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This is how it went down in Venezuela, very quickly, unfortunately
by nico 2y ago
This is how it went down in Venezuela, very quickly, unfortunately
- kragen 2y agoDo you mean in 01999, in 02002, in 02006, in 02013, in 02014, in 02015, in 02016, in 02017, in 02019, or last July? There are a lot of events in Venezuela that vaguely resemble your description but none that really match. This comment is getting downvoted now, presumably by people who think it's totally obvious which event in Venezuela nico is talking about, but can't be bothered to enlighten me. I wonder if the different downvoters even agree with each other about which one it is.
- Tadpole9181 2y agoWhy are there leading be zeros?
- szatkus 2y agoIt's one of those weird HN things... https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550
- stogot 2y agoI don’t think it’s a “HN” thing
- eesmith 2y agohttps://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an... > The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have noticed any reference we make to a year begins with a zero: 01977, 03012, 02000, 00521, 01215, etc. > It’s an idiosyncrasy to which we are dedicated. It’s nerdy fun, but it has a serious point, too. As our co-founder Stewart Brand points out: the present moment used to be the unimaginable future.
- orwin 2y agoGP probably mean 2014, that was the year everything went to shit there. But thinking about it, it's probably more like 2013. Like people say: slowly, then all at once. The "all at once" of venezuela was 2014. But the US president don't have the same power Maduro had, and have competent bureaucracy (in this case, the Fed). Anyway the comparison does not really work anyway. We lack data points. I'll wait 6 months before making any judgments.