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Comment Some exceptions (Score 1) 158

I had last week a case where GPT couldn't help and will probably never be able to help. It was just more time consuming and more complicated to explain what code I wanted rather than to code it myself. Also, describing in natural language is just a waste of time. In this case, I just coded myself and delivered the feature.

Paradoxically, it couldn't do better because it required human input. Unless AI would have created the system almost end-to-end, AI is just less efficient there.

Comment PETs (Score 1) 68

It is interesting how I had to go through several links from the article so that I could finally confirm what is one very interesting (I suppose?) aspect of this tech for Slashdot, which is the use of PETs (Privacy Enhancing Technologies) as the tech behind Privacy Sandbox. It is the sorts of Homomorphic Encryption, Multi-Party Computation and other fun stuff. Worth researching about it. Besides the fact that the data is held by Google Chrome, if the tech is well applied then it can indeed add a lot more privacy to browsing.

Comment Wasn't that X.25? (Score 1) 284

Wasn't that the purpose and use of the X.25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25) ? It was largely used for financial transactions and still is in some places.

In any case, I would imagine that having other applications (Social Network, Email, Games, etc) on "the same internet" increases the amount of scrutiny and investment in security. For instance, I am pretty sure that Google and Facebook started using 2FA way before most banks, even though they are applications that don't involve financial transactions, at least for end-users, or most of them, and even so for small amounts.

Comment Re:A hard fact. (Score 1) 368

Let's be realistic. Switzerland doesn't have an obamacare like system, they have a system which is similar to Canada's though. In Canada, insurance is optional but the healthcare system is funded through taxes.

Switzerland insurance is *not optional*. Indeed, if within 3 months after getting a job (or moving to Switzerland) you don't get a health insurance, the government (which has a lot of control) will notice and buy any insurance on your behalf and send you the bill by mail. There are not free health-care providers. The health insurance covers for a portion of your costs, so you will have to pay a % of everything, up to a limit.

In Germany, companies are required to discount from your salary the health insurance (provided by a private insurer), if they want to hire you. If they don't so, they government. There, all the costs are paid, including for medication.

Comment the price of ethanol production is cheap (Score 1) 556

I was born in Brazil and ethanol there from sugar cane was always 50% cheaper than the cheapest gasoline (you know that ethanol for cars exists there for tens of years right?). Now that almost all cars produced in Brazil can run on gasoline OR ethanol (just put whatever you want there), people started to use ethanol more and the ethanol price has risen up to the gasoline price. Therefore, it it is not related to production costs at all, it is only market demand that is controlling the price.

Comment Re:Yep, I've lost hope. (Score 1) 552

If you have enough money to come to Brazil, you can come here and get a good job on TI. It is far from a US wage, but you can have your life with your wife, kids and everything (surely not an american life standard either). About your health, here we have a public health system that can take care of you. It is not good comparing to UK, but your salary would pay up for a private one anyone if don't like it.

I can't understand why someone would pay US$7500,00 for a broken arm if they can pay US$2000,00 to go to Brazil, get medical treatment (with that value, either public or private) and come back on time for your work. Oh, you could have long time vacations here with such amount of money also.

I have a friend in america that came to my city once. He got an infection in his foot and had medical attention for free just showing his passport. His fathers is a doctor in US.

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