Yeah, in Argentina the main digital wallet is MercadoPago. Many merchants have their terminal to accept payments with credit cards/QR, and since this past summer you have the option to accept payments with Pix too.
Also it goes both ways, everyone going on vacation to Brazil can pay with MercadoPago without having to install Pix.
I was so hooked to his videos a couple years ago... he was making real progress to what was his 2nd iteration of the marble machine, then he suddenly decided he had to start from scratch and got into some crypto/web3.0 thing.
I have watched many of his videos, including recent ones and I don't remember anything about crypto/web3.0. He kind of an Elon Musk fan, but far from the most obnoxious one.
The "start from scratch" part is annoying to many, including myself, but he explained his reasons. And a group took back the 2nd iteration (MMX), trying to fix it, and mostly agreed. The goal was to have a machine playable on stage, and there was too many problems with that.
Very cool OP! Just a suggestion. I would like to always have the option to see the solution link, or at least, once I pass print what was your expected solution.
Like, for the optional challenge I wrote foo(x: Optional[int] = None) and it passed but your solution was simpler with x: int|None = 0
Our currency is already super devaluated and everything has been artificially frozen for three months now, because the main rival was our current ministry of economy and he burned all ships to try win the election. So expect at least one if not two huge devaluations (40-60% each) before the year ends.
At the beginning of next year you will be able to exchange every peso in existence for about 40 billion USD or so, a lot a money, but not really...
We want to be stuck with whatever the Fed does. You might think that's stupid because the Fed is not great, but what we have right now is way worse.
One of Javier's main goals is to remove to the Argentine politician the capacity to emit more useless currency. I don't know if he's going to go ahead with that proposal or if it's going to sleep forever "soon to come", but we are just tired of our politicians, at the point that we prefer to depend on politicians of another country to dictate our monetary policy...
Short term. However many of them could become middle class if the government didn't keep screwing their efforts to get ahead. Switching to a stable currency will cause pain short term, but that is a.one time pain, but once the pain is paid they get a stable currency unlike now where inflation has been destroying the poor for nearly 100 years.
Of course they are betting the us dollar remains stable. Nobody can know this for sure, but history says it is a better bet than the status quo.
Implying the poor are poor just because of some random act and not because the current administration put them there.
Milei voiced that removing the subsidies in the current situation is nonsense and that first he wants to work on bringing income up so people can afford subsidy-less fares.
Em... I mean the American coal towns of just over 100 years ago paint a very different story.
That's when you have government give exclusive power to use resources to individuals and provide firepower to them. Remove all limitations of contractual terms and all labor protections.
Is it me, or isn't this what we call just a "plane"? A very light-weight (maybe even cheap) plane.
There's another company trying to do these "flying cars" which approach seemed better. The one with several small fans, capable of vertical take-off. Can't recall their name. But unless I'm missing something... that's way closer to a "flying car" than this one.
It’s a plane that is also road-legal. It may not match the scifi images evoked by the word “flying car” but it is a practical approach. This has been tried before and the previous attempts were not successful.
Yup, pretty clearly just a plane that is designed to kind of look like a car. The fact that they're planning to sell as an EAB (experimental amateur built) is also basically a showstopper for any general adoption.
Yeah I kind of think that visions of the future from 50 years ago envisioned flying cars being the result of a new kind of propulsion - not something akin to a small plane that has wings and requires a runway
I almost never comment here on HN (or anywhere actually), but I feel the need to express how happy I am that I found (lost in a comment a few days ago) this service.
For the past three or so years I have tried half a dozen times to leave Google Search. Tried DDG, Brave Search and some others I can't remember now. But the "poor" quality of results had me going to Google for half of my searches, and after a while, just Google again, for convenience.
Now, I'm at 44/100 trial searches and I already know I'm going to pay for this. It's like using Google on 2008 plus without ads. It just work wonders, and I haven't even started to play with the filter to raise/lower certain domains, which I think it's a fantastic tool to have.
I think that the problem is that a lot of vendors grossly overestimate their value - like NYTimes with their subscription. I am totally willing to pay for what they earn from me from ads and 10c on top of that monthly. But they want order of magnitude more.
We exchange crypto por Pesos in "black markets" and use the pesos to buy the everyday stuff.
Larger transactions are almost always in USD (a car, a property), but it's harder to justify the funds.
Most people getting paid in crypto aren't declaring any taxes. Even if you do, the limit for the most common method is 1k USD/month
