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by rafaelm 10y ago
I've never really looked in to BTC because here you can sell dollars much easier. Although I can see that as a good way to receive dollars for those that do not have any other way. Right now, $1 = $1004 VEF I see that 1 BTC = $583.79 F
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by rafaelm 10y ago
All the basics are hard to come by: rice, flour, milk, toiletries,etc. I'm just commenting about sugar because GP commented on it. I assume because it's one of the items that has just disapeared lately. I'm actually not reall
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Well, we don't know how bad things will get. Today they law is a useless paper. Tomorrow if things get bad enough, they could start enforcing it. I think you are the second person in Venezuela I've found on HN. Check my profile fo
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I know Huawei and ZTE pay the very first employees they hired when they first setup offices here in Venezuela in USD and they are all paid in accounts in the US. It used to be pretty easy to open an account in Panama or the US from Venezuel
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Yep, I'm living in Barquisimeto and between me and my wife we are making around $160 per month. We are scraping by. Plus we've got a 3 month old baby, who luckily is exclusively breastfeeding, because baby formula is practically n
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Apparently he's doing an audit on 1Password and doesn't like what he sees.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
They've been promising to implement a better 2FA option for ages. I just got tired of waiting and moved to another registrar. It's a shame because in general, I've never had any problems with Namecheap.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Hah I think we must have had the same Logo teacher. I vividly remember him telling us that the computer is stupid and that it would only do what we told it to. I must have been around 8 years old, late 80's I think. My interest in com
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Hmm thanks for the tip I'll look in to that for sure. Coincidentally, her thiroid levels are being monitored by her doctor after pregnancy. One of them was low if I remember correctly.
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by rafaelm 10y ago
My wife weights 43kg and she has pretty bad posture. She is developing a hunch at 35! In my limited knowledge, its because of weak muscles all over. She's been skinny all her life. I'm looking in to what exercises she can do to ge
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by rafaelm 10y ago
From my short (3 month experience) , refrigerated milk will take on a "soapy" smell and flavor. From what I've read, this is due to the enzyme lipase and can be removed by heating the milk. My baby will sometimes refuse to
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Thanks a lot I really appreciate it! If you want to help, I'll see if I can find a trustworthy organization that is helping kids that need food and medicine. They are the most vulnerable right now. In their sick political games, the v
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Another venezuelan in HN! Hi!
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by rafaelm 10y ago
As someone born, raised and currently living in Venezuela, I can tell you that, yes, previously the elites ruled the country and created massive amounts of poor people. But 40 years ago, someone like my father,who came from a very modest an
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Unfortunately, people are already leaving at an alarming rate, mostly young people who see no future in the country. The government already did a test, blocking our border with Colombia, with the excuse that products from Venezuela were bei
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I think it's just plain old populism. They go on TV screaming about having to "defend the poor from the big bad private sectors that want to topple the government with their economic war with artificially induced high prices. The
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Well, I've basically just been eating what I can find the easiest. I don't really go to the lines. I cannot afford to waste a whole day in a line where I don't even know what they are going to hand out or if I'm even goi
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by rafaelm 10y ago
Of course the food shortages affect everyone, but cperciva is right, the government is handing out bags with food in the poorest sectors of the population. When these people are faced with the food shortage, and then they receive a handout
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by rafaelm 10y ago
I really wish there was a way to save a link for later reading without up voting. Sometimes I'm on my phone, see an interesting title I can't read right at the moment, but feel weird about upvoting it without actually reading it f
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by rafaelm 11y ago
Yeah, same thing is happening here in Venezuela. Chavistas now want the new Assembly to fix what chavismo has been destroying here (still is) for 18 years.
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by rafaelm 11y ago
If anyone wants to understand why this is happening in one of the largest oil producers in the world, there is only one word. Corruption. At every single level of the government. The government can blame El Niño all you want, but they can&#
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by rafaelm 11y ago
That factory was Owens-Illinois? But what is happening here is because of massive corruption at every level of the government. They only nationalized one of the power companies (Electricidad de Caracas, only deals with power in the capital)
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by rafaelm 11y ago
Just to clarify: there is no new government. The president is Nicolas Maduro,the successor named by Chavez when he realized he was too sick to continue. There was an election to the National Assembly that the opposition won, but they did no
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by rafaelm 11y ago
Spotify, I think.
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by rafaelm 11y ago
That's the thing. The problem is obviously getting worse every day, but it's not a new situation and people still deal with it. Let's see what the breaking point is. Thanks!
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by rafaelm 11y ago
The oil company, PDVSA, has always been national. They are practically selling oil at the cost of production right now, so there's no money. Maduro said yesterday that during January , only $77 million entered the economy from oil sale
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by rafaelm 11y ago
I hope I'm totally wrong, but I don't see a scenario where Maduro or one of his chronies just gives up on power. I don't see one peaceful scenario where they leave power or try to negotiate some sort of power sharing agreemen
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by rafaelm 11y ago
I also think a violent outcome is the only way for a change to happen, unfortunately. But I don't know how far away it is. We've already been through a lot and people seem to just go about their daily business like zombies. Wake
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by rafaelm 11y ago
Everyone who has a minimum knowledge of economics has been warning about this for ages. Chavez even said once that our economy was bulletproof, that even if the oil prices plummet to zero, we were going to be OK. I now fear that the only w
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by rafaelm 11y ago
Yes, he created a parallel assembly. But the "grassroots" and "power to the people" thing is fake. The true power is in the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (Supreme Court). They can now decide on whatever the National Assem

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