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    Recommendations for electronics repair?- broken sony headphones.

    Headphones are often quite difficult to repair. Go down to galeria jardin on florida and ask around, someone will be able to do it if its possible.
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    Argentine branch of Acurio's "street food" casual dining chain. I am a huge causa fan, and I thought their causa was pretty good. Not cheap, but what is these days. Big portions, dishes that the cheaper Once area peruvian restaurants dont have. https://barrachalacaargentina.com/
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    The moment Nirvana ruined their own concert in Buenos Aires

    We went to see Bikini Kill in March at Complejo C, and Kathleen Hanna mentioned Calamity Jane, but not Nirvana or this incident specifically. The crowd, of probably 2000 argentines, was mostly female and mostly under 25, not even born when this happened. But they started buzzing immediately and...
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    Tanta put up an instagram post with a picture of food 2 days ago, so I am guessing yes. And Acurio was involved in the relatively recent barra chalaca on niceto vega near the pulgas, which is much less fancy than tanta, but pretty good in my opinion.
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    2 random questions!... Can someone help me?

    there are a couple dozen places like this- https://danitexbh.com.ar/ https://kingtexremeras.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoraRogq5OKKn8EMKpZvniFBwgIss_GR0aRxoDjvd3NvR6j5RbEi just google remeras
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    I know a few of them, they look like hippies, but usually there is a lot more hair care going on than you might think.
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    Peronist Hypocrisy in Argentina

    I think of people who call themselves "peronist" these days as similar to the people in the US who call themselves "republicans" but dont know that Abe Lincoln was one. Parties change over time, and the Peronist of today would probably be disappeared by the Peronist of 60 years ago. There is no...
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    This always befuddles me. I ride the colectivos almost every day. I look out the window, and I observe what locals are wearing. I see encargados, dressed head to toe in Pampero work clothes (I love Pampero, and often wear it) I see lawyers, dressed in fitted suits and shiny leather shoes ( I...
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    Spicy food exists. Mostly korean. Bi won, cancion de corea, mr. Ho, fa song song, nanum are all good, in various parts of town, ca ting is decent vietnamese, for ba. Lots of Chinese catering to chinese, spicy is available. Xi bei feng, or mian are both good. And you can go to flores, the big...
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    2 random questions!... Can someone help me?

    Once is full of clothing wholesalers. Depends on what you want, but its all there.
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    What's the reality of safety in Buenos Aires?

    considering there are over 300,000 asian argentines, at a bare minimum, and most live in Buenos Aires, there is no reason an asian person would "stick out". there are tens of thousands each of koreans, japanese, and chinese living here. I see asian argentine every single day, I work within a...
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    Moving to BA from Boston... need contacts!

    for something like sheets, check mercado libre, as above. If its for sale in argentina, its on mercado libre. 800 thread count is above my pay grade. I always buy local- argentina grows cotton. But I admit sheets are not my area of knowledge. tools and hardware and making things, sure. I would...
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    Peronist Hypocrisy in Argentina

    Peronism, like Cumbia, can mean absolutely anything. Peron is dead. His first achievement, which got him promoted and noticed, was machinegunning striking anarchist blacksmiths, most of whom were jewish and italian immigrants during the Semana Tragica. He was essential in creating the...
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    Moving to BA from Boston... need contacts!

    Argentina has all kinds of places to buy materials and tools. They just dont subscribe much to the "home depot" style of marketing. The closest thing is Easy/Jumbo, which sells chinese trash, by and large. You need to learn to navigate the system, and you can find any tool (usually better...
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    Argentina must repudiate its debt

    This is what has happened every time, historically, “libertarian” ideas have been tried in the real world. Its an ideological fantasy of teenagers, not economics. Lowering taxes never increases revenues. Lowering wages always lads to more poverty. The Market always takes the money and runs...
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    Did Milei just lift Argentina out of recession?

    At first, I wondered- what, were Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff already taken as fake internet names? But then, I realized, if you are a big Milei fan, Rothbard is a somewhat appropriate choice. Like Milei, the real Rothbard never had a real job that was not being a court jester and trained...
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    Did Milei just lift Argentina out of recession?

    In 2021, the World Bank said- "Argentina is the world's third largest food exporter, with the agricultural sector accounting for 15.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 10.6% of tax revenues in 2021."
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    Milei’s useless fight against gravity

    There were two things he could have done, starting at the beginning, when he had some momentum and a tiny bit of doubt about his abilities. 1- Fix the import taxes and red tape. Nobody, of any political persuasion, disagrees that this is a mess. Milei, as a libertarian, thinks the way to do this...
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    Opening a Mercado Libre acct. w/o a DNI

    they have updated the way their system works, in January, I had to send in a photo of the dni card. both sides. So what may have worked years ago, doesnt necessarily work now.
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    Almost 14% of the population of Buenos Aires: These are the barrios that foreign residents choose to live in the most

    35% of the population of New York City was born outside the USA. Thats 3 million people. Compared to 14% of the 3 million people inside BA, which is around 400,000 people who were born outside of Argentina, most of which are probably from neighboring countries.
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