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Here's some other great Argentinian trap/reggaeton music: * Khea / Duki / Cazzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0D_QD_DhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ

Here's some other great Argentinian trap/reggaeton music: * Khea / Duki / Cazzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0D_QD_DhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0D_QD_DhM * Paulo Londra (PG lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpELzyP4rw&ab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpELzyP4rw&ab I live in Colombia and am working to get more Latinos / Latinas in tech. I've started giving Macbooks to students and it's helped a lot. Lots of students don't have good development workstations. Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes. If you have an old Macbook that's in good working condition and would like to donate it, let me know and I'll make sure to get it in the hands of a Colombian student that's working hard to learn programming. A career in tech can be a transformative life event for a Colombian (and their extended family).

Daishiman 5y ago
Why would you give children used Macbooks that are incredibly expensive to repair if you're out of the range of an Apple store and not really user-serviceable when you can give them even cheaper used corporate Lenovos for a fraction of the price that do things just as easily but have far more availability of spare parts?
- MrPowers 5y ago
  I started with Mac cause that's what I had and it's been working well. I'm not opposed to giving other types of computers and seeing how that works. There is a lot of additional support I provide that's a lot more important than the computer type.
  - the_af 5y ago
    Like Daishiman, I'm also from Argentina, and I think his point is that Macs are prohibitively expensive here (more than in say the US, here they are hard to buy, expensive, and you pay a lot in taxes), so using Macs for a program meant to teach & reach lots of kids doesn't make a lot of sense. It's not about the OS or the computer type, but about the cost and access to repairs when they break down: you must keep the costs low or the whole program will become unfeasible.
  - cutler 5y ago
    What's wrong with Ubuntu Linux on second-hand commodity hardware? More scalable for your project, surely?
redleader55 5y ago
> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good.
- wolverine876 5y ago
  >> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes > This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good. Cut the taxes that fund the services poor people depend on, such as education, health care, transportation, etc., so that they can have cheaper computers and Apple can net more profit?
  - astrange 5y ago
    If this is a tariff it's not meant to fund things, they're a poorly thought out attempt to develop local industry. If it's a VAT it may be funding something, but VATs are not theoretically sound and do make a lot of things expensive, like computers, that you'd actually want to be cheap. (The reason they're used is that they're very effective because it's hard to dodge them.)
    - wolverine876 5y ago
      Do you have some evidence about these particular taxes? 'All taxes / tariffs are bad' is not an argument. That they are imperfect does not make them bad, or everything is bad.
mrwebmaster 5y ago
My 5yrs old kid wants to listen Khea / Duki / Londra all day (I don't, so it's limited :( ). I don't see a lot of connection between listening to music on YT and a career in tech (or my son is going to have a career in tech?)
- Daishiman 5y ago
  They will learn to find things they want on Youtube/google which they will be able to leverage to learn whatever they are curious about.

Daishiman 5y ago

Why would you give children used Macbooks that are incredibly expensive to repair if you're out of the range of an Apple store and not really user-serviceable when you can give them even cheaper used corporate Lenovos for a fraction of the price that do things just as easily but have far more availability of spare parts?

MrPowers 5y ago
I started with Mac cause that's what I had and it's been working well. I'm not opposed to giving other types of computers and seeing how that works. There is a lot of additional support I provide that's a lot more important than the computer type.
- the_af 5y ago
  Like Daishiman, I'm also from Argentina, and I think his point is that Macs are prohibitively expensive here (more than in say the US, here they are hard to buy, expensive, and you pay a lot in taxes), so using Macs for a program meant to teach & reach lots of kids doesn't make a lot of sense. It's not about the OS or the computer type, but about the cost and access to repairs when they break down: you must keep the costs low or the whole program will become unfeasible.
- cutler 5y ago
  What's wrong with Ubuntu Linux on second-hand commodity hardware? More scalable for your project, surely?

redleader55 5y ago

> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good.

wolverine876 5y ago
>> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes > This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good. Cut the taxes that fund the services poor people depend on, such as education, health care, transportation, etc., so that they can have cheaper computers and Apple can net more profit?
- astrange 5y ago
  If this is a tariff it's not meant to fund things, they're a poorly thought out attempt to develop local industry. If it's a VAT it may be funding something, but VATs are not theoretically sound and do make a lot of things expensive, like computers, that you'd actually want to be cheap. (The reason they're used is that they're very effective because it's hard to dodge them.)
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    Do you have some evidence about these particular taxes? 'All taxes / tariffs are bad' is not an argument. That they are imperfect does not make them bad, or everything is bad.

mrwebmaster 5y ago

My 5yrs old kid wants to listen Khea / Duki / Londra all day (I don't, so it's limited :( ). I don't see a lot of connection between listening to music on YT and a career in tech (or my son is going to have a career in tech?)

Daishiman 5y ago
They will learn to find things they want on Youtube/google which they will be able to leverage to learn whatever they are curious about.