The offers reflected the stock price, stock prices go up and down always.
Readit Newsdanamit commented on Zendesk acquired for $10.2B; turned down $17B offer earlier this year finance.yahoo.com/news/ze... · Posted by u/gmays
danamit commented on Copilot sells code other people wrote twitter.com/ReinH/status/... · Posted by u/joemanaco
The code Copilot suggest from any given project most of the time is not enough to credit such project, when I look up code in some GitHub repo, and copy it fully or part of it, I do not credit that project.
I do not see Copilot as useful anyway.
danamit commented on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar marca.com/en/world-cup/20... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
It's not just migrant workers thought, my one cousin who is a white collar worker, making significantly more than me, lived under similar conditions with respect to passport and living...they even go through his mail. I have had other cousins in the are who have worked as labourers and the first hand accounts as bad as we've heard.
That makes your cousin a migrant worker too? no?
danamit commented on Ask HN: Has anyone made any serious money selling Android apps? · Posted by u/ghoomketu
I had an income of 2-3k monthly from Facebook apps back in 2010s. I do not advice apps since you are at the mercy of the platform and their policies.
danamit commented on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar marca.com/en/world-cup/20... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
danamit commented on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar marca.com/en/world-cup/20... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
In Saudi Arabia, Gulf States, and elsewhere in the region migrant workers have their passport taken by the employer and thus can’t leave the country. They are stuck. In most other countries the employer does not confiscate your passport. It’s weird to me that one needs a passport to leave a country. In the U.S. you don’t need a passport to leave.
That's not legal, and it doesn't happen in cases of the kind of workers you are talking about. Taking passport or treating to be accused of rape and similar things happen (not commonly) to domestic workers and drivers. In occasions they buy the right of Kafala from the Kafil for a couple of $1000s and you leaving before your contract ends feel to them like a loss of money, I would say the situation here is indeed similar to slavery. For industry workers, every worker is replaceable and the company hiring you has 0 incentive to force you to stay.
The real issue in gulf is not paying livable wages mainly. Anything else is comparable to farm workers in Europe.
danamit commented on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar marca.com/en/world-cup/20... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
Perhaps there will be a surge in temporary marriages?
https://www.interestingfacts.org/fact/temporary-marriage-in-...
Qatar is Sunni, they do not do temporary marriages, which is a Shia thing.
danamit commented on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar marca.com/en/world-cup/20... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
https://gctpnews.org/qatar-2022-world-cup-death-toll/
"The name of the current [migrant worker employment] system is kafala, a system forcing all migrants to be sponsored and subsequently tied to an employer. The kafala system has been frequently described as modern day slavery due to its exploitative nature. This employer controls housing, wages, travel, and the well being of each employee."
"[...] an estimated 4,000 migrant workers will die, making this event the deadliest in sporting history."
90% of Qatar's population and 94% of its workforce are foreign workers.
It is not about the Kafala system, since even the West has similar systems. It is that they treat migrant workers that are not highly skilled specially from specific backgrounds bad.
danamit commented on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar marca.com/en/world-cup/20... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
how they can know? besides forbidding dating apps i don't think police officers will sit in the bars to make sure no one is going home with someone they just met.
though the rules there are quite strict due to the fact this is islamic state
They will respond to complaints.
Say you go to your Airbnb, walk the stairs with a woman that could look like a sex worker, the neighbors will consider that disrespectful to be done "in front of their kids", and they will call the police on you. However not sure if that's enough to warrant the police entering your house, so they might just talk to you and ask you to be considerate or give you a warning.
danamit commented on Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed medium.com/@michelcryptda... · Posted by u/gimliapp
I am someone from a developing country who regularly used crypto either to get paid, or to pay for things online.
Does crypto have issues? yes. Is it good enough that in occasion it was my preferred payment method? yes.
Crypto community and companies are maybe bad, but if you zoom out into IT overall there is a fair share of greed and misuse. The internet is full of scams, gurus selling courses with false claims, spam emails that drain your grandpa's account, affiliate programs with 70% margin to sell fake products from questionable weight loss ebooks with health-harming diets to fragrances claiming to be perfumes that attract females supported by endless fake video testimonies, online communities encouraging hate, demoralization, and lack of belief in society.
Seem to me that those articles are nothing but status quo bias, does crypto has bad aspects? yes, is it worse than say internet? I don't know.