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justaguy88··on The Winners of Remote Work
You could set up a US Law school in another country
justaguy88··on The Winners of Remote Work
Time zone 'compatibility' is extremely important

Happily hire north/south, but too many hours east/west and people have to give up off-time just to have regular meetings

justaguy88··on The Winners of Remote Work
If they can put them in US-compatible timezone, sure.

But coordinating teams across anything more than a 4-ish hour difference is a total pain

justaguy88··on If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?
Those who want someone removed are usually not the people empowered to remove someone. Even complaining to their manager (which is often a bad move) usually wont result in the removal of that person
justaguy88··on Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
> Which UX problem do you think it fixed?

You can join a call without signing up

justaguy88··on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Sues NASA for a Moon Lander Contract
JB is surely wearing out his welcome at nasa with this
justaguy88··on How green is blue hydrogen?
Hopefully wind/solar electric
justaguy88··on The death of the ‘Millionaire Next Door’ dream
How does that work out, mechanically, does the military provide a pension at 40? Is it just that you have very little costs when living on-base?
justaguy88··on Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
and facebook could perhaps become highly regulated in the same way depending on how politics goes
justaguy88··on Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
I always prefer the native (so long as it's really native, not just electron)

I'm usually lost in a sea of browser tabs

justaguy88··on Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms
> reflected in strawman project sketches

Do you have a link to some of them?

justaguy88··on China unveils 600 kph maglev train
I'm now imagining higher power Renault Twizys everywhere
justaguy88··on China unveils 600 kph maglev train
That would imply that the US can't pay it's debts, but it can by printing more money
justaguy88··on Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium
To be fair, even doing that is a lot compared to some news sources
justaguy88··on Apple employees say the company is cracking down on remote work
Which ones specifically?
justaguy88··on Josh: Get the advantages of a monorepo with multirepo setups
Git submodules have an annoying attribute: double commit

First you commit/push to one repository

Then you update the submodule pointer in the parent repository

justaguy88··on Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements
I've always wondered about this, do electric cars charge each cell in parallel? or are there some series connections?
justaguy88··on Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements
Applying for a US work visa or residency involves writing down so much about yourself (inc. getting fingerprints), that pre-check afterwards feels like just re-providing a subset of the same paperwork
justaguy88··on Business should be booming, if only there were enough workers for the job
Raise wages
justaguy88··on We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
The landlord can decide if it's worth paying them then
justaguy88··on DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants
This is great!

Allows bad-fits to leave asap rather than hanging around till 366 days

justaguy88··on ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon
Whats Oracle's play here, do they somehow make money out of ZFS which makes them reluctant to re-license it?
justaguy88··on The Electrification of Everything
> use rain water for the toilets

I'm curious about why that's not allowed

justaguy88··on Software is eating the car
I'm guessing that all-touch is just cheaper these days, no QA testing for all the little mechanical bits
justaguy88··on TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit
> A high price of oil makes it profitable to sell oil.

Only if your costs are below the high price. Blocking this pipeline raises their costs to transport the oil, eating into profits.

justaguy88··on French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
What does Ireland think of this?
justaguy88··on To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand their key strengths
The drone swarm can have a carrier vehicle, like a (perhaps autonomous) big plane or sub to get it within range
justaguy88··on The rise of remote work may reshape college towns
Do you have a list of such places?
justaguy88··on Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September
The commitment is to do some work for some money.

Anything else is just fake bs.

justaguy88··on Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September
The third option is actually just finding a new job.
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