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I'm a U.S. citizen and I've applied to plenty of these types of jobs. Had an offer at Palantir previously but would not take that now due to ethical concerns.

I'm an older worker in management. Willing to be hands on. Not looking to get paid as much as Meta (I've worked there too) but also don't want something that pays peanuts. Willing to relocate to many places.

Genuinely curious where I can find such jobs.

In theory, yes. But in practice, is it true? Are Amazon and Oracle better places to work than Facebook and Stripe?

My strategy here is disable all auto pays and make it a manual ritual to pay my bills at the start of each calendar month.

Doing it once a month is easy enough to remember (or put a calendar invite, if you're not able to) and forces me to do a quick validation. In my 20 years of working and being independent, I've never accidentally paid for a subscription longer than one month.

Though I realize it's currently offline, can I just say how refreshing it is to see the mention of a live ssh demo with no authentication needed? I wish more tools had such a friction free way to try them.

Sounds intense. What did it look and feel like? How did it change your life? You've left me a bit on the edge of my seat.

And yet this did not save Wael Al-Dahdouh's family. He followed every order and evacuated his family. His wife, kids, and grandchild were wiped out in an airstrike in a refugee camp no less.

He handled it with immense maturity and dedication. He's back to work reporting on the war.

Wow thank you for suggesting this. I've tried so many apps and nothing has really hit the sweet spot for me. But I just downloaded this upon reading your suggestion and it literally checks all the boxes for me. Amazing find!

I hear they make people share hotel rooms with other employees. Is that true?

I lived in Singapore for a little while and this was one thing I noticed they did there. For example, by giving preference in subsidized housing to people who were married and further preference to those who had kids.

In the U.S. (and broadly, the western world) we seem to have a really hard time using economic incentives to encourage certain behaviors. I think it's partially because we don't want to implicitly judge a given lifestyle choice as better than another.

However, I think there is much we can learn from a place like Singapore. Singapore simply does not stick to any single political dogma - they choose a mishmash of policies based on the outcome they want to achieve.

For one thing, a single humans knowledge cannot be scaled to serve hundreds of millions of users simultaneously.

We have an aging population and many places have a flat birthrate. We need to solve how to deal with this consequences.

Who will care for these people? How will we deal with the consequences of flat population growth? How will we deal with the stock market's expectations of perpetual growth when the underlying population itself is not growing (and especially since productivity has also been relatively flat)?

> Any examples you can share?

I don't really feel too comfortable sharing specific details, but suffice it to say I've worked at a few large companies and my experience with Meta was one of too many cooks in the kitchen. Lots of overlap in ownership and the boundaries between teams IMHO was not very clear nor well thought out. This meant that launching anything required a lot of work across many teams (more than necessary IMHO).

> Also, can you elaborate on this?

As a simple example, the EU mandated that if you signed up for Instagram and you also signed up for Facebook using the same e-mail address, your personal information could not be shared (or used for targeting) between apps, unless you explicitly agree to link those two accounts together. This was a pretty clear-cut case, but it got much less clear when talking about Facebook vs Messenger (they are different apps, but direct messaging is also integrated into the Facebook website). Now if you start adding in things like Threads, Oculus, etc you can imagine the implications for how you share data will continue to get more complex.

As someone who has worked at meta in privacy, I don't think this would be hard to figure out for a small startup. The issue is that you can't share data between different apps, which is not a problem a small company would have since they wouldn't have multiple apps to begin with.

Meta, on the other hand, has data intertwined between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and other platforms. Plus, Meta's internal bureaucracy and ownership model is an absolute hellish mess.

Genuine question: did anyone actually get locked up on a business trip to China?