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ronhav3··on Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'
And yet, when a coworker leaves, he quickly dissapears from our conciousness.

These "bonds" are an illusion.

ronhav3··on CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries
Israel is doing well after 10 months.

No lack hostile hackers.

ronhav3··on Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
Google is a trully global business.

Everyone is their customer. It is beyond hubris to think you get a say on that as one of 150,000 employees.

ronhav3··on Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
Which is exactly why this toxic behavior should be kept out of the workplace.
ronhav3··on Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel
They are cowards who are afraid to put a name to their noble cause
ronhav3··on The New Inflection
How is it ok to start a company, hire people with big promises - and then leave them in a lurch ?
ronhav3··on Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday
Yep. AI is, and will be used militarily.

These virtue signaling games are childish.

ronhav3··on French authorities label Vitamin D as endocrine disruptor
5000 is not 'megadosing' according to the latest research. It may well be on the low side of what is required.
ronhav3··on Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
If GAAP is the only measure, then Amazon and Salesforce have been utter failures for 20+ years, only returning 120,000% and 4000% returns to shareholders.

In fact, if an investor went by GAAP, he would have missed the entire massive SaaS boom of the past decade.

ronhav3··on Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
Only 'unprofitable' in GAAP terms.It has a very healthy Free Cash Flow margin. And it still a 7x return from IPO.

All-in-all, a great success story. (Whatever one thinks of Jira the product)

ronhav3··on Yandex CEO resigns after being targeted by EU sanctions
Russian-speakers, mostly ex-USSR citizens, hundreds of thousands of them from Ukraine.

Israeli policy can be traced to Russia's presence in Syria, not to internal politics.

ronhav3··on Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'
US citizens pay taxes to the IRS, wherever they reside.
ronhav3··on Wall Street Takes Workers’ Retirement Money and Uses It Against Them
These mandatory pension plans exist in several countries. They are a good idea in themselves, but they often provide governments an excuse not pay decent direct benefits to the elderly. So many people are not able participate in the workforce for the decades necessary to profit from these plans.
ronhav3··on DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants
How is it that companies that don't offer any equity can still compete in this market ?

Who joins Oracle/IBM...etc' these days ?

ronhav3··on A second Bitcoin exchange collapses in Turkey amid crackdown on cryptocurrencies
What is the real relationship between the 'crackdown' and these exchanges collapsing ? Is the collapse an excuse to arrest the operators?
ronhav3··on Show HN: Relocate.me – get your next tech job abroad
How can there still be these huge gaps in salary between Europe and the US ? You would expect US Tech giants to come in and swoop all the top local talent, thus raising overall demand.
ronhav3··on In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)
Considering that some HR tests still include analyzing your handwriting by 'graphologists'.
ronhav3··on U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains
Built by the great Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen.He also designed the St.Louis Arch.
ronhav3··on Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
A majority of Spanish fatalities were in nursing homes and other restricted facilities. If the virus penetrates these places, average mortality spikes.
ronhav3··on The iPhone dongle is still my fucking nightmare
An oddly specifically USnian complaint. Thank goodness for the dominance of WhatsApp in the rest of the western wold.
ronhav3··on Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities?
Tech turned Washington blue. I hope Amazon can do the same for a swing state like NC or GA.
ronhav3··on Stressful lives of older tech workers
I have been in hiring meetings where lack of social media presence in a candidate was a disqualifier for the HR types.
ronhav3··on Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook
I've been on Instagram for a year, and I still don't get it.

I've gotten to a 1000 followers by regularly adding photos from my travels. I get a few hundred likes per photo and a couple of dozen of generic comments.And the occasional DM. Is this it ? Even by the standards of social media, it feels very superificial to me.

Facebook 10 years ago was much more exciting.