throwaway313371

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by throwaway313371 6y ago
> I think your one(?) experience with Middle-eastern engineers has unfortunately given you a bad impression, but I'm not sure that necessitates making such a dogmatic and blanket "caveat". I've directly managed 6 team
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
Sorry bro, I forgot that it is verboten to point out the rampant right-wing / libertarian philosophy which took over HN as the YC bros got wealthier and wealthier. Yes massah, we have a really nice pseudo-intellectual, crypto-fascist b
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
Nobody: Hacker News: I know! Let's ask Ayn Rand to solve it!
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. Before Covid finding a company which would hire me (American) while living in Istanbul was easy. Now the competition with unemployed Americans has made me leave the tech industry, as I'm no longer employable.
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
There's a big caveat here: Middle-eastern engineers will have significant problems working with more liberal/woke companies. They have a strong tendency to be homophobic/transphobic/misogynist. Last year I fired an off-
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
Proof? My understanding is that the Twitter block in 2016 had less to do with Twitter as a company and more to do with Tayipp not being able to control the flow of information. Remember Wikipedia was blocked because Tayipp's page was
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
Depends on the AKP supporters. Those who are barely literate, live in Asherates (villages which are run by often corrupt patriarchs and are told how to vote), and who go to school at imam-hatips? Probably not. The Turks who are educated in
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by throwaway313371 6y ago
> quite a lot of Kurds will beg to differ? Huh? Which Kurds? Istanbul Kurds? Black Sea Kurds? Eastern border Kurds? South-Eastern mountain Kurds? My neighborhood in Beşiktaş is 30% Kurd, and 70% of the neighborhood voted HDP (the Kurdis