brianxp

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by brianxp 5y ago
In my country people living with the minimum wage will never be able to go "FIRE" or even retire. They earn about 10 usd a day or about 260 a month have to commute for about 2 hours each way and have one day off each two weeks. Ev
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by brianxp 5y ago
From anecdotal experience my father abandoned us I used to be a NEET in my late teen years. (but I also used to and still live in a very dangerous place, where I could regularly see people being killed or botched, something that could have
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by brianxp 5y ago
let's fund our own town!
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by brianxp 5y ago
it is, I notice that me or even people in my family who often times tend to show anticonformity behavior need some love. Often times I wonder how would I feel if someone were to hold my hand, or give me a kiss but the feeling goes soon away
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by brianxp 6y ago
They used to force people into draft here in Colombia. From my personal point of view the Colombian army is terrible, if one of their own combatants get shot in combat, they kill him and dress him in a uniform that resembles the one wore by
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Bitcoin may consume as much energy as all data centers globally(digiconomist.net)
47 points by brianxp 6y ago|128 comments
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by brianxp 6y ago
The same thing happens I believe in almost all developing countries, they don't take security that seriously, all contracts related with technology are awarded to the company, that charge the smallest amount of money and has ties with
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by brianxp 6y ago
though oftentimes better than master of one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_...
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by brianxp 6y ago
OFC we do, that's just plain xenophobic. I'm a Colombian software developer and my company has given me Macbook Pro.
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by brianxp 6y ago
>Like the millenial kids who grew up without father figure or a stable family. Grew out in a stable family, although very corrupt one, I remember handing money to judges and other officials as a teen, and smuggling goods through the Vene
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by brianxp 6y ago
people might laugh at you but Colombian "cartels" have deep ties with the government and the military. They even know the patrolling routes of the US Navy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3uSDGL9sw
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by brianxp 7y ago
this, every single time I open instagram on a browser, the icon for broken picture appears.