thomasfortes

I may be wrong but I guess that we don't have any words in portuguese that ends with in or din.

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 pair of Saturn satellites, Janus and Epimetheus, their orbit describe a horseshoe and there are pretty cool videos on YouTube with their orbits.

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.

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.

The same is valid for writing software, reading code is great, but you need to write a lot to learn how to program.

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 barenaked ladies that I personally enjoy a lot is I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)[0], space related songs being played in space make them much more special to me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAnfi8WpVE

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, last months I decided to learn how to read sheet music and study musical theory and jazz a bit more deeper, what I found is that now I'm way more confortable with my improvisation not being repetitive and over the same scales again and again and that I have a way better knack at finding the next note on songs that I haven't heard before, so my experience is similar to yours.

As an aside, I'm pretty certain that I'm suffering from frequency ilusion, I frequently find musical theory discussions at every place that I am used to read, where in the past it seems that this things were not that prevalent.

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...

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.

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 electric field directed radially outward from the planet. This field will eject small, electrically charged particles, into interplanetary space. Once that happens, the interplanetary magnetic field “frozen” into the solar wind can accelerate the dust particles to high speeds, creating the bursts of particles recorded by cosmic dust detectors. Evidence for this interpretation came from the changes in direction of the stream particles when the interplanetary magnetic field changed direction, in close timing with the Sun’s rotation."

So my guess is that a planet with no atmosphere and a magnetosphere weak enough to accelerate the charged dust just only enough to keep it moving without being ejected of the planet could have something happening, I'm not a planetary scientist and I don't know if a storm would be plausible so take it with a grain of salt and hope for someone else to jump on the question.

But if we're talking about "common" dust storms, without an atmosphere there would be no winds, so no common storms, and since air density in Mars is much lower than Earth (around 1% of ours), high speed storms in Mars would not be as severe as in Earth, wind speeds that would turn a car or rip trees on Earth wouldn't even push a human out of his place in Mars.

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 schools of the district, Brazil has an immense amount of diversity, japanese brazilians are mostly treated the same as any other brazilians and are for the most part integrated in our country general culture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberdade_(district_of_São_Pau...

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.

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://serenata.ai/en/

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 that has shitty hardware/software.

Autopilot software that are not safer than human pilots shouldn't be allowed to be sold to the general public until they fix their stuff. And even if they are safer most of the time, we are at least used to how human drivers react, most of them don't accelerate just before a crash.

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 demonstrandum", almost all mathematical proofs that I did in college had Q.E.D. instead of the portuguese C.Q.D. at the end to indicate that that was the point where the proof was finished.

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 do businness with anyone that supports them.

It's not "encouraging a mob" if someone say "Hey, these companies are advertising with bigots and racists, let's do a boycott to show them that we will not tolerate this".

What you are saying is that they should "shut up and dribble"? Stay quiet with their heads low while they are being constantly attacked?

Calling for a boycott when you don't agree with someone is pretty far from "encouraging a mob" as you put.

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 people voting with their wallets to show where they stand in relation to speech that they feel that is threatening to them.

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.

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.

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 data to be accessible by 3rd party apps without your consent through your friends?"

This way, if an app request friends access, they would get data only from the ones that allowed it.

It probably would remove a lot of value that can be extracted from their users, but facebook itself would still have all this data to use internally to target ads and they would limit the amount of data that can be exfiltrated to malicious 3rd parties without the consent of users.

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 will hold your contributions and the story of your life dearly in their hearts.

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.

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 this case (maybe the thought that what he was doing could have bad repercussions never went through his head, I don't know...), if you know that you're writing a program that will be used to calculate a way to kill the biggest number of people in a terrorist attack, would you still claim that you're not complicit because your boss that is paying you are the one complicit?

If you don't know what are the uses of the program, I think that you can claim that, but if you know, definitely you're being complicit, even if you're being paid or working under orders (and not under duress).

So, dwarf fortress?

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 only in math, but in the entire corpus of knowledge, our system makes us prepared for grading tests, not for applying the knowledge.

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.

Combine that with the fact that São Paulo is a city where people seems to love cars more than their relatives and have an upper class that oppose bike lanes in front of their houses because "people that ride bikes aren't the kind of people that we want in our neighborhood" and you have a recipe for disaster.

These people (the upper class, not the middle) are also against subway expansion because it would be easier for people from the poorer regions of the city to come to their neighborhoods.

It's a mix of car loving, a party hate and prejudice that makes São Paulo a complete chaotic city when we're talking about transport.

I love São Paulo, have a lot of friends there, but almost everything that is being done right now seems to be in the opposition of the public interest.

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 could handle all the big scale infrastructure and let small players handle the last mile, but that's not the case and even if it was, people would still complain.

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 United States, can you point me to some sources about democratic countries that are worse than the United States on this specific point?

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 area.

When christmas came, my mother was proud telling my relatives that I was interning on that place, therefore, for a couple days after, all they asked was about the weather.

When I got tired, I started talking about what I really did, math + math + math translated to code, not a single line related to weather, they got bored pretty fast and I was fine with that.

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, and that's just because the ads on a page were related to the content, and not the result of fingerprint and an attack on my privacy.

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 expression means that you can say anything without consequences, if there's not a state to enforce law, a lot of stuff that would qualify as freedom of expression would be solved by violence.

He evade taxes, but still enjoy the benefits of the state this is a clear hypocrisy that I see in a lot of the admirers of Ayn Rand.

Also, ancaps that believe that property is a natural right that would exist without a state to protect it are completely delusional.