coliveira

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   by coliveira 4y ago

   The big problem for the US in the near future is: the US dollar is suffering massive inflation. As this happens, they lose purchasing power, even compared to nations like China, and especially oil producing nations of OPEC. This happens at
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   I have worked on big companies that do pretty much all of this on Mac. I agree that it might be harder to do than on Windows, because there is so much industry know-how on the MS side. But there is no real technical barrier for this to happ
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   I agree that this has a potential to make people consider ignorance as a feature. AI is useful as a helper technology, the same way as telescopes or computers. But saying that it will discover new science is just a misleading idea. Even if
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   All these "discoveries" suffer from the problem of inconclusive data. As mentioned in another comment, this can be the result of data that is skewed somehow, for example by neighborhood, by the selection of patients, by the techno
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   Of course there is at least one such multiple: 103 * 618.
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   What the article doesn't mention is that the Israelites are not much different from philistines either. They used the same language (a variant of Canaanite language that later would become Aramaic), had the same gods (as is attested ev
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   In fact the Philistine are known to have entered in conflict with the egipcians as a group of "sea people". These people were defeated by the egyptians and removed to the area of Canaan that later became known as Philistine, which
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   It's the other way around, hebrew is just a derivative of the language spoken by the Phoenicians, also closely related to the Aramaic that became the common language over that whole area. Hebrew was, for a long time, just a cerimonial
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   by coliveira 4y ago

   It all depends on when you believe the old testament was written. Some people think it is later than traditionally thought (at least the final composition). This final composition may have happened after Alexander time, when greek culture w
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    by coliveira 4y ago

    What I think is worst in the US markets is bread and cheese. They taste terrible, and bread is so bad they need to put something inside to have at least some taste. Fruits are terrible too, but they're not produced here, so that is und
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    by coliveira 4y ago

    Don't worry: the job of the Fed is exactly to increase unemployment! This is how they manage to create recessions in order to keep monetary policy under control.
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    by coliveira 4y ago

    The problem is that developers have been brainwashed to dislike what Smalltalk has to offer. If you tell them to use a Smalltalk-like system they will complain to no end about the lack of file-centric infrastructure, while what Smalltalk ha
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    by coliveira 4y ago

    Because the US loves to meddle in the policy of foreign countries. That's reason enough for powerful people in other countries to try to do the same in the US.
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    by coliveira 4y ago

    No open source project has the obligation to do what you mention. From my observation, the community that uses this kind of language already knows what it looks like.
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    by coliveira 4y ago

    I don't think it has anything to do with the dislike button. The YT algorithm is really bad. It has been doing this for years, and they don't seem to know how to fix it. I regularly receive recommendation that are completely annoy
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    What I think interesting is that people write articles about technology architectures without even bothering trying to use the said architecture. I would be very interested in reading from someone who actually used sqlite in a large scale a
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    Who guarantees the "kings and aristocrats" are really the ones pulling the strings? They are frequently just puppets.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    No, this is just the beginning of their counterstrike. I fully expect Amazon to close that warehouse as soon as they legally can.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    The US is incapable of thinking outside of the "us versus them" box. For example, they don't see other countries as independent, they only see them as alies or enemies. It is a fifth grade mentality that permeates the whole c
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    You're completely right. Amazon strategy is to maintain constant turnover, so that employees never feel they have stability and can't complain of anything.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    No company will give you options from day one. They will give them over several years if you meet their expectations, which is essentially the same as a bonus.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    If they give a base pay increase, then they can't take it from you next year! This is how FAANG companies work, give you a lot of incentives in the form of one time bonus, so if they don't like you they will take most of your futu
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    Soon we'll have to do the same. A lot of media that has been considered "bad" for some definition of "bad" has been banned in western countries.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    ARC is not new, it was used by Apple in their languages for at least 10 years now.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    Again, it may not look like it, but if you analyze the chords and their substitutions, that's what you get. The genius of jazz is to make everything look more complicated than what it really is.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    Rick Beat is trying to deceive you. If you really believe that this Sergio Mendes song is complicated, you need to listen to some older pop songs. For example, Stevie Wonder is a good composer to start.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    Jazz sounds too complicated, but it is not. More than 90% of it is just a set of 2,5,1 sequences disguised in clever ways.
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    Yes, and this is the crucial difference that make new songs sound "modern". The Beatles were one of the first to use the 1,5,6,4 sequence (Let it be). Since then the 1,6,4,5 sequence has consistently lost ground, while 1,5,6,4 sou
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    I don't know about Russia, but China doesn't let people from other nationalities to occupy positions of power especially in foreign policy, in which they're completely right. This is the main weakness of the USA and UK. They
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    by coliveira 5y ago

    I agree that the current crop of social networks is pretty much worse than useless. I wish they all ended so that we can build something better.