santimt

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santimt··on Argentina's currency exchange black markets

In Uruguay, neighbor of Argentina, you can extract up to 500 USD daily from ATMs.

santimt··on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Wall hacked

already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858

santimt··on Facebook founder Zuckerberg hacked to highlight bug

already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858

santimt··on Gmail.com was down

Up and running now

santimt··on Google Talk is down

Uruguay, South America, partially down

santimt··on A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier

This is not new, search for "MM1 queue" and you will get a lot of mathemathical results explaining why this effect happens. Is a study case of queueing models.

santimt··on Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Isn't Brazil a large government? From a neighbour country, trust me that it is.

santimt··on Ecuador offers WikiLeak's founder Assange residency, no questions asked

I'm from Uruguay. Here US is hated by only a few, left ideas oriented people. I think the reason that make US to be hated is because its support to dictatorships and its imperial behavior over almost every country. But trust me, it is hated by only a few (at least here and the surroundings).

santimt··on Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers

You can sign up in the web page to get (i hope) an invite

santimt··on Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers

Does it use P2P transfer or the owner of a file should update as many copies of the file as peers syncing?