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firekvz
7y ago
You don't need to take lessons to rap, you "learn it on the streets", you don't need an instrument. Same goes for basketball, all you need is a Ball and a basket and some 5x5 space, football can be the next cheapest spor
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7y ago
This "all the poor people cant afford to live there anymore" doesn't apply to latin america, most (only chile misses this) the countries have free education at every level, the budget for a school is the same no matter if its
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7y ago
Hmmm, this article might be a clickbait, this is super normal to do in latin America Is not about legalizing gangs, most latin america countries have been using culture/cultural movements and even sport to drive gangs members into the
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8y ago
I just submitted a link for a recent DNS attack on .com and .ve ccTLD domains, any chances that this: > On 15 February 2019, in response to reports of attacks against key parts of the DNS infrastructure.. Is related to said attack ? here
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Phishing by Venezuelan government puts activists and internet users at risk
(vesinfiltro.com)
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8y ago
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Cybercriminals Are Taking Advantage of Venezuela's Economic Crisis
(motherboard.vice.com)
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8y ago
Let me tell you this, but.. WoW was the clone, it tried to copy already existings MMOs, the only reason WoW was sucessfull was because all the advertising it got Asia (KR/JP) had already huge mmo games before WoW
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8y ago
This is wrong, even their entire concept of casual/mid/hardcore gamer is terrible, you can't just define it like that.
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Maduro slashes five zeros from the Venezuelan bolivar to curb hyperinflation
(washingtonpost.com)
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8y ago
> With that, comes the question. Was anything lost? Well, the real question is, is there some regulation from ICANN in regards of terminating a gTLD who is not for private use? I can understand that if I want to waste 185k into my very o
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8y ago
Having a paypal account with an Venezuelan adress allows you to receive payments and to spend the USD of those payments within the paypal network (any site that takes paypal payments). You can also have other services like payoneer, paxum,
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8y ago
You actually can, there is some ways you can do it: 1. Sellers of "normal" stuff will take USD if you "deal" with them, for example if you need to buy a motherboard, most likely the seller will instantly say yes to an US
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8y ago
that makes it even more suspicious. The venezuelan in question, could just use any other freelancing site or a service like fiverr just like any other venezuelan or person from another country. There is countless way to get paid even if you
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8y ago
Hey there, another venezuelan here. if you want to help this person PLEASE dont send any money without asking for verification first, I have seen so many people lately using this "please help me im venezuelan and i am in need" to
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9y ago
what do you mean by revolution? there has been 2 already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2014_Venezuela... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2017_Venezuela... Theres not
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9y ago
Exactly that. Most of the "bargain rates" usd comes from small transactions of people sending USD to their family in Venezuela and are not up to date with pricing or inflation. You can see people still selling USD at 210,000 VEF w
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9y ago
Is a common question, don't worry. Remote working + business within the country. I can't really leave as opportunities for me are here. Other people do have to flee as they dont have USD income or good living conditions so emigrat
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9y ago
Minimum wage is ~915,000 VEF thats less than 3$ University teacher (my mom) does ~4,000,000 VEF thats 10$ Wages and salaries in venezuela suck as you can see, there is no way that a salary is over 50$ a month for regular Venezuelans. I dont
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9y ago
why would anyone do that with bitcoin when they can buy USD and avoid all the problems that come with btc (scamming, losing, price variation, etc)? Inflation here merely depends on USD exchange rate to VEF, thats it. If i need to "prot
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9y ago
People just become poorer every day. Only few who rely on remittances can mantain their lifestyle Services, fuel and basic groceries have regulated prices so at least as a regular venezuelan you can survive but you can't afford to impr
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9y ago
Venezuelan here, bitcoin is only used as a fast bridge between VEF and USD* mostly money laundering. That's it. So how it works is that people have tons of VEF from different sources, go to localbitcoins and get some btc and sell as so
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9y ago
Noone really knows but i guess they are slowly doing this: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/venezue...
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9y ago
Obviously I would pick any crypto or any other currency everytime over VEF but thats just wealth storage. It doesn't fix our economics problems, it doesn't fix our social problems. And thats what this post was about, the guy inten
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9y ago
Venezuelan here. This won't work. Our problems go way beyond having a way to store our wealth It's literally impossible to do bitcoin transactions in normal circunstances because this is not San Francisco and your regular store do
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9y ago
I tried to read this but I couldnt, thats how lazy I am.
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9y ago
now that we are talking about email. what is a good open source email server to use nowdays? or some free provider where i can use my own domain?
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9y ago
more like, people want to double their spare money/likes to read news where they see how much "they won" by gambling on cripto.. not their savings
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9y ago
you care enough to post this, could just ignore it.
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9y ago
Copy whatever you can from other sucessfull ones. PS: Make sure to add stories
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10y ago
It's a south american country ccTLD, managed by the government.
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