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Interestingly, Fitch downgraded Brazil's Debt to junk yesterday. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/057c1240-a40f-11e5-b73f-9545472cb784.html http://www.ft.com/int
by dataker 11y ago
Interestingly, Fitch downgraded Brazil's Debt to junk yesterday.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/057c1240-a40f-11e5-b73f-9545472cb784.html http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/057c1240-a40f-11e5-b73f-95454...
Anti-technology culture tells a lot about an economy, group or nation.
- jzwinck 11y agoIf you think this makes Brazil "anti-technology" I am curious to know your opinion about South Korea, which despite making a huge fraction of the world's smartphones and televisions has prevented Google Maps from working fully for their country. Point being, there are lots of reasons for countries to block certain things, and the notion that technology is inevitable and unquestionable does not carry water in many places outside the Bay Area.
- dataker 11y agoIt would "be reasonable" to ban if the alternative was a similar local service (e.g. Baidu vs Google in China). The alternative here was an outdated SMS communication (telecoms in Brazil are so terrible they make Verizon look good).
- PauloManrique 11y agoYeah, because we can't access ICQ, Skype, Telegram, Viber, Line, WeChat, GroupMe and several other apps, right?
- atmosx 11y agoAren't these the same guys - along with few others - who gave a triple-A to Lehman before collapsing?! Why are they still on business?
- mahouse 11y agoIs blocking an app because they ignored perfectly reasonable legal requests "anti-technology"? I'd then call the developers "psychopaths" because they don't understand the harm done by drug smugglers.