Gaspar Chilingarov

This 👇👇👇 international friends, if you are silent about what happens right now in Armenia and Karabakh, you are complicit in it.

@tferriss Never happens to Germans. Therefore no word for it. Also - Alarm! Alarm! Alarm! wink :P

Is there a single word in German or Japanese (or any language) that describes the feeling of "Oh, shit. What did I forget?" when you repack your luggage while traveling and have more empty space than you remember?

@Ron4California Hi Ron, can you use your voice to raise awareness of this issue? Or maybe even raising it with your congress representative? bbc.com/news/world-eur…

"...you must make a friend of horror. Horror, and moral terror, are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared." A great analysis of Apocalypse Now. See also "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it" - Sherman youtube.com/watch?v=lk0f7P…

As the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world remains closed for the 26th day, Armenians celebrate Christmas under the Azerbaijani blockade. Photos from divine liturgy at the Stepanakert Cathedral. By Edgar Harutyunyan

NEW: Nagorno Karabakh's residents say they are running out of food because the Lachin corridor – their only access to Armenia - has been blockaded for almost a month. One mother told me her toddler could miss her cancer treatment. nationaljournal.com/s/719969/armen…

Ethnic Armenians living in Karabakh have been cut off from the outside world for 26 days. Azerbaijani protesters have been blocking the only road through which supplies come to Karabakh. Thanks @marutvanian for your contribution bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

About FOUR HUNDRED TONES of cargo entered Karabakh from Armenia DAILY. Soon it will be a month not a single spoonful of sugar imported to NK. "Kind people, where in Stepanakert can I find a single carrot, it's for a child?", -- from my F feed.

A supermarket in Stepanakert, the capital of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabackh), as fake environmental-activists continue blocking the only road connecting with Armenia

@nervousrubyist @WHITEMAN_YOLO @paulg @lirarandall Check out "Profession" by Isaac Asimov. He knew what's comming and what would be the consequences. TLDR you pay dearly for not training/using your brain.

If AI saves people from having to write, it will also save them from having the ideas that writing engenders.

me replacing Twitter’s url query string tracking beacon with base64 of “[Object object]” to drive some poor developer insane

@dhh They tried it out a century ago in a Soviet Union. Did not end really well.

"Transitive guilt is a terrifying tactic the first time you encounter it. Not only are you being accused of something awful, but the accusation is supercharged to run through your connections to others." world.hey.com/dhh/we-must-sa…

The most organized celebrating in Tokyo after Japan beat Germany. Fans rush Shibuya Crossing but responsibly return to sidewalks when cars have to drive.

@danlemire Previous Lion

Will we use the likes of “read by a real human!” or “these actors are real, never synthetic” or “100% authentic human generated art” in ads soon? It’s all “coming soon!”

@subbu85 @GergelyOrosz you call the sales rep :) and they set up a PoC for you :) but such sales cycle may involve 1-12 months of presales work ;) depends on the complexity and size of the solution :)

@GergelyOrosz Sometimes the product is so customized.. what do u do then?

I continue to dislike products where the *only* option to get pricing is to set up a call with a sales rep. I understand why they do it: maximize profit. Today it's Pitchbook doing this. When I am the customer: I don't do calls, sorry. Probably no license for me.

@just_bearded @jamiedaniel I would add - learn perpendicular skills :) for devs - system administration, networking, ppl skills, UX design, anything which is not an existing_skill++. Learning one more programming language when you know already 5 - doesn't help much.

@jamiedaniel I love this.

For all the older devs here that went through many markets. What are some tips for younger devs going into this recession.

@JeremyPepperWVU @open_sketchbook @scousermarti Also EU has rather impressive regulatory powers, that's why everyone now has better control over how their information is handled (GDPR) or new iPhones will finally have an USB port - because customizing products only for one huge market is inefficient :)

@open_sketchbook @scousermarti I stand corrected. Just found a number for the EU as a group. Impressive. On a per capita basis it still lags, but very impressive on manufacturing.

@JeremyPepperWVU @open_sketchbook @scousermarti Netherlands is small producer???????? Their agricultural export is insanely high, like 30% of EU demand. And they export not only goods, but they also export knowledge to other countries (Universities in NL, consulting, etc). They are impressively efficient.

@open_sketchbook @scousermarti I guess I’m struggling to see how that’s actually true. U.S. industrial output only trails China in terms of magnitude. To truly compare to Europe I’d need to place nations like Germany (big producer) in with Greece or the Netherlands (small producers).

@zalberico @Palle_Hoffstein A lot of investors here would first concentrate on profitability and then only on the growth. You cannot "trend towards profitability" for years and burn through the investors money like there is no tomorrow. So, no, no Uber-style burning through the cash pile.

@getinyourstance @kaffuwa @Palle_Hoffstein Well, it wasn't that binding... 1b cash and you are free to go, Elon :)

@kaffuwa @Palle_Hoffstein I'm an M&A consultant. I'm very aware of how a transaction works for a normal PE/HF/etc. He is not that. Considering the fact that he literally tried to back out of his $44B offer and didn't realize it was binding, I'm going to stick with "you're giving him too much credit."

@UBTaylor @Palle_Hoffstein His latest demands to work extra hard in German factory were shut down by IG Metall Union (2m members, 2.5% of German population:). Good luck being greedy capitalist :) Also - it doesn't work in long term. Some companies here being longer in business than whole US exists.

@Palle_Hoffstein You think Tesla is not a global company? I bet it has way more employees in Europe that Twitter.

@JVidjeskog @Porkchop_EXP They will paid about 60%, which is unpleasant, but still livable. But then when businesses open they don't have problems with rehiring and retraining ppl, just just retained all their human capital

@JVidjeskog @Porkchop_EXP But ppl in Denmark have good enough social protection to not to care and just calmly carry on with finding a new job. On the other hand in Germany you can cut down the salary of your workforce and send them home (exactly what happened during the 2020)

The cheering in the comments is unbearable. There is HUGE hidden cost to not being able to easily fire employees in Europe: companies not growing staff, much lower salaries (6-figure salaries are practically unheard of), fewer openings. Europeans prefer job security over jobs.