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felipelemoson A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon

I don't know about the oranges in Asia, but in Brazil they are not bitter at all. And people only put sugar in it when they are bad/old, and even then it's uncommon.

felipelemoson ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI

In this case it's the opposite: they are trying to ban guns while not making murder a crime.

felipelemoson NASA and Open-Source Software

But both, civilian and military, are government entities, not private, and I understand the OP is just exposing some similarities.

felipelemoson Single-file scripts that download their dependencies

pyyaml is a good example as well

felipelemoson NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]

The genuine answer is to held criminally liable the responsibles for allowing an unsafe flight to take off.

felipelemoson How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

You do realize that saying it is " 20%" do not make it better?

felipelemoson Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies

From my background I find really bizarre that in the United States it is allowed to refuse service at all.

felipelemoson Facebook owner Meta sued for inciting hatred in Ethiopia

If they can't determine if a post is violent or not, then they shouldn't blindly promote it.

felipelemoson Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021)

Although I am against the personal attacks and triggering, I think you didn't taste the same drink as him, it would be like boiling tea bags and then drink it cold. If you want to judge the drink, try at least preparing it properly.

felipelemoson U.S. fines airlines more than $7M for not providing refunds

The airport security in Europe and South America is not even close to how it is in USA.

felipelemoson Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president

No.

felipelemoson Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger

Let me fix that for you: > Would a toy manufacturer be sued in Brazil for selling toys without a charging cable?

The answer is: Yes.

felipelemoson It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal

They do because they enrich themselves, but not because of any 'duty' whatsoever.

felipelemoson Why does pepperoni curl? (2019)

Because it is seasoned with (bell)peppers.

felipelemoson We should have a $25 minimum wage

For all of you that are complaining that people will prefer to stop working to earn less but retains walfare and social services (which I don't think they will): why aren't you are doing the same?

felipelemoson Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)

This is not full screen, it is "maximize". The macos bar is still there, the window is just using all space for the windows.

felipelemoson Always tell kids the truth (2019)

You are not actually answering him, because you know that if you are planning a surprise party and you just answered yes, you would have ruined the party.

The truth is that not every lie is a problem.

felipelemoson Understanding the global chip shortages

> As a result China could not build the plants it needed to meet its own consumption, forcing them to buy chips from the same vendors that everyone else is also trying to buy chips from.

How a fab that didn't exist yet can affect current demand?

felipelemoson Dozens of U.S. states say Apple stifles competition, back Epic

Play store have competition, btw: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get-appstore/android.

And the big argument against Apple is that you can't have the same for iPhones.

felipelemoson Taiwan is not Ukraine: Stop linking their fates

> Crimea would likely still belong to Ukraine if NATO hadnt done that - [...]

Shifting the blame to a third party is a very biased way of see this.

felipelemoson Reasons Kubernetes is so complex

> VMWare has had a high availability mode for over a decade. It keeps checkpoints of system state elsewhere and synchronously replicates them.

So you don't have one VM's, but two. In case of Op's scenario you are paying for 196 CPUS instead of 98.

> If the primary reboots, it checkpoints RAM to the secondary pauses the VM and unpauses it on the secondary a few milliseconds later.

So a very small downtime, but not 0.

felipelemoson Illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time shuts down

Another reason is that some media simply doesn't exist on Netflix or any other streaming platform in your country so you have no legal way to access it.

felipelemoson A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process

How dare they try to circumvent Apple's magnanimous and generous 30% profit cut and offer a cheaper subscription?

felipelemoson Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

> but the idea that a company, even one as large as Apple, is going to make any sort of difference with respect to China's oddities is wishful thinking.

They don't need and shouldn't make any difference at all. They could actually leave the Chinese market and make a difference for the rest of the world. They don't have and shouldn't have this responsibility anyway.

And they have the money, market share, and power to ignore China and not only survive it but continue to generate a lot of wealth for the shareholders.

felipelemoson Groups never admit failure

> The principle claim of this essay is that groups never change their viewpoints.

I understood that the principle claim is that groups never admit publicly that they were wrong. Maybe in reading to much into it, but it is the interpretation I've got. They can, and actually do change, but it is always a "path of victory". And in the few cases that they admit they were wrong is to gain an advantage or when they are forced to: To appear humble, to pivot to a trending opinion before the "other side" do (and usually after a huge pressure).

We have several examples of this: Microsoft with Linux (now Linux is trendy, they want to embrace the developers that code on Mac, and so on), Germany after WWII (decided by the allies in the Postdam conference), or any political party that ever existed.

felipelemoson The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

This reminds me the 1968 Brazilian movie "Roberto Carlos em ritmo de aventura" when a pilot flow an helicopter inside the 250m (~ 820 feet) long Túnel Novo (New Tunnel) connecting the neighborhoods of Copacabana and Botafogo.

https://youtu.be/ab8bVouGtwU

Minute 0:57 to be more precise.

Also, you can enjoy Rio de Janeiro from above in the 60s.

felipelemoson Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)

Just a nitpick: Pascal is not much older than sh. Maybe a couple of years?

felipelemoson Bash functions are better than I thought

Well, you can. From the website itself:

"ShellCheck is...

* GPLv3: free as in freedom

* available on GitHub (as is this website)

* already packaged for your distro or package manager

* supported as an integrated linter in major editors

* available in CodeClimate, Codacy and CodeFactor to auto-check your GitHub repo

* written in Haskell, if you're into that sort of thing. "

Sometimes you are not in your computer, the script does not have private information (i.e. open source or something you don't care to be public). Sometimes the website is simply more convenient.

*edit: formatting

felipelemoson Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%

On Apple app store you can't sell on other stores to the same customers. If you extend your abstraction to say that Android and Apple are two neighborhoods, it's like to say that Apple app store have a monopoly to sell in Apple neighborhood and for you to sell to people that lives in Apple neighborhood you have to pay apple 30% and use their payment system.

But on Android neighbourhood you can sell in other stores, or even create your own store, if you don't like to use android's app store or pay them 30% or use their payment system.

Some people living in Apple neighborhood says that they prefere the Apple app store monopoly because they can be sure that Apple store is safe to shop and there is only good products.