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Comment · 4 years ago
No, they won't necessarily. I have a few banned accounts and a few working ones. Not saying it never happens - I bet it does. But not always.
Comment · 4 years ago
Never ever use your personal Google account for anything you don't want to lose. You haven't seen all the horror stories the past few years?
Comment · 4 years ago
We care about attracting investors because the country is full of people dying due to not enough monetary resources both for the state and for individuals.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not sure where you'd upload the photos to Google domains?

Assuming, of course, that you don't use your personal account for your domains - that'd be crazy!

Comment · 4 years ago
> that's not a great benchmark

> US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average...

Cool, but you have to compare El Salvador to its peers. How much money and continuity does your state have compared to ES? Even the poorest [GDP per capita] European Union states have literally multiple orders of magnitude bigger state budgets than ES. Getting homicide rate in Americas under the US average is a huge achievement, especially given how quick it was and how hopeless it seemed just a few years ago.

> small potatoes

Hahahahahah, maybe for you. It's the entire yearly budget deficit for El Salvador. These 700 million were the difference between life and death for many El Salvadorans who couldn't get their pensions or healthcare payouts raised with the inflation. Perhaps you could donate some "small potatoes", they really need it and it seems like you have more than enough.

> Lula was innocent BTW

I guess your investigation has turned up a new suspect?

Comment · 4 years ago
I disagree that there was a better crypto than Bitcoin. It's very much a long and very technical discussion that I can't afford right now, but I wanted you to know that your opinion is not universal - it's much less clear cut than "there was a better crypto, why not use it?".
Comment · 4 years ago
That's one out of hundreds kingdoms and "democratic republics". I don't think it's possible to base a strategy on that, it seems to be an enormous outlier of extreme historical significance.
Comment · 4 years ago
Did you read the communication from before it was implemented? The largest talking point was getting money from El Salvadorans living outside the country back home (because the traditional banking system is failing them), not making capital gains from BTC.
Comment · 4 years ago
Both monarchies and dictatorships also transfer huge amount of the wealth to the autocrats. So perhaps by giving the resources to someone to exploit?
Comment · 4 years ago
The point was never to make capital gains on the Bitcoin investment. The point was to make the economy interesting to foreign investors and bring in their money.
Comment · 4 years ago
Your remark is quite the statement. The death toll of CCP is >40 million. The only other organization that might beat that is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Comment · 4 years ago
Because having a direct war a little later is so much better.
Comment · 4 years ago
You mean like React (9 years ago), Angular (12 years ago) or Vue (8 years ago)? Who seriously uses anything else?

I think you confused the JS ecosystem with the C# one.

Comment · 4 years ago
The meaning is different. In software industry, senior means "doesn't need handholding", not "super-super-long experience" as in other more traditional fields.

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