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Re:As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:23PM (#15947449)
Quoting someone else: "NY Times major piece on starvation in Venezuela.

Carefully avoids mentioning socialism. All the problems are passive voice ("as the economy collapsed," "as hyperinflation appeared") or exogenous ("oil prices collapsed").

Walter Duranty lives."

Re:Ask YC: Hiring contractors to convert PSDs to HTML/CSS on Thursday December 11, 2008 @01:30AM (#394044)
Out of the services I've tried, psdslicing.com was the best and cheapest. They happily made changes if I was not satisfied with something.

I had a bad experience going the rentacoder route (I used elance, actually). For $30/page you get a lot of people who are pretty good but not great, and produce shoddy markup.