The Hungarian circuit is very difficult for overtaking. Therefore, the front-runner has a much better chance of winning, making tire changes a critical issue.
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anodari commented on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024) quartr.com/insights/edge/... · Posted by u/bilekas
I started using Pix, because it's the best way to do business with Chinese ecommerce sites.
You don't have to give your credit card details and refunds go straight back to your account.
In fact, it really impressed me that Aliexpress got it working before many Brazilian sites.
If you use an intermediary, implementation is usually very simple and straightforward. The biggest challenge is becoming a direct participant—that is, communicating directly with the central bank. In this case, you need to enter the regulatory framework and become a payment institution.
anodari commented on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant economist.com/the-america... · Posted by u/jcartw
The Brazilian government is a *very* corrupt authoritarian oligarchy. I would take any US company over that any day.
Where did you get this idea of a 'very corrupt authoritarian oligarchy'?
Brazil is not much different from any other democracy and is far less oligarchic than Trump's USA. Also, PIX is managed by our independent central bank."
anodari commented on Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it theengineeringmanager.sub... · Posted by u/thunderbong
In theory, it works, but the issue is that creative work is inherently never finished.
What’s amazing is despite flawed science people keep believing it and insulting anyone who questions it.
Who claims that climate science is flawed? The deniers? All science has degrees of uncertainty, look at physics, biology, medicine. But even so, they provide robust results, unlike creationism, flat-earthers, etc.
The skeptical view:
You mean the deniers' view.
There may have been skeptics 20 years ago, but now no one seriously doubts it.
I don't understand how technology people make decisions to deny a problem even if there is no 100% certainty. In my company, even if there is less than a 1% chance of something going wrong, we have to think of ways to mitigate it.
Weather is not climate...
It's crazy that there are still people who don't get this. "It's cold here, so there's no such thing as global warming." They forget that the other hemisphere is on fire.
I've found that everything that works stops being called AI.
Logic programming? AI until SQL came out. Now it's not AI.
OCR, computer algebra systems, voice recognition, checkers, machine translation, go, natural language search.
All solved, all not AI any more yet all were AI before they got solved by AI researchers.
There's even a name for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect?utm_source=perplex...
In the same line, there are also a phrase about technology, "is everything that doesn’t work yet." by Danny Hillis, "Electric motors were once technology – they were new and did not work well. As they evolved, they seem to disappear, even though they proliferated and were embedded by the scores into our homes and offices. They work perfectly, silently, unminded, so they no longer register as “technology.” https://kk.org/thetechnium/everything-that/
anodari commented on Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC? · Posted by u/OnuRC
Do those services also deal with fraud, chargebacks, etc., or are they basically digital cash equivalents?
The brazilian PIX is a digital cash transfer from bank account to account built by our central bank. It doesn't handle fraud and chargebacks which must be done by the seller or third parties.