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Today’s richer nation plunder poorer nations through skilled migration. You may have heard of it as “brain drain” - the plunder of people who know modern science, and the techniques of industrial production.

Industrialised nations maintain their place in the world by having other, poorer, countries subsidise the raising and training of doctors, nurses, engineers and accountants.

If you know them, they know you too, and they are sharing with you for a reason. But if you’re unsure how best to support them - ask this:

“Would you like me you think through potential risks and pitfalls, or are you looking for emotional support?”

If they answer the former, go right ahead and challenge them. If the latter then share your hopes for their success. Sometimes they know they have blind spots and they need your help before investing too much effort in the idea, sometimes they just want to share their enthusiasm.

"single core global virtual computer with much less power than a typical Raspberry Pi"

As true as a legislature can be described as a pen + notebook - there is value in consensus.

Everybody is somebody to somebody. Nobody is somebody to everybody.

Also, you don’t know for certain what kind of person you will become. Who knows what your experience today will bring you in the future?

I think cryptocurrency is more akin to personal computer. DeFi- the internet.

Hedge funds shorted more than 100% of listed stock, made themselves vulnerable to a short squeeze.

You can get into the iPhone or Android and copy the SQLite database to your computer.

The images can be tricky - some form of reference to the image in your phone, hard to put together; otherwise the messages in all the chats are in the database, navigable by a SQLite client.

Speaking from personal experience porting messages from iPhone to Android.

My experience is, written communication don't exist until I've mentioned a summary of it in a verbal communication.

Some people are not comfortable to express their annoyance until it crosses a point of no return. You have to proactively seek to bring out their disagreements, and resolve them.

Until you've experience in resolving a number of conflicts with the persons involved, to the extent you understand them on a personal level, you have not achieved trust. In that case, reducing verbal communication produces fuel to create an environment of mistrust and suspicion.

Build an website for NIMBY's to see where proposed nuclear power plants and wind farms will be built, make it easy for them discuss with each other and to participate in the projects' consultation process.

The other states haven't finished counting either, they have a large margin for one candidate, so the remaining uncounted votes are extremely unlikely to changing the leading candidate.

In swing states however, the probability of uncounted votes changing the leading candidate is much higher, which is why the news is focusing on them.

It pays your rent, puts food on the table and you haven't found alternatives yet, I don't see your current situation as wrong on your part, especially if the alternative is to starve or live jobless on government benefits. I hope you will find a situation where you're more comfortable in the future, and all the best.

Intelligence isn't the only requirement for any particular role.

e.g., S., finance, is asking questions about the team's progress as if we were doing waterfall, unhappy with missed dates, when our team was agile.

Our director, quite confidently, says to us: "There's a disconnect here, I'll book in 15 minutes with S. and get it fixed up.", as if it's not a big issue. She does not do programming at all.

On the other hand, my ability to implement a red-black tree on the whiteboard would not have helped with this situation.

Previously I've been in startups where the managing director, who was a PhD, and much smarter than I was, who could not resolve the smallest of conflicts safely.