I worked at a startup during the brexit vote and our recruitment plummeted immediately afterwards. We would only get about 10-20% of the EU candidates applying as before. No change in UK candidates.
Yes I suspect they are. Rents are incredibly high in major cities. Having seen the size (&cost) of the rooms available for rent in london these containers look quite reasonable.
In the west we don't have favelas so while I think it would be a down-point, I don't think there would be such a strong negative connotation.
I liked his blog post and thought it was interesting. I didn't see anything obviously bad in it, I just saw an SEO-type telling a story and promoting themselves through it.
I don't know what he has done in the past but I think you are being harsh.
Surely not 3.5" floppies in 1998. 1998 was the year of 100MB zip disks, LS120 supper floppies. This was when everyone already had CD-roms in their PCs and some luck people had CD-writers.
I remember digital cameras of that era writing to mini-CDs. I dont recall ones writing to 3.5" floppies.