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by nwatson 5y ago
That sounds quite like the Azorean Portuguese I'd hear in the SF Bay Area, except I think modern Azoreans in the Azores probably have been exposed to a lot of Brazilian TV and music and so have probably "normalized" a bit tow
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I can't imagine any two English accents as far apart from each other as are the Portuguese accents of "standard Globo TV presenter in Brazil" and that of the Azores. I grew up on and off in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Brasília
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It's very effective too ... every "modern Evangelical prophet" (there theologically should be no such thing) that already believes the end is near more conjure and relate fantastical divinely inspired dreams whose plot twist
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The great film "Traffic" (explores drug use and trafficking and implications from many angles) used a similar strategy ... US scenes brightly colored and clear, Latin America scenes washed out and grainy.
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The Economist (conservative British newspaper) was Lula's bitch while he was president, Lula was branded a leftist who brought capitalist prosperity, peace, and stability to Brazil. The Economist will forgive him his corruption in som
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I spent four years in Rio Comprido/Tijuca and left when I was six, Rua Conselheiro Barros near Rua do Bispo, not quite the favela there. I lived in various other places in Brazil too and got to visit and stay in many of "sketchy&q
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One company, two truths.
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Your second link completely looks like another similar item that we've been buying, down to the box graphic design (but with obscured brand name) ... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JZL41H8 . Just under
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Yeah, this is easier ... and broken down ... Work on a temporary branch, get stuff all working there, keep merging changes elsewhere into the temporary branch to stay up to date with your PR target branch. Push the temporary branch early an
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Goods whose supply has a natural upper limit in what's easily obtainable (given current methods and infra) and no easy substitutes in their use up the supply chain often have price spikes when (non-spiking) marginal demand suddenly bum
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Submitted with no disrespect to Betteridge's Law of Headlines [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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In France, pharmacists are trained to identify foraged mushrooms [0], some pharmacists are better than others at this. [0] https://www.connexionfrance.com/Practical/Health/Can-French-...
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Can French pharmacists advise on edible/poisonous mushrooms?(connexionfrance.com)
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Never leave your brokerage account unattended, make sure to be active. The NPR Planet Money episode "Escheat Show" follows the story of a man who bought some Amazon stock long ago, and purposely never logged in to his online accou
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Escheat Show (Planet Money) (2020)(npr.org)
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Jetbrains IDEs will step into framework/library code/stack-frames/variables that you didn't write yourself and let you trace the full context of your code ... that's insight and knowledge no straight-editor will giv
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I'm sure the Academie Français has made up an authorized word like rererefateurellement.
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Refactoring, "show me where this class, function, variable is used", "show me a class hierarchy", "analyze my code and tell me where I'm not using best practices and suggest the best fixes and apply my selected
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Fleet will likely become part of the "All Products Pack" which at this point costs $149 annually pre-tax (personal license), with special add-on integrations for several targeted cloud environments being rental add-ons. The person
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by nwatson 5y ago
Docusign and other services like it do more than send out forms to collect signatures. There often are other fields / data collected, alternative forms of documents presented depending on target party's profile, etc. If you take
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Accordion was very popular in Brazil and Uruguay when I was growing up. This deceptively cheerful song, "Asa Branca" [0] (four accordions in the lineup) is about the persistent drought in Brazil's Nordeste (Northeast) and th
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But all the savvier investors will sell the inflated assets at higher prices before the dip/fall and go on to use their increased capital to over-inflate the next hot asset class to the detriment of the average Joe.
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If you're last on board and you see those three seats together you can always pretend your seat is the middle one of those three.
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Gerald Farin has written many books, articles, publications on Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) stretching back a long way, here's a sample of books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Gerald-Farin/s?rh=
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by nwatson 5y ago
Looks like there's no negative zero in posit, which is useful in some contexts .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero
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A very engaging mortician (Ask a Mortician) talks about how the real-life events on which the novel "Moby Dick" was based were so much more disturbing than the book ... https://youtu.be/QS299VkXZxI .
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Fashion. Ties on men. "Shutters" on windows. I bet the author wears ties on occasion (hmmm, couldn't find a corroborating image).
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You'll hear Herb Alpert's "Rise" live on today sampled (not trumpet, guitar) in Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize," with enduring appeal. I went to dig up the connection and it's a lot more interesting th
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When you leave the company can choose to buy back (essentially refund you for) unvested shares, in which case they take back the unvested shares. I imagine any company doing well will buy back the unvested shares. If the company needs the
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Why is the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" the number 42? An interesting Christian twist might be ... * GIVEN ... * the number of (hu)mankind, 3x for emphasis in some contexts wh

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