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."
That's why you should probably never expect "perfect" from the finished product but rather a "iteration x" instead.
The articles adresses scope creep. You were asked for a drawing, but ended up with a cartoon "because they process just took me down that road". The deadline is helpful is limiting what the first/second/x'th iteration can be expected to do.
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.
Anthropogenic global warming has been proposed and modeled since the late XVIII century. The window to reasonably doubt it has been closed since at least the 1980s when Exxon put it on paper they knew about it and wanted to suppress awareness about it.
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.
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.
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/
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.
Nice article, congratulations. I have worked with information systems all my life and one of the biggest insights I had was that the transaction, a purchase or a sale, which is the basis of the ERP system, is converted into 2 flows, the money that enters or leaves on one side and the product or service in another, this is accounting double entry. It may be obvious and simple, but I see that few people in my area have this understanding.
My father and my uncles owned a small printing company between 1970 and 1990. There were 3 linotypes at one time. I was always amazed by those complex machines. Back then, in my teens, I worked on the process of melting lead lines so that they became lead bars that feed the linotype. Imagine the safety when a teenager has to play with lead melted at 400°Celsius.
a colleague in California was the son of a man who owned three Linotype machines. The son developed a hostile reaction in proportion to the care and attention given those machines. The son personally destroyed at least two of them, with hostility.
The basis of the situation was some combination of unending penny-pinching by the Father, working the son very hard "to learn the business" including obviously cheating the son on wages and commissions, and then the powerful and accurate machines on such a scale.
Personally the machines are a marvel, and it is an ugly twist of fate that the economics of printing fell through the floor with digital type and later all of digital communications. We have lost something important in the rush to something new. And, this particular Father and Son will never be friends again.
As a software engineer, you must face global warming as a risk mitigation problem. You know, you could just ignore the risk of a catastrophe. But, usually, mitigations plans make the system more secure and robust, and people being calmer, even if the risk never happens.
