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The offers reflected the stock price, stock prices go up and down always.

The code Copilot suggest from any given project most of the time is not enough to credit such project, when I look up code in some GitHub repo, and copy it fully or part of it, I do not credit that project.

I do not see Copilot as useful anyway.

That makes your cousin a migrant worker too? no?

I had an income of 2-3k monthly from Facebook apps back in 2010s. I do not advice apps since you are at the mercy of the platform and their policies.

Like North African farm workers in France.

That's not legal, and it doesn't happen in cases of the kind of workers you are talking about. Taking passport or treating to be accused of rape and similar things happen (not commonly) to domestic workers and drivers. In occasions they buy the right of Kafala from the Kafil for a couple of $1000s and you leaving before your contract ends feel to them like a loss of money, I would say the situation here is indeed similar to slavery. For industry workers, every worker is replaceable and the company hiring you has 0 incentive to force you to stay.

The real issue in gulf is not paying livable wages mainly. Anything else is comparable to farm workers in Europe.

Qatar is Sunni, they do not do temporary marriages, which is a Shia thing.

It is not about the Kafala system, since even the West has similar systems. It is that they treat migrant workers that are not highly skilled specially from specific backgrounds bad.

They will respond to complaints.

Say you go to your Airbnb, walk the stairs with a woman that could look like a sex worker, the neighbors will consider that disrespectful to be done "in front of their kids", and they will call the police on you. However not sure if that's enough to warrant the police entering your house, so they might just talk to you and ask you to be considerate or give you a warning.

I am someone from a developing country who regularly used crypto either to get paid, or to pay for things online.

Does crypto have issues? yes. Is it good enough that in occasion it was my preferred payment method? yes.

Crypto community and companies are maybe bad, but if you zoom out into IT overall there is a fair share of greed and misuse. The internet is full of scams, gurus selling courses with false claims, spam emails that drain your grandpa's account, affiliate programs with 70% margin to sell fake products from questionable weight loss ebooks with health-harming diets to fragrances claiming to be perfumes that attract females supported by endless fake video testimonies, online communities encouraging hate, demoralization, and lack of belief in society.

Seem to me that those articles are nothing but status quo bias, does crypto has bad aspects? yes, is it worse than say internet? I don't know.

TikTok recommend content based on attractiveness.

There is a couple of accounts that use the same attractive face in totally unrelated videos, like 1 second of it, in all their videos just to bait the algorithm and it works.

10% faster with literata, altho with bionic i had 0 issues losing tracks of where I was or skipping lines but accident, which made me think i was reading faster, but apparently i was not.

1. If half of Bitcoin users (hashrate-wise) wanted to disrupt the network out of malice ignoring their economic wellbeing, say a movement similar to GME/WSB, then they can disrupt it.

2. We can go into lower levels and find a number of ISPs specially level 1 ones being able to disrupt the Bitcoin network. Some other single points of failure I can imagine are common routers firmware.

Can Bitcoin never be disrupted? no, does it have mechanisms in place that make it unlikely to be disrupted? yes.

Disrupt is creating chaos short term, I don't imagine it to last more than 1 hour, but that's enough to call it disrupt.

They are talking here about mining pools I suppose since the biggest 4 mining pools account for more than 50% of validated blocks.

Also the word is "disrupt" so it means some time of chaos, the mining pools never tried to disrupt Bitcoin because they have no incentive to do so.

Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

This one should be paid, I would ignore this one if I am going thru other applications, if the salary is good I'd mention it before bringing up any 4-hours technical assignment.

I wonder if this or similar stories is leaked by purpose to encourage more people to apply.

The HUGE influx of recruiters from developed countries that wanna go thru the whole recruitment process without giving me a a range of salary.

The confrontational and accusatory tone when I state my desired range and say that I got paid similar with companies in my own country (when questioned about it) when comparing apples to apples (contracting), the gaslighting and excuses of why I should get paid less than I have got with local and international companies in the past. The reasons for such aggression normally is the frustration since they have a GOOD monetary incentive to seal the deal, but does not excuse the behavior for sure. Even telemarketers are nicer than recruiters at this point.

I do attribute this to the rise in remote work. I used to rarely get contracted by a recruiter before C19 and when in the rare occasion when it happened it had a good chance of getting something out of it, now it is companies looking for super cheap labor instead of just trying to find talent.

Seem like someone who had "I work at Netflix" as a personality and now he is coming in terms with losing it.

Also I feel like developers are a bit too self-centered.

I do not believe AI claims whenever I read them, and this is happening at the risk of me being a cynic and a disbeliever in the field. And I am not sure if that's bad for society or bad just for me.

I am more likely to believe celebrity gossip than AI news articles.

It has to do with at what percentile of wary and being good drivers we think we are. Also abduction is not the only risk for children.

I believe that often than not people do the right thing, if it something done in mass there is a reason for it and it is just hard to pin point the reason.

There can be social reasons for it, also we don't know if there is some implicit higher chances of getting abducted for kids who get drove to school. Like them walking to school will increase the chance of them abducted.

Master Duel,

The real issue is "continuous recruitment" imo.

Homeless people move from other states to California because it is easier to live as a homeless in the Cali weather.

So that's just fortunate for you. California has to solve its problems, it is the hand that it was dealt to them and they have to make the best out of it.

If it is not suitable for you to live there, it is fine.

Infrastructure and defense are resources, it is something everyone benefits from.

Well, looking at the numbers it does not seem to be that big of a punishment.

By anyway, punishing growth should be valid, IT workers are doing well, the homeless that are to be helped is not like they gonna be hired as software devs at PayPal.

Taxes are nothing but a reallocation of resources and it always has been, and it is the price you pay for living in a society, and it is worth it, you'd rather have the addicted and mentally ill outside of streets one day you might get stabbed by one of them.

Also it is not just about taxes, the gov need to take some drastic measures too.

p2p cannot save a state that the whole network agree upon, that's the point of Web3, that's what it is solving. What a waste of articles?

You CANNOT have distributed apps with old p2p file sharing.

Would wearing glasses, specially blue light blocking glasses make sun's effect on your circadian rhythm less pronounced?

Takes months to rise your vitamin D levels.

My ordering of CSS is similar to this, but opacity and z-index has to go last.