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thankful69 commented on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/jseliger

thankful69 · 3 years ago

Vietnam is also a communist (which we invaded and got badly defeated btw), dictatorship loving (Cuba, Venezuela, ....) country, whatever you see in China, you also see in Vietnam, media isn't just as vicious with Vietnam. In the other hand, Vietnam have a bright future, they have developed significantly in the last decade, I wish them well.

thankful69 · 3 years ago

Truth is not very HN friendly, seems like lol.

thankful69 commented on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/jseliger

thankful69 · 3 years ago

I though we were going to move all those tech factories back home? I mean, we are literally paying for it, at least our taxes are.

thankful69 commented on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/jseliger

gleenn · 3 years ago

How is no one mentioning that China is threatening Taiwan. If the US ends up in a war with China, suddenly most Apple products would have serious operations problems if not being shut off completely. Cheap labor isn't a bad reason, but this is also a hedge against the heating politics between the West and both Russia and China.

thankful69 · 3 years ago

Vietnam is also a communist (which we invaded and got badly defeated btw), dictatorship loving (Cuba, Venezuela, ....) country, whatever you see in China, you also see in Vietnam, media isn't just as vicious with Vietnam. In the other hand, Vietnam have a bright future, they have developed significantly in the last decade, I wish them well.

thankful69 commented on Show HN: A network for Americans who can't afford health insurance pocketero.com... · Posted by u/pocketero-dan

thankful69 · 3 years ago

I'm curious, lets say person A needs a complex surgery, gets a bill for 200k usd, because A uses Pocketero, A only pays 100k, do people actually pay that sum at once, or they just try to get a payment plan, etc...? Because for a low income family(the ones that can't afford insurance) a payment plan for 100k or 200k doesn't really make a difference (is a lot), and most low income family would just declare bankruptcy (they usually have low credit score anyway and are not in the housing market, or anything like that). What's is the point of paying for a service that would only get me a discount of a huge expense, instead of "guaranteeing" that I won't owe hundreds of thousands to a hospital(with an insurance)?

thankful69 commented on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination indiatoday.in/technology/... · Posted by u/gunvantsr

oefrha · 3 years ago

It’s not a secret? I recall having a discussion on this with a bunch of SV engineers a decade ago at a potluck and almost everyone observed how Indian managers tend to hire Indians at their respective companies.

thankful69 · 3 years ago

Oh yeah, I was referring to discrimination in the workplace itself. So far all Indians I have met are amazing people, and I have not seen any type of discrimination against other Indians, otherwise I will whine very loud for sure.

thankful69 commented on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination indiatoday.in/technology/... · Posted by u/gunvantsr

greatpostman · 3 years ago

looks the other way when Indian director has all Indian SDMs reporting to him

It’s all lip service. Nepotism is rampant at FAANG

thankful69 · 3 years ago

If it is, is kept very secret between Indian employees, most American engineers (at least I would) will raise the issue. I don't care how high the is Director, I would just tell him that he is being racist , at his face, if he gets me fired, I would sue the company in a second. I have never seen this non-sense at FAANG in the 7 years I have worked here (Amazon first, then Google).

thankful69 commented on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination indiatoday.in/technology/... · Posted by u/gunvantsr

thankful69 · 3 years ago

I would love to have the opportunity to see caste discrimination myself, I swear by god I will get the discriminator fired on the spot, right after making him feel very little. Caste/race discrimination is the dumbest/sickest thing I have ever seen.

thankful69 commented on Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know support.signal.org/hc/en-... · Posted by u/input_sh

thankful69 · 3 years ago

If they (Signal) care about privacy, they need to drop the need for phone numbers to use their service, there are many ways of dealing with spam (rate limiting, captchas, ...), a true private/secure messenger app should not require any user identifiable info. And the argument of "Signal was the first e2ee messenger app to go mainstream, so they can keep ignoring user's privacy, .... yada yada..." is naive at best; they should lead by example, right now there are many solutions way more private (Briar, SimpleX, Session, Wickr, ....). I user Signal, and I like it, is just a shame they soft-refuse("We are working on it...") to remove phone numbers from the equation.

thankful69 commented on Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US Latino Focus · Posted by u/Piero0909

civilized · 3 years ago

It looks like you basically combined FDIC-insured bank accounts with Venmo-like payment functionality and some other stuff? That seems pretty useful.

But currently Latinos mostly use Whatsapp for payments? Is that right?

thankful69 · 3 years ago

Zelle in the US is the most common form of instant payment, at least in South Florida.

thankful69 commented on Ask HN: When did corporate America become so flaky? · Posted by u/geeky4qwerty

humanistbot · 3 years ago

> more often than not I would need to write follow-up emails after an email communication would go unresponded to for over a week

I know this is a "kids these days" anecdote, but I'm seeing a big generational gap in this kind of activity. I was in a frustrating conversation with an undergrad intern who hadn't responded to an e-mail. I was trying to make it a learning experience: at least in this workplace, if I send an e-mail with a question or task, I expect a reply in a reasonable time. He said that I should have sent him a reminder or ping, in a tone implying that it wasn't really his fault. I said that if you have trouble remembering to do your job, that is your problem and something you need to work on.

He did not respond well to that.

thankful69 · 3 years ago

Send him a slack/{insert app here} message instead, you are in no position to demand a response "in time" from anyone really. Many people prefer using real-time collab tools for a reason, and only check their email once or twice a day.