Carioca

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by Carioca 4y ago
There are still tulips around
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by Carioca 4y ago
Just as an aside: indigenous Amazonian populations also developed techniques to make the earth better for agriculture[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
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by Carioca 4y ago
For it to come into effect, the cost of the concrete should be a major part of its usage. This may or may not be true in this case, since there's land costs and a lot of regulations
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by Carioca 4y ago
Might be a case of the opposite, having hired too much talent and not having enough things to put them onto
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by Carioca 4y ago
Forgot to mention, it's also a festive dish, eaten on special occasions. A typical person would eat it a handful of times in a year, so there isn't much incentive to streamline the process
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by Carioca 4y ago
It's very deeply embedded into their psyche as “this is the only way to do it, anything else will kill you.” And I'm not talking just about older or more rural people either, I know young hip professionals from Belém (pop 1.5m) wh
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by Carioca 4y ago
Even more interesting than cassava is Maniçoba, a traditional dish of the Amazon made with cassava leaves, which are more toxic than the root and less nutritious. The leaves are boiled for a full week before adding other ingredients and ser
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by Carioca 4y ago
> the natives had no idea why they were getting sick The people getting sick are in eastern Africa, while cassava is native to South America. Stands to reason that the methods of cassava preparation weren't as ingrained to the peopl
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by Carioca 5y ago
100 people is about 5m² per person. That's already a crowd. The island is smaller than Times Square. It's 100 times smaller than Vatican City, it's in fact a fifth the size of St Peter's square.
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by Carioca 5y ago
Human systems are not computer systems. In computer systems, edge cases are usually worthy of investigation and rethinking. In human systems, edge cases are to be dealt with when they appear
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by Carioca 5y ago
I've been using Linux for ~25 and have never tried Slack. I'm now on Slack/Manjaro, should I try it?
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by Carioca 5y ago
Crime syndicates keep the peace in these communities, and they can be negotiated with.
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by Carioca 5y ago
I was going to not read the whole thing based on your comment, but now I'm reassured
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by Carioca 5y ago
I got a DMCA claim on a video of me playing a Bach piece on guitar, with my own AFAIK entirely novel arrangement
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by Carioca 5y ago
Basically, because we don't want to give kids unnecessary vaccines (contrary to what _some_ people say). We don't give yellow fever vaccines to everyone, only to people in high-risk areas. Also, post-exposure treatment is almost 1
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by Carioca 5y ago
Japanese occupation was before the two wars cited though. It went French colony -> Japanese occupation -> War against the French -> War between North and South (with US siding with te South)
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by Carioca 5y ago
As a counterpoint, it does not seem to a foreigner that their government is worse than average
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by Carioca 5y ago
I tend to play my games in "No Backsies" mode, where available. In KSP, for instance, you can have permadeath for your Kerbals, etc.
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by Carioca 6y ago
In (Brazilian) Portuguese, all pasta is called "macarrão", no doubt from the old Italian word
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by Carioca 6y ago
As an example, passion fruit has to be pollinated by hand (with swabs or special gloves) even in most of its natural range (South America) because only certain species of Uruçu bees can be pollinate it, and they have become rare
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by Carioca 6y ago
> those apps can access hate speech > it's for hate speech There's a big difference here and you seem to know it
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by Carioca 6y ago
I'm not doing it right now, but the simple answers: > How do you deal with spam? You configure filters on your server so that they are flagged > How do you ensure your emails don’t get junk mailed? 1. Ensure your server is runnin
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by Carioca 6y ago
It's news because his book is being launched now. Also, he has been a “bellwether” of sorts to science news during the pandemic
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by Carioca 6y ago
A lot of them were recalled for containing methanol, which could be a characteristic of the original bulk alcohol. I'd imagine most plants are not set up to do the necessary separation
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by Carioca 7y ago
A much larger program called Bolsa Família has been in place for almost two decades here in Brazil. The findings were smaller but still positive: for every R$1 that went into the program, GDP grew by a calculated R$1,78 [1] [1]: https:&#x2
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by Carioca 7y ago
And, importantly, the proportional impact in fund A is much larger than the one in fund B
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by Carioca 7y ago
At what point doesn't it just become feasible to hire a full-time tutor?
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by Carioca 7y ago
If you're REALLY naive, so you can put a face to the person. Could also be seen as a form of “authentication” i.e. to stop people from submitting multiple resumes. I personally consider that misuse far outweighs any reasonable use exce
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by Carioca 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, but Bolsonaro has made it so that every step in that direction is extraordinarily difficult. There is a fund (Amazon Fund) that both provided material resources to IBAMA[1] and financed sustainable economic practices
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by Carioca 7y ago
There are other measures that could help, like actually policing the region and promoting economic alternatives for local population. Sadly, the currently Brazilian government decided to stop both of them

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