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by mportela 6y ago
Another thread from earlier this year with pretty good recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722
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by mportela 6y ago
The center is actually more to the south. It seems to be over Paraguay and southern Brazil, thousands of kilometers away from the Amazon rainforest. "What is causing this?" Well... that's exactly the point, right? No one know
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by mportela 6y ago
+1. I was on my way to recommend this documentary.
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by mportela 6y ago
Without the paywall: https://outline.com/YnuzdH
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by mportela 6y ago
Without paywall: https://outline.com/ubJCBg
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by mportela 6y ago
https://outline.com/ubJCBg
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by mportela 7y ago
+1. One of the best courses I took in Coursera, especially because my background is in Engineering, not Social Sciences.
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by mportela 7y ago
NYU's Tandon School Engineering is doing the same with edX (since it is part of the organization), but students won't earn credits.
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by mportela 7y ago
In Portugal, this movement was push forward by the royal court (together with the Catholic church, of course), so Portuguese was the only language to do so. For some reason, the Spanish course didn't follow suit.
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by mportela 7y ago
As a fun fact, although weekdays are named after Roman gods in Romance languages, Portuguese is a notable exception. It uses a literal translation from the ecclesiastic Latin weekdays, which refers to the days when God worked in creating th
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by mportela 7y ago
They were already doing that for NYC students, so I guess they are simply scaling the operation with the infrastructure and logistics already in place. Should this program continue after the pandemic, then it would be weird to keep running
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by mportela 7y ago
Fun fact: in Brazil, "breakfast" is usually called "morning coffee" (café da manhã)
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by mportela 7y ago
If you collect data from third-party APIs and then re-sell them, you are a data broker. If you only use the data, then you aren't.
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by mportela 7y ago
That's why they should be tightly regulated and directly responsible for incidents involving data leaks à la Equifax
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by mportela 7y ago
PS: Swap east-west and north-south. North-south is the good flow, east-west is the shitty one.
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by mportela 7y ago
Oops, my bad. North-south is the good flow, east-west is the shitty one indeed!
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by mportela 7y ago
I wouldn't say it was the only reason but probably one of them. I've also heard that the federal government buildings were placed in a super wide avenue [1] because even huge crowds of millions wouldn't be able to pack th
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by mportela 7y ago
It's growth is mainly driven by migration from other states by people attracted by the high quality of life (highest in the country) and high-paying government jobs. However, the designed neighborhoods are currently noble areas where o
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by mportela 7y ago
Agreed
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by mportela 7y ago
I haven't traveled enough around the US to be able to give you an appropriate answer. I'd say Washington DC share some characteristics (federal capital, planned city etc) but it's still a "normal" city in my opinion
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by mportela 7y ago
This is one of the most debated things in Brasília. The current understanding is that the design is neither an airplane nor a butterfly, but simply a cross adapted to the topography of the region [1]. The confusion comes from the words &quo
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by mportela 7y ago
Certainly Brasília is a lot greener, but I wouldn't say it's pedestrian friendly: crosswalks requires one to deviate from the shortest route by a lot and walking in the north-south direction is always a terrible experience. What a
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by mportela 7y ago
I was born and raised in Brasília, currently living in New York. The city is indeed unique and beautiful and building it in about 4 years is an incredible feat, but the airplane-shaped urban design is terrible . It is easy to cross the cit
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by mportela 7y ago
Wow, I didn't know B9 had released an episode on this matter. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by mportela 8y ago
Just show him or her this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI