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A comment on Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession.

Re:Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession by Rodeoclash on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:03PM (#32419545)
I've worked through two other crashes before this one, the dot-com in the late 90s and the GFC.

So far this one feels different in the sense that people aren't getting laid of. Demand still seems to exist for software engineers.

Neither of the previous crashes involved high inflation either.

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Re:Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession by pards on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:51PM (#32419921)
GFC! Australian?

Australians are the only people I've heard referring to the 2008 crash as the "Global Financial Crisis".

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Re:Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession by jimmygrapes on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:00PM (#32420365)
BBC uses the term frequently, so even as an American I refer to it as such, depending on the context and audience.
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Re:Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession by Rodeoclash on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:46PM (#32420957)
Good guess! Well, Kiwi originally but I've been here for twenty years :)
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