Whether or not there is shame in getting help for your depression is cultural. Saying so on a hackernews post doesn't change the reality on the ground for any potential viewer in, for example, Japan or China.
Getting help may mean adjusting location to a less shameful community. With Internet communities and now the beginnings of Internet medical care, this might not even require geographic changes.
It was a little front-loaded, but the phrase "this might not even require geographic changes." at the end of his reply implies that it's less "move to a better country" and more "stop hanging around with people who damage your mental health and/or shame you for seeking help". This is very good advice, and following it in the past probably saved my life.
Because there's the example of the iPod. It wasn't the music player to have until Apple employees wore down Steve Jobs so they could let it connect with Windows.
Except that Apple still owned the ecosystem. Allowing you to connect iTunes on Windows is just like having Kindle on everything - a means to spread your ecosystem and platform. In fact, this is even BETTER for them, because you still had to buy an iPod!
The more you can treat the underlying OS as "dumb pipes", the more valuable/easily spreadable your ecosystem is.
>>>You can buy smart phones for 30$ in shenzhen electronic malls today.
1) That's in Shenzen. Might as well be Mars for most people. When Shenzen hardware is sourced by global brands, they usually have a generous markup where that "$30" quickly disappears.
2) How long do they last? "Oh, but they're cheap. If it breaks in 3 months, just buy another!" No. People just don't want to go through possibly losing data and having hardware just suddenly drop dead on them.
So, yeah. I'll go with the guy who said five years. That's for stuff that won't drop dead in three months.
> That's in Shenzen. Might as well be Mars for most people.
Ah, yes, if only some smart people could invent some kind of global network for people to buy things remotely, and created some site where you could order these things. They could call it, for example, Ali Baba.
Still Mars. Unknown companies, unknown quality, unknown warranties (as in mostly non-existent). And sending it back to China to exchange a defective unit? Suddenly that $30 isn't.
A wide range of these products are available at reasonable markups via a variety of Amazon Marketplace resellers.
That's how I got my first one. But since then I've started ordering direct from Alibaba/Aliexpress and for many products the savings are large enough to "self insure" and still be worth it with a good margin.
In the Kamalaya section, it doesn't seem to scroll down. Using the latest Firefox. Am I missing some sort of control that's too light to see on my bad-contrast screen?
There should be paddles on the left and right sides of the screen to change the page. It's set up to work like a book, so pages turn instead of scrolling up and down.
> And they reveal the hand they'll use to shut it all down.
Well, except that they released information about how they viewed MSB rules applying to virtual currencies some time ago, and since then bitcoin related businesses to which the rules would apply have taken steps to become appropriately licensed.
Knew a guy in his his forties who wanted to work for an ad agency. Convinced them to use him for free for a while as a test and they wound up hiring him. YMMV.
Cool! Slave labor and/or illegal minimum wage violations. Sounds like a great company.
Only an asshole company would do this to a future employee. And only an asshole would allow themselves to be exploited like this.
Guys: work on contract. Get paid. Your lack of self-esteem affects everyone else in the workforce trying to earn a living. Don’t sell yourself--or your peers--short.
