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Some points of interest (in decreasing order). Tech related: - PIX (Brazilian Payment method) as unfair to master/visa duopoly - Last couple years the Brazilian Supreme Court has b…

I mean, we have good evidence that "New Math" pedagogical approach in the 70s was very ineffective compared to traditional learning by example, memorizing multiplication tables at …

Well, I don't believe that's a fair conclusion based just on the fact we observe most people are "innumerate" and "hate maths". Most people also never had the fortune of having som…

I am fine with the research results, it's important to note that it does not control for pedagogical variance. [Edit: I'd like refer to the last 2 paragraphs on the Discussion sect…

You are being disingenuous. Of course people with disabilities or severely deficient in cognition have innate difficulties that might hamper or completely preclude the development …

Good education, where one is imbued with motivation to learn and develop knowledge. That's not evenly distributed. Anybody can learn math.

There are indications Embraer might announce a new aircraft at the next Farnborough Airshow, fingers crossed!

This might help you understand what should be the priorities for efficient water utilization (and reducing waste): https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-w...

Excited about Thundermail!

Global guardian of what?

Thank you!

Sorry, I didn't get it. What was the 'right' answer?

Folks that like this, might find this interesting, an incredible resource for my then younger mathematical mind: https://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm An exploration of 3d via …

Isn't that the case though? Where's the separation of powers or the rule of law in the US? To be clear, I'm not favoring any kind of such action, just holding the honesty of the st…

> The fact that such a fuss is being made about low-grade oil is a concern in itself. Keep in mind there's a lot of 'idle' refining capacity at the southeastern coast of the US whi…

A bit of a tangent, but the more complete reason depends on what civilization (Aztecs/Incas), the common factor is an extreme loss of life due to old world disease. Additionally, f…

The sky is blue, not red, say meteorologists.

The sky is blue, not red, say meteorologists

Why unfortunately? Isn't that a good thing? (Assuming > 0% will switch to Linux instead of iOS)

Funny if not tragic. I was impressed at how good the styling of the page was until I realized the css did not load.

Location: Brazil Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Mainly Elixir, Ruby, most of modern front-end stack, some android work (native and react native), boilerplate pr…

You can use some form of real extensions, e.g. the extended real line (+inf, -inf is often useful for programmers) or the projectively extended real line (+inf = -inf). This is not…

I was fascinated when I first learned of [FreeBSD Jails], I wonder if right before containerization became a thing the concept was developed further for its requirements (could it …