> products exposing one to the US should come with a big fat warning
You mean products like Microsoft Windows, Apple's iOS and MacOS, Google's Android, Chrome and ChromeOS, Cisco, Fortinet, HP, Dell, AWS, Linux, Meta's Whatsapp Facebook and Instagram and so on and so forth.
> Am I wrong to say that there’s something profoundly rotten in that statement with regards to the rule of law?
No. The laws are applied as long as they serve the rulling elite. See GDPR for examples. Or the copyright law for examples at the other end of the pond.
We agree. I consider Bolsonaro a cowardly rat who betrayed everyone who ever supported him. He was in the USA while people were protesting in his name and literally going to jail for him.
He's still the person who managed to revive brazilian nationalism against all odds and despite the hipocrisy. Surely that's not in dispute here?
Call it whatever you want. Maybe it was just hope. Blind hope that this mediocre country could become something different, something better. Bolsonaro's mandate left much to be desired but at least he wasn't yet another leftist communist.
I agree he's the person who managed to give rise to Brazilian fascism, yes. Unless you consider nationalism as the desire to regress back into a brutal dictatorship where dissenting voices get "disappeared", the media is heavily censored and controlled by the state and the government kowtows to American supremacy and interests.
Brazil is a dictatorship of the judiciary. Maybe it's not a "brutal" dictatorship but it is a dictatorship.
The unelected supreme court walked all over our elected congress just days ago. Only reason why they don't dissolve the brazilian congress is they need to maintain the illusion of democracy.
> where dissenting voices get "disappeared"
> the media is heavily censored and controlled by the state
Already reality in some form or other. It's just not happening quite so overtly as it would happen in a so called "brutal" dictatorship.
> the government kowtows to American supremacy and interests
Better than kowtowing to chinese supremacy and interests.
You cannot possibly think there's even the slightest possibility of Brazil failing to kowtow to someone, right? Right. So I'd rather it be someone I agree with, and it sure as hell isn't China and Russia.
Slow start is about saving small-integer-numbers of RTT times that the algorithm takes to ramp up to line speed. A 5-30 second load time is an order of magnitude off, and almost certainly due to simple asset size.
> But whenever someone answered the call and built a Smartphone with QWERTY keyboard, the product failed commercially, simply because also to people claiming they want such a phone, at the point of sale they were less attractive than their slimmer, lighter, all-screen counterparts.
No. They were a) rare and b) much more expensive.
AFAIK only Blackberry had a phone with QWERTY keyboard.
Buttons are much more expensive than a touchscreen (see cars for examples).
> It's really not that complicated which, imo, is kind of sad.
They learn in school that "others" are to blame. (British, for starting the American revolution, Japanese for WW2). Analytic thinking is hard, especially when it doesn't fit the current narative.
You mean products like Microsoft Windows, Apple's iOS and MacOS, Google's Android, Chrome and ChromeOS, Cisco, Fortinet, HP, Dell, AWS, Linux, Meta's Whatsapp Facebook and Instagram and so on and so forth.
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