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New comment by youeseh in "Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?"

youeseh — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:35:01 +0000

The difference this time around is quantitative tightening and increasing interest rates. If the Fed stays true to its word, then we'll remain in a bear market.

Bear market rallies are bound to keep happening as people's retirement funds get cash inflows and fund managers allocate a portion to equities.

New comment by youeseh in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

youeseh — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 04:48:15 +0000

If you can find a way to go on life support for a little while - perhaps just shut down temporarily, then it will pay off, I think.

Over the next few months to a couple of years:

- Interest rates will keep going up and Quantitative tightening will happen.

- There will be a recession.

- A lot of people who resigned greatly will be broke and in need of work.

- Your services will be needed, and in a big way.

The person who finds what they love to do is rare, but the person who finds their calling is rarer still.

New comment by youeseh in "Ask HN: Is the stock market's growth largely anything more than inflation?"

youeseh — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:22:35 +0000

This is why more seasoned traders pay attention to trading volume. It is also how many players manipulate the naive traders into thinking a stock is crashing or booming.

New comment by youeseh in "I quit my Netflix engineer $450k/year job, money wasn't worth the boredom"

youeseh — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:10:20 +0000

> I’ll bet an engineer makes a better product manager than a siloed product manager with no engineering experience.

This depends on who the product's consumers are and how mature the company is. A skilled product manager uses the expertise of engineers to build a great product. Being an ex-engineer is arguably useful in a fast-paced small team like an early stage startup but it can also turn into an annoying (to engineers) liability in an environment where product and engineering responsibilities are defined.

New comment by youeseh in "I quit my Netflix engineer $450k/year job, money wasn't worth the boredom"

youeseh — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:03:26 +0000

> Also I feel like developers are a bit too self-centered.

Compared to whom (at Netflix) are developers (at Netflix) self-centered?

New comment by youeseh in "California Drought Update May 2022 [pdf]"

youeseh — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:57:12 +0000

For additional context, here's a breakdown of water usage in California: https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

New comment by youeseh in "How much should you criticize other people?"

youeseh — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:19:02 +0000

People who criticize do it for their own satisfaction, rather than to actually help. Ignore it, unless you're looking for feedback.

New comment by youeseh in "Please Stop Using Grey Text"

youeseh — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:10:11 +0000

As a counterpoint, for me light text on a dark background is easier to read than black text on a white background. Go figure. So much so that I sometimes create dark-mode CSS user scripts for sites that don't offer a dark mode.

New comment by youeseh in "Success in Canada means moving to America"

youeseh — Sat, 14 May 2022 17:30:01 +0000

If there's anything distinctly Canadian - truly, than the US, is that it is officially bilingual. Of course, almost no one in English speaking Canada can speak a lick of French because of how awful French language classes are - you can get an A yet remember nothing.

New comment by youeseh in "Cursor Dance Party"

youeseh — Sat, 14 May 2022 02:40:15 +0000

Hah. Thank you =). Great fun.

New comment by youeseh in "Electronics Explained: Fundamentals for engineers, technicians and makers (2018)"

youeseh — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:33:06 +0000

Yes, just like you can pump other for-profit services and products on HN, you can pump for-profit books too.

New comment by youeseh in "MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus"

youeseh — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:48:01 +0000

How do cures propagate? For example, is there a database of "best treatments for disease x"? How much time does it take for treatments to become widely available?

New comment by youeseh in "Amazon Europe Unit Paid No Taxes on $55B Sales in 2021"

youeseh — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:13:36 +0000

If Amazon pays out everything it makes to its vendors and employees, then the vendors and employees pay taxes on income, no? Whats so bad about that?

New comment by youeseh in "Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development"

youeseh — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:31:55 +0000

Certainly, I hope anyone commenting on this will take note of the publishing date being more than 100 years ago.

Who your kids end up marrying is mentioned as a big driver of caste in the article. I think that holds true today as well. All things being equal, your professor / lawyer / doctor parents probably don't want you to marry a janitor.

And, I'm pretty sure this is true everywhere.

In a highly competitve place (mostly due to population), they'll say something like, "he's from the janitor class, but thats okay, because he's a doctor" to justify marrying outside the caste.

New comment by youeseh in "5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)"

youeseh — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:20:21 +0000

I wonder if they got the idea from watching Wim Hoff videos on YouTube.

New comment by youeseh in "Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button"

youeseh — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 04:49:11 +0000

This is different. Generally, if you buy a base model car, it is missing buttons that would be available in a higher trim. In this case, the button is clearly there - it was cheaper to leave the button there and to lock the owner out using software.

New comment by youeseh in "The Invention of Hispanics"

youeseh — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:22:36 +0000

I understand that many Europeans think that racism no longer exists in Europe - and I've never been there to see for myself - we do get the occasional story of black athletes getting bananas thrown at them in Italy, something that is weird and just plain racist. A person caught doing that in America would be permanently banned from the venue.

New comment by youeseh in "Honduras Is Not For Sale (2021)"

youeseh — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 05:33:05 +0000

Often the deals aren't limited to cash. There are promises of economic development, education, healthcare etc.. as well.

You might agree to give your land away to a verbal deal where promises are made, only to discover later that the detailed text contains contingencies that give your counterparty an out of one or more major promise that you had taken for granted as part of the deal.

New comment by youeseh in "Honduras Is Not For Sale (2021)"

youeseh — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 03:01:14 +0000

I think they're also upset with people who live in some city taking their land away through legal trickery.

These areas probably don't produce many lawyers.

New comment by youeseh in "Pro chefs debate cooking tips and tricks"

youeseh — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:32:15 +0000

If the olive oil is fresh enough to enjoy with a piece of toast, then the tip about olive oil is accurate.

Cooking with olive oil (at anything above low heat) and topping cooked food with olive oil produce two noticeably different tastes.

You have to cook at a really low temperature to preserve that olive oil taste, which most people don't. So, you may be better off cooking with a higher temperature oil (avocado, and coconute oils) and topping with olive oil after you're done cooking.

About salt: it makes whatever you're cooking dehydrate. This is sometimes desired early on in the cooking process, but not always.