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I don't think that fact is an 'idea'; if something can't be proven to be true, it isn't a fact. We should consider calling it something else.

The concept that needs revising is our understanding of social media posts as being automatically considered 'facts'.

If it can't be proven, if we can't trust any vehicle to independently verify its veracity, then we simply have to check as many sources as we can and consider it as a possibility, not a fact.

I don't believe torrents are the primary source. It's not hard to find illegal streaming websites nowadays and they are probably more convenient, but still a good source for malwares I guess.

I have also been using it for about 5 months and won't go back to the old one. It's hard to design a new UI that will please everyone, but if Jetbrains only think about "old" developers (myself included), I believe their product won't be too attractive to the new generation.

I enjoy the new monochromatic icons, I don't mind the extra gap, but I usually hide the panels and use shortcuts to access the panels.

It's not that simple in cases where our immune system can also act as the villain [1][2].

We sure can act like irrational animals and play the natural selection card (and leave people to die an excruciating death), but I personally prefer to slow down the almost inevitable [3], so our health system has more time to cope with the situation as well as they can.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/07/8280914...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/science/how-c...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-13/coronavir...

The former health minister was considering the economy and had speaked public a few times about it. He recommendations were based in the fact that the government couldn't simply switch from a horizontal isolation to a non planned vertical isolation. He main responsibility (at least the short term one) was to not overload the hospitals and put the health professionals in risk, and at least that he has achieved.

On the other hand, the president wants a "vertical" isolation without a plan, he simply wants to "reopen the economy" (whatever it means). Remembering that he has largely underplayed the issue, calling it "just a little flu" (probably it would be better translated to: "just a cold").

Brazil doesn't have enough tests to make good decisions about which areas should be in a horizontal isolation or to be instead in a vertical one.

The former health minister was clear that all the information coming from his office should be backed by science (and this alone was bugging the president a lot for some reason). This also meant that he, as the health minister, couldn't go public and say that a specific medication was effective to treat the covid-19 just because some tests worked in vitro (any doctor or scientist knows that this alone doesn't mean that it'll work efficiently in vivo).

The president behaviour was the opposite, many times he went public to say that a drug tested in vitro was enough to have the horizontal isolation lifted out. And as a consequence or his irresponsible pronouncements, many of his followers ran to the drug stores to buy certain medications, leaving people that really need them for other diseases without medication.

So the main issue turned out to be the fact that the former health minister was becoming popular because of his common sense, and everyone knows that in the eyes of a populist, "there can be only one".

IMO you can't just hijack a thread like you're trying to do, if you want to talk about Uyghurs, there are threads about it already, or, just create your own.

I wish it was just a joke... over here, the same politicians will tell you that "clean coal" is the future and the solution to "clean" the planet (no, it's not another dirty joke).

Actually, our current Prime Minister brought a "nice big hunk of black coal" to the House of Representatives one day (before he became the Prime Minister).

Back to technology, the company responsible for our national broadband (NBN Co), has bought 21 million metres of copper cable (enough to wrap around Australia one and a half times). That's our "high-speed" broadband network.

But hey, one of our previous prime ministers still thinks that high-speed Internet is to watch porn only, so there was no need to replace the old and inefficient copper with fibre.

At this point, I don't know if this is an Old Man Government or an Old Man Country, because enough people vote for these politicians, so they stay in power.

I don't think we should be freaked out, GitHub is probably going to stay the way it is for free users and we might even have benefits like a free private repository.

The only issue I have is with all that Microsoft propaganda about trusting them. If they want really make people believe that they are a new company, more open source friendly, they should stop they patent troll machine.

They should stop making money with dodge patents and stop attacking Linux/Android open source projects with these patents.

Most of big companies buy patents, but not all of them are patent troll, some of them buy patents as a defense mechanism against patent trolls like Microsoft.

I'm not sure if this will be good or bad for GitHub in the long run (it might actually bring some benefits to GitHub users, by adding more free services, e.g. free private repository), but still, Microsoft as a corporation is not open source friendly, as far as I know, the company still operates its own in-house patent troll and targeting open source related projects/services.

This is an old article, but I don't think a lot has changed since then: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/...

If anyone knows if they have stopped making money suing or making dodge deals with Linux/Android vendors, I'd love to know, if so, I'd start to believe that they, as a corporation, are becoming more open source friendly.

There is a big difference in buying patents for the company's own protection, and buying patents for making money trolling other companies. And unfortunately M$ is on the second group, making money as a patent troll.

No, this is not a consequence of "liberal democracy", this happens a lot more in non democratic governments.

If you want to put it this way, which I think it's wrong, this would be a consequence of libertarian conservatism, where private companies would spy on groups of people and try to manipulate them, instead of the government.

Good point. I think that escorting itself should be actually legalized. Not only because they would pay tax and have a better life than they have now, but also because this would make pimps obsolete and would help cracking down sex traffickers. Men/women using a legal escorting service could check for license/id, making the whole thing safer for everyone.

Hope Trump keeps pushing China, so they will keep imposing additional tariffs on USA products. Which can ending up being good for us, from outside the USA, by giving us a better deal with China and eventually we will fill the gap, by being the new suppliers for the products that now have a higher tax.

My comment was misleading. I didn't know about the Virginia Tech mass shooting details, but I did know that the latest mass shooting in Brazil was done with a couple of handguns. And you've made a very good point actually, comments like the one I've made don't help and I apologize for that.

My concern was more about using countries like Brazil as an argument for discussing gun policies in a completely different country.

It isn't uncommon having NRA lobbyist going there for misleading the population and trying to convince people that relaxing the gun policies in Brazil will "solve most of their problems". This is totally irresponsible and given the number of uneducated people we have, which will basically believe whatever a lobbyist from a well-known developed country says, it can actually cause more damage than good. A policy that isn't a big deal in the USA, can be a disaster in Brazil.

By simply comparing crime rates between developed and undeveloped countries doesn't help anyone, anywhere.

Yes, murder rate in Brazil is far higher than any other developed country, and this is not related to firearms selling policy. Trying to link firearms selling policy to the crime level in Brazil is misleading and irresponsible, as the issues are further down and start with inequality and lack of proper education.

Violent crimes over there (Brazil) and homicide rates are quite high, not only because innocent people are killed every day, but also because of the war between drug gangs/cartels, so we're also talking about criminals killing each other.

And sorry, I gave the impression that only long guns were used to mass shooting, if anyone look at the history of mass shooting in Brazil, they will see that handguns were used on the latest big one.

I don't think so, what they are trying to show is quite the opposite, mass shooting in Brazil is rare, and that's manly because individuals that are likely to commit this kind of crime wouldn't easily get a gun like an AR-15, access to this kind of guns without a tough background check is insane even for countries like Brazil. General crimes (non mass shooting) involving handguns are common though, because it's easy for criminals to get illegal handguns. The latest is not fault of gun control policies, but a very corrupted system.