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by felipe 13y ago
Brazilian here: A local tax expert pointed out that Sony is adding a huge profit margin on top of the taxes [1]. Sony has disclosed the tax figures to the media but not their profit margin, and trying to blame it only on taxes because they
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by felipe 13y ago
Google "Cory Booker". He is a politician, so any link I include here will create controversy, but his model was to implement small-scale experiments, collect data, and use that data to gather additional funding from external sourc
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by felipe 13y ago
Actually the data is available. The city of Newark for example has implemented several small-scale social innovations during the past few years, and they focused very much on data gathering and statistics. We don't see that in the me
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by felipe 13y ago
> I believe that if you remove the incentive to work to survive, vast swaths of people will simply choose not to do anything Three-quarters of adult recipients of the Brazilian basic income system do work [1]. Like the parent commenter s
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How Facebook was used to deflect (and not empower) the Brazil June 2013 protests(shanzhaier.com)
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Why not hire from top Brazil universities: The upside-down educational system(shanzhaier.com)
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by felipe 13y ago
> Lastly, TED's biggest value is in developing countries. TED Global 2014 will be hosted in Rio, Brazil, at US$6,000 per person. This is 4 months of a local mid-level web developer salary before taxes [1] Locals cannot afford to att
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by felipe 13y ago
The title is misleading. It should read "Google employee ports Amiga emulator to Chrome" From the FAQ: "The code was forked from PUAE, the Portable Universal Amiga Emulator, from GnoStiC's GitHub repo [1]" [1] http
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by felipe 13y ago
My statement "on the expectation that he would be paid only if Apple would perform well" meant "paid in bonuses", which includes the shares and perks. Also, I never stated that Jobs made less than Pandit -- You said firs
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by felipe 13y ago
When Steve Jobs accepted the job as a interim-CEO to clean-up Sculley's mistakes, back when Apple was almost bankrupt, he accepted the $1 salary on the expectation that he would be paid only if Apple would perform well. That's how
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by felipe 13y ago
What is the problem in calling public people for what they really are? Vikram Pandit is overpaid [1], John Sculley was clearly unfit for the position, and although Tim Cook is talented as a supply chain expert, he is not the visionary tha
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by felipe 13y ago
> Why not say all chemicals should be legalized. Very simple: Law enforcement protects individuals against the actions of other individuals , and not against themselves. Your loved one needs addiction treatment (i. e.: heathcare), and l
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by felipe 13y ago
> homeless people aren't all stupid, stoned-out losers. And then you say I am biased?
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by felipe 13y ago
It's interesting that you mentioned the newspaper model, because that's actually what I had it on the back of my mind when I wrote my comment above: The newspapers you are referring to actually have a history rooted in social-just
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by felipe 13y ago
Why the choice is between exploitation vs. do-nothing? Why not the old-school approach? Interview experienced professionals in the area (people who actually work with homeless people) and then interview homeless people in order to find out
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by felipe 13y ago
So if I go to an upscale neighborhood and offer $100 at random, would that mean that anyone who refuses my offer is motivated enough to code? Of course not, that's silly. We are discussing within the context of homelessness, in which t
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by felipe 13y ago
I have a very close family member who went missing and eventually was found homeless. In the course of the investigation we found that several people exploited and took advantage of him for personal gain. If you study the issue (like we did
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by felipe 13y ago
Are you arguing that lack of motivation is the root cause of homelessness, rather than poverty and mental health issues?
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by felipe 13y ago
Homelessness is a serious and complex issue rooted in mental health and poverty, and the "mentor" behind the homeless coder reduced it to a game, just to show that all one needs to succeed is the patronizing goodwill of some privi
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by felipe 13y ago
> Tests like 23andme aren't something your local doctor does every checkup. Fair enough. So why not let FDA go through their process, do their investigation, and once approved people could safely rely on 23andme.
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by felipe 13y ago
Have you considered XULRunner?
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by felipe 13y ago
Although you are correct in your assertion that Fairchild was basically the "mother" of VC, that does not invalidates the OP's point. Take this example: Do you know any VC firm today that would invest in a company like Apple,
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by felipe 13y ago
> So you take a picture of each sketch, and upload them to Dropbox You just created an incentive for programmers to draw useless diagrams on paper and upload them on Dropbox just to "score one point". Sure, we could go on and o
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by felipe 13y ago
The key issue is what you just described in your last paragraph. Micro-managing by metrics without thinking in side-effects is actually harmful to the team. There is a reason measuring productivity by LOC is considered a bad practice (which
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by felipe 13y ago
> Where is Brazil’s Snowden? Is the author aware that Glenn Greenwald (the reporter who first reported about Snowden) ACTUALLY LIVES IN BRAZIL??? This article is just a nationalistic piece written with a very specific agenda.
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by felipe 13y ago
Chen Guangcheng also "broke the law". So in your logic does that excuses China?
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by felipe 13y ago
> an iPhone app that allows you to download your medical record from any doctor and share health activity with friends and family I mean no offense to you personally, but I fail to understand how this problem fits in a world in which 2.5
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by felipe 13y ago
I also get RSUs as part of my compensation package (as any other tech company offers, by the way). The difference is that I am not getting a pay-cut for receiving RSUs. In other words, I am not making less for having the "opportunity&q
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by felipe 13y ago
> Are the others, in fact, just as bad? Well, just one example that came to my mind from a documentary I watched recently: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/viewfinder/asia/2013/07/...
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by felipe 13y ago
Costco targets the high-middle-class families, who have the income and space to buy bulk. And by making up in volume and high-end products [1] Costco can afford to "not be evil". [1] - One not very well-known facts about Costco is

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