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by theiostream 10y ago
This is wrong. Actually, the LRF was only sanctioned in 2000, when inflation was already at 5.97% yearly. The main factor behind reducing the inflation was not the URV hack, but the government's fulfilled commitment to markets to keep
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Show HN: Human-readable index of Brazilian Government expenses(gastospublicos.com.br)
13 points by theiostream 11y ago|4 comments
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by theiostream 12y ago
Where I live (Brazil) there has been widespread debate about state funding of political parties. It happens at the moment (I think something like 400mi USD is invested in it), but the issue with it is that it has prompted a load of small, s
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by theiostream 12y ago
I changed my original comment to "public universal healthcare". I once again apologize for the lack of clarity of the original comment, and I hope you understand what my point was.
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by theiostream 12y ago
My notion of "public healthcare" is being able to walk into a government clinic or hospital and get free treatment or appointments as long as you show you're a citizen -- sorry for not having cleared that up.
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by theiostream 12y ago
I wouldn't say the US being rich is a question of government organization, rather of not having been a colony whose sole purpose was to export raw materials. Higher dimensions also means more tax collection, which could be perfectly in
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by theiostream 12y ago
Brazil is a country where the correctional systems runs with 200.000 people over capacity and has had a 100-page UN report condemning practices which deny basic human rights, yet prison riots are treated by media simply as gang plots with n
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by theiostream 12y ago
The same way capitalist concentration made building a small business very hard by the start of the 20th Century, the same process is taking place right now with the Internet. We usually don't notice or even like it (why, isn't it
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by theiostream 12y ago
As much as people who log into their website through a browser do.
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by theiostream 12y ago
Their app's feature set consists of contact information, maps to the school, a gallery of static photos about the school, and webviews that display their website's content directly. It doesn't even comprise grades, memos and
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by theiostream 12y ago
Educacional is their provider for some online content (mainly games and similar stuff for young kids to have IT lessons). The grades db, memos and so on are managed by the school itself, and the news as well. Educacional, as far as my app i
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How my school rejected an app made for students(theiostream.tumblr.com)
190 points by theiostream 12y ago|85 comments
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by theiostream 15y ago
First of all, don't trick yourself: HTML is not a programming language, it's a markup language parsed by your web browser which then turns that markup into cool websites. Then, wanting to code "the fastest way" is a wrong concept. Learn eve