ikll

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by ikll 7y ago
Oh, that's for sure. However I think there's a huge incentive problem here: The people who stand to gain from foreign money coming to "save Amazon" (Brazil's general population) is not the same people who stand to g
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by ikll 7y ago
Yes. Bolsonaro himself has claimed that the fires were started by humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20769327
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by ikll 7y ago
Well, for what it's worth, according to the articles it amounted to billions of dollars. It was supposed to be used to police the area for deforestation, fires and other things. As a Brazilian I disagree that other countries should be
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by ikll 7y ago
What about blaming the forest fires on NGOs, like he did earlier this week? That's the kind of thing being spread to his electoral base. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762592
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by ikll 7y ago
Europe did pay. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-norway... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/norway-halts-a...
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by ikll 7y ago
They used to pay billions of dollars according to this article. It is called Amazon Fund. However Norway and German halted the payments because Bolsonaro doesn't agree with them on how to curb the deforestation and the fires. https:&#
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by ikll 7y ago
I don't agree that it's THAT hard. I used to work with WebForms and Cocoa (before iPhone) back when enterprise was completely allergic to web. Not only those tools were faster, but the development process itself was quicker and le
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by ikll 7y ago
Reducing the amount of code shouldn't be the end goal, but a way of increasing quality. You should seek to demonstrate instead that you're making software that is more malleable, has less bugs, is easier for new hires to understan
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by ikll 7y ago
Sometimes it's even more complex than a management issue. It might be a team culture or company culture issue, and even radical changes in the management are not enough to fix it.
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by ikll 7y ago
If only. Industry this days is more about headcount than quality itself. Why hire two good engineers when you can have three mediocre ones for the same price? On simplicity, common wisdom these days dictate that we should use bloated kitche