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jo_in_europeon Ask HN: How to find a remote entry job? (EU)

Seems completely at odds with my last job search in September 2021. Most jobs - even then - were hybrid. Only remote ones were with companies not based in the UK.

jo_in_europeon Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find a good cofounder?

Being motivated and "probably" having some training seems like a very low bar for 200k. In the UK / EU you have scientists working for 40k.

jo_in_europeon Ask HN: How are you, a dev/programmer, preparing for the probable recession?

A quote from a book I like:

Nothing is really serious in the tranquility of peace; only an idiot could be really disturbed by a question of salary.

jo_in_europeon Von Neumann, Einstein, Morgenstern, Morse and Lefschetz (1952)

I understand about shorts, but it's not offensive to compare ethnicity with sandals.

jo_in_europeon Von Neumann, Einstein, Morgenstern, Morse and Lefschetz (1952)

I've read a handful of biographies of 20th century physicists recently, which I enjoyed for the same reasons. Ulam was a Los Alamos mathematician (and a great friend of Von Neumann). Anderson discovered the meson, which Yukawa had predicted. Fritzsche named nuclear fission (after doing important work on it). Elasser was a wandering scientist, who (to me) seemed to be "on the outside of the inside"; he gives accounts of his dealings with most of the atomic era players.

- Adventures of a Mathematician (Ulam)

- What Little I Remember (Frisch)

- Memoirs of a Physicist in the Atomic Age (Elasser)

- The Traveller (Yukawa)

- Discovery of Anti-Matter (Carl Anderson)

Also Freeman Dyson's and Feynman's stuff. I'm ever open to recommendations from readers who enjoy the same stuff.

jo_in_europeon When tracking your period lets companies track you

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