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dan-rocks on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I recently returned to the US after a stint in Asia with my company. Previously, I had lived in the US and in South America.I don't know if it's the recency of my Asia experience (though I can say the same vs. my South American experience), but the way the American business environment works seems exceedingly scummy, especially towards end customers.A few things that make express this...
2024 is the year of the Bitcoin in the desktop. /s
I’ve lived in China and will disagree that xenophobia isn’t warranted. It absolutely is. You’d be surprised at how much the Chinese support their government’s policies.
And here you are, as if on cue. Any topic where China’s being again exposed as the bad actor it is you’re here to defend/justify it. Almost like you’re being paid to do it.
I got banned from Hacker News for calling a Chinese operative racist on a Hong Kong topic. I wonder if this topic will also get astroturfed.
If we follow International Olympic Committee standards, but reversed: Sequoia Western Taiwan
1. Vast amounts of all types of fraud
2. Terrible legal and regulatory environment
3. Political instability
4. Surreal cost burden at every junction of the productive process (cheapest car in Brazil for example is USD 15000, which is the same price as the cheapest car in the US)
5. Zero customer loyalty, people jump from service to service to obtain a 0.01% discount
Everywhere. Argentina and Venezuela due to need, Brazil due to the criminal opportunities it offers. It's even a running joke in Brazil that every week they arrest a new crypto-pyramid ring leader and give it the name "Sheik of Bitcoin", "Pharaoh of Bitcoin", etc. the press is running out of royal titles to give out.
I am from LATAM and I would treat the region the same way as you're pointing out - like it has the plague. There is so much regulatory and legal uncertainty, not to mention the sky-high costs at every junction, that it's nearly impossible to build profitable, high-quality companies in the same way it happens elsewhere. I give credit to Nubank for being an exception, but everything else has been such a massive bust.
Come work for Amazon and write a few design docs and get them reviewed by the PEs. You will solve this issue in 90 days flat.
The photo on the Tweet looks incredibly disturbing. His face and head seem like they have been planted on someone else's body; even the colors are different.
Well at 12 years old I was able to center a <div> using only CSS.
Two things that never left my memory from watching this in my childhood: the lady eating the Guinea pig, and the reporter sneakily entering the alien spaceship with a massive VHS camera (because there was nothing smaller).
How is she getting away with it? She will serve 11 years in federal prison for her crimes.