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Jake Verbaten
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Staff Software Engineer, Uber alumni, fan of distributed systems, performance optimizations and observability.
Panama
Joined May 2011
@TheJerzWay The nice thing about latam is that I don’t have to Uber eats a 25$ subway foot long like New York but I can walk into the local place for the 4$ sandwich.
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@TheJerzWay You forgot the 20% tip, which makes it 165$ or double Mexico, the same lunch would be 40$ in Asunción.
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@TheJerzWay Point still stands though. How the fuck can Starbucks sell coffee for 7$ without American tourist to pay for it. Locals are not paying for that. Prices are ridiculous.
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@TheJerzWay Bro that’s literally the under and over city that you see in sci-fi and video games. The commonors on the street level can’t see the ad placed in the over city. Only you can, and therefore you can afford to sleep more in your over city.
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@matteocollina I still have for my own needs I can edit it and fix stuff when i don't like node:test design by comittee.
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@levelsio Yeah, to be able to access the US fiscal system / swift you need to be friends with it. The world will split into multiple camps soon, and you won't have access to certain fiscal services if your not friendly, same thing for mexicans, panama etc trying to open a wise account
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@itsjacksworld My wife bought the 4$ beef from the supermarket, something we wouldn’t do elsewhere but it was surprisingly good quality. Kind of crazy that it’s like 300% cheaper then buying chicken in Europe
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@TimurNegru @marc_louvion I’m the inverse, I don’t want my kids to have sugar but they see me eating it because addiction
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@dvassallo @levelsio It’s not 0% tax that’s not how that works. It’s possible to file a us tax return saying you made zero us connected income but all us llc are taxed at the standard us federal tax rates. It’s really easy to fuck this up and commit federal tax fraud
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@alexrecouso Because they sold out. It was all a facade. You think and hope some people are free, but the end of the day everyone is a puppet or a useful idiot who has to play their part.
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@itsjacksworld Not only is it walkable, but the independent mom n pop stores didn’t die. There’s a strong culture of specialists and doing one thing really well here. It’s refreshing.
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