luso_brazilian

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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
My thoughts exactly, although that could be a regional thing. In Portugal I was very amazed by the large amount of women driving buses, taxis and garbage trucks (for instance). Back in Brazil I must have seen at most five or six but in Port
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Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks for $3B (contains autoplaying video)(usatoday.com)
1 points by luso_brazilian 10y ago|0 comments
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
Copyright legislation is country by country basis and needs to be "navigated" as such given the differences in legislation. Although there are global companies that have the resources to do it worldwide it still makes more sense t
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
My opinion, based on what is apparent by the quality of the offer, is that this not a serious attempt of providing service to the international audience. It appears that these few titles were made available to the international markets only
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
The sad state of things is that, although the technology evolved to our current 21st century level, the legislation didn't follow suit. Here is the 11 titles available for international markets (like Brazil, for instance): Blue M
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
> As serious as the info above is, it’s only scratching the surface. Per the reports linked to earlier, there’s also biometric data relating to fingerprints in the system. This contains columns names such as these: > PRINT_FLAG, FI
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SCO vs. IBM: 13-year-old Linux dispute returns as SCO files new appeal(theinquirer.net)
3 points by luso_brazilian 11y ago|3 comments
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Microsoft's Tay AI makes brief, baffling return to Twitter(engadget.com)
1 points by luso_brazilian 11y ago|0 comments
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The first great war in 2 years has started in Eve Online(reddit.com)
5 points by luso_brazilian 11y ago|0 comments
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
A beautiful read. A barely related event is the fighter that chose to tap out (signaling that he gave up) instead of knocking out his clearly inferior opponent (and risk injuring him or causing permanent damage). The commentary along with t
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
>> WWII and its aftermath (...) resulted in great economic prosperity -perhaps unprecedented prosperity I don't think that applies to any other country except the U.S. England, for instance, almost went bankrupt and had to ask fo
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
> "There was room for improvement, he argued, for what he called “job-centric” economics and politics. In a job-centric system, job creation would be the nation’s No. 1 objective, with the government setting priorities and arraying
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
OT and just my opinion: it seems to exists an unfortunate trend in the promotion of new ideas where, instead of simply exposing the virtues of the idea on its own, it first needs to knock down the (proven and world adopted) predecessor as s
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Article intro: > Attempt to engage millennials with artificial intelligence backfires hours after launch, with TayTweets account citing Hitler and supporting Donald Trump Also, bad decision by Microsoft to allow it to honor "repeat
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Tay, Microsoft's AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter(theguardian.com)
7 points by luso_brazilian 11y ago|2 comments
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Actually, given the inspiration source where I got this article it was very likely someone else would post. And someone did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11324885 Coincidentally with the same title, as that was deli
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11324202
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Sorry for that, it was unashamedly lifted from another and more generalist site, title and all. Won't happen again.
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To Test a Powerful Computer, Play an Ancient Game (1997)(nytimes.com)
50 points by luso_brazilian 11y ago|26 comments
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
I don't believe there is a relation between the improvement of computer chess and the reduction in the availability of in-person chess. I also played chess as a kid and the allure of both local and national tournaments was that you cou
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Yes, and actually on BMW home country, Germany. The summary can be read at this old Slashdot submission [1] from 2005 but the gist of it is that > Harald Welte of the netfilter/iptables core team sought to enjoin Sitecom from distr
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Kanye West: Secret Pirate Bay User?(theguardian.com)
17 points by luso_brazilian 11y ago|2 comments
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
The drug abuse problem was not completely fixed but at least it shifted the principal caretaker of the problem from the security forces to the social security. In my view these were the main factors for the relative (and undeniable as per [
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
The "mysteriously" qualifier seems to be sarcasm by the part of the original submitter on reddit. He seems to be implying that, by being a former Google employee, this person is getting a pass or using inside information to skirt
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Yeah, and not only. Urubu is the brazilian name for the black vulture [1], a scavenger bird commonly seen when there are dead animals. Urubu as an insult can also mean two things: first, as they eat corpses people presume they are smelly th
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
While that's true at the very least (assuming that there really is a cheap worldwide GPS tracking available) the last known position would be much more accurate than in MH370. That would make unnecessary the attempt to extrapolate the
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
> This is awful - I think it would be good to have some discussion around what we can do as a community to improve this? I don't agree that the result is as strong as "awful" indicate because the paper concludes that &g
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
My opinion on the paper is that the abstract doesn't reflect adequately the content of the paper. The last assertion, that the "results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Here is one (IMO) much more complete abstract (not to call it tl:dr) that covers the main hypothesis, and all the variables studied Our main research question was: to what extent does gender bias exist among people who judge GitHub pull re
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Driving without a drivers license is also illegal (in most countries) but not considered equal to theft, murder or fraud. That's a false equivalence because not all things considered illegal are considered as abhorrent as murder or the

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