TheCapeGreek

All of the "you can anonymously and safely hold tons of wealth that can't be taken from you" points you make fall apart when the following two are true:

- For the majority of financial transactions you might want to make, fiat is still what you need, because realistically very little IRL uses any L2 solution. Thus, you need a fiat off-ramp... Like an exchange. - Exchanges mandate you identify yourself to them - KYC/AML and all. Governments might not be able to know which wallet is yours, but they sure as hell can and have secure those off-ramps this way.

I've seen plenty of pro-BTC arguments on a technical level about privacy, resilience, independence from central banks, etc. but fundamentally I've never seen anyone able to come up with something that can out "your opponent is the government and no technical project can overcome a legal obstacle".

I think it's perfectly legible?

man-choker would just be a choker (you know, the accessory usually for women) with some tech on it, in this case to accept a command to check with another bio-device if the glucose spike of more expensive rice is better or worse than cheap rice.

I guess everyone outside of the JS ecosystem, that has auth baked into the framework for decades, is just doing it wrong and riddled with hackers in their systems?

Yes, you can find stories of this happening here or there.

Install `whois` on your system and use it to query for domain existence instead.

UK has started doing it too.

EU I've seen is still friendly to timezone alignment instead of regional, but seems to just be less aware at all that people outside of EU might want to apply.

The remote hype has died down, political winds have changed, and in some cases regulations tightened around hiring locally first before trying to find contractors abroad (since you can't employ people directly as explained by others in this thread).

I've done the same with HN, somewhat. I log out by default, just to add a barrier between reading something and responding to it. Has to be something I really feel I must reply to or worth adding more information to, to make me log in.

I'd still not class WhatsApp as a social media platform as your story implies. It is a communication tool for the most part with some social features slowly being baked in. The downsides you're speaking of are far more applicable to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and similar, more than WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord.

I don't know where you're based, but in general these days at least one "chat app" of some kind is the de facto standard in most countries. For a lot of the world, that's WhatsApp.

The US is an outlier in still relying majorly on SMS as the communications platform.

Late to the reply:

This is kind of beside my point.

What I'm saying is if you can't hire me, that's fine, but I'd like a little bit less of my time wasted up front by stating clearly where a company is hiring instead of just "remote".

Global remote has been on a bit of a downturn in the last few years.

There are many decent job boards out there, but the bigger problem is that many of them don't allow specifying remote within a country, or the US-oriented companies that post on them never specify that they only want remote within the US.

You end up wasting time looking at a cool job that pays well, only to see "Remote (US only)".

>It's just a group of randomly selected countries meant to sound nice

Source? Pretty sure BRICS is comprised of the largest regional economies that specifically aren't in the first world, that make for useful alliances for Russia & China specifically.

Africa for a long time didn't have any serious economic contenders for something like BRICS other than South Africa. Nowadays Nigeria is a closer contender on the continent. And of course you have long histories of South African politicians having spent their time in exile during Apartheid in places where they learned to call each other "comrade" even to this day in their political parties. It's not an out of the blue arrangement.

Brazil as far as I'm aware seems to be by far the most economically active in South America too?

India seems like third fiddle to Russia & China in this arrangement as a large economy in Asia.

I'm sharing a non-US perspective around the desire to shift away from US tech - but sure, shoot the messenger with downvotes.

Because this isn't about silencing American citizens. It's about the US actively ceasing to be an at least neutral-to-good global neighbour in trade, tech, and foreign aid that many countries rely on, among other things.

This is something that for many is something they've not yet seen before in their lives (global allegiances shifting like this), and especially something that has not been a partisan issue at least from an outside view.

I didn't say it was sensible policy. But yes.

It's the same reason Australia and now South Africa demand payment from Meta and Google for revenues related to links going to local news sites and the like.

> a foreign company with not one bit of operations in the country.

Borrowing from how tax & law is usually applied for companies trading outside of their incorporated country, at least in many places including the EU: If you have users/customers in a certain country, even if your product is purely software, you can be considered to have operations in that country.

>foreign banks that ask you whether you're a US citizen

Note that this is largely the case for any bank where you're not a native to their country - because of the Common Reporting Standard. However the US asymmetrically applies FATCA instead of the CRS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Reporting_Standard#Mult...

"The U.S. receives information relating to US citizens' accounts from many countries due to the compliance requirements of the FATCA. The United States, in many cases, will reciprocate by sharing banking data with countries for accounts which their citizens hold in the U.S., but not automatically, as is required by the U.S. in FATCA."

This makes serving US citizens in an "average" financial institution an added burden that might not be considered worth the cost.

I had something a little similar happen when I listed my Airbnb apartment on Google Maps.

In their infinite wisdom, Maps decided it'd be best to merge my listing with the listing for the building it's in - but also gave me admin rights over the entire building's listing.

Support refused to fathom that I don't want to have any degree of Maps authority over something that does not belong to me (though I could have definitely used this to my advantage for increasing bookings), and their instructions to unsplit/remove myself never worked.

>the idea of taking a flight that takes you into outer space won't be too far fetched.

Reading this unlocked memories of the (after googling it) September 2005 National Geographic Kids magazine, which was centered around future life in 2035. One of the things in it was exactly this: travel time cut by launching into orbit and flying around the planet to cut travel time down to ~1h.

At the least, tools that minimise the usage of certain languages (i.e. JS if you're not a JS shop) or general frontend boilerplate will also do this.

See: Rails Hotwire, Laravel Livewire, Alpine.js

I am in this use case bucket for things I do not care to frequently use enough to properly learn - e.g. infrastructure tooling (k8s, docker, etc), bash scripts, SPA frameworks, etc. I know the outcome I want, I know where reading the docs has gotten me nowhere, so I just need to hash it out with an oracle that has better memory of these resources.

> Most won't care about the craft. Cherish the ones that do, meet the rest where they are

This becomes easier when you've transitioned from someone who cares to someone who doesn't. Some of us burn out from the industry and fall out of love with the job.

I understand my curmudgeon-ly ex-colleagues a lot more nowadays.

Am I missing something or hallucinating? Pretty sure I've always been able to pause reels on desktop and mobile. Instagram Lite lacked this functionality.

Lack of a progress bar you can skip through is what's been missing compared to TikTok.

Or was this just not a thing for US users specifically?

> For us, it’s much more important to have more traditional markers of trust, like approval from bank partners, billboards in major cities, TV and radio ads, and so on.

Trust is a function of marketing budget now?

Never thought of it this way, but it makes sense. My default response to probing/planning type questions from business is "uhhh no clue, I have to dive into the code first and find out" precisely because of this.

"Making money is easy, just go out there and make money" is effectively what you're saying.

It takes time to find and execute these ideas. Yes the tech can be cheap, maybe even building it can be cheap, but the time to grow your customer & client base from scratch can be highly varied.

If it were really this easy, you'd have every person on IndieHackers having ditched their jobs already because their ideas have taken off. Yet very few have.

Go out and execute, yes, but it can take many iterations to get anywhere.

Even Pieter Levels has about a 10% hit rate on his projects being successful.

Few people, even in decently earning roles like in tech, will have the runway to try and make something successful on their own all of a sudden after job loss.

Starting a freelancing practice is more likely to bear fruit, but it's a very different ballgame of overheads than "just" the core job itself, if you want to get the full rewards of being a freelancer.

It's hard to read posters in this thread that disagree with the article when citing their 15+ years of experience. Sounds like a mix of time healing all wounds, survivorship bias, and maybe a little Stockholm syndrome.

"Just be positive" about wasting almost 1/2 of your waking hours a week once the curtain drops doesn't sound like a very sustainable solution to life to me.

Or maybe it just hasn't been long enough since my burnout and layoff ;)

My layman's understanding is that making the meat and improving its texture, taste etc are things that are improving over time yes, but are still secondary issues to the actual supply chain of lab-grown meat still being a huge challenge.

The need for constant clean room environments and various other tightly-controlled factors make the total cost and effort of the meat still well above the cost of normal meat, no?

I've tried various forms of this.

As long as there's a logged in session somewhere, I have to have various tricks and extensions on my browser to manage things.

Most have been only varying degrees of successful, often ending up in me just disabling the feature whenever I want to get my fix.

The most successful iteration I've found so far is keeping these apps uninstalled from my phone, and using https://one-sec.app/ to forcibly install a barrier between me and the site.

It's not too much different, and the wait time can be customised. You can still just learn to wait through it, but importantly it also has an "intervention" feature that will block you off after a chosen time period and re-prompt you if you want to stay on.

It's been quite flaky on Instagram on desktop, but it's been very useful for Youtube on mobile (which I keep to play videos in the background sometimes).

Otherwise, Unhook for Youtube on desktop also helps blocking things like the home page and shorts.

I haven't found any extension for LinkedIn that works for blocking the feed (or at least suggested posts), and Facebook ones are sporadic in which work for me or not.

Point 1 tends to fall apart when the government can't control its own coffers and after a few decades of mismanagement decides that privatisation is the main way to reduce their debt burden. So I think this one ebbs and flows over time generally.

See South Africa for an example. Power production is slowly opening up to market forces as an alleviation to the extreme mismanagement and corruption of the last 2-3 decades.

On the other hand, there are also some alternatives, like "devolution" of state services to the provincial or municipal level. The local Cape Town government is busy trying to gain control over the city's train lines from the government org that owns them, to provide better service.

Somehow, all these nations around the world with earthquakes still have their houses standing.

Why is it always whataboutism with earthquakes when presented with "don't build houses out of matchsticks"?