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I'm a U.S. citizen and I've applied to plenty of these types of jobs. Had an offer at Palantir previously but would not take that now due to ethical concerns.

I'm an older worker in management. Willing to be hands on. Not looking to get paid as much as Meta (I've worked there too) but also don't want something that pays peanuts. Willing to relocate to many places.

Genuinely curious where I can find such jobs.

In theory, yes. But in practice, is it true? Are Amazon and Oracle better places to work than Facebook and Stripe?

There's even a word for it. It's called "enshittification"

https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64a...

My strategy here is disable all auto pays and make it a manual ritual to pay my bills at the start of each calendar month.

Doing it once a month is easy enough to remember (or put a calendar invite, if you're not able to) and forces me to do a quick validation. In my 20 years of working and being independent, I've never accidentally paid for a subscription longer than one month.

Though I realize it's currently offline, can I just say how refreshing it is to see the mention of a live ssh demo with no authentication needed? I wish more tools had such a friction free way to try them.

Sounds intense. What did it look and feel like? How did it change your life? You've left me a bit on the edge of my seat.

And yet this did not save Wael Al-Dahdouh's family. He followed every order and evacuated his family. His wife, kids, and grandchild were wiped out in an airstrike in a refugee camp no less.

He handled it with immense maturity and dedication. He's back to work reporting on the war.

Wow thank you for suggesting this. I've tried so many apps and nothing has really hit the sweet spot for me. But I just downloaded this upon reading your suggestion and it literally checks all the boxes for me. Amazing find!

I hear they make people share hotel rooms with other employees. Is that true?

I lived in Singapore for a little while and this was one thing I noticed they did there. For example, by giving preference in subsidized housing to people who were married and further preference to those who had kids.

In the U.S. (and broadly, the western world) we seem to have a really hard time using economic incentives to encourage certain behaviors. I think it's partially because we don't want to implicitly judge a given lifestyle choice as better than another.

However, I think there is much we can learn from a place like Singapore. Singapore simply does not stick to any single political dogma - they choose a mishmash of policies based on the outcome they want to achieve.

For one thing, a single humans knowledge cannot be scaled to serve hundreds of millions of users simultaneously.

We have an aging population and many places have a flat birthrate. We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.

Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market's expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?

Any examples you can share?

I don't really feel too comfortable sharing specific details, but suffice it to say I've worked at a few large companies and my experience with Meta was one of too many cooks in the kitchen. Lots of overlap in ownership and the boundaries between teams IMHO was not very clear nor well thought out. This meant that launching anything required a lot of work across many teams (more than necessary IMHO).

Also, can you elaborate on this?

As a simple example, the EU mandated that if you signed up for Instagram and you also signed up for Facebook using the same e-mail address, your personal information could not be shared (or used for targeting) between apps, unless you explicitly agree to link those two accounts together. This was a pretty clear-cut case, but it got much less clear when talking about Facebook vs Messenger (they are different apps, but direct messaging is also integrated into the Facebook website). Now if you start adding in things like Threads, Oculus, etc you can imagine the implications for how you share data will continue to get more complex.

As someone who has worked at meta in privacy, I don't think this would be hard to figure out for a small startup. The issue is that you can't share data between different apps, which is not a problem a small company would have since they wouldn't have multiple apps to begin with.

Meta, on the other hand, has data intertwined between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and other platforms. Plus, Meta's internal bureaucracy and ownership model is an absolute hellish mess.

Genuine question: did anyone actually get locked up on a business trip to China?

One problem is that the instructions are not visible until you click on the question mark icon (at least on mobile) so I didn't even realize there were instructions until I read your comment.

Can you share more details on this? It sounds a bit overly optimistic, but I admittedly don't have a lot of experience in this space. If you have some links to news articles or publications talking about progress and cost, I'd love to read them.

Israelis also tend to be very direct in my experience working with them. I'm not Israeli (in fact, I hold a passport for a country that doesn't even recognize Israel), but it's something I've always admired about working with people from the region. I think the Israeli culture is really good at cutting through fluff and focusing on getting things done.

What exactly is the pain of unfreezing? I was able to do it all online in a couple of minutes on each of the three major credit bureau sites.

Genuine question: if Google is a last resort, what are your more preferred alternatives? I've tried many search engines and haven't really succeeded in finding a better alternative. Wondering if I'm missing something.

And even despite this negative experience, I would say Revolut is still a safer choice compared to the apps listed in the article.

Theoretically, your Revolut balance should be safe from bank failure as it's FDIC insured through their partner banks (according to https://www.revolut.com/en-US/how-we-keep-your-money-safe/)

I agree it can be very confusing to set all of this up from scratch, but if you're using something like Vue CLI, all of these dependencies and configs are generated for you.

Not sure net income would tell you that much either. Many companies deliberately keep net income low by reinvesting in further growth. Think of Amazon's model. At least revenue gives you a sense of the upper limit.

I don't think anyone is implying Google pays differently based on visa status. The implication is that Google would rather hire a foreign worker who is willing to accept lower wages as opposed hiring locally - and therefore put downward pressure on all employees wages.

Irrespective of the reason, this really makes me sad. Vice had made some of the most incredible content and dared to go places others simply wouldn't.

As a Pakistani, I can tell you it's very rare to see media go there. Even movies that are supposed to be set in Pakistan (Zero Dark Thirty, A Mighty Heart, etc) are filmed next door in India. And other than maybe Al-Jazeera, I rarely see international media reporting from on the ground.

Vice not only went to Pakistan, but they did at least three episodes I can recall from there. And they covered some pretty important things, such as the disfunction that resulted in Pakistan being one of the last countries to still have polio.

I speak of Pakistan as one example because I know how little our stories are represented in mainstream media, but there are many other examples where Vice seemed to be the only ones willing to go on the ground. Other examples include North Korea, Haiti, and Syria. I'll never forget watching Isobel Yeung courageously reporting in Syria while bombs literally could be heard exploding around her.

I hear from my former colleagues at Amazon that they have done the same.

Same here. Was really hoping to find an old persons club where I could relive my memories of playing Duke Nukem 3D via modem :)

I had a similar experience in Wadi Rum in Jordan. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Because Amazon actually assumes a 15% growth in stock price every year. So even if the stock stays flat, you make 15% less. I used to be a manager there.

As someone who lives within biking distance of this museum and has visited it on multiple occasions, I can assure you this is very much in Seattle and not in Silicon Valley.