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by lbschenkel 2y ago
Exactly. The traditional design language is that an arrow besides a button indicates that the button will show a drop-down when pressed (traditionally without a line separating the two), or that clicking on the button will do the default ac
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by lbschenkel 2y ago
Not exactly. It was heavily inspired by Joda Time, but it also improved the design in a lot of ways. You could think of it as Joda Time if the designer could go back in time and design it again with all the hindsight.
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Actually it happens. I live in Sweden and I travel to Brazil to visit family. If I get a SMS on my Swedish number, I get charged the equivalent of a 1-minute phone call. The reason is that the Brazilian telecom I'm roaming in sees a fo
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
I'm just the messenger and I'm not claiming it's fair, but this is standard procedure everywhere in the world: when you buy a round-trip ticket (single PNR), if you are a no-show for any leg then you're forfeiting the wh
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Portuguese doesn't distinguish between those either: both are "segurança".
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
> I'm also pretty surprised that people think email metadata from government is legitimate open data. Do you think it should be public how many times you have emailed government and gotten a response, and to which departments? I don
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
I totally agree with that. Easier said than done, though, if you live somewhere where this is not the norm and you may get scolded by the authorities (luckily not my case).
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
The problem, I think, is that in our generation many of us had at least some freedom to leave home and roam and socialize when we were bored. Nowadays bored children don't have the same escape valves as we had. This is not an argument
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Same for me. I visited my company's US branch in San Francisco (I work in Copenhagen) and the colleagues there were horrified that I was planning to walk to a nearby Best Buy (~10 minutes walk). They didn't actually let me do it —
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Even if that was the case: compared to the subscribing companies themselves selling not only that information, but also your personal data to the highest (and lowest) bidder?
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Let is keep it to South America then. Do you think you're disrespectful when you write "Peru" (Portuguese dropped the diacritic from "Perú") or "Colômbia" (now we added a diacritic that is not in the origi
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Remember that they are not typing in Portuguese, and in other languages places have other names/spellings. I say this as a Brazilian myself, who is fond of the original spelling. I live in Scandinavia, and do you feel it is fair for me
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by lbschenkel 3y ago
Reporting the passport lost or stolen is generally not a good idea. Legality issues aside, when a passport is reported lost or stolen then it is marked in the system as invalid. Depending on the country it will be reported to Interpol'
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
To me, Google Reader was the best social media site that I ever used. A lot of my friends used it: we followed each other and we would be sharing articles that showed up in our feeds that we found interesting. So most days I had these curat
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
I thought it as well, but then I bought a Kobo (Aura One back then) and I'm super happy. And it is much more hackable: there a countless patches to the official firmware, plus installing koreader is a piece of cake.
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
Yes! I always choose the variable rate for this reason alone.
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
Brazil is also a federation, it is larger than continental US, and has much more complicated taxes that also vary per state and per municipality (county) -- and yet we have "European-style" laws that require that the advertised pr
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
In Sweden we have direct debit (autogiro), but we also have e-invoice (e-faktura), which I prefer and think it's the best of both worlds: the invoice and the charge are sent electronically to your bank (usually ~3 weeks in advance), an
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
As a Brazilian living in a Nordic country and working in a different Nordic country, I can corroborate that the expectation from the locals here is that everything in planned in advance (with plenty of notice: 1 week or more); I can also co
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
In Brazil, where I am from, the big achievement that warranted a celebration used to be graduating from university (I guess you call it college in the US). For many families the celebration was also the gift — those things don't come c
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
I was a kid during hyperinflation years in Brazil: 80s to early 90s, sometimes higher than 70% a month. To this day I'm very frugal, and I have a strong aversion to having debt of any kind: the only kind of debt I ever had was a mortga
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
They used a loophole: to adopt Euro you need to be in ERM-II for a while as a pre-requisite, and Sweden found out that there is no rule imposing a timeframe for it to join ERM-II so it is deliberately not joining. IMO this is complying with
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
You're right about the limit, I have mixed them up. It's 1000 USD when arriving by air or sea and 500 USD when arriving by land. Yes, the amount is pretty low. Regarding visitors, I believe the fees are not really enforced because
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
It applies to Brazilian residents and on paper even to visitors: any time foreign goods pass the border. The fact that is inconsistently applied does not mean the law does not exist, so be prepared if they happen to single you out and enfor
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
Any country. This is not specific to Paraguay. Basically you have a personal tax-free allowance (which is pretty low, but I do not know the exact amount) for items brought into the country and everything beyond that has import tax applied,
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
I think the "Paraguayan route" is very-well known to most Brazilians. However, a small FYI since you might not know this: you still have to pay import/customs fees when bringing the purchases from Paraguay into Brazil, so i
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
For the record, given that the parent poster believes that "later arrested on fraud charges" is relevant to the conversation, I feel compelled to mention some important details that were left out: - Brazilian Supreme Federal Court
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol%C3%ADtica_Nacional_de_Info... - The law is from 1984 - Military dictatorship ended in 1985 - First election post-dictatorship happened in 1989 - Lula, the first left-wing president pos
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
As a Brazilian who later emigrated, I believe you may be underestimating how expensive things can be in a developing country. A nice desktop may cost a year of wages. When I lived in Brazil I could do way more with less, out of necessity.
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by lbschenkel 4y ago
I'm not a Go user so I don't really know how to Go proxy works, but if webmasters had a way to opt out via robots.txt or specific status codes (429) and then the proxy at Google sends a response to the client meaning "try it

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