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by 1zq 3y ago
I definitely don't want to keep unused code in version control, but for debugging or for working on things iteratively as the sibling comment said, my Go code usually ends up peppered with if 1==2 { ...some code to temporarily disa
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by 1zq 7y ago
US sanctions worsen the already bad economic situation but to claim the problem is caused by US sanctions is extremely misleading. We were already seeing severe shortages way before the 2014 sanctions (which were placed on individuals, anyw
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by 1zq 7y ago
You don't need to trust The New York Times, you can go straight to the UN source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1041902
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by 1zq 9y ago
It doesn't generate free money. On the contrary, it generates very expensive money. For this operation, the central bank received about $840 million in cash from GS, and PDVSA must now pay back $2.8 billion plus interest to GS. Whereas
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by 1zq 9y ago
But you can be the Venezuelan central bank and buy $2.8 billion in PDVSA-issued bonds and later sell those bonds at a 70 percent discount (i.e. around 840$ million) to Goldman Sachs. Until the moment of the sale to GS the money had only bee
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by 1zq 9y ago
From the article: > While Goldman Sachs defended its trade by saying that it bought the bonds on the open market from a broker, bankers and traders say the money ultimately ended up in Venezuela’s treasury because the seller was an insti
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As Protests Escalate, Web TV and News Sites Are Censored in Venezuela(advox.globalvoices.org)
1 points by 1zq 9y ago|0 comments
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by 1zq 10y ago
We've been using WAL-E for about 4 years and it has worked well for us. One way to continuously test that your files are being pushed up correctly is to have a hot standby pulling WAL files from S3 and check periodically that the data
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by 1zq 10y ago
To this I would add: always pass "-i" to any interactive use of mv. This has also helped me prevent data loss a few times.
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by 1zq 11y ago
What about prior to 1999? The people running Venezuela had many decades and centuries to create a "robust economy" in Venezuela. I wasn't seeing constant US headlines about how Venezuelan leaders were mismanaging the economy
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by 1zq 13y ago
The electoral system itself can be audited and found to be fair. However, it's unfair to: * Abuse the State's massive control of the media in favor of the ruling party. * Threaten people, fire them from their government positions,
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by 1zq 13y ago
Yes, as your link very well shows, there are many occurrences of tweets with pictures from other places being used as if they were from Venezuelan protests. Unfortunately these often get retweeted unknowingly. Here are some videos that can
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Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout(eff.org)
119 points by 1zq 13y ago|65 comments
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MakeLeaps (Sellng SaaS in Japan post) buys Japan-based invoicing service Noroshi(makeleaps.com)
5 points by 1zq 14y ago|0 comments
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Report Your Stolen Bike(report-your-stolen-bike.com)
7 points by 1zq 14y ago|2 comments
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by 1zq 14y ago
I bought one of the Dell laptops that came with Ubuntu a few years ago and I'm typing this on it. I simply installed stock Ubuntu immediately after receiving it due to the same fear of crapware. But still, having it come with Ubuntu preinst
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by 1zq 14y ago
If you're not on a new line, you can type Ctrl-d twice.
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by 1zq 14y ago
I also was on ESTA, and had no local address.
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by 1zq 14y ago
I can confirm this. I opened an account at Citibank with only my passport.
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by 1zq 14y ago
Sorry, I accidentally submitted the Japanese version. Here is the English version: http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/03/ハッカーニュース%E3%80%80トウキ...
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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #12 – 30th March 2012(makeleaps.jp)
27 points by 1zq 14y ago|1 comments
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by 1zq 15y ago
I would really, really love to activate two-factor authentication for my Gmail account, but Google requires me to have a phone number as a backup in case I lose my phone, and I don't live in one of the countries supported by Google for the