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Onsites Considered Harmful(lbrito1.github.io)
2 points by lbrito 5y ago|0 comments
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The Myth of 1.3M Vacant Investor Homes in Canada(youtube.com)
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by lbrito 5y ago
There's a difference between small talk and being polite. As a Brazilian I was shocked at how polite people were abroad with pleases and thank yous. In Brazil I'm asked bluntly "what is the time?" by strangers on the str
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by lbrito 5y ago
>But in the last ten years, something seems to have arrested this direction of travel and reinstated local bubbles of thought, insulated from outside challenge. I've noticed this specifically with covid denial/conspiracy nuts.
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by lbrito 5y ago
Very cool! How hard would it be to add some kind of article category filtering? E.g. I only want to see articles about engines, or about the south pacific. I think Wikipedia has indexes with those.
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by lbrito 5y ago
Asking people to stop accepting interviews because they're bad (which I agree they are) is a bit like asking people to stop using combustion-based car because it is bad for the environment. On an individual level, sure -- a few people
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by lbrito 5y ago
>between Lula and Kirchner, I’d rather have YOLO Bukele! So you support dictators and are anti-Lula. Why am I not surprised?
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by lbrito 5y ago
I understand your point and I see comparisons with South Korea a lot. Sibling commenter makes a good remark about education. Another huge difference which can't be underestimated is the geopolitical importance of South Korea and the en
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by lbrito 5y ago
Sorry, but this has nothing to do with whether I respect streamers or not. Streamers produce entertainment. That's fine, I'm all for entertainment -- I pay for Netflix, for instance. But it is just entertainment. You can't ha
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by lbrito 5y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a log-based analytics software that you can self-host on an Android phone. https://github.com/lbrito1/android-analytics Blog post: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/0
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by lbrito 5y ago
Such a waste on a great subject. There's this huge social and economic change in Brazil over the last 10 or so years where dozens of millions of people are acceding to the digital world; broadband (usually 4G) access to the internet is
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by lbrito 5y ago
>Will the adaptation of this technology accelerate quality of life improvements? No. Things favelas need, in order of importance: 1. Jobs 2. Jobs 3. Jobs 4. Decent waste disposal 5. Decent public infrastructure - mass transit, daycare, h
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by lbrito 5y ago
Also, please read Thomas Piketty on wealth inequality (and why it is much more relevant than income inequality).
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by lbrito 5y ago
Just be indifferent. Being extremely wealthy sounds like a burden to me if you're a half decent person. The greater the excess income, the greater the moral dilemmas. I know I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had huge dis
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by lbrito 5y ago
Search results are decent for most technical stuff, but anything consumer product-related is abysmal. I always seem forced to go to YouTube for that. When I'm searching for "best short throw projector", most of all the result
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by lbrito 5y ago
Americans also want to check if you know things, you know? Also for those mentioning words that are lewd or harmless depending on which side of the ocean you're at, those are nothing compared to Portuguese in Brazil/Portugal.
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by lbrito 5y ago
Someone commented that people hate each other in the US more than elsewhere, thus need more space apart from other people. This made me think: how does this supposed US hatred for itself compare with European hatred for "the other&quot
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by lbrito 5y ago
Happy new year! Most of these are lifelong goals. * Write more regularly * Have a personal indexed knowledge base. Saw some great examples of this on HN * Give up reading uninteresting books. I have the tendency to keep reading anyway I&#x2
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by lbrito 5y ago
"New buildings in the biggest U.S. city with 8.8 million residents will have to use electricity for heat and cooking" Hmm, I wonder where the electricity comes from. If it comes from natural gas as well, then they're just add
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by lbrito 5y ago
Honest question: why not leave FAANG/SV, take a relaxed remote job of maybe 30h/week and live in a low-cost, warm and cosy Mediterranean city (since you mentioned you're from Europe that shouldn't be a problem)?
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by lbrito 5y ago
I invest in Brazilian government bonds. Most tag along inflation, which is at a record high right now. My yearly net is around 13% (I no longer live there so inflation isn't too big a concern, although it affects exchange rates but tha
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by lbrito 5y ago
My bad, I meant any drugstore analgesic, OTC or not (I'm not in the US). I assumed painkiller was a synonym. I wasn't aware of the connotation.
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by lbrito 5y ago
I always thought of these apps as a sketchy byproduct of US's weird/malfunctioning health system -- kind of like how people use painkillers to forget about their toothache instead of going to a dentist. Can't pay for a medica
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by lbrito 5y ago
Ubuntu and Nvidia card. No thanks. Maybe if they figure out how to disable the dGPU on the fly after over a decade of back and forth with fixes and regressions[1]. [1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-20-04-
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by lbrito 5y ago
Convergence exercises. Had nasty headaches last year and difficulty focusing on text after a couple of hours on the computer, turns out my eyesight had less than perfect convergence. Did the exercises for some months, worked wonders. Still
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by lbrito 5y ago
Wow, that's a really quaint acronym. Kudos.
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by lbrito 5y ago
Side note, wasn't the genius roommate afraid of getting a huge fine for repurposing furniture?
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If someone breaks in and burns down my house, insurance will be irrelevant as they explicitly do not cover arson. I wonder if other countries have the same policy. I live in Brazil.
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>_money and capitalism, which is inherently democratic by design in that many decisions contribute to the overall direction, rather than a single decision maker_ That's an anti historical view. If there's one thing capitalism i
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by lbrito 5y ago
>The verbal interviews (+personality tests) are formulaic, and one can rarely get past them without lying about their careers. At least in my experience, this is ridiculously overblown. I'm far from a fluffy personality, but to me

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