luzojeda's comments

They are too obvious already. Probably going to be warned or fired for that comment.

It is something impossible to prove that people are paid to post anything so what's the point on arguing about that?

I agree with him, there is enough proof already of non-western countries spreading misinformation and propaganda online. And if you want to find about it there's Google and many other search engines.

I don't think so because except for the 90s Argentina had inflation since the 1950s[0]. That 70 years old would only remember the 90s as the most stable period. Sure, the 60s weren't that bad but we still had high inflation.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ar... (just note the Y axis scale... if it were from 0 to 100 you would truly see there were very few years with 1 digit inflation)

Of course but once you have 3 digits inflation, what other way to reduce is there besides cutting the supply of money suddenly in a shock? People won't like it, I didn't like it either but the two other presidents tried various methods such as price controls and that didn't help, on the contrary.

Almost everyone I know and all newspapers I read here, in Argentina, do talk about that. The cost is an inevitable one when you reach 3 digits inflation. Hope we learn our lesson though we didn't in the 2000s when we brought inflation again.

To give anyone reading this perspective, Argentina had inflation for almost 80 years, only a brief pause in the 90s and then again since the 2003. What other way is there?

My two cents even tho I'm afraid this thread might become a political battleground:

I'm from Argentina and 30 years old, of course he led us to a recession but for the first time in my adult life I can keep prices in my head and I know next month they'll be pretty much the same. Some people who never experienced +10% inflation in a month can't even imagine that and I understand it. I for one like this stability, dunno.

Regarding your second paragraph, I work for a US company as well and I've been dealing with the mess that is just getting your hard earned money here. Only few people are aware that we still are mandated to change our dollars for pesos at the rate that the government says. Of course nowadays it's not that bad because that rate is almost the same as the one you get in the famous "cuevas", the black market exchange places. But in 2022-2023 sometimes the difference between those two were almost 100%. So you had to deal with tons and tons of cash, it was a nightmare.

He clearly doesn't mean "a few reels".

IMO the correct analogy would be a physical object where you could switch back and forth between Harry Potter and books used for learning. If that were the case I'd agree with you. But here we are talking about two separate distinct physical objects, the Harry Potter book and, for example, a biology book.

When a person is reading the latter they can't easily switch to HP, but I can do that while learning anything in my computer. It's as easy as doing ctrl + T + red + enter and I get to the infinite entertainment that is Reddit thanks to the browser autocomplete, for example.

Having instant access from your pocket to an infinite source of entertainment is literally an unprecedented problem.

No problem, just wanted to be sure it was not me. Love your website btw!

Is it me or are authors not specified?

Love the list but it would help a lot to have the authors next to each book

That only makes it worse.

I don't think that compensates all the bad uses it will probably have.

Didn't read but will that article since it sounds interesting. But does Starbucks mention their potential to be a third place? Because as long as you have to pay for something to stay a certain amount of time it will never be a third place. It is, in my experience, a more relaxed place regarding the relationship consumed/time in the place compared to other cafés but that is not all that makes a third place.

I mean, I would never consider just go to a Starbucks and expect to meet people without having to pay for something

Seems like you lack the moral courage as well since you seem to be implying something but are not brave enough to explicitly say it.

Gays! I knew it was them! Even when it was the atomization of society, loss of third places, destruction of the middle class and so many other things, I knew it was them.

Yes, of course it may be influenced by that but there were some companies from my cuontry reaching out to me as well. Not only software consulting companies from USA. Also, if you are in the west coast the timezone difference might be a nuisance tho. But for east coast companies yes, it can be a great deal.

Just as a sidenote: I've been job searching up until July and always took a look at the Who is hiring threads and saw that most of remote jobs are still for Europe only if company is EU based and USA/Canada if they're USA based. Though don't know how representative are people hiring from this platform.

And this caught my attention as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1edipfw/... considering it may be one of the most pessimistic communities out there. Haven't seen an optimistic post there for a while.

Representin' <3

Way better than 2023. 5 YOE web developer. From Argentina, though, we are benefitting from offshoring of course. But last year I had months with 0 reach outs. Nowadays every week at least 2 to 3 even with the looking for job Linkedin feature deactivated.

Last month around day 10 I made [this](https://i.imgur.com/uWoGaM3.png) taking note of reach outs. My personal anecdata, ofc...

>It's unfortunate people have become so hostile to each other, almost reducing society to a me (predator) vs others (prey) situation.

This stems from the same increasing winner takes all format that it is not only predating the internet but many other environments as well. Inequality is another factor in the equation. When you don't have a social net, it's a winner takes all/ everyone against everyone/last man standing situation..

It is sad. But I wonder if this is the average human, in its sedentary way of living as it has been for the last 14k years approx, situation. And what we've lived the last 60~ years was just an anomaly product of the huge and numerous industrial revolution benefits and advancements.