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When hiring, I always pay close attention to a person's writing skills. I find it to be a useful heuristic for general software engineering competency. But I actually look at this from the opposite direction - someone who's good at writing is usually also good at reading, and being a good reader is extremely helpful in our field. (Good) engineers spend so much time reading: technical books, documentation, requirements, specs, email, and of course code. Engineers who don't mind reading and are able to read attentively tend to be a lot more effective, as they will be more knowledgeable and less likely to miss important details.

Wise does offer virtual cards as well as a physical one.

It depends. There are so many terrible posters with blue checkmarks that I almost consider it a red flag. Most of my favorite twitter profiles are unverified.

In many countries, SMS isn't free (or didn't used to be). That's the reason why Whatsapp was successful in the first place, it was cheaper to use Whatsapp over data than to use SMS for texting.

It's a website where you can upload and browse pictures. Like Instagram.

I meant the MFA variety where you have to reinput the code versus the one where you need to confirm a login via a mobile prompt. The former seems safer, because it requires a lot more activity from the user.

Isn't manual TOTP MFA (using codes generated by Google Authenticator or similar) significantly more secure than those MFA prompts? I don't understand the push for MFA prompts when the previous technology worked just fine and was probably more secure. What's the benefit to MFA prompts other than slightly better UX?

I disagree. I think the cynicism is there because the audience on HN is more aware of the technical aspects of crypto and thus has a better understanding of its flaws. The criticisms of web3 are legitimate, especially when it comes to the question of decentralization.

I don't know how "evil" they are, but this incident made me drop any plans of ever building a web project with .NET Core. I like C# and would love to find an excuse to use it, but I'm not relying on a framework that MS will intentionally cripple because of corporate interests.

I live in South America and virtually everyone I know has moved to Instagram. People still keep their FB profiles around but they don't use it much. Also, I was not aware I don't live in the "free world". You learn something new every day...

Just to clear up some misconceptions:

> now 3rd largest in the world

It is large and ineffective but it is not the 3rd largest in the world if you look at the incarceration rate per 100k, which is a more reasonable metric. It is the 19th largest [1].

It bugs me somewhat how people often overlook that Brazil is the world's 6th most populous country. Most of Brazil's demographics, no matter what they refer to, will rank near the top when it comes to absolute numbers.

> hits indigenous and black south americans harder. I don't expect they'll have a rich corpus of indigenous literature either

66.7% of the Brazilian prison population are black (includes pardos / mixed race), while 32.3% are white. 54% of the Brazilian population are black, so the incarceration rate is disproportionate for the black population. That is, of course, very unfortunate. However, I don't think the indigenous are particularly affected - only 1390 indigenous Brazilians are in prison in the entire country [4].

A lot of people seem to assume that a significant proportion of the Brazilian population is indigenous. That is not the case. The number of indigenous Brazilians is very small, around 0.47% of the total population. [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

[2] https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2020/10/19/em-15-a...

[3] https://jornal.usp.br/radio-usp/dados-do-ibge-mostram-que-54...

[4] http://antigo.depen.gov.br/DEPEN/depen-publica-levantamento-...

[5] https://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Quantos_s%C3%A3o%3F

I imagine that's what China is going to do. It's too good an opportunity to pass up.

Pressure cooking is very common in some countries, but I'm only familiar with the simple mechanical pressure cookers (that work on gas or induction stoves). Can electric pressure cookers do things that a regular one can't?

Mozilla pays millions of dollars per year to their CEO, despite the decrease in usage and user base. Could be a symptom of a larger problem in the organization.

> Problem is that VR took too long to arrive and death on mobile can kill Facebook?

Facebook owns the most popular messaging app in the world (WhatsApp) and two of the most popular social networks in the world (Facebook, Instagram). Are they really in trouble because of the Android/iOS changes?

I can't speak for Venezuela, but you are entirely wrong about Brazil.

Congrats!

I've been using it for Ruby and Node.js for years and never had issues with it. Great tool.

If only those pesky third-worlders would stay poor for longer...

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 Google does in fact control the Android app store (the one that counts, anyway). The reason why Google Play has so many shitty apps is because Google simply doesn't care about curation in the same way Apple does. That's true for every Google product, by the way. They strongly favor algorithmic curation, while Apple also relies heavily on human curation.

If Apple allowed alternative app stores, nothing would change as far as the standard iOS app store is concerned. 99,99% of users would keep using the Apple app store unless there was a very compelling reason for using an alternative.

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 distribution platform don't extend to all phone users.

Once a competitor is able to operate in both Android and iOS, I think we will see a real threat to official app stores, whether it's Github behind it or someone else.

> What happened?

People fell for it.

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 depend on child labor, most people would pick the iPhone.

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 profits, so be it. Seems like a small price to pay compared to using child labor.

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.

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. It wouldn't surprise me if Telegram ends up getting banned by app stores because of their resilience and respect of privacy.

Interesting. A lot of Sega games have joined Game Pass recently, I wonder if that history has anything to do with it.

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 something like that.

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 Brazilian soya:

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/business/2020/08/25/soja-deve-t...

And beef:

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/business/2020/12/07/exportacao-...

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 budget, or add to it. Obviously there would be strict controls for suspending the funds if deforestation continued. If the government budget became even slightly dependent on such a fund, it'd be in the interest of every administration to make sure it kept coming. From the government's perspective, beef and soya are important exports so the funding would have to be comparable to that.