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Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
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#32There is an infographic floating around at the moment that maps the migration of millionaires in 2022. I have not dug through the data to see if everything in the infographic is accurate, but as I think most people would presume: it shows loads of wealth holders are making their way into the western world from Russia, China, India, Ukraine (you can predict the others net negative countries). However what's got my min…
Is a 'millionaire' a 'wealthy citizen' these days? In the UK this means you can buy a decent home for cash and still have to work for a living?
A million, whether dollars or pounds, in NET wealth is being a wealthy citizen in the UK and I suspect all Western countries. It's probably far better than the top 10%.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/migration-of-millionaires-w... This one?
High net worth individual is >$1M seems low. I mean the Portugal number are clearly due to it's Golden Visa which is for retired people. Having $1M in assets (house included) isn't that rare at retirement.
Tell me you're from a high-tech city (probably SF) and work in software, without telling me you're from a high-tech city :)
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#371) Execs complaining that it's hard to find skilled workers nowadays, while doing their best to make the company an unattractive workplace and not bother retaining existing workers who are leaving (including me soon). Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them. If people are leaving by the numbers, then you have some serious issues that need to be fixed, otherwise the churn will neve…
A quick chat with HR followed by a "coding challenge" for free. I just had a recruitment consultant tell me that my perspective might be wrong for not wanting to do it. He had 70 people in his pipeline for 25 jobs. So I do half a days worth of work for free and I have approx 2 - 1 chance that I don't get the job.
It’s been ten years and I am still mad at Facebook. Post phone interview on Friday I was given a code challenge to complete over the weekend. When I submitted it on Monday I received a response immediately “The team has reviewed your resume and decided to not move forward. We will not be reviewing your code challenge. Feel free to apply again in one year.”
I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and you could have at least glanced at it. Or at the very least lied to me.
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#38There have probably been a few Tik-Tok things that have had me scratching my head. Here is something similar:
Andrew Tang demonstrating there is still hope for humanity: taking down Stockfish in Ultrabullet Chess (for the uninitiated, each player has to play all their moves in 15 seconds):
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#39The UK government
Only recently?
The Uk was a pretty decent place up until around 2008, now its much further along the train of stripping back every function of government than even the US. The entire media is in the government's pocket, we even had a literal conspiracy to intentionally lose elections from members of labour.[1][2][3]
Unlike the US, even the police departments don't escape cutbacks...
[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leak-r...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/06/labour-repo...
[3]: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/leaked-dossier-sh...
Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
#401) Execs complaining that it's hard to find skilled workers nowadays, while doing their best to make the company an unattractive workplace and not bother retaining existing workers who are leaving (including me soon). Guys, it's not rocket science, just ask your employees what's bothering them. If people are leaving by the numbers, then you have some serious issues that need to be fixed, otherwise the churn will neve…
A quick chat with HR followed by a "coding challenge" for free. I just had a recruitment consultant tell me that my perspective might be wrong for not wanting to do it. He had 70 people in his pipeline for 25 jobs. So I do half a days worth of work for free and I have approx 2 - 1 chance that I don't get the job.
Do your thing I guess. The results will speak for themselves. Just know that even in the mid-2000s (when the market was red hot) there were all sorts of hurdles you'd have to go through to get a good gig. A lot of that involved doing work "for free".
A little hustle pays dividends long term. It's much worse in other industries.