I agree with plenty of what you are saying, at the same time I believe that joining problematic start-ups or failing start-ups can teach you plenty on how not do things.
Remember that before succeeding you have to fail and improve in a cycle of n times until you succeed. If you succeed without failing then there is a high probability of luck being involved.
Usually its the extremes that are having the same effects.
Atm I am in a super demanding job, requiring me to overwork, make decisions on the spot, work on problems etc.
On my free time while I want to sit down and watch some TV, go for running, enjoy a nice dinner or whatever... I FEEL EMPTY!
I am fixated with my work... its not healthy and its creating low motivation for me. It feels like work has taken away all pleasures in life for me. It is not HEALTHY at all (I am currently seeing professionals about it)
Generally anything in moderation is key...
P.S. I do overwork myself for someone else to enjoy the fruits of my labour... sad story.
sounds like the beginnings of either burnout, depression or both. I'm in a job that's not quite demanding enough at the moment and it caused me to fall into a depression. It's good to catch it in time to do something about it.
"So stripe here would charge an EU card from its EU entity, US from the US, GB from GB etc etc, regardless of where the merchant is actually located. Maybe there is something fundamentally different with the workings of Visa / MC payments and clearing though that means this is not possible?"
Not really. The transaction happens on the country the merchant Operates.
If you are a merchant within the EU and stripe accepts a txn on your behalf, if that txn is from a card issued by a UK institution you will be charged the extra fee.
>The transaction happens on the country the merchant Operates.
In order to achieve what parent said, the merchant will have to have a legal entity in every single country where they have customers in, and setup payment processing account within those jurisdiction.
So I am wonder at what sort of revenue does it make sense to do this. Assuming this process could somehow be automated / abstracted and the only cost are legal and accounting. ( i.e Cost that cant be avoided )
I'd imagine there are ways to set up such entities for not a lot of money, but selling to a jurisdiction has a lot more obligations when you're a legal entity in that jurisdiction instead of just exporting to it.
Personal experience has taught me that there is a MAXIMUM amount of COMP that you will receive as an employee, no matter how much hard work you put into your company.
So basically what is happening, is that you are working hard for some achievements, that someone else is going to benefit off.
Yes. Compensation is best measured as hourly rate: $/h. Working too hard just decreases that ratio because work hours increase while money stays constant.
> Working too hard just decreases that ratio because work hours increase while money stays constant
I assume this may hold for the US, but not for many other countries. For example in my country the hourly rate for overtime hours is higher by law. Your hourly compensation decrease while working longer would only decrease if you were an external contractor paid a fixed amount of money for completion of a specific task.
We aren't really talking about overtime though, which also exists in the US, but the amount of output during a normal 8 hour day. You might get paid somewhat more than a peer for putting out 2x the output but there are massive diminishing returns.
What I was responding to literally talked about "work hours increase". I don't see how you can have "work hours increase" and simultaneously keep the same "normal 8 hour day". That sounds contradictory to me.
Even for salaried employees it is not rational to work too hard. You may spend 8 hours at work but you don't spend every minute of that time actually working. You could optimize that if you wanted but you're not going to be rewarded proportionally if at all. Returns diminish quickly and that's if your efforts are even noticed. Burning oneself out to finish something quickly can even backfire since managers can always just find more work that needs to be done.
> Personal experience has taught me that there is a MAXIMUM amount of COMP that you will receive as an employee, no matter how much hard work you put into your company.
Sure, but putting more craft and care and study in your tasks benefits you a lot too.
e.g. I have spent two weeks on an airbnb-like image gallery, could've completed the task in four days, used the time to become black belt in images in the browser, which makes ME a considerably better and more prepared professional. The way I see it I'm getting paid for educating and specializing myself. AND it benefits my current employer and our customers.
Meanwhile my colleagues rush into the next task don't rip any of these benefits.
Although I use incognito mode as a workaround (if you open the article on incognito it shows it without the paywall, at least it does for me), I find Medium tutorials badly written or written by people with limited technical knowledge.
I'd say 95% of my process with medium goes like this:
1) Finds a blog with a tutorial or something relevant.
2) Opens it and sees a paywall
3) Opens it in incognito mode
4) Browses through the article
5) Leaves the page and learned nothing
While Erdogan is behind the wheel, Turkey will keep suffering his power-plays. Its very unfortunate that he doesn't want any conflict resolution, just power games (don't forget blocking social media sites in Turkey etc). I have a feeling that Turks do want to progress and be part of the westernized world but he is keeping them behind. A week ago he converted a highly valuable world heritage monument into a mosque knowing it will damage his relationships with Europe.
Reopening Famagusta is only gonna make things worse.
Generally speaking the area has been conflicted from all sides, e.g Israel-Palestine etc, and it feels like noone really wants to fix things up and let the area heal for generations to come? I mean come on people we are in 2020 and we act like we are 70 years ago... we should be thinking out of the box.
Although I am biased on this subject as I legally own land that I can't use or visit in Famagusta, I thought I'd share my opinion.
My Turkish friends tell me that Turkey is divided between the ultra-conservative, iisolationist nationalists m that Erdoğan appeals to, and the more liberal people who don't like any of this at all.
A friend of mine has told me that the only way he'll return to Turkey is to attend Erdoğan's funeral. I sympathize with him, he's as sad about the current situation as I am (though from the other side).
Erdogan is applying the same strategy used by Russia, in that he's keen to always push as far as the International Community is willing to tolerate. And they're apparently willing to tolerate a lot, because Turkey possesses immense geostrategic leverage, and he knows this. Other regimes that like to push against the grain, like in Poland and Hungary, wish they were as relevant as Turkey.
This sort of act is one where a couple western countries throw out some sanctions against some state-adjacent figures, but nothing too severe; then in a few years, those sanctions quietly go away during an effort to "normalize" relations.
70 years ago the post-Ottoman Middle East began to unite under a pan-Arabist identity (the brainchild of diaspora Greeks, funny enough).
The progressive West spent the next 70 years ensuring that identity never took hold.
Specifically on Turkey, the West more or less gave Erdogan the green light for expansion by 1) installing a neutered puppet government in Northern Iraq that is unable to control its borders and 2) supporting anti-Turkish militias against the Syrian government and as a direct consequence set the scene for Turkey to begin occupation. So it’s hardly surprising he begins to flirt a bit more with Cyprus as well.
Small-medium hotel owner here, that used to write code for a living.
What just happened in my industry, is forcing me to go look for a job. I don't think we are going to open for summer season or even if we do its not gonna make enough to live by.
Hundreds or thousands of years ago, a few had all the wealth and then most people were poor. We even had slaves.
I can't believe that in 2020 and with all the knowledge we've acquired as humanity we've allowed a few people to acquire all the wealth.
I am gonna struggle with paying any tax coming my way this year, or even supporting my employees who they very much need the job. And on the other hand, there are corporation that don't need to pay much tax through their umbrellas and then again they pay their employees peanuts so they can have a CEO that is worth in the hundred of billions of $. Sad to see that humanity hasn't improved at all.
But it's not this way everywhere: there are countries (I'm thinking of Scandinavian) where inequality is perhaps not so bad, and there are countries where governments are making major and genuine efforts to support businesses and people who are at risk of (or who have) lost their jobs due to Covid.
There's bad leadership and bad behaviour in many places, but not everywhere all at the same time.
Global population is 7.8B. Scandinavia's population is 25-26M (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). So your point applies to countries with 0.33% of humanity, which is not representative at all. Maybe add a few tiny countries or city-states and I would be surprised if their aggregative population crosses 2% of the overall global population.
So I believe GP's point still stands - humanity has not learned the lesson from thousands of years of its history.
The entire rest of the world that's not part of Scandinavia is not the polar opposite. There are many countries, and much diversity in their equality and government responses.
> I can't believe that in 2020 and with all the knowledge we've acquired as humanity we've allowed a few people to acquire all the wealth.
This is the most prosperous time in human history. There are more people alive right now than ever before. They live longer healthier lives and they’re more educated than ever before.
On every continent but Africa people are richer now than was the case after WWII. In the US, the richest country that has ever existed people are just coming out of one of the longest economic expansions in history.
What city are you in? A few years back I quit my QA job to travel from city to city in Europe and stayed in hostels. I loved Paris. The people running many of the hostels there are still friends to this day.
must be fake, from the whois I cannot see amazon being registered, its just hidden which is not normal by such a huge organization. I might be wrong but just from the whois I wouldn't believe its amazon.
From what I can tell this "Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc." manages programs like this for other companies. They seem to be legit but I don't know anything about them.
To add to that, I was listening to an expert from Standford saying that the data set we currently have is not correct and we don't have the full picture.
We might be seeing X deaths in china but that might not be true, due to less testing etc currently, so the mortality rate is a bit skewed.
Remember that before succeeding you have to fail and improve in a cycle of n times until you succeed. If you succeed without failing then there is a high probability of luck being involved.