thomasfortes

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by thomasfortes 8y ago
I may be wrong but I guess that we don't have any words in portuguese that ends with in or din.
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Depends of your definition of planet, according to IAU a planet needs to clear his neighborhood, in this case, only one planet can be the major object in his orbit. But co-orbital objects exist and one of the most interesting ones is the pa
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Probably because you want enterprise grade support, a real person that you can call and will help you solve your problems without having to deal with low level support before.
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
My calculus teacher used to say that you learn calculus through your wrists, when you read the theory you get a grasp of how to solve some problems, when you learn to solve the problems is when you really can start to understand the theory.
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Bowie is a genius,the song is amazing and still the number one version for me too, but in terms of art, context matters a lot, and you can't get more context than space oddity being played in space. Other song played by Chris and the b
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
I've been playing bass and guitar occasionaly (as an amateur musician) since I was 15 and I'm now in my early 30s, I studied a bit of theory when I was learning and already knew how to build chords and also have a reasonable ear,
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
I'm not... Even if they could survive the heat, most of the roof collapsed and at the moment the fire still is out of control...
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Which is the same reason why astronomers use red lights when using telescopes and most of astronomy related software have modes where the screen have a red filter all over it.
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
From https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/1206/kicking-up-dust-saturn... : "The planetary magnetosphere comes into play with the charged dust particles. The rotation of Saturn’s magnetic field generates an electri
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Inside our country? Don't know about japanese exclusive schools, Liberdade¹ is the biggest japanese community outside of Japan, but I don't think that there's any restrictions about students or anything like that in the schoo
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Can't say about Peru, but the second and third generation Japanese community here in Brazil is massive and stories of some of them going to work/live at Japan are common.
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Some folks in Brazil did something like that, IIRC it's called project Serenata de amor, it uses machine learning to process public government data in search of weird and suspicious expenses and flag it. Link: https://serena
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Yeah, I can accept that some startups live by "move fast and break things", after all, if I think that their approach is dangerous for me I can choose to not be involved, I can't say the same about being run over by a car tha
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by thomasfortes 8y ago
Mea culpa is pretty common and translate similarly in Brazil (minha culpa), after all, portuguese is a language that has latin as an ancestor, but my favorite and the one that confused me the most the first time I saw is "Quod erat dem
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
As far as I know, the woman attacked him and his colleagues personally multiple times, she is a threat to them, they are raising awareness about what is happening and calling for action, they are declaring in a public way that they will not
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
Should people be forced to provide for a platform that they find hateful and offensive? You can make a point about government not being allowed to deny groups the freedom of speech, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with private peo
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
Spotify is a music company, they care about it in a way that I don't think Google or Apple cares, this reflects on the dedication to the core of their product.
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
Thanks for the info, I was not aware of that. Good for them to make this change, bad for them because it was after the data was collected for abuse.
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
They should take a lesson from the spotify API, friend listening feeds are out of reach for third party apps. Since facebook apps request these fields so much, they could implement it as an opt-in/out checkbox "Do you want your da
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
There are few people that will be remembered for centuries and centuries to come, but I'm pretty sure that Stephen Hawking is one of them. Rest in peace Dr. Hawking, the scientific community and all the science enthusiasts in the world
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
I remember reading somewhere that they did not integrate to not alienate other phone manufacturers, they were trying to avoid making the manufacturers feel like second class citizens.
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
This argument is dangerous. You can extend that to any point of the chain, salespeople can be considered as just neutral and tool like as programmers and the blame shifted up ad infinitum. While I don't think that he was complicit in t
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
So, dwarf fortress?
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
It reminds me of a text that Feynman wrote about when he gave classes in Brazil, the students knew all the theory and the math behind it, but they could not recognize the phenomenon when it happened in the real world. So I guess that is not
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
The previous mayor was from PT, a kinda left-wing party that a good part of the middle class loves to hate (there are a few good reasons, but the hate at this point is insane), so the actual mayor won with promises to revert the policies. C
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
Would you like to have 30 different companies digging your street to lay cables? Or 10 energy cables over your street because energy competition would be great? Even in a perfect world, infrastructure is a natural monopoly. The government c
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
With the exception of the ones with insane politics involving execution, dictatorships or the ones that have a harsh posture because of religious motives, I can't find a single one that has a war on drugs at the same level as the Unite
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
During college I got an internship at one institution that is better known for the general public as the provider of weather prediction to my country, although I had colleagues working on that department, I was in a completely different are
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
Yes, please. If I'm at a page about comic books, I don't want to see ads about contact lenses or glasses that I was looking for a couple hours ago. I used to trust much more the ads when they weren't targeted as they are now,
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by thomasfortes 9y ago
You are allowed to call someone a whore or a lazy asshole or anything you want, that doesn't mean that you don't have to handle the consequences of your actions. I don't really know why a lot of people act like freedom of exp

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