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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…

Yes. Bolsonaro himself has claimed that the fires were started by humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20769327

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…

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=207625…

Europe did pay. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-norway... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/norway-halts-a...

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…

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…

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, h…

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.

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…