rafaelm

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by rafaelm 3mo ago
I believe this is the correct link. I use it too in Handy, for English and Spanish transcriptions: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
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by rafaelm 7mo ago
I'm no windows fanboy and I don't doubt your experience, but I honestly don't understand how this can happen. I recently did three clean Win 11 reinstalls and I was done in an hour. Maybe because I did it on slightly older ha
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by rafaelm 8mo ago
This is CANTV they are talking about. This is the company I requested a new phone line from and it took 9.5 years to get it installed. After waiting for 3 years, I gave up ended up paying one of their technicians I randomly found working in
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by rafaelm 1y ago
It's 100x more difficult than you think it is. I come from a "semi-sanctioned" country, and it's extremely hard. Opening a bank account is impossible unless you can travel to the US. Stripe won't touch you with a 10
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by rafaelm 1y ago
See also the last presidential elections in Venezuela, where they did not even bother to pretend they did not steal the election, even under overwhelming evidence. A year later, we are still waiting for the official ballots. That's alm
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by rafaelm 1y ago
There are cases where Google might find a URL blocked in robots.txt (through external or internal links), and the page can still be indexed and show up in the search results, even if they can't crawl it. [1]. The only way to be sure th
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by rafaelm 1y ago
Probably because in our countries (I'm also from S.America) the reliability of the post office is questionable at best, so it wasn't something I ever really used.
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by rafaelm 2y ago
It's cne.gob.ve, and that doesn't work either. They want us to believe that because the website is down, the whole system that counts the votes is down. Hey, maybe the votes are counted in WordPress...
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by rafaelm 2y ago
Hinterlaces is a government linked company, not exactly impartial.
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by rafaelm 2y ago
Calling Hinterlaces "the most respected" is quiiiite a stretch. The owner Oscar Schemel, frequently parrots the govt propaganda talking points ("it's the evil empire, there's no inflation it's sabotage etc)
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by rafaelm 3y ago
A lot of YouTube channels are getting hacked recently with the same "sponsorship offer" hack. Wonder if this was the case here as well. Paul Hibbert got hit recently. This video has more details on this works and how the bypass 2F
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by rafaelm 4y ago
As a caracan myself, it's actually "caraqueños" :) Regarding the subject, it is indeed very popular. You can go to restaurants, car parts stores and clothing stores and find the Binance QR code prominently displayed. And a LO
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by rafaelm 4y ago
I don't know about the other numbers, but my wife has had two scheduled c-sections and the recovery for both suuucked when compared to everyone we know that had natural birth. Of course, the process of going through labor pains for man
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by rafaelm 4y ago
Yep that's it. I just didn't want it to look like I was shilling something in the comments :) Locally, Binance P2P is used a lot for remittances, and plenty of establishments use it as a way to receive payments as well. I've
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by rafaelm 4y ago
From my own experience, you can use a very popular exchange that has a huge P2P marketplace, precisely for this.
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Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW(twitter.com)
880 points by rafaelm 4y ago|408 comments
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by rafaelm 4y ago
I'm currently living the dictatorship in Venezuela. Ask me if you think Ciro's opinion is not valid, for whatever reason. (Don't know him btw. Epale Ciro!)
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by rafaelm 4y ago
Regarding your question, I believe it's mostly down to corruption basically. Local businesses have huge markups because they have to deal with theft, paying off customs officials even if they have all the paperwork etc as well as the
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by rafaelm 4y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I totally understand your point as a seller. What's weird to me is that the seller gets blamed, even after the shipment is marked as delivered by UPS/Amazon logistics or whatever company was used to dro
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by rafaelm 4y ago
I understand where you are coming from, but most of the time that's the only way people that live in south or central America can buy stuff online at decent prices. It's cheaper for me to pay the shipping fees to my country than i
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by rafaelm 4y ago
13 hours after your comment, 57 of the domains you've posted so far have been registered today. Only 6 were already registered. Nice! I would like to know how you came up with these, they're pretty good.
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by rafaelm 4y ago
The sanctions on Venezuela have nothing to do with nationalization. Our oil industry was nationalized in 1976.
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by rafaelm 5y ago
> The talks like "let's hurt the regular people so they revolt against Putin" As someone that comes from a sanctioned country, this is one important thing that most people that have never lived a similar situation don&#x27
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by rafaelm 5y ago
Venezuelan here: I have personally bought tuna and flour by the case as a way of hedging against inflation and scarcity. Of course, this last factor was the most important.
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by rafaelm 5y ago
I used to listen to the podcast a lot before it went to Spotify. While Rogan is a self-admitted "ignorant", it was that aspect that made his interviews interesting and enjoyable. He always had guests of all types and beliefs. Unfo
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by rafaelm 5y ago
Same here. I used to listen to a lot of episodes and he had super interesting conversations. But the whole covid situation really sent him off the deep end. And the more the "establishment" tries to push back, the more he's d
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by rafaelm 5y ago
I invite you to take a look at the world of AI writers that are currently flooding the market. I've seen massive sites with hundreds of thousands of crappy ai articles getting a LOT of traffic.
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by rafaelm 5y ago
I was hunting the 8 port switch for a while. I had to setup my own stock monitoring with alerts and managed to catch one that way.
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by rafaelm 5y ago
Can confirm, lots of people from my country have been traveling to Miami to get the shot. Some go for 10 days to get the Johnson shot (single dose), because they can't/don't want to spend a month for the two doses. According
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by rafaelm 5y ago
Yep, I was wondering more about the ongoing costs of "operating" the block. I was reading a superuser.com question [1] about it and it mentions ongoing costs, like transit, BGP routing etc. This is super interesting! I didn't

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