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by rafaelm 7y ago
Yep, Localbitcoins is usually the way. There are also a few shops (even one very large shop) accepting some cryptos now, like BTC and Dash. I'm not sure what volume they are seeing in sales though.
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by rafaelm 7y ago
This is of course anecdata, but I've personally used BTC to send remittances in Venezuela. I'm not sure how many people here use BTC as a means of preserving the value of their money since most people would rather hold USD, but fo
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Google Fi’s Unlimited plan: more data at home and abroad(blog.google)
1 points by rafaelm 7y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 7y ago
Not related to Yoga, but I'm currently reading "The Mindful Geek" [1]: The Mindful Geek details how to derive the benefits of mindfulness meditation without having to join a religion or drink metaphysical Kool-Aid. I'v
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by rafaelm 7y ago
Just what I was thinking. While I imagine this might trigger a price war and bring subscription costs down for consumers, there's going to be a lot of people that aren't going to pay subscriptions for 3 or 4 separate services.
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by rafaelm 7y ago
To add to this, Shopify is the equivalent of Medium for blogging vs WordPress. Sure, it's easy to get started, but once you're locked into their platform and you need a more custom solution, it's going to be hard to move out
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by rafaelm 7y ago
I would assume it's the norm in most developing countries where young students cannot pay their own rent. At least it's the norm here (Venezuela), even before the crisis.
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New Godlua Malware Evades Traffic Monitoring via DNS over HTTPS(bleepingcomputer.com)
1 points by rafaelm 7y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 7y ago
Yeah, the URL removal tool is not meant for permanent removals, but for temporary, 90-day removals: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en
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by rafaelm 7y ago
You need to find better SEO people then :) But I understand, there's a lot of snake-oil and "one weird trick to rank first" that brings a bad name to the SEO world. I've seen people go on Fiverr and expect to find top-no
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by rafaelm 7y ago
Usually, creating "410 Gone"[0] response for the URL and running the URL through the URL Inspection Tool [1] can help make things a bit faster. But yeah, it does take a while to get these 404s removed. [0] https://devel
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by rafaelm 7y ago
That's correct. If a URL is blocked using robots.txt, Google will never be able to see the "noindex" tag on the page. URLs blocked in robots.txt can get discovered through other links and they will get displayed in the search
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Python in Visual Studio Code – June 2019 Release(devblogs.microsoft.com)
9 points by rafaelm 7y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 7y ago
Yeah, the situation right now is a political tug of war between the left and the right. The people get stuck in the middle. It really sucks. Thanks for your thoughts.
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by rafaelm 7y ago
Yeah, it's a scary situation. A couple of days into the outage you start to hear about people looting and you can understand how a situation like that can get out of hand really fast. As a curious note, my sister fled to Bs. Aires a fe
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by rafaelm 7y ago
We just went through a couple of outages in Venezuela. The first one was 5 days, the second one 3 days. After day 2 you start getting worried because everything failed, including the water service (they've been badly maintained and the
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by rafaelm 7y ago
That's the thing, I don't think everyone needs to view the entire stream of tweets from this "person" for this to be effective. You just need one person to latch on to it and start retweeting it. Then this person's
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by rafaelm 7y ago
I think you might be underestimating the power of seeing some very subtle opinions over and over online. In my country I've been seeing a constant campaign of subtle disinformation against opposition figures that is very powerful. You
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by rafaelm 8y ago
So you really think venezuelans are super happy with hyperinflation, totally destroyed public services,etc?
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by rafaelm 8y ago
I know that a few years back this used to be an issue, because registrars were allowed to register domains for a brief period of time without actually paying for them [1]. This does sound pretty sketchy though. I'd check back in a few
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by rafaelm 8y ago
I tried to register my name in Google Domains and the site was just hammered. I then ended up registering with Namecheap even though it was a bit more expensive.
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by rafaelm 8y ago
I used to do this and I would just place orders with the top dropcatching services: - snapnames.com - namejet.com (I think orders placed on NJ are now also added to Snapnames) - pool.com - dropcatch.com - pheenix.com If you w
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by rafaelm 8y ago
Trying to watch a football (soccer) game on DirecTV, while your neighbors are watching it on cable or open air sucks. You hear the "goooal!" screams at least a full 20 seconds before they are scored :)
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by rafaelm 8y ago
The OnePlus 6T comes in 6 GB and 8 GB LPDDR4X variants
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Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility(reddit.com)
2 points by rafaelm 8y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 8y ago
And even this option is not available in all countries. I've almost stopped using Paypal completely because of this.
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by rafaelm 8y ago
I think that the part most people have a hard time with is when to actually start paddling for the wave. I think it's easier to just start riding waves on a bodyboard and not concentrate on the standing-up part yet. Just get the hang o
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Speed up your site with a little machine learning(hackernoon.com)
2 points by rafaelm 10y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 10y ago
There is not a single poll that gives the venezuelan government "large popular support". The last remaining support the government has is from corrupt military or those people so poor that they are dependent on small government ha
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I see Twitter is getting harder and harder to use anonymously. As someone living under a totalitarian government that is tightening its grip everyday on free speech and the internet in general, this worries me. Trying to signup and use Twit

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