el-salvador

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by el-salvador 4y ago
> I can pay my real estate tax with cash. I can go to the store and buy food with cash. There is no real estate tax in El Salvador :) But paying in bitcoin, even in government institutions, is a hit or miss.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Yup! That's correct. I would say that being able to differentiate between El Salvador, Salvador and San Salvador is a shibboleth for those familiar with El Salvador. They are easy to confuse. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> See Central African Republic and El Salvador. Countries are waking up to the mafia operation that is the IMF and its favorite weapon, the dollar. I'm not an economist, but doesn't the IMF use a basket of currencies called SDR
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by el-salvador 4y ago
>It's not even _the_ official currency, just one alongside USD, and yet it's already accelerated the country towards defaulting on their bonds. And its day to day usage is very low. There was a spike in use after $30 sign up bo
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by el-salvador 4y ago
2% of the total population. It must be higher when other variables are added to the calculation. - The % of male population imprisoned. My guesstimate is 4%. - The % of male population between 18 and 29 y/o imprisoned I don’t have th
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> It feels a lot like cable used to! I had to stay once in an old hotel in a small town. It had an old CRT analog tv with analog cable. It brought back memories. Like the TV tuner changing channels really fast. Fast channel surfing is so
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> I heard in an interview that 50 years ago, people used to basically used to fall in love with heir neighbours and coworkers. Dating coworkers is now forbidden in many companies, especially if there are differences in hierarchy. In some
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I think Zoom now has a separate brand for China. I was in a Zoom call with a big Chinese company some months ago, and they used something that looked the same as zoom but had a Chinese name. Edit: I think it was this one: https:/&#x2F
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by el-salvador 4y ago
In Latin America our home washing machines are usually connected to ‘cold’ water only. Except in homes with separate cold/hot water pipes.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Same for me. Most of the time I have just used the standard wash setting, then air dry if sunny or machine dry if raining. I’m not even sure how temperature influences washing. I’ll have to read about that.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Even fiat currency can be used as toiletpaper in a pinch Even as origami sculptures, like the Venezuelan bolivar: https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/figuras-de-origami-hechas-con... That 4 meter long cobra origami fig
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I has never heard about 3AC before. It's hard to keep up with so many acronyms. Can anyone recommend a paper or post that explains how it is linked?
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Not yet... It might happen in the future but it has not happened yet.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> That being said 50% crash on "its currency" may not be uncommon. I believe Turkey's currency has had a similar devaluation It had never happened in El Salvador though. The USD and the former currency were stable for deca
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Spanish distinguishes between cousins from your parent's siblings (primos hermanos), and cousins from your parent's cousins (primos).
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Spanish even distinguishes cuñado (brother-in-law by blood relation to your spouse) from concuñado, your spouse’s sibling’s husband—something like “co-brother-in-law”. I learnt something new today. So the English in-laws concept includ
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I miss some things in English too: - Not being able to specify in one word if a friend is a male friend or female friend like amigo/amiga in Spanish. - The words for friend, boyfriend and girlfriend are too similar. While in spanish am
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by el-salvador 4y ago
There is a market for long distance food deliveries. Even more international. When a friend hears I'll be travelling nearby, its not uncommon for me to get special requests for food not available locally. Bringing Central American frie
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I've used Uber in several cities, so I get repetitive notifications targeting their different markets. Like irrelevant lunch discounts in other cities. They also have been sending me notifications for an Argentinan soccer-themed anti h
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by el-salvador 4y ago
El Salvador does this too for business to business receipts. It doesn't include item descriptions though, only totals.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
This must exist in some places now. I once got a discount in Sales Tax in Honduras (about 1%) for paying with my credit card instead of cash in a restaurant.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
I was wondering... Do this name changes change that people refer to landmarks in their day to day speech? At least nearby, there are some places and companies that people still use their original name, even years after renaming. For example
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by el-salvador 4y ago
A 1914 English translation of his 1499 Italian books from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geij
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> El Salvador is a failed state about to default on its national debt. It's not a real "government" in the way that most of us would define the term. At least for now, El Salvador has enough cash on hand to pay the $800 mi
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Bitcoin could be used to pay property taxes there There are no annual property taxes in El Salvador :) But this may be a technicality, based on the Salvadoran legal definition of the term. So it really depends on what is understood a
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> I have some friends who lost everything in this, and it sucks. I did my best to explain this exact scenario to people who would listen, and ended up getting some pretty high praise this week from people I saved, but you can't save
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by el-salvador 4y ago
Guatemala has nice spring weather too because of altitude. It ranges from +13C to +23C. With extremes being +7C or +28C depending on the time of the year.
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by el-salvador 4y ago
It's a feature found on the zoom admin panel: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360021839031-Addin...
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> I can see some of this stuff unfortunately being true, but some of it sounds pretty ridiculous and I'd guess might be embellished a little. Unfortunately hey have happened, I'll provide citations to most of them: > That be
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by el-salvador 4y ago
> Let me add that I genuinely want El Salvador to do well: it's in your country's and my own best interest. Me too. > Establishing your country as a crypto friendly jurisdiction seems like a far-sighted move that most people

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