While this is true, we're not 100% out of the woods. My brother is an architect in the region and mentioned to me that our exurbs and suburbs are notorious for fudging their water sustainability numbers vs actual use.
I do the same. Additionally, I'll generally write an unexecutable bit of code where I left off. If I try to start again the program will error out on the line I left off on.
I've been reading Lords of Finance, which covers the early 1900s. It's eerie how the current situation reflects the pre Black Thursday boom. Investments started to concentrate into a few stocks (then RCA and Montgomery Ward) as retail investors piled in. Folks were buying on margin, credit was easy. The difference now I think is the willingness of the Fed to reduce interest rates to support the stock market as well as a too big too fail ethos. At the time, the Fed wanted to drive out speculators which exacerbated things. I wonder how long the Fed will keep it up.
Argentina at the time had an official rate that was 4 to 1 the black market rate. If I used the official methods I'd be paying the contractor 25% of what I promised. In the US, this is not a large issue, but there are many countries where the gov't can manipulate their currency and exchange rates.
I first used it to pay a contractor in Argentina, since then I stick with the store of value hypothesis. It’s like gold but easier to hold and trade without having the government devalue it by printing more dollars. Or put another way, why does a dollar have value?
I manage an outsourced team having worked in Latin America. I agree with the other commenters here. It will fail if there's no quality control and no filtering. Just like in the US, there are good devs and bad devs. It's up to the agency to actually manage and help them grow.
I run an online mobile ordering app for restaurants as a side project and have never seen this many sign ups in one day. I have a full time job so had to bring my gf on to help with customer support.
I negotiated the purchase of my condo from our landlord. The first thing we did was shave 6% off from the avg price in the area due to not using real estate agents. That fee is an indirect amount you paid through an increased price.
What is your IDE setup? I like elixir, but it seems that IDE support isn't where I'm used to in other languages. Specifically module auto imports/aliasing. Not a big gripe, but I haven't found an IDE I like as much as Rubymine for Elixir.