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homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Binance says banking partner will stop processing SWIFT transfers under $100K

Argentina only. I worked in super multi congloromerates HR. USD is near 100%. We avoided South America because unstability and persistent high inflation. We do have other South American working in different regions (yes, including those from IT/AI you name it). They all being paid with USD or their residence currency. When I was in another company, small one, we did paid with baseball cards too (I doubt anyone willing to consider that as usual payments)

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens

Apple also spent money on cars too. They likely could have spent billions judging by their tell-tale hiring ads over the past decade. What they are good at is huge amount of cash to operate very clandestinely (just park other RnD in their guidance) and they rarely tell stockholders what they doing other than the mundane usual iPhone, iPad, Foxconn, MacOS news. Meta, Google and Alphabet do things very publicly whether they intentionally seek publicity or unintentionally leaked out (like their near santient AI - they must have it with firing of so many concerned scientists there - only 2 prominent one make it to news, there are others....and didnt released it with OpenGPT beating them)

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Tesla Price Drop Angers Current Owners

Intonation. He writes by thinking aloud (or in his head) how he says it. Usually we type simply by following grammar. But the way you read a sentence can imply different meanings or subtle emphasis what matters or "between the lines thingy". You can see TESLA being capitalize seems to hint he is a bit emotional whenever TESLA topic being brought up. As poster commented below, he should be capitalizing ORIGINAL given his observations of past price volatility. But instead, TESLA is consistently capitalized. I could be wrong if he intended to use the stock ticker name TSLA (perhaps the E is typo).

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows

At least there are copius amount of dragons cgi in S8 GoT. Wheel of Time is a waste of time to watch. That witcher Blood is also mediocre despite strong casts. I expect S3-S4 Witcher will be bad as well. Netflix is really going for dumpster metrics these days. Even if the viewership is no at Squid level, complete the storyline. HBO able to do that with Westworld. Netflix the biggest streamers cant.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: U.S. inflation cools again, giving Fed room to downshift on rates

You want to talk about professionals? Why not Shadowstat? The person who is doing the national calculation is not pro. They are bureaucrats subject to political adjustments. I have friends in six states everyone of them tallying their monthly expenses which increased more than 30%+ compared sametime last year. If yours didnt either you have significantly cut down your expense or oddly expensing very different to many others. The CPI is grossly not reflecting the reality.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: The Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers

Just to highlight Singapore government pays millions to high IQ talent to be government ministers. Singapore Prime Minister for example draw about 2-3mil USD range a year in salary and can code sudoku in c++. Many of the civil servants are scholars and have PhDs.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Son is major in CS, but doesn't code. Red flag?

Recommend him continue doing MBA. He isn't that technical even though maybe very gifted academically or even programming. As long as he is not heavy into dirty programming, after 3-4 years he will be very weak compare to his peers. By 10th year he will be totally consider incompetent in programming even though he can read a bit of the codes. Since he is social, it is more likely he able to flourish well in the management level (or sales). Having MBA from reputable school allows him to have direct entry into that tier without needing to go thru the lower ranked CS artisans. I am in HR for more than 3 decades, so that is what I can observe and tell.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: College that fired prof for showing image of Muhammad could lose accreditation

Only Islam get that privilege partly due to French magazine publisher bloody attack years ago and Palestinian guilt. The rest like Buddhism, Taoism, Catholic, Protestant, Sikhism, etc usually don't get much specialty treatment. Take Sikhism that require carrying a Sikh dagger and having long hair, I known many universities blatantly forbid it. The main reason is because a small minority of Muslim devotees tend to be very violent when it comes to their religion "honor". And many Westerners are scared of retaliations.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Games people play with cash flow

There are 2 kinds of businesses...one extremely profitable and another on dying path. If the company you're dealing with not dime nickel you sooner or later they will be the on the dying path. You can readup Nokia outrageous expenditure in Europe. Heck if they are dying or extremely profitable, just take advantage of it. It is business. Nothing personal.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Toyota CEO Says “Silent Majority” of Auto Industry Is Doubting EV-Only Future

Majority of consumers dont really care fossil fuel destroying the biosphere. They care only affordability. The vast majority car purchases are non-EV...and maybe at best hybrid. Currently EVs sales have stagnant and Tesla had to subsidized it partially via 7K credit and free charge. I dont see as a way going forward unless Tesla type of car can drop to under 10K in 2nd hand market and motorshop repair able to service it. Toyota still outsell and outvolume Tesla by several fold and still growing with recalls near miniscule unlike how many times Tesla doing recalls this year alone.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Disappearing Comments?

Have been here for more than 8+ years. I noticed HN has started to be very bubble-like though at least the biased-conforming opinions still from time to time has reference cited. But if it is purely opinions and logical one, it gets downvoted or marked as dead for not conforming to group-thinks that specific type of HN readers disagree with. Nowadays I just rarely to contribute and just throw away accounts after a couple months or 1-2 years.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Toyota chief says ‘silent majority’ has doubts about pursuing only EVs

The main reason EV is popular now is because of Tesla as adult toy. As Tesla stock prices getting hammered (and tanking olin coming recession), EVs popularity overall will take a dip. EVs are generally front-loaded cost. As long as you get a new car and totally ignore any of those batteries swap and disposal. EVs is very cheap. Once you considered entire cost, then ordinary cars (or even non-lemon used cars especially from Toyotas) aren't that bad.
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