rauljordan2020

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by rauljordan2020 3mo ago
I never said the word lazy. Please explain to me your experience with the culture in central America in-depth and how people tend to think over there, if you wish to elucidate your points further. There are tons of broken elements of the cu
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by rauljordan2020 3mo ago
Extremely condescending to imagine that I have no knowledge of my own nation and region's history? I absolutely know and have extensive readings of how things came to be, and I have even lectured on the topic in my national university.
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by rauljordan2020 3mo ago
This is an incredibly impactful childhood. I'm from Honduras, a developing country where there is practically zero investment in science or the arts, and I was fortunate enough to also have gotten a similar book. One thing that struck
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by rauljordan2020 4mo ago
I would argue it isn't the same. Not every single American male grow up playing American football. It is fragmented across the country. However, for us, almost every single human has the experience of soccer being an integral part of o
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by rauljordan2020 4mo ago
This is hilarious because we think the same about any sport that isn't soccer (football) in much of Latin America: "basketball / baseball is what girls play" is the tagline folks said growing up
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by rauljordan2020 4mo ago
I'm from Honduras, which is also quite a poor country, and the sport (soccer) is all we do and all everyone talks about. It's a core part of our society and a core part just what one does as a human, so since we are kids we think
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by rauljordan2020 6mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pD7b08VII
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by rauljordan2020 6mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pD7b08VII
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by rauljordan2020 6mo ago
I feel like now, you can't even tell! I was in an uber drive where the driver had this incredible playlist of Brazilian bossa nova. It was sublime and some of the best tracks I ever heard. He even said he loves the singer but cannot fi
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by rauljordan2020 6mo ago
Sometimes you can't even tell. I was in an uber drive where the driver had this incredible playlist of Brazilian bossa nova. It was sublime and some of the best tracks I ever heard. He even said he loves the singer but cannot find thei
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by rauljordan2020 7mo ago
Kudos to you! I have one and it's been the hardest thing I've ever done and it has broken us entirely. We can never imagine having more than one given the difficulty, and are now finished at one 100%. Very huge admiration for pare
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by rauljordan2020 7mo ago
So many folks that have it say things like "I was super healthy! Did exercise, young, don't drink, etc." Then you dig deeper and realize the last vegetable meal they ate was a soggy brussel sprout their mom made them when the
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by rauljordan2020 11mo ago
My point is they see themselves as having more freedoms than the west does in places that matter to their daily life: freedom from poverty, violent crime, the devastating effects of drugs on families, social chaos, and corruption. To Singap
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by rauljordan2020 11mo ago
Singaporeans have insanely high quality of life and high pride in their system and people. They have an immense number of negative freedoms that the average person across the world could only dream of: freedom from violence, freedom from th
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by rauljordan2020 1y ago
Nope! Harvard and some of the top ivies offer full, need-blind financial aid to all students, especially international. I attended and did not have to spend much at all, coming from a poor country. Many such cases and it is a lifeline for g
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
I'm from latam. I never saw anyone drink water growing up. Anytime you try to drink water, people label you as boring, even your parents. Whenever we go to a restaurant, the first thing you ask the waiter is "what sodas do you hav
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
Tokyo and Singapore do not. My whole country, and family, struggle with corruption, poverty, third-world-country crime and infrastructure, extortion, gang violence, and I’m supposed to want to go back and live there and raise my kids there?
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
I’m from latin america. The world is a vast, beautiful place with stunning, clean cities full of opportunity and serendipity. Either I can explore the world and live in these places, or go back to my dangerous, dirty city to spend the rest
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
Opposite experience. Here in the US, I've heard a lot more people watching anime than when I was a kid. Especially modern ones such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, etc.
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
They are not, not even in other parts of the world. It is also very rare in Asia. Folks tough it up and are fine, as the risks of opioids are not worth it
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
I use Ethereum / Arbitrum every week at least. I use it for managing a lot of my finances. I provide liquidity on exchanges, provide liquidity for lending protocols, and use GMX for opening long/short positions and trading perpetu
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
What's crazy is that arguably the greatest story is in their MMO game FFXIV, which has spanned over 10 years at this point to its build-up. I would argue its big story climax, Endwalker, rivals some of the greatest classics humanity ha
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No sleep until we build the ideal pub/sub library in Go(rauljordan.com)
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
Im sorry to hear that. What was your diet like? How would you have changed it?
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
What's hard about Mandarin aside from memorizing the characters and pronunciations?
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
My point is that it doesn't need to be. Chinese is concise, simple, single pronunciation per character, very little grammar. It has no need for verb conjugations, tense markers, 3 different writing systems super-imposed into one like J
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
There's no tense, no verb ending, no conjugation, zero of any of that stuff in Chinese...the difference is night and day. There is barely any grammar to learn. I finished the Chinese grammar in less than a week lol A few examples from
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by rauljordan2020 2y ago
As someone who speaks Chinese and is learning Japanese, I have been so surprised at just how incredibly complicated and obtuse Japanese is. Chinese (Cantonese) 7-9 tones, loads of characters, but after memorizing the first 2000-3000, you pi
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by rauljordan2020 3y ago
There's a government app called Chivo that people use for this, and a lot of shopkeepers do have it, but they begrudgingly accept it. People much prefer USDC because they don't want to get paid in assets that are volatile
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by rauljordan2020 3y ago
High demand back home. People see dollars as valuable, so they can send it to pay other people as needed. Loads of people have a binance account and will accept usdc for goods and services. Also, BTC is accepted everywhere in el salvador wh

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