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by rafaelm 10y ago
I also think their approach is not the best, but do you believe anyone outside the tech echo chamber is making the same comments? I'm not sure how much the behavior could be actually hurting them. Of course, sometimes the people in tec
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Former NSA contractor may have stolen 75% of TAO’s elite hacking tools(arstechnica.com)
28 points by rafaelm 10y ago|2 comments
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by rafaelm 10y ago
According to the government, this was done as a surprise measure to stop the mafias taking the bills to Colombia as part of the "Economic Warfare" (that convenient excuse for our failed economy) that is being waged against Venezue
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by rafaelm 10y ago
You conveniently miss the part where people are losing money and savings because they cannot exchange the bank notes they had at home before the deadline ends. 30% percent of the population here does not have access to a bank account and ca
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I really haven't read anything about that. In fact, Venezuela has been issuing debt bonds without any blocks. Are you sure you are talking about Venezuela?
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by rafaelm 10y ago
The government would not allow any charities to work here. They do not want to admit that they have a crisis in their hands. They recently confiscated a container full of medicine and food sent from Chile to Caritas Venezuela. Some of the m
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Well, the explanation is waaay to long, but basically when you have a government mandated exchange rate at Bs.10/$ (that can only be accessed by corrupt military and government officials) and a black market rate that has reached 500 ti
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by rafaelm 10y ago
There is a small market in USD for larger transactions like real estate, cars,etc. But not for day to day stuff like food. Some people might have some savings in dollars or euros which they exchange at the black market rate to get bolivares
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by rafaelm 10y ago
They can't, but they want to play that that's how the economy works. That you can place an artificial value on your currency and everyone has to obey. So, you get a disastrous economy like the one we have.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Just when I thought things couldn't get worse here, Maduro does it again. There are reports of looting in several cities because there is no cash to be found anywhere. Lots of workers get paid every Friday in cash. Some of them got pai
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Venezuela's Response to Inflation – Just Confiscate All the Money(forbes.com)
21 points by rafaelm 10y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Besides Sandy which aj0strow already mentioned, there's another solution called Mailtrain. It's open source and has some of the missing sendy features. I've been meaning to try it for a while now.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Guns are only banned for normal citizens. The para-military forces that support the government are very well armed. This is one of the reasons you don't see people in the poorer areas protesting. They are scared of these groups.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
The ones controlling the import of goods at the official exchange rate are multi-millionaire by now, mostly military. Before getting dollars at the official rate for importing, your company needs to get approved and jump through all kinds
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Thank you. This BS about the US sanctioning Venezuela is false. They are sanctioning the leadership: those who are involved in corruption, drug traficking and human rights violations. Not Venezuela as a country.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
This is a military dictatorship, they're not going to make a coup. Maduro may be a civilian, but when you take a look at the people that hold all the ministries and important positions in the government, you see they are all former mil
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Google Gets a Seat on the Trump Transition Team(theintercept.com)
17 points by rafaelm 10y ago|3 comments
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Unfortunately, the price of the Bolivar is set in Cucuta, Colombia, the only place where people buy and sell Bolivares. You can change bolivares for pesos and pesos for dollars. It's a tiny, tiny market, but because the government is s
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Yep, there has never been corruption of this magnitude in they history of this country. And it's such sad excuse when the few people left that still support the govt say that this has always been a corrupt country... Wasn't the Bo
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Unfortunately, this government is so criminal that they go as far as denying medicine and food donations so that they don't have to admit that we have a crisis. 50% of the medicines donated by Caritas, coming from Chile have now expire
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Introducing Google Cloud Shell’s new code editor(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
173 points by rafaelm 10y ago|50 comments
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I've kinda liked Windows 10 but the updates have been introducing small problems for me now. First, some update introduced a bug for me where file Explorer will sometimes not update the files when changed. For example, if I paste a fi
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I think all new inkjet printers do this. I have an Epson Workforce and after my wife printed a small color job, I had to buy new color cartridges to print a black and white document. From what I've read, even when you are printing just
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What is the food that can really improve your eyesight?(bbc.com)
1 points by rafaelm 10y ago|0 comments
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I found this related Physics StackExchange commend in the articles: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/99318/is-it-fair-...
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Haha your superior argumentative powers sure got me there! Please, next time try to be better informed before making a fool of yourself. I understand that the US has a shitty foreign policy, but that doesn't make every "antiimperi
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by rafaelm 10y ago
See, this is where it's evident that you have no clue what you are talking about. There was no reappearance of goods after the MUD won! The government has actually been making fun of this because some of the MUD candidates said they wo
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Why doesn't telesur say anything about the massive corruption of the government officials that have dilapidated more than $50billion dollars as admitted by chavista ex-ministers? Or the fact that most of the former productive lands an
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Yes that's the story as told by the government and the state funded media like Telesur, your source. They wouldn't say anything about how the food imports are controlled by the military and the government and how they've stol
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I'm not sure really, the government is not going to leave peacefully, and while they are in power they are not going to do anything to improve the situation. One important thing to understand is that the government is in the hands of

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