly valued. When values are as by government they tend to be incorrect or, worse, deliberately distorted by corruption. A quick look around the world shows that the richest countries all allow private ownership of land. China is the notable exception. It’s true that productivity in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades but this has been driven by urban centers and manufacturing… rural areas, where land remains under state control remain poor and impoverished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many expensive homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the owner of the land is selling it then they obviously don’t mind. Or do you believe that no-one should own land?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many expensive homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Buying as an investment, whether by foreigners, corporations or whatever, is a symptom not a cause of the housing shortage. The cause of the housing shortage is that we’re not building enough houses. That’s it. Supply and demand, same as it’s always been. The solution is to reduce demand or increase supply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the Best Non-Alcoholic Alternative to an Ice Cold Beer at the End of the Day?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a long time I was in the “Non alcoholic beer can never replace real beer” camp. But in the last few years they’ve come a long way … and now you can buy low or no alcohol craft beers that are actually quite good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨looking forward to the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Next thing people will be pronouncing SQL as “sequel” and then where will we be?