diego_moita

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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> You’d have to tariff fruits and vegetables like crazy to make the American varieties more expensive than oceanic shipped produce. Bullshit. I already see in the supermarket (Canadian Superstore) oranges from South Africa, lemons from M
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> is a relative term More "relative" than you think. Look at the wars the US fought after WWII: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. The US suffered a lot less pain than any of those countries and was in a lot stronger posit
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> but tariffs will only make things more expensive for Canadians, too. Yes, there is no war without pain. But I am willing to face the pain. However, in the long run, the pain might bring good. It might help products from other countries
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> Reciprocal tariffs alone don’t make much sense, In the short run, yes. In the long run we can start replacing American imports with other countries' imports. I want to see more fruits and vegetables from Mexico, Africa and South A
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
YES! YES! Elbows up, finally! This is will be painful. But it is what we need. It is more than time for Canada to learn the lesson that Navajos, Comanches, Apache and Cherokees learned too late: Americans lie, cheat, betray and steal. We sh
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
"Rule of the law" is just a lame excuse to "the job of a lawyer is to sell privileges to rich people". In some countries the excuse is lamer than in others. But, in the end, everywhere in the world money always speaks lo
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
Well, finally! One of the reasons I voted for him were his environmental credentials. But what he did since elected was cozying up with Alberta and their oil barons.
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> You realize you're arguing for a monopoly, right? Right! Like all the other monopolies that governments already have: public security (police and courts of law), external security (armed forces), public healthcare in many civilize
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> What if the ONLY payment method was the one approved by your "elected" government. Yeah, what if? You didn't provide any argument, didn't point to any real problem. You just hinted at a "terrible bad thing&quot
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
> I have three words for you: read the docs. No, thanks. As they say: "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". So I used both applications and TightVNC is just a lot better, particularly in constrained remote VMs. Docs are
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
Thanks, I never tried it. Will try. Funny thing is that the document where they'd explain their reasoning to fork TightVNC returns 404.
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
It is interesting that attitudes, laws and initiatives that would be called "censorship" against traditional media are more and more accepted against social media platforms, all over the world in very democratic countries. I am no
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
I just have one word for you: TightVNC. That's what made me uninstall RustDesk.
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
Hardly news. There are a lot of industries based on the "people I know" principle. From selling Tupperware and Herbalife to the whole Lobbying industry and politics, everything is about the right connections. The world has been li
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
> * Up to 30 hours of battery life on the 41mm (40 hours on the 45mm) with fast charging. Is this a typo? I get 20 days on the Pebble Time 2.
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
You dropped the "/s".
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
In a funny way, it seems that Brexit had a net positive effect for the EU. I remember that prior to it, there were quite a few other anti-EU movements in France, Italy, Greece and other countries. It seems that, after the Brexit disaster, t
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
I suspect there is more at play here than activism. In many 3rd World places you must conceal/hide surveillance cameras because they are a valuable asset worth stealing.
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
It is staple but not an art. They're just tilings. What the Spanish, Moroccan and Portuguese do with azulejos / zellij is miles ahead. It is intricate, complex and beautiful. Those countries just take the think into crazy high lev
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
I wasted my youth on this thing! So now I should waste my working hours on it?
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
Nah... The coolest use I've seen is a research at the University of Alberta (Canada) that aims to use the Vision Pro to alleviate nystagmus[1]. This is a disease on the muscles that control the eyes' direction. It causes the eyes
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
They're mostly assemblers of parts. They buy most parts from China and assemble the computers in the country.
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
Yeah, they still have high tariffs. But back them it was just illegal to import computers. You'd need to request special authorization from the government to do so, and it would take months to get an authorization. And only a few reaso
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
I see a funny pattern here. England created the Industrial Revolution but barely has any manufacturing these days. The U.S. created several industries (mass car manufacturing, electronics, clothing, etc) but today China produces more than t
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
In the 80s Brazil went that same path. They made a law forbidding everyone from importing computers. The idea was to "develop a national computer industry". They created a monstrosity. The Brazilian made computers were always one
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
> Our country is better than yours because of the constitution Well, thank you twice: * first for confirming my criticism that Americans venerate their constitution blindly * second for staying in your country and not coming to mine
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
> Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters Schools in the U.S.; this is what the U.S. are getting into. Meanwhile, the majority of the civilized world solves this with gun control. Americans can't do
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
I wonder how many of the people that defend Flock, Google, Facebook " etc, also are the ones that "denounce" Huaweii for spying for the Chinese government.
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
The world desperately needs less "Murica". It needs the U.S. to be weaker, poorer, less powerful and less influential. And both Trump and Xi-Jiping are delivering just that, thanks God.
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by diego_moita 2mo ago
The European/"Socialist" solutions are never obvious to Americans. It is like parliamentarianism, campaign financing regulations, gun control, multiple political parties, etc. Americans call these things "Socialism"

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