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Why not just move to NA/Europe? Chinese engineers are a security risk

It’s not easy, but if Chinese devs can be hired as remote engineers, they can apply for digital nomad visas in Europe after 3 months.

Not gonna lie, that would be a dream, and that's coming from an American.

The WSJ reported that many Americans are relocating to Lisbon, investing in real estate in New Zealand, or becoming digital nomads in Southeast Asia.

how does this work from a security standpoint? per user encryption?

Location: Canada/US Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats


who do you think gets in trouble if her phone dies and all her stuff is gone

storing things in the cloud is responsible


Just back it up once a week on the computer, that's what I do.

I don't even use a Google account on my phone. Most apps don't need it! There's only a handful that do, in particular ChatGPT that really insists you have a Google account logged in (why they force you to make an account with their direct competitor is beyond me but they do)

But perplexity is much better anyway so I use that.


And who gets in trouble when her iCloud account glitches itself and loses everything? Or when the network is dead and nothing works?

Local copies should always be primary and cloud copies secondary.

But you don't get to extract rent in that case which is why none of the big companies want to do things that way.


local backups is responsible


yeah you might do that, but how many non-technical people can be bothered to do so?

Yeah but a good majority don't want Islam in Iran, Iran used to have a culture


> Yeah but a good majority don't want Islam in Iran, Iran used to have a culture

Yeah but a better majority doesn't want Evangelicalism in USA, USA used to have a culture /s


I mean we could be just like rodents to them, I won't think people care about uprooting rodents


Maybe, but to me, it would be as if we dug into a prairie dog's tunnels, killed them all and stole whatever little bits of food they have. It just doesn't make sense.


So how is it that the amazon is disappearing? Coincidence or human interference?

Humans have demonstrated a cycle of 1. exploitation to the point destruction, 2. Realisation of the damage they have inflicted, 3. Green washing and band-aid fixes 4. Rinse and repeat.

Be it waste handling, colonisation, industrial revolution, slavery, oil extraction etc etc.

At least for the time being, prairie dog tunnels seem safe.


Like I said, we should probably care more, and generally speaking, we do, over time. I'm not suggesting we're perfect, that we haven't made any mistakes, or that we won't make any more - just that we're slowly learning how to do better.

> Be it waste handling, colonisation, industrial revolution, slavery, oil extraction etc etc.

Interestingly, most of these have seen lots of progress in reducing the harms - if not practically eliminating it altogether, such as with slavery.


Colonisation and industrial revolution have reduced the harm? For whom?

Looking it from a white, western male perspective, you're right. From other perspectives this might well not be the case.

A lot of technology has short term benefits but are, in the long term, net negative to either us as species or the environment around us - which is the life support system for us. We as a society have not got a "undo" button for much of this technology, since once the damage has been done in real life, it stays in real life.

So we develop technology, see it fail, and try to fix the issues with more technology not realising that technology might be the problem. Or perhaps it's because we don't have the simplicity of an "undo" button.


Normal people find discord to be more user friendly than irc


Good thing anyone is allowed to make a more user-friendly IRC client so that can be improved on, then. As long as we all follow protocols my choice of client doesnt concern you even as we chat in the same room. IRC does not proscribe any particular UI or UX. .

For vertically integrated propriatery closed Discord it's both forbidden and made difficult. There is one alternative and you take it or leave it. Hopefully the latter. There's a reason clients like ripcord never make it.


wasn't slack initially built on top of IRC? they had at least support for IRC clients, much like google message or however it was called at the time used to support jabber/XMPP clients.

well, there is another alternative, namely the EU laws forcing interoperability. i don't know if they have passed yet, or how likely it is that they will pass, but i seem to remember a recent announcement of one system going to be interoperable with whatsapp.


Likewise, normal people do not find NNTP to be user friendly.


Location: Canada/US

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats


looks like in-office, boss


Careful with this

I applied and got rejected without feedback. They stated that there was a high volume of strong applicants (if there were, why are they posting again?)


> I applied and got rejected without feedback. They stated that there was a high volume of strong applicants (if there were, why are they posting again?)

This is the case for the vast majority of companies posting jobs here and elsewhere (e.g., LinkedIn) right now. I've been looking for the past 7 months after a lay-off and that exact reply is the most common response I've seen (because it's an automated response). Well, most common after not hearing back at all, of course.


We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858512. Please see the rules at the top of the thread.

I know situations like this are frustrating and the job market in general has a lot of issues, but Who Is Hiring threads aren't a great place to prosecute these topics.

There are links to a lot of past explanations here, in case helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45094555.


Tons and tons of ghost jobs, well over 90%.


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