2024 is the year of the Bitcoin on the desktop. /s

I got banned from Hacker News for calling a Chinese operative racist on a Hong Kong topic. I wonder if this topic will also get astroturfed.

First they'll try to flag it down.

If we follow International Olympic Committee standards, but reversed: Sequoia Western Taiwan

1. Vast amounts of all types of fraud 2. Terrible legal and regulatory environment 3. Political instability 4. Surreal cost burden at every junction of the productive process (cheapest car in Brazil for example is USD 15000, which is the same price as the cheapest car in the US) 5. Zero customer loyalty, people jump from service to service to obtain a 0.01% discount

> 5. Zero customer loyalty, people jump from service to service to obtain a 0.01% discount

Sounds like a consumer base who've learnt to reciprocate corporate loyalty.

Everywhere. Argentina and Venezuela due to need, Brazil due to the criminal opportunities it offers. It's even a running joke in Brazil that every week they arrest a new crypto-pyramid ring leader and give it the name "Sheik of Bitcoin", "Pharaoh of Bitcoin", etc. the press is running out of royal titles to give out.

In Columbia it's hugely popular for tax-avoidance - plus the state is planning to create its own digital currency.

Colombia, parce.

Lol, my bad. I do this all the time, due to proximity to an actual place named Columbia.

I am from LATAM and I would treat the region the same way as you're pointing out - like it has the plague. There is so much regulatory and legal uncertainty, not to mention the sky-high costs at every junction, that it's nearly impossible to build profitable, high-quality companies in the same way it happens elsewhere. I give credit to Nubank for being an exception, but everything else has been such a massive bust.

Come work for Amazon and write a few design docs and get them reviewed by the PEs. You will solve this issue in 90 days flat.

I have seen shit reviews by PEs who are so far away from customers and nitpick things that don't matter. It is almost as if they carry the burden to prove their PE-worthiness and hence need to find something to assert their technical prowess.

The photo on the Tweet looks incredibly disturbing. His face and head seem like they have been planted on someone else's body; even the colors are different.

Well at 12 years old I was able to center a <div> using only CSS.

Two things that never left my memory from watching this in my childhood: the lady eating the Guinea pig, and the reporter sneakily entering the alien spaceship with a massive VHS camera (because there was nothing smaller).

The bit that sticks in my mind is a shot of some giant pipes heading up into the sky, to a ship. Apparently they were taking Earth’s water? And I think someone read a gauge indicating that one million gallons/second were flowing? I was pretty young at the time.