diego_moita

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by diego_moita 17y ago
Who needs a "reason" for contemplating beauty?
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by diego_moita 17y ago
And what's the point? Another atempt at a Climategate/SwiftHack hitjob? Trying to have the tail wagging the dog?
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by diego_moita 17y ago
It is a well tought, well written and well argued editorial. But I fear it is a "dog bites man" story and the invented Climategate scandal is a "man bites dog" story. So guess which one makes it to front pages, headlines and blogs.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
Actually, you have much better endorsements than Spolsky. 2 classics in software engineering also stress that individual offices are much better: Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell and Peopleware by Tom DeMarco.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
| those paranoid deniers are just like those creationists who ignore data that doesn't fit into their pre-determined conclusions Well, I do totally agree with this! :-)
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by diego_moita 17y ago
Bzzt! Wrong. The IPCC based its reports in a lot of data open to scrutiny, not only East Anglia's. And even the problems with East Anglia data have been hugelly exagerated. The IPCC meetings were also open to a lot of dissent, particularly
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by diego_moita 17y ago
You can fill the stench of paranoid conspiracy theory already in the first paragraph. Global warming deniers are the new creationists.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
This thing is really blown out of porportion now: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1... This "Climategate/Warmergate" thing is just another case of FUD, an invented scandal.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
This whole "climategate" is smelling like hipocrisy in more than one way. For 8 years Republicans raised a war against science by repressing environmental research by NASA and EPA, blocking stem cell research, supporting creationism and fig
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by diego_moita 17y ago
I confess I also prefer Holy Grail to LOB (although I do like both). It is probably the surprise effect; it was the first Monty Python I ever saw.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
It is very funny that many of the people that spent 8 years saying amen to the broad war against science by the Bush administration are now "oh, so chocked!" by some out of context comments and suppressed data by some researchers in a UK un
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by diego_moita 17y ago
I am scared of nuclear power. I understand, believe and agree that we have today the technical means to use it safely. However, I also believe that its safety is directly dependent on being handled by competent, serious and accountable peop
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by diego_moita 17y ago
The author is naive and forgets one important detail: many "skeptics" are simply trying to muddle the debate. Think on how much the tobacco industry, the tetra-ethyl lead producers and other industries lobbied for years against serious rese
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by diego_moita 17y ago
> But Ronald Reagan though freed something like 125 million people and he never received it. No, he didn't. Gorbachev did.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
Me too! Blocking posts of annoying people is the killer application for GreaseMonkey.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
> However, it's foolish to judge a conference in a far-off land by our system of morals. I strongly disagree. The country where I live (Canada) is the fourth in my life (after Portugal, Angola and Brazil). I also visited more than a doz
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by diego_moita 17y ago
:D Very fine sarcasm, sir.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
> Argentina is (and has been) doing better than Brazil by pretty much any indicator of education, but Brazil has obviously done much better in terms of economic development Well, first I never claimed and don't think that we're doing mu
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by diego_moita 17y ago
As a Brazilian I agree because I see it happening here. But I believe that it is also related to education. Uneducated people are the ones that elect the most corrupt/incompetent politicians and are the ones that never understand discussion
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by diego_moita 17y ago
This is actually an excelent answer. If you can't dig it, you can't dig what the game is all about.
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by diego_moita 17y ago
I disagree. Portugal enabled a legislation similar to Mexico a couple of years ago and the drug consumption didn't get higher (I read about it in Newsweek about 3 months ago). Like Mexico, Portugal is also a route for drugs. Also, untill th