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What city would that be? Fellow francophone catholic here :)

What founders are you referring to? Do you realize this is about a legal decision in Brazil?

Lol, yes

Must be a fun story for sure. One of those movies that come to mind when one thinks of NYC in the 70s/post Moses-era

Great actor. My favorite movie with him will always be the spooky Don't Look Now (1973) with Julie Christie.

Edit: originally had written the year as 1873!

For those who enjoyed the article, and are further interested in reading more about this central theme of frustrated economic/historical development specially as it took and takes place in Brazil, I recommend reading the late Professor Darcy Ribeiro.

In my view, largely influenced by Ribeiro, Brazil's elites are immensely selfish and petty, as well as always stuck in outdated economics and politics (e.g. rural elites have always been way too influential, ). The State is blatantly *negligent* and does not think about serving its people (e.g. let them build and live in favelas and leave them to their faith, build a new housing project but make it 20 miles from the beach and nevermind planning for transportation or education in the area).

There's definitely much that I love about Brazilian culture and the "general disposition" of my fellow nationals, but I agree that as a whole we have developed this sense of morbid ironic detachment from our social environment.

I believe Taleb's investment advices are neither contrarian nor innovative, which I don't mean as a disqualification (I liked his books).

I also believe his rant is more likely just a rant. And he may or may not have long or short positions in Bitcoin. I also like to believe he is too sophisticated (well, to be fair, as a quant/professional trader he is very sophisticated) to think that he's influencing the market in his favor with his tweets (he knows he's not Elon Musk).

Definitely a thing in Brazil as well. Most wealthy and middle class families stick to traditional Portuguese names.

I saw one earlier this year flying over a pond in Southwest Georgia where they seem to be rare. It is truly a beautiful bird!

I was born and raised in Brazil where I lived until 25 in a major city with no shortage of poverty and inequality. I have never seen or heard reports of people defecating on the street. Though at least in the northeast it’s common for men to urinate.

Are there many startups using FPGA? In what industry is usage more common? I've had the desire to learn FPGA development for a while but don't much about the professional applications that I could use it for.

Being from the Northeast of the country, there certainly were lots of people (men mostly) committing homicide in things like bar fights and other petty personal quarrels, and my impression is that this certainly has decreased over the past 15 years, and I think the severe gun limitations contributed to it (really, at least until very recently it was virtually impossible to legally own a gun - the abstract says "carry" but that really (again, legally) is beyond imagination - as permission can only be given by the Federal Police and they will say no). Outside of homicide, it's hard for me to imagine decrease in other violent crimes that are committed with guns.

Things like armed robbery and just plain mugging in the middle of the street in broad daylight is RAMPANT in every major city in the country except perhaps in some cases in the Midwest, Southeast and South (richer regions of the nation and often showing better local governments).

Last year I fled from Brazil to Georgia to spend time with my gf who's from the state and a Waffle House was the place of our first date straight out of the airport

Everyone looked very friendly. I guess it's not my taste, but she treated it like a place I had to visit haha

My two cents are:

1. Do not buy an expensive car; 2. Do not buy a car unless really necessary (of course not feasible/practical in many parts/cities of the world); 3. Avoid all kinds of subscriptions you can. Anything that consistently affects your income; 4. If you're making good income, don't act like it's going to be like this for ever; 5. Try to stay ahead in your career so that you're eligible for the upper end salaries;

I bought Land of Lisp by Conrad Barski but never really read it due to procrastination. I really wanna read Lisp one day. Also, I didn't see Land of Lisp mentioned here. What do experience lispers think about it?

What's the first?

Terrible for Portuguese speakers, as it sounds like a popular alias for penis

Yet Another Post Against Chrome. Yes it's bad and it spies on us but it's also damn good for web development and so far I've found no decent replacement :)

Reminds me of when I'm at a packed party and people tend to form "paths" where they can circulate among the crowd. It always fascinates me how this happens so naturally and people seem to just so easily identify those paths. Also amuses me that I'm thinking about this when I'm at a party.

I'm Brazilian and watched this with my American gf and although she found the photography and story beautiful she understandably couldn't really relate to the context.

Here in Brazil (perhaps specially in the older Northeast, where I'm from) having a maid is still very strong but has changed considerable in the past two decades.

It used to be the case that these maids would work for a family for decades without any of the guarantees that Brazilian work laws guarantee. Whether or not one agrees with those laws is secondary to the fact that these workers were largely kept out of it for ages.

It used to also be the case that families would require maids to sleep in the house. Woman who had their own family often had to accept spending nights on their "patrões" home to make sure they were there ready to work at 6am.

Thank you so much for this. I have small company and we try to be very spartan with costs and sometimes have to go by without some very important services.

The Zendesk one is the most needed right now!

I wonder who popularized it in Brazil

Merry Christmas HN! Feliz natal from Recife, Brazil!

I was able to join using the Slack link! Thanks everyone

Please add me rodrigo@bitja.com.br