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"Make Russia look bad" - what does that even mean? I'm country A, country B writes bad things about me in their media, so I will invade them, bomb their electricity grid and try to overthrow their government - by what logic is that a valid casus belli?

"Isn't submitting to their globalist agenda" - again, what does that mean? As you yourself point out, nobody was planning to invade them. Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass with abundant natural resources - oil, gas, diamonds and other riches. But instead of focusing on improving lives for ordinary russians, they want to expand that "russian world" which only brings death and destruction.

See this [1] for a perfect example of the imperial mindset - Putin saying that "Russia’s borders do not end anywhere"

[1] https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1746784252312891463?lan...

Baiting? Are you seriously insinuating that Ukraine was about to invade Russia and thus, as Putin claims, they had no choice but to attack? How naive one has to be to actually believe it?

US and Europe were not (and sadly, are not) doing nowhere nearly enough in providing defensive weapons to Ukraine, if they had, this invasion would have been stopped long ago.

he isn’t interested in endless imperial conquest

Putin said in early 2022 that he has no interest in invading Ukraine. Invasion happened weeks later.

Will Larson has a lot of excellent material and an upcoming book specifically targeted for engineering executives. Check out https://lethain.com/tags/executive/ and https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-engineering-executi...

Vinted, used clothes marketplace, unicorn by now and likely to IPO in the next 2-3 years.

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We're looking for senior backend engineers that:

- have experience with PHP or willing to switch stacks

- have at least some exposure to Domain Driven Design

- have a passion for quality and attention to detail

We are considering candidates from European time zones (GMT/GMT+3).

Apply here https://www.transfergo.com/en/career/position?id=8186633E6E and mention that you saw this on HN to fast-track your application.

El método (2005) is a really good take on corporate/personal dynamics.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/

Vilnius (and Lithuania in general) also has really great infrastructure - 1Gbps unlimited FTTH costs less than 20 EUR/month, 4G penetration and prices are better than almost anywhere else in Europe.

Try Unread - I’m using it to read feedly on iOS and it’s absolutely beautiful.

I'm from ex-Soviet country called Lithuania, and no, although Lithuania was the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union, it was not done within Soviet legal framework in any way.

There is book a called Corporate Confidential [1], written by a former HR person. One of most significant ideas there is that HR is (from the perspective of an employee) not your friend, but rather an enemy. They exist to protect the company, not you. Basically, going to HR is a quick way to get fired (for legal reasons, mind you) or kill your career.

Whole book is highly depressing, but very useful if you want to try to climb up the ladder.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Company...

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643401

There is also a policy of stuffing laptops in locked drawers or taking them home after work, although it's perfectly fine to leave one when going out for lunch.

Which wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that company laptop is unusable for approximately 30 minutes after boot (or hibernate/suspend), when it tries to scan the whole drive for viruses or whatever.

I don't even want to count how many hours of productivity are wasted because of stupidities like these.

From where I sit (Europe) America does not look like having a secular culture at all. Sure, you have the separation of church and state enshrined in your constitution, but in practice the country seems way too religious.