demxzy · HackerTrans

7 jaar geledendiscuss

Nigeria is corrupt but over the past few years, the country has seen a lot investments from Chinese industrialist. Usually small and medium sized one trying to get ahead of the curve. I believe the Chinese can deal with the local corruption in Nigeria. Maybe even thrive in it in the short term

demxzy

7 jaar geledendiscuss

I don't think everyone reads wapo and many probably missed the previous time it was discussed.

demxzy

7 jaar geledendiscuss

Just thinking. Maybe using lxd with rendering on the X server of the host if you use Linux. Then keeping a base container that you can clone anytime you want to start a new browsing session. Or making use snapshots if you like.

demxzy

7 jaar geledendiscuss

Even in majority of developing countries, it's better to keep your money in Fiat or even USD account(where allowed) becuase you don't suddenly loose 80% in a month or two (Exceptions bring countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela). Sure, you could loose say 20 to 30% due to fiscal adjustments due to many factors over a year, but almost everyone in your country would likely be in the same boat as you and things like PPP (for locally manufactured goods) might adjust to minimize some of the impact

demxzy

8 jaar geledendiscuss

And the third one has gotten much better in recent years

demxzy

8 jaar geledendiscuss

Firefox is looking more like a very good insurance policy going forward privacy-wise. I would like to see more open source browsers though. It feels like we are getting nearer and nearer to browser mono cultures with all the chromium clones. Maybe Ms can release edge as an opensource app with it being far behind in adoption.

demxzy

8 jaar geledendiscuss

More like visible=false;

demxzy

8 jaar geledendiscuss

Maybe we can reforest the Sahara which cheap transportation of water powered by fusion. Better climate control will also be probably possible

demxzy

9 jaar geledendiscuss

It hasn't happened probably because most of the aid to us in developing countries go to treating the symptoms of our real problems. Also aid business is a huge business for Western NGOs and most of the money find their way back to the west anyway. The positive I can see is that aid buys a lot of influence in a much cheaper way than war.

demxzy

9 jaar geledendiscuss

18K NGN is the minimum monthly wage. As some said down below, a lot of this scam don't originate from Nigeria.

> One other point i failed to mentioned. If you live in SV, tech will rub on you. Same applies living in developing nations. Scam will rub on ya.

This is assuming scamming is a national pastime in developing countries. Its not in Nigeria (as a percentage of 190 million population) and I assume most developing countries.

demxzy

9 jaar geledendiscuss

Give bitcoin another 5 - 10 years, and it will be centralize into the hands of a very very few powerful players (crypto equivalence of Facebook, Google, Amazon etc) making it easier for government to track/monitor/censor etc. On escaping hyperinflation, while this is possible and also a good thing, you can still loose a huge part of your savings by running to a currently speculative currency/commodity. In Nigeria, a lot of people did that and Bitcoin crashed in value and the local currency appreciated about 30% in the black market where a lot of common folks source their foreign currencies. It is still interesting to see where all these developments lead.

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