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Right click on the tab -> "Mute site".

It works for me for Chromium on Ubuntu.

In Brazil we have this http://www.cataki.org/ (pt-br) an app that connects waste pickers to people who want to dispose reusable or recyclable materials.

According to this site 800,000 waste pickers in the country and 300 registered on the service.

FWIW: "The name Postgres is an accepted alias for the PostgreSQL project. However it is an alias or nickname and is not the official name of the project."

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName

Check the profile description of 'whoishiring'[1]

> This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring?' post at 11 AM Eastern time on the first weekday of every month.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

If you want some Graph Theory challenges to solve there is a track at HackeRank

https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/algorithms/graph-theory

This reminds me of Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"[1].

A timeless work about language misuse in Politics.

[1]http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...

I live in a neighbor city of São Paulo city, Brazil.

I have a 2hrs+ commute , 4hrs+ a day. I take a train (~1hr), a subway(~30min) and another train(~30min), I work next to train station.

The train use to be crowded with no seats to take. I try to make the travel as pleasant and productive as I can, I read news and books - almost finishing Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" -, listen to podcasts and music, watch movies etc..

I am SW developer in a big electronics vendor, we are not allowed to work from home, I lived some time in São Paulo during graduation and working full time, but it was expensive and lonely for me, I live with my parents and near of all my relatives now, but I am thinking to move back soon.

We have no many jobs in my city, so even people that no have skilled jobs use to have long commutes.

In another comment in this thread by @mikemcquaid (Homebrew lead maintainer):

> (...)and have been trying to find people who will provide us with non-Google hosting but: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035438

I remember when I was studying English in the U.S. with other foreign students some years ago, when the topic was phrasal verbs the grades decreased for entire class. I am Brazilian, the class was composed most of South Koreans and Saudi Arabians.

Try: https://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988924 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979909

IntelliJ debugger for Java, VS debugger for C#, print for Python and Perl, and console.log and Chrome Dev Tools for JS.

Actually, in theory Bolsa Familia should be kind of step to reach UBI. The referenced law talks about gradual implantation, initially by poor people.

Yes, I am, Bolsa Familia is a national program. We have a city (Santo Antonio do Pinhal) that seems to have implemented UBI, too (I don't know much about that one). This article[1] (2013), in English, explains the current scenario and the law that I referenced.

The original proposal seems interesting to me, but I don't see government efforts to implement it as defined in law.

[1] http://www.basicincome.org/news/2013/06/opinion-a-three-step...

In Brazil, we have a law[1], from 2004, implementing UBI, but it is not nearly applied for all population. This law determine a gradual implementation and I believe that the the full one is far away. There are some benefits for poor people, unfortunately there are frauds and IMHO some mass manipulation from government.

[1] http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2004-2006/2004/lei/... (Portuguese)

The B2B Facebook solution: https://work.fb.com/

It was (it is?) a common practice to smuggle gas from Venezuela to Brazil, where the prices are relatively high.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/world/americas/07brazil.ht...] - old article (2006), but the disparity, at least before this annoucement, persisted.