Wow, thanks for listing me as a personal website that you love! It'll give me some motivation to write new blog posts. For anyone curious it's the aryaboudaie.com one
Not true how substantiated this is, but I heard one of the reasons for moving Turkey away from the traditional script is to make it so people can't read texts about the Armenian genocide. Truly chilling stuff :(
My heart breaks for these devs. I've been able to launch a successful development career specifically because I was born in the US (and my parents left Iran). If I was the same person in a different geographic area I'd be struggling under sanctions.
Companies definitely need to push back on extra egregious legal teams who want to block services Iran, as it's mostly paranoia and not that the services actually fall under the jurisdiction of our sanctions. I know amazing people at Google who are doing this work, and I hope others at other companies do the same.
> You provide a good depiction of the current state but that still does not explain why some person that has as much as 100'000 others do is inherently a bad thing.
Is it really that hard to see that people having more wealth than they can spend in a lifetime while others can't afford healthcare is an issue?
I read somewhere (I don't remember where) that when you're a CEO and all your friends are CEOs, you start to compare yourself to them and want to make as much as they do.