Carioca

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by Carioca 7y ago
Brazilian Amazon deforestation went up 222% in August, compared to the same time last year[1]. Bolsonaro has a very anti-conservation agenda. He has: - Appointed a climate denialist conspiracy theorist as his foreign minister [2] - Appointe
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by Carioca 7y ago
My point is that one of them is using a chainsaw, but some people insist on crying “both sides”
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by Carioca 7y ago
I'm going to be honest with you, I won't sit through an hour and a half video that makes your point for you. I'll just say that the current president fired the director of the National Institute for Space Research (an MIT PhD
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by Carioca 7y ago
As a Brazilian, I see a MUCH larger threat from the current right-wing government than from lefties inside academia. While the relationship between natural/hard/exact sciences and social/soft sciences can indeed be very strai
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by Carioca 7y ago
Doesn't help that their policies resulted in Germany and Norway freezing their investments to a Fund that did precisely that, subsidize the creation of sustainable business models in the Amazon https://www.npr.org/2019&
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by Carioca 7y ago
Here's a comparison between a RPi Zero and a 1957 Elliott 405 (from the UK): https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20151129/ On a simple clock comparison, it was about a million times slower than a Raspberry Pi Zero.
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by Carioca 7y ago
Nitpick: the Worker's Party was in power up to 2016, when president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and their former allies, centrists Democratic Movement, rose to power. Even Dilma wasn't particularly friendly to the environment, as
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by Carioca 7y ago
Fiduciary obligations perhaps? The administrator of a corporation has legal obligations to its shareholders. Maybe an SPC can skirt those.
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by Carioca 8y ago
I got curious and did the math: US gas pumps do 10 gallons per minute, which give us 0.61 L/s. Density is about 0.7kg/L, energy content is about 46.7 MJ/kg. Multiplying the three we get juuust under 20MJ/s or 20MW or abo
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by Carioca 8y ago
Have you ever considered how much chemical energy is flowing through the gas pump when you fill up a car?
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by Carioca 8y ago
As a side note, Caucher Birkar's medal was stolen less than half an hour after the award[1] (link in Portuguese) 1: https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2018/08/01/ir...
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by Carioca 8y ago
Analog signals are being phased out and no longer work in the largest cities. The difference here is mostly in OTA vs cable vs streaming, all digital.
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by Carioca 8y ago
Wow, here in Brazil a 10-second lag is already unbearable... No matter where you are in a big city, you can hear the city erupt in different ways when the national team is playing
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by Carioca 8y ago
It's a very common point of view, famously championed by Milton Friedman[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
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by Carioca 8y ago
16 Gigabit (2 Gigabyte) memory chips (i.e. each chp has 2 GB, and the DIMM module has 16 chips)
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by Carioca 8y ago
It had been an internal search in previous releases, no?
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by Carioca 8y ago
So if he travels to Israel he's a DBA?
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by Carioca 8y ago
>>> 100*1.48**12 11044.360771961152 That's ELEVEN THOUSAND percent a year. 110x your money every year. That's enough to turn a dollar into 16 billion in 5 years.
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by Carioca 9y ago
The 8700K's main draw over the Ryzens is single-core performance though.
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by Carioca 9y ago
How they currently define vPro: Intel® vPro™ Technology is a set of security and manageability capabilities built into the processor aimed at addressing four critical areas of IT security: 1) Threat management, including protection from ro
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by Carioca 9y ago
The only technologies they lack are related to remote management, as joathonW said: https://ark.intel.com/products/134903/Intel-Core-i9-8950HK-P...
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by Carioca 9y ago
None, it was really just the connections.
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by Carioca 9y ago
I was just getting standard severance mandated by law (here in Brazil), but I was going to a sort-of competitor: both company were incubators.
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by Carioca 9y ago
I've had an HR person tell me I needed to sign an NDA on the day I quit because it was missing (they forgot to hand me mine the day everyone got theirs). It included minimum damages of one year's salary for ANY breach. I had a law
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by Carioca 9y ago
Your story is such a great nugget of what he stood for, thank you for sharing it.
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by Carioca 9y ago
> Isn't the point of the article that it has little real impact, because in most cases it shifts the CO2 production from the car to the power plant? Power plants are a lot more efficient and better at managing pollution. Plus, the g
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by Carioca 9y ago
Germany and Switzerland have complicated systems where you are mandated to have insurance but the state provides you with insurance if you cannot afford it.
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by Carioca 9y ago
At least here in Brazil it's relatively common to mix English defaults and Portuguese variable names. So a Django class declaration would look something like: class Pessoa(models.Model): idade = models.IntegerField()
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by Carioca 9y ago
> means to put food on the table With a bit of help from the taxpayers: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180105/amazon-makes-list-of-l...
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by Carioca 9y ago
I think the IRA usually warned of a bomb a few minutes before it going off, so that it would cause a lot of inconvenience, a lot of material damage and relatively little human casualties.

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