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How is he the exploiter if he contributes so much to the project?

What, because he prioritizes his hobbies like race matches? Or because he elects not to spend an entire day at an event?

Does an OSS maintainer not allowed to have a life?

Noted, I never delved deeper into the definitions - it was hard enough as it happened.

If that's not burnout, then I don't know what is a burnout, apparently. I never even considered that.

At one point in my career, I've been a CTO of a startup company. I worked 12-14 hours a day, including weekends. My relationship with the CEO was bad, and he actively added "senior tech leads" to the company to compete with me.

One day, I arrived to the office, and stood in the hallway across our office door. I froze. I couldn't physically move. I stood there, unable to move, for 2.5 hours until someone passed by and saw me.

I'm sharing this story so that readers may have an idea of what severe burnout may look like. It's not that I didn't want to move - I couldn't, my brain didn't let me. I lost my ability to control my body at that point.

The Replit CEO has proven himself time and time again to be.. this.

I hope that every potential customer will consider the culture he cultivates. We don't need this in tech.

Universities everywhere become corrupt, as performance doesn't matter for the staff to be paid.

The only thing that matters is political power, both for the hosting country subsidies as well as outside donations (Qatar massive donation that made Harvard president claim that a call to murder all Jews is ok is a great example).

I have no idea how to fix this at this point.

I just know that trust in academic institutions is very, very low. And justifiably so.

By definition - if you want to immigrate to the US (legally) you must be successful.

For example, L1 Visa, will require your company to employ at least 15 people in the US by the end of it. So you either start a company successful enough to hire at least 15 people, or you go home.

If you aspire to live in the US at the end of it, it's a hell of a motivator.

I'll just add - this beneficial system is largely being closed down due to illegal immigration in the US, which "fills" the caps in many places. It may be hurtful to the US long term.

^^^ this.

Starting a war and losing it should have consequences.

They tried to genocide the Jews in 1948 and lost.

If there are no consequences for what they did - they'll just keep doing it until they'll be successful. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what Hamas said about Oct 7 - that they'll repeat it again and again.

If anything, Google should be more aggressive with getting any politics out.

Politics essentially botched their Gemini AI release. The politics are beyond harming the company.

No, it did not. You made that up. Read their decision again.

That's a lie.

Israel always allowed as much aid as needed. Hamas kept stealing it to create the crisis and have useful idiots say it's genocide.

The lie of "genocide" again.

Genocide is what the Palestinians attempted - killing civilians, burning babies, and raping teenage girls.

Losing a war you started isn't genocide.

I expected the third step to be "shortage of FBI agents lead to deteriorated quality of service".

But what you described is far more scary.

And this is obviously true for all jobs that hold power. Combine it with bribery that can come from actors like Russia, Qatar, or China - this is an issue that must be fixed now.

I won't blame VCs but the 0% interest rate environment.

When money had no "price" to it, it made absolute sense to borrow as much as possible from the future, and thus delaying profits for growth.

That's why we start seeing this world change now, rates are no longer 0 and money isn't free. You have to pay now, and so you have to have some cash flow now.

The ~400,000 figure is WITHOUT targeted technology, obviously.

Why do you rush to attack?

Isn't the content and licensing costs are the majority of their costs? Honestly asking, I never assumed infrastructure and bandwidth might be the majority

Amazon has a kidnapped employee currently being held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza: https://nypost.com/2023/11/30/news/amazon-silent-on-israeli-...

Their disregard for their employees is beyond shameful

The massacre was in Israel, when Hamas mass raped and murdered Israelis.

What happens in Gaza is a justified war to prevent such attacks from occuring again.

Palestinians have higher moral ground by raping innocent teenagers and then shooting them in the head?

Yeah, some moral high ground. Your comment tells more about you than about this conflict.

Because most of the Muslim world shares false propaganda against them, and they are billions of people against ~10 million?

Why does tech used have any effect on what is true? If you don't fear the truth, you should be happy that the minority has the tools to get more data out.

I'm pleasantly surprised.

I can live with that - no more politics on HN.

You want me to criticize fighting terrorism?

I will forever support fighting terrorists. You know, since I have a moral compass.

So if Egypt refuses - why should Israel supply an enemy that mass murdered entire families and babies and mass raped teenage girls?

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-oct-7-mur...

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It happens daily.

Here's another: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/humanitarian-tr...

Maybe you just try so hard to side with terrorists?

They hurt both Palestinians and Israelis.

Unrelated.

They are hungry because Hamas is stealing the aid: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-terri...

And not because there is not enough aid brought in.

Hamas are to blame here, Israel does not stop any aid truck from coming in.

What blockade?

They have a border with Egypt. Why won't Egypt let them leave?

There was never a blockade because Israel never surrounded Gaza.

There is enough food.

Trucks with all the aid come in every day. Here, for example, is a report from Nov 26: https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-wa...

You can find reports for every day.

Don't take what a terror group says a truth.

About the last part - Israel is not friendly to the Kremlin. It merely doesn't actively attack due to the Kremlin control of Syria.

If Israel goes against Russia, then Russia will prevent Israel attacks that prevent Irans control of Syria and Lebanon.

life is way more complicated than you presented it

What is the story here? That Israelis try to defend themselves online?

The fact that it is a story at all is concerning.

Your propaganda attempt to support terrorism does not work here.

Go somewhere else and try to justify mass rape and murder of civilians like the Palestinians celebrated.