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by el-salvador 4y ago
Good observation. On the other hand, while living in El Salvador, there were two things I missed from other country's elevators. - The star symbol sign the main floor button like in the U.S. - The European floor numbering system. It&#
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Quotas were a red carpet for the international This reminded me of something back when I was in high school in my Latin American country. There used to be this locally known international university-application-consultant and one of th
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> BNPL is a product that merchants pay for because it increases their conversion rate: customers who wouldn’t otherwise buy something, will buy it, by clicking a button and entering into a financial agreement at checkout. We've had
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Not sure about now, but a BGP error affected all Meta services one or two years ago.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Yeah, in Central America, many groups coordinate using WhatsApp group chat. Most companies have customer facing WhatsApp numbers too.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
The Panamerican Road in El Salvador has an airfield like this too. It's next to a military base. I've never heard of it being used, maybe it was during the civil 80s civil war. https://www.google.com/maps/@13.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
TIL The beer was first named Siglo XX which stands for 20th century. The name Dos Equis later came about from the roman numeral for twenty, which is XX.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Some of the purposes I remember were: - When needing a passport while the other passport was in visa processing - When needing to travel to a country A that denies entry based on having a passport stamp from country B. Like Azerbaijan&#x2F
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> who wants to be sick and quarantined in a foreign country There's also the higher than normal risk of needing medical treatment in a country with either higher medical costs or lower healthcare quality. In my country of birth, cov
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Just wondering if this has this made cheaper travelling to Japan as a foreigner (earning in USD)? Or have prices already adjusted?
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by el-salvador 4y ago
In the early 1800s my Latin American country still had separate towns for different ethnicities, but today most of us are of mixed ancestry. Does the modern definition of colonizer include mixed ancestry descendants too?
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> its roots lie in Spain's colonization of South American countries. They forgot Central American countries :(
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by el-salvador 4y ago
X is read as "Equis". And Equis is a word some Latin American countries used as a synonym for irrelevant/whatever/not important.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
When you read Latinx in Spanish it reads as "Latín Equis". "Equis" is a word we use when talking about something or someone irrelevant. Like the x in an algebra formula. https://www.wordreference.com/es&#
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I've seen Latinx used by US universities and Fortune 500 companies, but not really used by the people I know. It may be different in more affluent or academic circles though.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Is it common to bank only with one bank in the U.S?
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> What’s the benefit of Waze being a separate app at this point besides the brand name? Why not just fold it into the main Maps app? There are differences in my region which make me think that the apps have different mapping and routing
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Chip and pin cards are uncommon in Central America, it’s mostly tourists that use them. I’ve seen here waiters asking for the pin, writing it down on a piece of paper, and taking the card back to the POS terminal.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Nothing currently beats the usd on either count and that’s the currency of exchange in El Salvador. Because of that there is no incentive for businesses to change their currency of account. And if uptake on the consumer side is low the
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by el-salvador 4y ago
>> If your country is broke, gambling away money on crypto is far from "100% right". > I can understand the opposite viewpoint, but to me taking some risky bets makes perfect sense when you're already poor and in a b
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> but how is it monetized? Banks that use WhatsApp for customer support, or restaurant chains that take orders via WhastsApp bots, pay WhatsApp partners for API access. The payment goes to the WhatsApp partner. What I'm not sure is,
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I have kept my Facebook account mostly to interact with business. Most of them, especially small ones, keep their FB pages more updated than their websites. Facebook Marketplace is a whole world of its own. It's become like the Etsy&#x
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> That sounds quite sensible. From memory, our (en_GB) weekdays are named like this: Spanish and English follow a similar day naming convention. But the god's name needs to be translated from Norse Mitology to Roman Mitology first [
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> - Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week; Where I live we are taught that Monday is the first day of the week, yet most calendars start on Sunday. It&
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> The bet being made by El Salvador is to get the immense benefits of being an early adopter at the cost of short term volatility and risk of bitcoin failing. Salvadoran here. It's hard to see the benefits if there is no transparenc
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> 20% of business accepting bitcoin is just crazy high. Living in Germany it seems that 20% of business don't even accept regular credit cards yet. The numbers may be be higher in places that cater to bitcoin tourists, like beach h
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Western Union's system functions better or worse because of the currency it is denominated in. When funds are sent on the same currency there is no exchange rate markup on the Western Union transaction, so it's cheaper. >
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> > Even so, this scheme only makes a little sense. A better approach might have been for the government to have set up a USD-based remittance program of its own. I agree with that. For example linking the U.S. banking system via ACH&
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> They invested US$100 million (and currently that's around US$50 million). We are a small country, for comparison the largest public hospital budget is about US$60 million per year. > The next bond payment (2023 note that they
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by el-salvador 4y ago
From why I understand they are required to exchange their foreign USD into Argentinan Pesos with a very unfavorable exchange rate.

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