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New comment by yeaman1231 in "Ask HN: What Web Standards does Safari/WebKit not implement"

yeaman1231 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:16:51 +0000

A lot of these are used to fingerprint users to better track them for advertisement industry (https://www.wired.com/story/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-...)

I feel (but have no substantial reason) that the subtext of this sudden governmental interest in this issue is more so the fight between the lobbies of ad-supported tech giants (Google, Facebook) and Apple

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Scientists say they can read nearly the whole genome of an IVF-created embryo"

yeaman1231 — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:41:35 +0000

> Try explaining to your son or daughter that they could've been able to see and hear, but you refused to avoid hurting the feelings of existing blind and deaf people...

more like try explaining to your son or daughter that they wouldn't have been born at all

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:41:18 +0000

and what exactly is ukraine? are you an idiot or just hate conservative Christian white people?

New comment by yeaman1231 in "California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide"

yeaman1231 — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:35:03 +0000

what evidence and what data? I studied math in Syria and was doing Calculus at 8th grade, came to the states and was forced to redo basic algebra. Do you know how soul crushing it is to redo those classes?

edit: I dont understand how poor war-torn countries can have a better educational system than the most developed country in the world.

New comment by yeaman1231 in "The Pentagon’s view of climate change and the risks of state collapse"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:49:33 +0000

"whose mission is to advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights are as valid as the present generation's."

pretty clear that the implication is right to life of a human being > right to privacy of mother

edit: fetus -> being

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Ask HN: Strategy games that positively push your cognitive boundaries?"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:12:23 +0000

crusader kings

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?"

yeaman1231 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 03:13:05 +0000

I don't really follow your train of thought. When we say someone is brave as a lion, does that mean we lionmorphize the person? I invite you to read about the many different schools of thoughts in the scholastic-tradition (catholic/eastern/Anglican etc) rich variants of Christianity. Some were seen as heretical and became doctors of the church... etc

Edit: The bearded guy in the sky notion of God is the least popular in my circles (Catholic/Muslim/Hindu mostly)

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin"

yeaman1231 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 03:36:15 +0000

I feel you, swap out Latin America for Middle East and Argentina for Iraq and thats been my experience here

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:41:41 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:32:45 +0000

Thanks for the perspective!

> Personally I worked for a company like Company C twice, one time it was a big upgrade in my career, the other time I had a lot of fun, stayed a year, and had a long job search and would up at something more like A where I am today, but I feel like I am developing personally and professionally now.

do you feel the same developments (both personal and professional) would've happened if you jumped to Company A directly?

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:31:16 +0000

I feel like this is the source of the tensions I am having, having a good career and a fulfilling family life are both very important to me, I am worried about WLB making it so its harder to achieve the latter, I am single and early in my career. Previous job's WLB was a big reason my previous relationship didn't pan out

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:29:16 +0000

I am glad you made a difference in your kids life and sorry to hear that it has affected your career negatively.

Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:59:37 +0000

I am currently at a career crossroad with multiple offers and sort of lost on where to go. Would like to hear what people who were in my position did. Anonymized because people I interviewed with may be reading this

Me: BS in CS. 4-5 years experience in Field A, very hot field these days.

Currently have 3 offers

Company A - very safe bet financially, stocks more than doubled in this decade. Joining a team that does work in an Area I have no experience in doing work I have no experience in (would be a total career pivot, not as hot as Field A)

Company B - Safest bet financially, very big name, Couldn't exactly tell what they work on as they are very secretive about everything. Role will be more software/implementation based but still exposed to state of the art in Field A.

Company C - Not a safe bet at all, industry had a boom and bust and so did the company. Company went through restructuring to get rid of old C-levels. New investments are in but no guarantee on success. Will be doing the research and implementation in Field A alongside some PhDs, wearing many hats and touching a lot of different and interesting areas.

I am sure 50,000 of you have been where I am now, would like to hear your thoughts on how you look back at your decision.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28707853

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

Ask HN: What was the most important investment in your career?

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:59:18 +0000

Me: BS in CS. 4-5 years experience in Field A, very hot field these days.

Currently have 3 offers

I am sure 50,000 of you have been where I am now, would like to hear your thoughts on how you look back at your decision.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28707850

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger is now working on a decentralized encyclopedia"

yeaman1231 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:46:48 +0000

I think English Wikipedia has a leftist bias. Arabic Wikipedia has an Islamist/Islamo-facist bias. I would guess and say Chinese ones have CCP bias... etc

Populism is one hell of a drug

New comment by yeaman1231 in "A monk’s guide to office life"

yeaman1231 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:47:00 +0000

I am a 20something who is coming to this realization now and wish I knew this earlier.

History of Arab Slave Trade

yeaman1231 — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 08:18:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdIqeWkhHU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105064

Points: 2

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New comment by yeaman1231 in "Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics"

yeaman1231 — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 02:29:23 +0000

> Defense companies also spend millions in lobbying both directly and threw a whole network of think tanks and people. People with very strong association with those very defense companies both inside and outside of government were very strong driver in lying the US into war in Iraq in the first place and made ISIS possible in the first place.

Agree to most of the point, but note that AQI predates the 2003 Iraqi war (founded in late 90s)

> They have a significant part in lobbying for war, for weapons export, for more spending on military spending and so on.

Also agreed, for good or bad (I would say mainly good)

> Defense companies also strongly coordinate with Israel and the Israel lobby to make sure continuous money flows to Israel and Israel can be a first class buyer of US weapons.

That goes both ways, Israel is one of our main partners in defense (and related) research, they are also the US's main ally in the Middle East, Allies trade is nothing new?

> They have strong ties to government and make absurd amount of money on many of these projects despite routinely going over budget by absolutely insane amounts.

Yep, there is a certain culture in those companies that tends to... encourage that behavior. And the lobbying makes that space harder to get into

> Yes, companies that build weapons to some extend need to exist but the defense contractors are not ethical in the least and I would not work for them. Maybe in the civilian part of the company, possibly but even that would require a lot of thinking.

If you want to extend the ethical thinking train, the only companies you can work for are the ones that operate on a mom-and-pop shop scale and there is nothing wrong with that. Applying that critical lens to only defense contractors (not that you are doing right now) is a bit disingenuous

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics"

yeaman1231 — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 02:19:06 +0000

M bad, the only takes I could think of when reading the comment where the ones I usually hear in the echo chamber im in.

edit: elaborating on the point

New comment by yeaman1231 in "Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics"

yeaman1231 — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 02:17:14 +0000

Please continue reading the articles past their headlines. Some more context, this has been an elections issue in Iraq since 2014, people who blame irresponsible chain of command (Everyone besides the Maliki faction) and people who blame sectarianism and scapegoat others (Maliki and his friends)

For those who dont want to read more into the articles, this is a good summary "Decades of free-flowing arms into Iraq meant that when IS took control of these areas, they were like children in a sweetshop."