It may not be the main reason (which is believe is the tetraethyl lead mentioned in other posts), the effect videogames has had on violence is not trivial. Probably not for "outlet for rage" reasons, but simply because they are a powerful draw on someone's time. Spending time playing video games is less time left for loitering and petty crime.
I submit as "evidence" a bit of anecdata I like to call the "doom curve":
I am a firm believer Brazilian start ups should focus internally, but be able to be scalable abroad. By being tied to the US market I think we fail to reach the potential our country has.
Instead of simply copying US businesses Brazilians should innovate in markets that make sense for Brazil. Focus on local customers in services that can be expanded worldwide.
To me, simply trying to tie with U.S. businesses will cause Brazil to never develop a strong startup ecosystem as it is seem in countries like India and China.
I agree with you that startups in Brazil should focus on the internal market first. But Rudi also has a point that for many of the startups here, very few look past Brazil's borders, loosing relevance and being exposed to external competitors once they consolidated their markets outside.
Brazil is rather expensive and an extremely bureaucratic place to start a company in, so there is less competition when starting up. That is the only advantage of starting a business here, so doing one but focusing on the outside market before you validate a business model isn't optimal, you would be better off starting in the US instead.
> Instead of simply copying US businesses Brazilians should innovate in markets that make sense for Brazil. Focus on local customers in services that can be expanded worldwide.
Interesting point of view. Do you have any example about that in mind?
Brazil is the worlds vice-champion at fiscal complexity (looses only to India). Few things invented here would make sense abroad.
Brazil occupies the shameful 81th spot at the GEDI (Global Entrepreneurship & Development Index). It is behind way poor countries like Bolivia. What Brazil needs is a f*cking genocide, it is unbelievable that a country this blessed by nature can be screwed like this by his people.
By blessed I mean: no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no snow (meaning two crops a year), 80% of the worlds drinkable water, plenty of land, beautiful shores, the list goes on...
Yet, brazilians have little money to spend, and are amost completely unable to invest (because of too hight cost of life, insecurity, and a thousand other factors).
It's quite hard to get sucessful selling for people that can't buy.
I am sorry, but I think brazilians buys things all the time, even the poor ones. They can buy term.
It is not the reason for startups complaints, I think the scenario is chaotic because they don't have money/mentoring adequate for early stage startups. That is the reason they are always looking for some copy cats.
Another problem is the culture. People are not used to buy things online, but it is changing
Yes, we buy things all the time, even the poor ones.
What poor people don't have is a discritionary budget, they could use to buy stuff that a software startup is tipically able to sell.
And related, Brazil is quite big, so you can grow a company to a huge size only selling to the few richer brazilians. That's just much harder to accomplish than doing the same at a country like the US. That means that the normally 1 in 100 (or is it smaller) odds for a startup there will reduce a few orders of magnitude here.
There is a large population that doesn't code, that has problems that do not deal with programming. Hard to imagine in this current technology hype, but yes.
Even developers get divorce. You would rather have your rights ensured or to be able to talk about Ruby with the lawyer?
While yoga is beneficial, the same can be said about any type of exercise. I think this article just highlights this western culture's obsession with eastern.
td;dl Exercise is good for your body and mind. Do it often.
In many cases, technology is just a symbol of status. People buy iPhones, kindles iPads, macs etc because its on tv and movies now. That is what it means to become mainstream. I think that's what the first meant about only using for calling and texting.
Excuse me if I sound a bit like what Munroe says is the 'revenge of the nerds', but to me a nerd is someone who has very specific interests. Interests which most of the time, alienate most people, since they are specific. You identify yourself not because you own a tech device, but because you are very interested in a topic. I see nerds as producers and not consumers.
Nerds are people who write fanfic,or make drawings of Game of Thrones. Not someone who simply watches a TV show.
right- there is a time to learn and a time to earn. though, accreting a bunch of solutions that you may not appreciate can sometimes screw you in the later term
>"But as a professional, with deadlines and money involved. Wouldn't google be best?"
I actually meant to say something about this in my original post.
There's definitely something to be said for going straight for a solution if you write code for a living.
Though, I'd be hesitant to say Google is best without a qualifier. It's a great tool and incredible reference, but you'd have to think about the value and potential liability of a developer who is committing Googled code he/she doesn't fully understand.
That was my first thought as well. I think that it is a great idea to experiment when working on personal projects/something with little to no deadlines. However, when the project is due yesterday and you come across something you don't know how to do... I have to say google is best.
I have a love/hate relationship with the darn things. While I try to avoid them, I had to use one just a couple days ago. So, to answer your question, a couple of days ago. But I know lot's of people who love them and when present I see them being used by others with high frequency.
Other than it being loosely related to the technology of money and shopping, what does your question have to do with, "A Revolution in Money"? Specifically, what does the recency of an individual's interaction with a self-checkout machine have to do with the article?
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