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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Russian and Ukrainians living in the west, how have you gotten along?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why isn't Seattle(WA) more popular destination for California exiteers?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

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time.com 5y ago

Filipino Nurses Have Propped Up America's Medical System

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What tool/method do you use to maintain your bookmarks?

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netrainc.substack.com 5y ago

Drama emperors have no clothes

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What use cases are you using/considering GPT-3 for?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Why aren't convolutional decision trees or convolutional SVMs a thing?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Wouldn't the US military be able to handle the surge of Covid cases?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What other important news are we missing due to the Covid crisis?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What're some uplifting things that could result due to the Covid crisis?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What business opportunities might arise from the COVID19 crisis?

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we need a paradigm shift away from search, just as google engineered a shift away from portals in the late 90s. idk what form that would take but I suspect some kid in a garage is going to come up with something...

There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid).Those companies obviously CAN pay more. The owners are not going to sleep under a bridge anytime soon.

It's this manichaean view - business bad, me good - that's the crux of the issue. You assume every business is a FAANG and sitting on piles of cash. Most businesses (50-60%?) - even in tech - are small biz and biz owners are in the same boat. Very very few companies even come close to the level of your straw-man.

And you are very wrong with the (rather comical) assumption business-owners are scrooge mcducks sitting on piles of cash. In tech, programmer salaries are hyper-inflated (compared to most other professions) and already out of reach of many SMEs and we are scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel for talent. I'm a business owner myself and I have seen this first-hand, so don't tell me there's no labor shortage.

Also, you posted your Linkedin. We know where you work. And you just publicly called them "shitty." If I were your boss I'd fire you. And if I were a potential boss I'd never hire someone who did that.

I think it's a bit harsh on the OP. This is an ex-work network and we are all allowed to vent. Having said that, however I feel the OPs frustration is probably unwarranted, the market is as seller-friendly as I have ever seen ( and I have been doing this for more than 2 decades).

I don't have a simple answer for you OP, other than to keep pushing and networking. It's just a matter of time...if you are determined enough.

I think you are referring to Eckhart Tolle's mindfulness. I have one of his quotes that I have clipped into my notes as:

“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.” -Eckhart Tolle

HTH.

Honest question, not meaning to be offensive or hurtful at all. I know how raw the wounds of the famine are etc.

How do historians objectively - provided there is one - view the British empire's involvement in Ireland over much of the last millennium? Was it particularly repressive vis-a-vis other medieval empires in their dominions/spheres of influence?

This is "deja vu all over again" in reverse, from 20 years ago. In Nov 2001 US special forces led Northern Alliance also took Kabul much quicker than anticipated or planned. The Taliban regime back then folded pretty quickly as well.