Certified Translator, stuck in Venezuela, looking for remote freelance work

Post by dang » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 6:17 AM UTC

megaman22 wrote: post #55

duxup wrote: post #41

It's heartbreaking seeing what happened to Venezuela. It is also really scary as Venezuela was doing relatively quite well compared to other nearby nations. Democracy, functional institutions (relatively) and then .... people chose to vote in some strong men who trashed it. Granted oil prices would have resulted in real problems anyway, but nothing to the extent we're seeing now. While nobody would want that situatio…

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Post by Grue3 » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 10:14 AM UTC

firekvz wrote: post #33

Hey there, another venezuelan here. if you want to help this person PLEASE dont send any money without asking for verification first, I have seen so many people lately using this "please help me im venezuelan and i am in need" to scam money, there has been at least 5 sucessfull scams on r/btc, r/bitcoin and other online forums. Also Please note that: 1- it's harder to change BTC for VEF than change USD for VEF 2- thi…

Post by petraeus » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 1:03 PM UTC

datalist wrote: post #66

smallnamespace wrote: post #45

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To add to this to this point: 1. USD is the de facto world currency, and many (most?) banks in the world let you open an account in the local currency, plus another account denominated in USD which is absolutely necessary for doing any sort of international business 2. Venezuela's currency collapse is a problem mainly because it needs to import goods (medicine, machine tools, etc.) from the international market, whic…

Slow down, "de facto world currency" and "most banks" is somewhat exaggerated. The dollar is still a very strong currency and in many areas the leader, but it is still not the world currency. Equally, banks do offer sometimes accounts denominated in USD but this applies mostly to larger banks, is typically a special kind of package, and is a classic foreign currency account you can open for GBP, EUR, SGD, and many ot…

Post by microcolonel » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

downrightmike wrote: post #47

duxup wrote: post #41

It's heartbreaking seeing what happened to Venezuela. It is also really scary as Venezuela was doing relatively quite well compared to other nearby nations. Democracy, functional institutions (relatively) and then .... people chose to vote in some strong men who trashed it. Granted oil prices would have resulted in real problems anyway, but nothing to the extent we're seeing now. While nobody would want that situatio…

Democracy is hardly democratic anymore. It is mostly just a show. Votes don't seem to matter. Trump won the vote, putin won the vote.

Post by taejo » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:09 PM UTC

flyGuyOnTheSly wrote: post #48

mdasen wrote: post #43

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https://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ - $0.13 - $0.16 per word which comes to $32.50 - $40 per 250-word page. https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ - $0.06 - $0.12 per word or $15-30 per page. https://www.gts-translation.com/translation-prices-per-word/ - $0.10 per word or $25 per page. https://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/benefits/tran... - $0.087 or $21.75. It's certainly seems cheaper a…

WOW... no wonder there are so many AI startups working on translation. I thought Google Translate uses AI now fairly perfectly. Why is anyone paying a human translator $40/page when Google Translate is "free"?