Seconded, I want to speak openly without fear of judgement first with the AI so when I do speak to real people I'm much more confident. I know people who are confident/shameless (a positive trait in this case) who don't mind making mistakes when speaking to real people but that's not me.
My only concern is how "correct" the tool or the AI is.
100% this. Children make mistakes all the time, but they're not afraid to, especially at the stage they're first acquiring the language. But by the time you're an adult, you're much more cautious about appearing dumb, so you hold back.
You should work on your ability to act/speak in spite of the fear of making mistakes more than your skill.
It is a fundamentally important property of society. We should not be afraid to even speak. Everyone has a different reality, mistakes are often highly relative. Richness of culture (and lack of political tyranny) comes from this interaction and lack of it is almost always bad.
It reminded me of 2010 (the sequel to 2001), though actually it turns out that was an aerocapture to slow down, not a slingshot or Oberth manoeuvre to speed up.
Funnily enough, there's a (very) detailed write up at the same site as this article [1].
Same. It allowed me to create an account with just an e-mail address, but soon after the account was suspended for "unusual activity" and the only way to unlock it was with a phone number. At this point I gave up.
Had that exact same problem, I emailed customer service via their webform asking what went wrong and a few days later Twitter replied, removing the "suspension"
I think they're just fishing for mobile numbers for targeted advertising identifiers.
Yes. Low corruption, low taxes (zero corporate tax for income received from outside the country), and you can even open bank accounts in foreign currencies.
When I was in Argentina a few years ago there were money changers peddling dollars on every corner in downtown Buenos Aires, at a time this was illegal (Cristina was president).
I can still hear them chanting "Cambio, cambio, cambio" and it's been a few years. ATMs give hardly anything and charge a large fee per transaction as well, so it's no surprise people go to arbolitos.
You'd also get a better exchange rate from the arbolitos vs the ATMs.
If I remember correctly, it was referred to as the "black rate". If you paid a vendor in USD directly, you got the "blue rate". Both of which were much better rates than the ATM.
This country should have never normalized favelas. Just 50 years ago, places like Singapore and Seoul used to have slums that looked a lot like Brazilian favelas. But they invested in public housing and now look like sci-fi cities from the 25th century, while we were singing "quem mora no morro vive pertinho do ceu".
I understand your point and I see comparisons with South Korea a lot. Sibling commenter makes a good remark about education.
Another huge difference which can't be underestimated is the geopolitical importance of South Korea and the ensuing economic aid from the US.
Singapore also has uniquenesses (its location) that wouldn't translate well into other countries.
In no way does this diminish the merits of both those countries -- its great that they managed to develop so well, and they deserve applause for doing so. But I don't think we can easily compare either to Brazil.
Another big difference is that both of them were absolute dictatorships at the time, which means they would develop differently from democracies in general, let alone a very corrupt and flawed democracy like Brazil.
It's not as simple as the government fixing the problem by simply "investing in public housing". If it were that easy, Brazil would have already done it. Singapore and Seoul created educated populations and skilled jobs that were able to fit into growing industries like tech. The government can almost never just fix a problem by pouring money into it.
The last time I looked into this it required a security deposit in BTC.