They can set up a facility and employ people in a country without paying off their debt. What exactly does Philippines have to offer that others don't?
If the Philippine debt is repaid, you'll have established the new Silicon Valley, complete with a talent pool dominated by software engineers and a large number of blockchain and AI experts.
I think it would be a very bad move to do something like this right now, when the Philippines is still run by the close-enough-to-fascist-to-make-little-difference dictator Duterte. Just as one example of why doing anything that even appears to legitimize and support him (or anything that puts you or yours in his power) is a bad idea, his way of dealing with "the drug problem" is just to kill drug users outright. To the tune of tens of thousands.
I certainly feel for the people of the Philippines, and setting up a major Apple HQ there would likely improve their opportunities somewhat, but as long as Duterte or anyone like him is in charge there, there are just so many reasons not to make any significant commitments to the Philippines.
The real reason why Mirabilis ICQ become unpopular.
On the height of their popularity, they started naming their products appending either "devil" and "demon" to their products.
Of course, most people who are conservatives back then like parents, aunts, 99% of the their users, basically other than "you" the power users didn't like the new naming.
So they move-on to Yahoo Messenger and never looked back.
Moral: Don't name your popular product like how Mirabilis ICQ does it back in the late 90s.
Instead of going to the Moon, why not just create a self-sustaining vehicle that can allow humans to survive sustainably in any terrain, desert, forests, mountains, land, sea, lake or water. On soil, above or underwater.
And make it a race prize competition similar to Google Lunar X Prize Race.
I'll have to investigate your framework a bit, but I admire the work you've put into it. However, regarding the hamburger menu, it opens only an empty white area on my Android running Chrome.
yea, I know. I didn't tune the website yet. I'm updating the documentation of v7. It'll be finished soon and then upload the new version of the website. after that moment, all those hamburger menus without submenu inside will be fixed. ;)
Depression is nature and unescapable, you just have to bare it and build endurance to lower the threshold of the stimulus that trigger it. It needs to be running simultaneously with your other natural brain activities.
In 2011, I found a job of my dreams, but it ended in 2012, since then I began to took jobs that I'm not comfortable and I do not like just to provide for my family, it was hard and sad, and it lasted from 2012 to 2016. Now I'm happy I have a new job that I'm very comfortable with.
Depression is not new to me, I've experienced it since childhood, teenage period and throughout college. There's no OFF switch for it, the only way to turn it off is build strength and endurance for it, sooner or later it it will attack again, but it would be too weak to affect you.
A huge part of the problem is we think we need to be happy/succesfull/whatever and any discomfort/pain is a existential problem.
It's not. It's life. It's got ups and downs. Don't let the downs get you too down[]. Find joy when you can.
[] This doesn't mean you have to just "be happy". But rather, recognize there is a problem and actively try to get help so next time you are more resilient.
You'll get into Google if you have a CS degree plus good in memorization.
memorization != understanding, I hope Google should give chance to the latter being the "time-tested proven" engineers which some can't answer "computer science trivia" because most of them don't spend time memorizing theories, they spend their time building and applying what they learned.
