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by nus07 4y ago
I once worked for a well known healthcare consulting firm where right after layoffs the CEO said on a company wide call that the layoffs would help all the rest to reach their target bonuses. I have reached the conclusion that most executi
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by nus07 4y ago
How will it affect India’s economy if the Adani Group crashes? India8is currently one of the fastest growing economies and wondering what effect this may have on the economy.
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by nus07 4y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/lina-khans-bat... For more context. A long but good read on the current FTC chairman.
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by nus07 4y ago
I have to keep my phone next to me for 2FA, MFA while working. What workaround can I use to not have my phone in a different room while working?
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by nus07 4y ago
This is another thing which cell phones have killed. Today odds are you would be trying to call or text to get in or just browsing on your phone with no time to listen to some old man’s stories .
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by nus07 4y ago
I used to do that until I moved to US. Now the stress of working long hours, constant anxiety of layoffs, working on next cutting edge tech, raising a kid without any family or community help, constant fear of losing healthcare insurance le
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by nus07 4y ago
The Dark Forest is a great book and the first one is alright. The fascination mainly stems from having a non-western sci-fi point of view since most other sci-fi books always were written from a Western protagonist standpoint. Also the back
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by nus07 4y ago
A friend of mine is a CS professor at a top university. He was born in Germany to Turkish foreign workers and could never get German citizenship despite being born and growing up in Germany . Was so disgusted that he came to the US for Phd
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by nus07 4y ago
Germany is fantastic if you are white American or first world Westerner wanting to live in a place with good public transportation, good healthcare , good work practices and less hustle culture and good beer . For others especially brown f
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Maryland governor bans use of TikTok on state devices(msn.com)
3 points by nus07 4y ago|1 comments
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by nus07 4y ago
Have you been to India? There is high income inequality and poverty and labor is cheap. People are willing to do anything to have a better life and they don’t care if it affects other people . With 1.3 billion people competition for surviva
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by nus07 4y ago
India. Controversial answer but bear with me. If you are SE Asian or white India is the best place to be right now for tech. Companies and salaries are booming , bar. to entry to get into newer tech stack and management is lower. With the r
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by nus07 4y ago
I am willing to pay upto $3 to turn off LinkedIn feed and not see any of those motivational or cringey posts . Just job related posts .
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by nus07 4y ago
The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion —at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day— during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 percent of huma
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by nus07 4y ago
OP are you Elon Musk ?
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by nus07 4y ago
Does Elon Musk want to become the Rupert Murdoch of the digital era and become king maker ?
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by nus07 4y ago
Didn't short thinking AWS is minting money. Feel stupid about it lol.
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by nus07 4y ago
Didn't short thinking AWS is minting money. Feel stupid. Maybe big tech is going back to 2019 levels.
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More American students mull college in Europe(bloomberg.com)
15 points by nus07 4y ago|2 comments
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by nus07 4y ago
A lack of safety net and hustle culture means people are busy leetcoding than tinkering or pursuing hobbies. Its hard to pursue hobbies when one can barely afford to buy a house while my buddy leetcoded to a 300k job and bought a house next
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by nus07 4y ago
This is two pronged 1. the attention economy with the internet 2. reflective of a lack of social and economic safety net. The Western world had a strong safety net which allowed for the pursuing of hobbies and the time to do so. Now I see
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by nus07 4y ago
The person is most likely going to quit the moment they vest from the way it sounds. They are probably miserable and just biding their time to vest themselves. So it’s up to you whether you want to fire him/her first or just let them q
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by nus07 4y ago
OP here . Thank you . I feel stuck here in the US too since my family lives in a different country but I cannot move back because spouse and her family live here and the US has better prospects for kids . But I feel stuck in my career since
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Ask HN: Are we all burned out?
166 points by nus07 4y ago|153 comments
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by nus07 4y ago
You know what would make me more productive ? If I didn’t live in anxiety and felt a sense of security. I would then want to feel productive and contribute . However my time is instead spent haggling and spending hours talking to health ins
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by nus07 4y ago
I started my career in 2005 working for an Indian outsourcing company one of whose biggest clients was Lehmann Brothers . I was in a small internal development team of 6 folks while the rest of the entire floor was a 60-70 member team servi
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by nus07 4y ago
How does India do in all this? Their software development salaries in tier 1 cities are close to 100k or more. Lots of friends going back .
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Johnson and Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection(newyorker.com)
2 points by nus07 4y ago|0 comments
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by nus07 4y ago
Totally agree. Which countries are dominating STEM education? Israel, Russia, China , India and a few others which have strict schedules, competition and discipline. Looking at the failing US model I am starting to believe that finding your
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Backlash against US News college rankings(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by nus07 4y ago|0 comments

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