Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil

Post by gugagore » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 5:42 PM UTC

ionforce wrote: post #58

diego_moita wrote: post #41

Disclaimer: I am a former Brazilian. I am what in Brazil is called in pejorative terms "vira-lata" (stray dog), someone that fell out of love for his native country. Because a lot of people in this thread are patriotic Brazilians I anticipate a lot of downvotes. This project is nothing more than a sharper and better diagnosis of topical symptoms. Unfortunately, the underlying disease remains without treatment. And if…

Pode explicar a tradução ou conexão para as palavras, vira e lita. Não significam "look" e "can"? Não sou brasileiro.

Post by epx » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 5:47 PM UTC

coliveira wrote: post #57

epx wrote: post #39

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This is the excuse of the impeached Workers Party ex-government. With a touch of fascism - "the foreigners are the real danger!!!!!11111". The other excuse was that "corruption is small compared to the GDP". (And what about the chilling effects?)

If you don't believe that Shell/BP can buy politicians to have easy access to oil, you should better get acquainted with the politics of other countries [0]. This is the first thing I thought about when I heard about big oil reserves in Brazil. [0] https://www.ft.com/content/a9e193de-2044-11e7-a454-ab0442897...

Post by gomox » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 5:48 PM UTC

yelloweyes wrote: post #26

gomox wrote: post #19

I love the idea, but a quick review of tweets shows a bunch of seemingly inconsequential reports for meal refunds where the issue is that the meal price is an outlier, but prices listed are 39 to 75 BRL (12-25 USD). That doesn't strike me as a funny meal price. Assuming it's not an error, it would be nice to have some additional context on what the observed distribution of meal prices is, because at a cursory glance…

The average brazilian does not spend 50 BRL on a meal. Why should a public servant be able to? These guys are living like kings when they are mostly blowhards with very few skills other than being able to manipulate poor people into voting for them.

Post by diego_moita » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

justaguyhere wrote: post #64

diego_moita wrote: post #41

Disclaimer: I am a former Brazilian. I am what in Brazil is called in pejorative terms "vira-lata" (stray dog), someone that fell out of love for his native country. Because a lot of people in this thread are patriotic Brazilians I anticipate a lot of downvotes. This project is nothing more than a sharper and better diagnosis of topical symptoms. Unfortunately, the underlying disease remains without treatment. And if…

lot of people in this thread are patriotic Brazilians I anticipate a lot of downvotes Anyone else find over-the-top portrayal of patriotism annoying? Every time there is someone on the TV talking about "hard working and patriotic" (I don't even have a TV, only catch a glimpse at dunkin donuts and such) even when the topic on hand has nothing to do with hard work or patriotism. You are making a very valid point, but y…

Post by TremendousJudge » Tue, Mar 06, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

neves wrote: post #50

TremendousJudge wrote: post #47

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Brazil is much, much worse off than the US. There the corruption goes all the way to the lowest levels of government. In the US local politicians don't pay a couple of bucks to a thousand dirt poor voters to vote in the county elections so they can win. In Brazil this happens everywhere.

It is very usual to buy votes in USA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/selling... "The price of one bona fide, registered American vote varies from place to place. But it is rarely more than a tank of gas." A good book that descibes it is "Washington, D.C: A Novel (Narratives of Empire)." of Gore Vidal.