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Analogously, The title could have been changed to
"Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no engineering staff"
They just have to change job titles from software engineer to software expert
Regardless of what happens, the best thing the U.S can do is to stay the heck away.
The most murdurous atrocities in Latin America happened with American intervention. We can take care of our own problems.
As shown recently with Brazil and Argentina, balance and consensus can be achieved in their own terms.
There are cultural, linguistic and historic reasons and limitations for being "Eurocentric".
The results on Germany have amazed me.
Especially the huge white spaces.
In other places, it's even worse:
http://gawker.com/5954179/when-oopsies-leads-to-death-studen...
Mark Zuckerberg "urged" Brazilians to tell Congress to "ban bans of online services" in the name of democracy.
Am I an irrational nationalist for believing he shouldn't get into the politics of any country (especially outside of the US)?
Last time someone tried to help us (Brazilians), we got a military dictatorship.
Indeed Telegram is not more secure than WhatsApp, but I usually take into account the position of each company and how that affects my particular use case.
This has nothing to do with the state of democracy of Brazil.
Your comment was filled with the typical Valley arrogance and ignorance with anything outside of SoMa.
Not only is Brazil not a poor-3rd-world-nation, but other similar developing nations are by far more "technologically advanced" (e.g. China, India).
Brazilian here.
I've always used Telegram for privacy purposes.
It was amazing to watch the flood of friends "just signing up".