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gjvnq

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    Comment #44429374

    A big issue here would be defining social media. Are forums social media? What about reddit? What about YouTube? I think what we really need is a ban on algorithmic recommendations…

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    Comment #44429358

    Brazilian here. We still don't know if small things like comment sections and personal blogs will be under the new rules as our supreme court hasn't made any explicit exemption but…

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    Comment #43627003

    assuming that the typo didn't lead to an invalid/unregistered key, you will see the recipient's bank, full name and masked CPF number in the confirmation screen. I really dislike t…

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    Comment #43626978

    I guess that's because pretty much nobody in Brazil knows what an IBAN is

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    Comment #41551993

    One explanation I've heard is that companies don't extract the same value from women as they do from men because society's sexism causes managers and peers to assign "low value tas…

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    Comment #41204505

    I think that the commentor meant accents as in regional dialects.

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    Comment #39707214

    Skill issue. They could've easily used Times New Roman like their teachers probably instructed them. /hj

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    Comment #38623517

    Why can't we just mandate people to send a copy of every publication to an UN Media Preservation Library and use something like redundant LTO tapes + Piql film to make sure stuff i…

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    Comment #38158707

    I agree that as a society we should absolutely not judge people as being any worse simply because there are naked or sexual pics or vids of them floating around. In fact I would go…

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    Comment #37223886

    In short, I think most Brazilians trust technology more than they trust their fellow Brazilians. We have a long history of lack of rule of law and of local authorities getting away…

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    Comment #37223763

    Brazilian computer science student here. Electronic voting is a good idea here because it raises the "barrier to commit fraud". Basically, back when we ran our elections on paper, …

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    Comment #36900562

    I would do it differently: I would ban remote attestation on all general-purpose electronic devices and for all devices that are meant to be part of the home and run third party so…

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    Comment #36896433

    Where is the petition or letter we can sign to bring attention to this issue?

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    Comment #36888784

    I think that the gov absolutely should do it but I also believe that it should allow people to configure their @something.gov email addresses as redirects so as to minimize the amo…

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    Comment #36760085

    Sounds like something ML could solve.

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    Comment #36609894

    > Can you give an example of where the bunch of numbers is copyrightable when it's not just a numeric encoding of something that was already copyrightable? Taking music and encodin…

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    Comment #36582497

    Estrogen. Also, Brazilian treasuries. Our interest rates are ridiculously high here.

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    Comment #36147254

    As a long time linuxer and dev, I like your setup: it's simple, easy to understand, and gets the job done.

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    Comment #35896518

    Brazilian here, the situation around PL 2630 (aka the Fake News bill) is a huge mess. We absolutely need more oversight over big tech and we had had real violence and threats tied …

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    Comment #34306302

    This looks far better than Brazil. We have the LGPD but nobody cares.

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    Comment #34233372

    1. The growth of deep fake porn might lead us down a path where revenge porn no longer "works" as people know that for every real nude leaked there are like 10'000 fake ones. 2. St…

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    Comment #33755791

    The r/transprogrammers Discord server. It is just an amazing place. It feels small, it doesn't have excessively complicated rules and everyone is very similar to each other and exp…

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    Comment #33214113

    > There has never been any good scientific evidence that depression (or any other mental health issue for that matter) involves a “chemical imbalance”. Transfem here. Gender Dyspho…

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    Comment #33019929

    Sounds perfect for my YouTube channel whose creation I've been postponing for over 6 years now. Jokes aside, the project genuinely looks pretty cool and useful.