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by rmsaksida 6y ago
If only those pesky third-worlders would stay poor for longer...
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I disagree. Technically, Android doesn't have a One True App Store. But in practice, Google Play is the standard app store and 99% of users use it exclusively, at least in the West. It is in fact the one true app store for Android. So
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I think what's more important is somehow getting Apple to allow alternative app stores in their phones. While Android phones are the most popular in many (most?) countries, iPhones are still very common and make it so solutions in one
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
> What happened? People fell for it.
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
It will never happen because most people don't actually care that much about children being a part of the supply chain for their favorite products. Given the choice between a new iPhone and an alternative product that doesn't depe
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
A supplier using child labor shouldn't be a "ok, let's gradually work this out" kind of issue. It should be a "immediately cut all ties to them" kind of issue. If it will disrupt a supply chain and hurt profit
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Thousands of Covid-19 vaccines are discarded due to fed, state guidelines(nbcnews.com)
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
If EU countries don't like it, they may also ban US tech companies as they're sovereign countries that don't need to bow to foreign corporations.
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I don't know about Signal, but Telegram blurs the lines between a messaging app and a more general purpose social network. Telegram has public groups (supporting 100s of thousands of users) and channels that feature comment sections. I
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Interesting. A lot of Sega games have joined Game Pass recently, I wonder if that history has anything to do with it.
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I imagine the main issue is sovereignty. It sure would feel awkward to sell out large patches of land to foreign countries - it's hard to argue Brazil's sovereignty would be intact after doing some
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Official government stats: https://balanca.economia.gov.br/balanca/mes/2020/BCE020A.xls... Soya is "soja" and beef is "carne bovina". Some recent news mention China's appetite for Bra
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Indeed, there is no easy answer. I think the majority of that money, if it existed, should be used for building infrastructure and financing public healthcare and education. I.e. it could replace some of the sources for the government budge
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
> North America has some of the most abundant forests, oil fields, and coal deposits in the world, and that without accepting payment to compensate for not consuming them How much economic benefit would those resources offer if consumed?
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
They can get much, much worse. Unimaginably worse. There's no comparison between Venezuela and Brazil, for example. But even between Bolivia and Brazil or Peru and Brazil there's a steep difference in development and living standa
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
> Personally I'd welcome some sort of intervention by one of the three-letter agencies - this time it could be actually for a good cause. Yes, because those three-letter agencies have a fantastic track record in South America. [&#x2
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
The #1 importer for Brazilian beef and soya is actually China. China accounted for 85% of Brazilian soya exports and 45% of beef exports in 2019/2020. Aside from China, European countries actually rank higher as importers than the Unit
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
The only fair way to curb the deforestation of the Amazon is to make the economic incentive of not cutting it down greater than the incentive of cutting it down. In other words, Brazil needs to be compensated for not utilizing its natural r
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Minor nitpick but Brazil is not a dense country. It is actually much less dense than the USA. It isn't particularly poor either, but it is very unequal.
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
An important aspect of the Coronavirus situation in Brazil that commentators haven't highlighted enough is Brazilian federalism. Brazil is a federal republic, although our federalism isn't as solid as the American counterpart (the
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Sure. It's definitely more complicated than keeping things local but I wouldn't say it's a nightmare of complexity. It's worth it, otherwise people wouldn't do it.
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Don't bother with domestic freelancing. Chances are you will be worked to death and struggle to even get paid. Software engineers are rarely taken seriously in developing economies. Focus on overseas freelancing. Start small and gradua
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I'd say "cunning" is a decent approximation of "esperto". An odd choice for Portuguese...
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
In my case it's convenience. I have Telegram open most of the day and occasionally I use bots for small tasks that could be done elsewhere, but bots offer a more streamlined experience.
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Cool idea for a bot. Suggestion: the UI could use more polish. You can use a conversational UI instead of `/create <email>`, `/delete <email>`. Also, it would be nice to have a command that generates a random user ID i
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I have OP's problem (drifting trackpoint) with an x230. To be honest I had never looked it up or saw it mentioned before, I just kind of live with it. Sometimes the cursor randomly starts drifting and I have to play a little with the t
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
> The irony comes from the fact that Apple decided not to add WebP support to the Safari browser I don't get it. Why is this ironic? Did Apple create the performance optimisation tool that suggested WebP?
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
Watercolor was my favorite XP theme! I would never have remembered it if not for seeing it mentioned here. I used to find it elegant compared to other themes. On the Linux side, my favorite theme was Red Hat's Bluecurve. People still p
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
> Not only will the Apple-designed ARM CPUs perform at or above the level of a similarly-specced Intel machine, but the ISA transition will be seamless, with a nearly-invisible Intel binary compatibility layer that does on-the-fly JITing
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by rmsaksida 7y ago
> The levenshtein distance between tourist and terrorist is only 4, so my prognosis looks bleak. The distance in speech is not that far off either, I've found. When I visited the US for the first time, the border agent asked me what

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