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I never said the US has more responsibility but has it's share of it. I call by name recent US presidents because they have been both since the 60s the ones that have changed the US policies regarding to Cuba, both in very different directions.

I was born and lived there until 2016. The problem is both things, there is a huge malfunctioning of the government and the society has became conformist of what they have. But, you cannot discard the US as a pretty bad influence on how things are over there. More so in recent years since Trump. I always say if the US gets out of the way, Cubans will free themselves. When there is nobody to blame, people will question the system. When Obama lifted some restrictions over the island I visited there and saw a huge change on people's mentality and there was an entrepreneurship spirit, down that path things would have changed a lot. Now people are more blocked, more hungry, with less resources and with state media blaming the US, they will not think about anything else than survive. I say all this as somebody that doesn't like communism but neither the system in the US, they are both brutal in different ways imho.

I lived in Ecuador, all these people will have retirement and healthcare thru the IES(https://www.iess.gob.ec/), equivalent to the US Social Security. It's not a perfect system but neither is US retirement if you don't have 401k or some kind of private retirement plan, the healthcare could be slow sometimes and you spend 30 mins to an hour to see the doctor but it works.

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Very true, I'm a frequent person to Kava/Kratom bars where I live and there are several of them with lots of regular clients so non-alcoholic beverages seem to be a good market.

I was without those until 2012 when I left Cuba. I did have a computer there, an old one with Linux, Emacs, and no desktop environment where I did freelance work and got online once per week to upload the work. I lived in South America until 2016 and still was semi-disconnected due to the prices of mobile data. Here in the US has been hard for me to get disconnected and mostly do it when I travel to Cuba for 15 days or a month to visit the fam. These are great days, feels weird the first 3 days but then you forget these devices exist and start talking to people, dancing, swimming, being immersed in the community and talking about topics one normally doesn't. It's a really rewarding thing and always makes me think that we are very disconnected from our true nature.

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Not my article but thought it was worth sharing as someone who coded his way out of Cuba 10 years ago under similar circumstances. Part 2 on https://medium.com/@jorgejaviergarciaruiz/coding-my-way-out-...

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Great to hear, did you use gen_server and supervisors or just spawn/3?

Erlang has way more advantages than its concurrency model but none of these can be used in a lambda I guess. It is just good to have diversity, many will disagree but you get used to love the Erlang syntax and being able to run it in AWS lambda is kind of nice to not change the stack.

I don't think is fair to compare Go to Erlang. Erlang is really designed to do 4 things: concurrency, low latency, fault tolerance and distributed systems and it shines there. Go is indeed a general purpose language to me.

Great to see more databases written in Erlang.

I feel the same, politics in small startups are a thing too, people selling smokeware, the fake until you make it, violating engineering principles to satisfy marketing dreams. Plus everyone is selfish and trying to just be recognized and get more money. I'm thinking on the consultant + indie hackers route but still struggling because I suck at sales.

Posted this on my blog today. Hopefully can be useful to anyone and pardon any typo, English is not my mother tongue.