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It's published by Bari Weiss, an ex-NYT reporter who leans Center-Right/Libertarian. Not disagreeing with the content, but at the end of the day it's a blog like any other that has a sl…

Oh cool! Was that content moderation adjacent?

I'm using UN Data - https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks I think the issue was Google Search's summarization algorithm parsed the wrong sentenc…

They did. There have been a bunch of articles on HN back in early 2022 about TVC layoffs. That was also when the whole "let's unionize google contractors" thing started happening.

Yep. That's kind of the whole point of hiring TVCs, though my impression was Accenture was always aimed more at non-Tech F1000s. I think the FAANG companies used Adecco and smaller local staff au…

Those Thailand numbers are way off. Thailand's HDI is 0.8 and expat salaries (at least at McK) in BKK were always Shanghai and Beijing adjacent (if not higher until the 2010s). Heck, a lot of Vi…

I was in VN+Thailand for work recently. Private sector White collar salaries in VN, Thailand, and India are roughly comparable. That said, there isn't as deep a bench of expendable somewhat Engli…

Are the ongoing Rwanda-DRC tensions having some impact in Uganda right now as well?

Business Owners have been able to expense business vehicles since time immemorial because a vehicle is treated as a depreciating asset

A bit of commentary about the quality of Rolling Stone's national security "journalism" - https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164360143/rolling-stone-fbi…

Ah that makes sense. Honestly really sad to see the political mismanagement in Portugal. I've met a couple Portuguese diaspora members and they are great people, but it's so sad how the only…

I have been to both Mississippi and Portugal. I've had a great time eating ribs in Tupelo and hiking in Peneda-Geres National Park near Porto. Lisbon and Porto is a pretty city but Portugal as a …

Jesus Christ, this is literally peak Hacker News. You realize you are saying what is the equivalent of "Big O notation is unnecessary for Computer Science". The default HDI formula devised b…

HDI is the primary metric used to compare quality of life and development between different governments. As I shared in the comment above, HDIs of all 50 states in the US are comparable to Western Eur…

I heard Portuguese elected officials started rolling back a lot of legislation that was tourist/investor oriented like the investor visa and digital nomad oriented legislation due to political bl…

Most T2/3/4 North American cities (even the rust belt ones) have Economic indicators comparable to T1 cities in other European countries. Using State+Provincial Level HDI as a proxy, entire …

Not really. It's simply not as user friendly from a UI bugs perspective. That's not to say Linux is bad (I love it and Arch Linux is my daily driver), but open source projects simply don…

I feel BLS is a bit of a lossy dataset imo - their classification for professions is a bit meh (CIS for all types of Software adjacent roles for example). USCIS Datasets might be useful as a proxy but…

Glad to see there's a singular dataset showing something that I had a hunch happened

Yes. I posted that article on HN, and I have referenced that in my comment as well. As this entire thread is not getting votes outside of us two, I'm just gunna stop responding and discussing bec…

I agree with you! And imo, it's because it's morning now in India. I usually start seeing Indian politics comments around now on HN

Lower caste too. Look at the Yadavs and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh or the Kurmis and RJD in Bihar

The Upper Class have networks as well. Journalists, Police, Civil Servants - they're all "chamchas"

I disagree. I've called Senior Legislative Aides and Congressmembers explicitives when I was still on the Hill and haven't had an impact on my professional career.

Welcome to low level politics in India. Piss off an MLA or Panchayat Member, let alone an MP, and being arrested would be the least of your worries. At least this guy wasn't burned alive like the…

Newsom is not in a position to impact the FEDERAL response to the collapse of SVB. If there was a scandal relating to SVB and the CA State Assembly then yeah this article is pointing out something nef…

I'm honestly not sure what you are arguing. If it is about Newsom doing some black magic back room deal to protect SVB because of his deposits, he does not have that kind of pull among Banking Re…

I have issues with Newsom, but this is just unnecessarily conspiratorial. Newsom's pre-political career was in the Wine Trade and Charity/Non-Profit world - both industries that banked HEAVI…

Stratechery seems to stick to the B2C, AdTech, Fintech, and mid-market B2B SaaS sectors, and at least for Biotech (loose term, Pharma VC is distinct from Healthtech VC is distinct from B2C health apps…