degradas

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by degradas 3y ago
"Make Russia look bad" - what does that even mean? I'm country A, country B writes bad things about me in their media, so I will invade them, bomb their electricity grid and try to overthrow their government - by what logic i
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by degradas 3y ago
Baiting? Are you seriously insinuating that Ukraine was about to invade Russia and thus, as Putin claims, they had no choice but to attack? How naive one has to be to actually believe it? US and Europe were not (and sadly, are not) doing no
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by degradas 3y ago
> he isn’t interested in endless imperial conquest Putin said in early 2022 that he has no interest in invading Ukraine. Invasion happened weeks later.
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by degradas 3y ago
Will Larson has a lot of excellent material and an upcoming book specifically targeted for engineering executives. Check out https://lethain.com/tags/executive/ and https://www.oreilly.com/library&
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by degradas 5y ago
Vinted, used clothes marketplace, unicorn by now and likely to IPO in the next 2-3 years.
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by degradas 6y ago
TransferGo | Europe (REMOTE) | Full-time | Software Engineers We are a fast growing fintech startup with 2M+ users and >200 employees on a mission to make moving money globally as simple and easy as sending a text. We're looking for
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by degradas 6y ago
TransferGo | UK/Lithuania (REMOTE) | Full-time | Software Engineers We are a fast growing fintech startup with 2M+ users and >200 employees on a mission to make moving money globally as simple and easy as sending a text. We're
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Cellebrite claims it can break Signal(schneier.com)
22 points by degradas 6y ago|6 comments
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by degradas 6y ago
El método (2005) is a really good take on corporate/personal dynamics. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/
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by degradas 8y ago
Vilnius (and Lithuania in general) also has really great infrastructure - 1Gbps unlimited FTTH costs less than 20 EUR/month, 4G penetration and prices are better than almost anywhere else in Europe.
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by degradas 9y ago
Try Unread - I’m using it to read feedly on iOS and it’s absolutely beautiful.
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by degradas 9y ago
I'm from ex-Soviet country called Lithuania, and no, although Lithuania was the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union, it was not done within Soviet legal framework in any way.
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by degradas 11y ago
There is book a called Corporate Confidential [1], written by a former HR person. One of most significant ideas there is that HR is (from the perspective of an employee) not your friend, but rather an enemy. They exist to protect the compan
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by degradas 11y ago
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643401
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by degradas 11y ago
There is also a policy of stuffing laptops in locked drawers or taking them home after work, although it's perfectly fine to leave one when going out for lunch. Which wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that company laptop is u
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by degradas 12y ago
From where I sit (Europe) America does not look like having a secular culture at all. Sure, you have the separation of church and state enshrined in your constitution, but in practice the country seems way too religious.