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by dkga 10mo ago
Not just soy farming, a part of which is surprisingly legal in the Brazilian Amazon. Some of the largest problems we have with respect to illegal rainforest deforestation involves logging or, even worse, artisanal gold mining.
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by dkga 10mo ago
Yes, that is right. I didn't forget to mention it, just thought the Minas Gerais case was the most unique geologically as opposed to the far-too-common negative externality problem as is the agricultural excessive use of water + defore
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by dkga 10mo ago
Thanks for the kind words! And nice to know about the Safari translation, glad to know it brought us close together! By the way, the name of the river translates to “River of the Old Ladies”. I don’t know where the label got the 28 from!
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by dkga 10mo ago
So vulture would be like the Arabic letter ayn? That letter is also transliterated as 3 in arabi mobile typing.
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by dkga 10mo ago
I grew up in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, a region full of natural resources and, thankfully, aquifers and natural water reservoirs. However, centuries of extraction mismanagement and, more recently, over exploration of mineral reso
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by dkga 10mo ago
Human user of em dashes here. I can't tell you the number of times people thought my 100% human-made prose was "AI" because of the em dashes.
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by dkga 10mo ago
As an economist I completely agree with the post. In fact, I assume we will see an explosion of formal proof requirements in code format by journals in a few years time. Not to mention this would make it much easier and faster to publish pa
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by dkga 10mo ago
Same here! Especially in an iphone, where for some reason moving the cursor was made extremely difficult compared to Android
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by dkga 10mo ago
What is a green bubble? iPhone's carbon footprint?
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by dkga 10mo ago
It really depends. I believe and apply a lot of Cal Newport advice, and benefit greatly from it. But I also see in my daily life how just being close to people you work with, and (crucially) being a short walk away/floor from people in
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by dkga 10mo ago
And the Bible had quite a head start!
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by dkga 10mo ago
I grew up in Brazil and never heard that the Little Prince had a bad reputation there. Quite the contrary, at least in my circle of people.
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by dkga 10mo ago
Wishing you a good recovery and a long life to have fun and to pass on your learnings
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by dkga 11mo ago
Wait, are hotels now taking bathroom doors away? It’s awful enough when they don’t let you lock the door.
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by dkga 11mo ago
My experience with quarto + revealjs on the other hand has been great. I'm an economist, which means my slides only ever have text (usually short bullets) + literature references + equations + graphs (and rarely, outright image files).
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by dkga 11mo ago
I chucked because it reminded me of the Steven Soderbergh movie with Matt Damon, "The Informant!"
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by dkga 1y ago
Wow I can’t believe this happened!
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by dkga 1y ago
I love how each HN post is a gateway to miscellaneous obscure knowledge with a technical point behind it
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by dkga 1y ago
I had good experience with Codex iterating to prove a fixed point theorem. But will also now consider GLM-4.6.
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by dkga 1y ago
Exactly my impression. And on top of things I need to keep a strict gluten-free diet. It’s a horrible experience.
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by dkga 1y ago
What the other poster meant was that economists don’t care that it is not an original Nobel prize. Source: also an economist
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by dkga 1y ago
This. Life is such a precious random occurrence that failing to protect it in the face [dementia|physical disabilities|etc] is the real tragedy.
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by dkga 1y ago
Love the name!
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by dkga 1y ago
What I mean is that it is not a newly observed fact that when companies grow very big and dominant, they obtain market power and this is often abused, to the detriment of customers and end-clients. Still, this happens time and again even in
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by dkga 1y ago
It's awe-dropping the lengths at which societies go repeating errors of avoiding market dominance because they are detrimental to consumers.
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by dkga 1y ago
I’m not a big expert on the VPN tech side, but it always seemed to me that the most logical option for those that actually understand about VPN is Proton, or am I missing something here?
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by dkga 1y ago
Wait what?
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by dkga 1y ago
Curious contrast about eating horses. My grandmother used to live in a very humble area of my hometown and I was there often. One day, when I was a kid, there was this agglomeration in the main avenue in that neighborhood: people lynched th
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by dkga 1y ago
RAG is the new US dollar, now every year someone will predict its looming death…
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by dkga 1y ago
I was happy to read some comments here reinforcing the experience I had - that immersion is absolutely necessary. For the sake of anyone who might ever be interested, and because today marks literally one year since I began doggedly learnin

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