thomasfortes

I don't know about you, but calling someone a whore falls into slander to me, yeah, the justice favours the riches, not a Brazil exclusive.

But even then, this isn't the point.

The guy lives in Brazil, so USA laws are completely irrelevant, don't know why you brought up this point, but anyway, he commited a crime, defied a court order and hid his assets, besides that, he boasted that on following videos, in one of them he claimed that slander should be legal, his opinion, perfectly valid, I don't agree, but he did that just because HE knows that he commited slander.

The guy is a piece of work, defending him like he is a noble fighting the big and evil hand of the government is a joke that only ancaps don't laugh at.

"Extortion" attempt, the guy was fined for slander and libel, obviously, a pro-cryptocurrency site would not say that, and painted as if the video was only "criticism" of the candidate.

He was ordered to remove a video from his channel where he practices slander and libel (both crimes in Brazil) against a congresswoman, he refused, the judge ordered the fine, he traded all his money to bitcoin to avoid the execution of the fine.

I wouldn't call it a extortion attempt, if you see his videos you'll see that he openly mocks the justice and expose details of the case that was occurring under "secret of justice", where the parts can't talk about it until it is finished.

You can disagree with the decision, but it wasn't extortion, he practiced slander and libel, was ordered to remove a video, refused, was fined for that.

I know that you asked for arguments pro nn, but I'll try to tackle your 3 points at once...

No, they don't have the right, their infrastructure covers physical space and is in the same category as power grids and sewers, you cannot have a "free market" because the world has space limitations, I would hate to live in a street with a thousand energy cables, ten different providers of sanitation systems and in a permanent construction zone.

Since there's no feasible way to guarantee a real free market, they need to be regulated to avoid the exploitation of consumers that don't have other choices.

And even if we have the choice of multiple ISPs providing the last mile, we will need to keep some regulation on companies that sell the bandwidth to the ISPs.

Physical infrastructure is a different beast than digital goods, companies shouldn't have the right to exploit consumers just because there's no feasible way to provide more competition.

The biggest brazilian heist was also made using tunnels, but they got away with a lot more money than those guys and most of the criminals involved were never captured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Central_burglary_at_Fort...

Also know as the guy with the long guitar.

Source: I am a bass player

Please, don't equate being sad with being depressed, sadness is a normal part of the life, feeling miserable every waking moment is not.

If you look at great science projects like the LHC, a lot of the funding is "wasted" building the infrastructure needed to actually build the project, while Mozilla missed the target a few times "Firefox OS", I never saw Rust with bad eyes, it was made to enable Firefox to become a top tier browser again.

Probably not, gentoo compiles everything, building deb packages for every possible combination of flags would be almost impossible, and if you add the fact that you can change the flags for a single package then you will get something impossible to do.

USE flags and equivalents are a thing that only comes with systems that compile most of the software instead of relying in binaries.

> This is a nostalgic credo among youngsters that are too far into either side of political spectrum: that there was some sort of 'order' or 'grand plan' for the country until the 1980s. Obviously I don't subscribe to that credo.

Source needed, credible sources about lefties that loved our military dictatorship would be greatly appreciated.

I can agree with you on Getulio Vargas, but I disagree in everything else and would love to see you support your arguments with sources.

I call things what they are, and saying that the left has fond memories of the dictatorship in the same way that the right has is a false equivalence.

I won't say that we don't have a few lefties that admire Stalinism and left-wing dictatorships, but I find very hard to believe that the left is fond of our dictatorship, would gladly read some sources that corroborate your arguments.

When you say that young lefties thinks that Brazil was a paradise during a time when a right wing military dictatorship ruled the country, you are stating a fact that simply isn't true, not an opinion.

And to be honest, a lot of young right wingers are the ones that miss the dictatorship and say that the country was better in that time, in which case what you said couldn't be more distant from the reality.

Brazil was a mess, but it simply makes zero sense to say that the young lefties thinks that our country was a paradise under a right wing military dictatorship, most of them agrees that our country was always riddled with corruption, bureaucracy and a ton of other problems.

On the aspect of privatization, some of that was necessary, but the main criticism is not about the privatization per se, but the way it was handled, giving strategic companies for almost nothing.

If you want to criticize the left, please don't resort to lies just because most of the HN aren't brazilians.

Yeah, in the memory card more precisely, not so pretty, but the idea was there.

Sega Dreamcast had analog triggers and came before gamecube.

Maybe you should also learn that ctrl+k skip one of the selections, so you can rename things and skip the ones that you don't want to change pretty fast when combined with ctrl+d.

Not exactly, the thing with whatsapp here is their MASSIVE user base, almost every one uses it.

In college a few years ago I had to work with a system written in FORTRAN 77 in the early 90s that has been hacked new features and bug fixes on and off for almost 20 years, one single file with more than 20k lines of code, it worked all right, but understanding it was troublesome.

I lost the count of how many times I thought about rewriting the entire beast in C or even a more recent iteration of FORTRAN.

In the end, it wasn't something that I would use for much longer and I just mapped what all functions that i needed did on a spreadsheet and added a couple of hacks for the next unfortunate person to handle.

Maintaining old codebases full of hacks and without good documentation that can fail without big consequences is boring, but code that handles the kind of data that banks have is something straight from hell.

Clarifying, a judge ordered a 48 hour ban on whatsapp on the country, that's why telegram is getting an imense wave of users.

When I was in university, I shared a house with a bunch of friends, we paid for 30Mbps, then I set up a router with nice cache system, QoS and all that stuff.

Most of the days we used around 100GB+, our isp called sometimes (two months interval more or less) to say that we hit our monthly data cap (which was 320GB), we got used to saying "ok, so cancel my plan, we are going to another ISP that don't put cap on our data usage" and then they continued the conversation saying that "this month we will not reduce our speed, but next time they would have to, unless you upgrade your plan", "no, thanks".

Since they were a new provider in the region, guess that the infrastructure were more than enough to sustain our use, and I was really surprised that the same excuse worked for around two years (then I graduated, don't know how it's now).

I'm brazilian and have interest in education and respect for people who tries to change education, I'm not exactly in the area, but got a bunch of friends that are and maybe I can help you.

Just followed you in twitter, fell free to pm me there.

Twitch community is also pretty toxic.

Most of the time the biggest streamers put their chats in sub mode (paying supporters) to avoid it.

This could backfire hard, if youtube try to enforce same restrictions to streamers as they enforce to youtube videos, a lot of famous streamers would just jump out to another alternatives like azubu for example.

Anyway, he has a point.

Police abuse, federal spying and over abuse of the law system by the governments are, unfortunately, becoming a common point in many of the so called "democratic" countries.