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by santiagogo 10y ago
As a Colombian citizen this is amazing. My memories as a child are of Pablo Escobar's bombings and later of the guerrillas kidnappings and killings, and when I was a teenager of the paramilitary tortures. It's incredibly amazing t
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Colombia Rebels Sign Deal to End Half-Century Conflict(wsj.com)
1 points by santiagogo 10y ago|1 comments
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by santiagogo 10y ago
Yes, all the hostages have long been released and it has now been several years since the peace talks began, that there has been very little violence. The next step is getting them to disarm and enter a process of returning to civilian life
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by santiagogo 10y ago
The frontier was closed off for nearly over a year, but when last reopened nearly 132,000 people crossed on the first day. It's hard to know how many are just crossing over to buy groceries and how many will stay, but I read that the C
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by santiagogo 10y ago
The funny thing is that until the peace process began nobody had ever called it a war in Colombia. It was just referred to as an internal conflict or a violence or guerilla problem. I guess the first part of solving it was recognizing that
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by santiagogo 10y ago
Yep, Rappi is proving that there is a very big untapped market. Authy, Platzi, Torre and .CO etc have already proved that there is top talent. We just need investor confidence for more capital to reach the country and more startups to launc
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by santiagogo 10y ago
I agree, as a Colombian I think the most important part about the peace agreement is that it will delegitimize the position for using weapons in politics, which has become a long tradition in our country. It is also a huge step for a countr
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Tip to free up gigabytes of space if you are a Node.js developer
2 points by santiagogo 11y ago|2 comments
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by santiagogo 12y ago
otros mini-typos: published, is awesome. "All our classes are recorded and plublished. But the live experience it's awesome."
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by santiagogo 12y ago
Good idea, especially for some tlds aimed at industries which rely on strong security like .bank. Will send the link to a couple of ngtld applicants.
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Complete tech reporter contact list (Free)(publicize.co)
1 points by santiagogo 12y ago|0 comments
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by santiagogo 12y ago
hmm, you clearly haven't been on reddit. haha
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by santiagogo 12y ago
they keep trying to go to hackernews.com because sombody told them about ¨hacker news", and lose interest once they get there and dont find it there.
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by santiagogo 12y ago
it's very common. Most startups nowadays launch on .io or .co. Domains are becoming irrelevant, nobody types them in anyway, I mean, HN is on a subdomain...
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by santiagogo 12y ago
hah, what a surprise! it's looking good! Send Juan and Tom regards from Santiago. Don't think HN is a good place to promote it btw, this is a very DIY community. Most probably register domains from command line.
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by santiagogo 12y ago
what for? nobody types it in, and it's probably in the hundreds of thousands. And keeping it on a subdomain probably keeps away a lot of idiots.