Bitcoin is great for tech people that want to remain online and transact online for most or all things. The trend is more things moving online, so the value of Bitcoin logically increases. What is true "value" of Bitcoin? It's simply what the next person says it is, no more no less.
Cash/currency is great for people that want to remain offline and transact for physical things. Most electronic banking are still based on currency, so it's useful for now. How will this play out in future? We'll see.
Bitcoin is not an investment vehicle. Never was never will be. It's a belief. As more people believe in Bitcoin, it will gain value.
As companies get larger and larger, the need to manage people becomes even greater challenge. The C level people start to disassociate from "tech" people and start associating more with "management". Even guys that start out as engineers, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. get swallowed up by management layer deep state.
You'll start noticing when the "Star" employees of the late stage start up are more from HR, director groups, instead of product, tech, etc.
A single developer developing an app vs large team building an enterprise SAAS application have exponential differences.
Her staying at her current company is a warning flag.
It doesn't sound like she went through any other interview process at other companies, so she doesn't yet have full understanding of what's required to be in software engineering field.
The most likely path is that she will be guided into some sort of Software Development Management role after couple of lackluster years as "software developer" role. Many, if not most, software engineers burn out after couple of years or get into comfort zone and stagnate or get moved into management roles.
There's huge propaganda push to get certain groups into software engineering, women, minorities, etc. The central planners decided software engineering field had to change. The motivation is mostly financial, they need to increase number of available candidates to drive down salary increases in software engineering.
The quality of candidates has suffered because of this push, men, women, etc. Most people are simply not interested in software engineering field. Some people find out too late, after spending too much money and time trying to pursue a career in software engineering.
Google (Bing, DDG) pictures of women in the past, 50s - 90s era, before photoshop and heavy makeup.
The "average" women had body shapes that would place her in top Instagram model lineup today. Their basic maintenance diet was eating normal food at the time. Most didn't exercise much, but they walked everywhere.
These days, Instagram photos can be manipulated drastically. But, videos are more difficult to manipulate. Look for videos without obvious filters and with them swimming or similar activity, where they can't use much makeup.
Facts are things that can be tested and proven over and over again in reality. A pen is dropped, it falls to the ground today as it has fallen to the ground in the past, 1000s of times.
When establishment media outlets have to substantiate or provide "evidence", that's usually a belief more than a fact. Facts are binary, it's either a fact or it's not.
NYT and New Yorker and other establishment media outlets are corporate businesses. Their only interest is to push their propaganda narratives to further their own interests and protect their owners and other corporations.
The competition look is wringing out that last 10%. Women can maintain the 90% look indefinitely with basic maintenance diet and exercise. The basic Instagram model plan.
The extremes is what’s interesting, that they only go through the cycle if there’s competition. And, it’s fascinating to see in person how their bodies can balloon up so fast.
Many women choose to do Figure and Bikini competitions over physique.
Lots of women use the competitions as focal point to work on their bodies, fitness and get results.
I know several women that are generally out of shape frumpy looking, but spent time to get into shape for figure completions. They look amazing with model perfect bodies for competition. Then, right after competition, they celebrate by binge eating junk food for days and get fat. Then, the cycle starts over again.
Most people never leave Q1 phase, just muddling through their career and stagnate or burn out.
It takes lot of effort to jump from Q1 to Q2 and become aware how difficult things are in reality. Some take effort to become better and these types will usually succeed over time.
Lot of senior level people end up in Q3 and it's comfortable zone to be in. But, it takes more significant effort to jump to Q4, where they can gain additional pull to be able to lead and make significant more money.
It's significant journey and the timescale is not linear, it's logarithmic in some situations and extremely long in other situations.
Theranos.
When the benefits of fraud greatly outweighs cost of fraud, companies and people will commit fraud.
HSBC money laundering for criminal cartels.
Big companies will commit outright crimes and when caught, simply pay some fines that is much less than the profit.
How does the market differentiate between money losing startup, like Amazon of past, and some money losing penny stock pitching free energy electric car engine, aka perpetual engine ? Lots of muddy waters and shady regulations that hide many fraudulent companies preying on people.
QA is orderly process of utilizing techniques to create instability in stable systems.
Everything has a breaking point. QA is finding out if the breaking point is above specified threshold or not.
QA knows anything can be broken at some point. The job of QA is to verify that it meets specified criteria under certain stress conditions and document them.
QA is more than randomly pushing buttons hoping to pop open the box.
Cash/currency is great for people that want to remain offline and transact for physical things. Most electronic banking are still based on currency, so it's useful for now. How will this play out in future? We'll see.
Bitcoin is not an investment vehicle. Never was never will be. It's a belief. As more people believe in Bitcoin, it will gain value.