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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 peppe…

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 befor…

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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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…

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 Sach…

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 u…

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 …

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.

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 Ven…

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 …

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 oft…

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 fea…

If you're not on a new line, you can type Ctrl-d twice.

I also was on ESTA, and had no local address.

I can confirm this. I opened an account at Citibank with only my passport.

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...

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…