purplepatrick

OPT hires are easy. You’ll just do an at will contract as you would for any employee or consultant who’s not a foreigner. In other words, nothing needs to be filed or done by you.

The only caveat is for the OPT graduate (I assume your friend is no longer in school). They will lose time against their OPT allocation that they could otherwise save.

That being said, it depends on the details of their OPT and the kind (pre / post completion, etc) at which rate their remaining time in the US gets deducted when they don’t work. You can look up the details online.

This means your fiend needs to evaluate whether it may be potentially better to be able to stay in the US longer and not work vs. working for you and getting something in their resume but that work time may potentially deduct from their OPT allocation faster.

Not a lawyer, just a former student who worked in OPT a few times. This stuff has changed since I went through this so don’t take my world for it. What has not changed much is that OPT is pretty easy for employers (as opposed to, say, a visa) - because that’s the point of OPT.

I just want any map provider to make the compass feature work reliably and easily visible. That’s all I want. But for whatever reason both Google and Apple seem incapable of doing this. I’m puzzled…

I’ve been playing it for several days now without fully understanding all the rules. I like it but I win every game easily. I just neutralize the opponent’s marks and then lock them in. I’m not quite clear on how to make it harder…

Hmm. So, we don’t know if working and short term memory are even the same thing. We also cannot say for sure that the same type of processes would be handled by short term and long term memory, so it’s not clear that you can substitute one for the other or for the same stuff. Both memories could just be feeding working memory and other structures for processing but serve different things.

It also may well be that the opposite is true — STM is prioritized by people who haven’t learned to properly recruit for profound structures. Speed may well have been a survival advantage a million years ago, but it’s not clear that this hasn’t changed since.

We also don’t know if the computing model of the brain is even appropriate at all. Humans have always assumed that the latest state of technology can represent the brain: clay and waterworks, mechanics, computers, etc.

At the end of the day, we don’t know how much we actually know about how the brain works because we don’t know what we don’t know…

Only saw his opening remark and was immediately tuned off by the fact that he announces his opposition to classic liberal ideas and education, while getting his Greek and Latin syllables as well as their meaning confused. Classics 101, dude…

Sounds like you don’t wanna do it and are just looking for confirmation of that. If that assessment is incorrect and you do wanna do it, then what are you waiting for? Get going and do the great job you suggest you’d be doing. Being neurotic on HN isn’t gonna build a business ;)

Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…

Yeah, I have personally made that experience and received the same feedback directly from hiring companies and headhunters.

A close friend of mine had to emigrate to another country after successfully exiting his startup with tens of millions in the bank. Top recruiting firms in the US didn’t know what to do with him and considered him not “specialized enough” for the US market.

Other markets such as Europe hire very differently. There, employers aren’t necessarily looking to fill narrow roles with “bandaid employees”, but want people to have breadth and grow within the business across future roles.

In fact, this is precisely the feedback I also got from a top headhunting firm where I worked with the head of US tech recruiting and the EU counterparts.

Put differently, the “founder penalty” isn’t as much of an issue overseas.

I’m still baffled by it…

You’d have to ask a tax attorney, but this exact scenario happened to a friend of mine who held his equity through a foreign entity. When he wanted to cash out, he was hit by an extra US tax penalty specifically for when you hold your equity through a foreign entity.

I was in the same boat as you when I started my company and looked into the same kind of setup. I researched it at the time but cannot remember the details.

The answer is No (as you can easily confirm by googling this). You should hold the shares personally.

Holding your shares through a US entity is not an advantage. Holding your shares through a foreign entity will cause you to get penalized if you continue to remain a US tax citizen.

The only situation where I could see an advantage would be if shares were held through a foreign entity and you hold them there (without an liquidation event) until you have surrendered your greencard and no longer meet the substantial presence test for US tax purposes and the resulting tax situation for you would be better than it was when you were a US citizen for tax purposes.

For example, if you held equity through, say, Malta, Panama, or the Caymans and you leave the US permanently, surrendering your greencard, and become a resident of a tax-advantaged jurisdiction for long enough that you are no longer taxable by the US, and only THEN your company exits, generating capital gains that could/would be distributed to you would be tax advantaged.

Appreciate many of the points made in there. However, I still don’t see why intelligence should make one happier, and why when we don’t observe that in data it should be worth mentioning.

I grew up in a culture that did not talk about being happy or cared about objectifying happiness in any way. In fact, we don’t even have good words for it that would be separate from other notions. Growing up, I only ever experienced people talking about if they were healthy or satisfied or enjoying life.

This is a long way of saying that perhaps, it’s not only about calling out the vagueness and ambiguity of “intelligence”, but about considering that the term “happiness” also deserves the same degree of scrutiny. It, too, lacks a clear objective definition and comes with a lot of subjective and cultural ambiguity.

Maybe asking why one ambiguous undefinable thing doesn’t cause or correlate with another ambiguous undefinable thing is a futile statistical exercise to begin with?

Not sure I can add much to the answers below but will try.

You are not going to be able to increase your quality of life above that of Germany by moving closer to the equator, at least not by most general quality of life metrics.

However, it sounds like you are specifically looking for the combination of sun + lower cost. In that regard I’d look at the following. Keep in mind you will likely end up moving back to Germany eventually from most of these, be it because you require health or elder care or certain educational opportunities for your kids if you have any.

Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Malta, Malaysia, Bali, Spain & Baleares, Portugal.

If you’re willing to compromise on the “sun factor”, I would take a closer look at the following:

Austria, Slovenia, Estonia, Czech Republic, South Korea, Taiwan.

It sounds to me that you also want a country where you get by in English and/or German easily. That should narrow down the first list above quite a bit.

“ The total power draw in a "stage 3" system like this could get as high as 1.38 gigawatts”

New York City uses ~11MWh per day (i.e. a capacity of 458 MW). This means the above would amount to ~3x that usage. I don’t know much about this and may misunderstand something here, but this seems infeasibly high for a mobile system, no?

I’m not sure the author realizes how difficult it is (and has been for over two decades) to get an H1b visa in the US.

At no time in recent history would a talented engineer from Sudan or Bangladesh have been most likely to have ended up in Silicon Valley, at least not without many years of geographic detours…

Because none of these companies care about customer service or are any good at it. I was a corporate google customer once - we forked over a mid six figure amount for various tools such as analytics, big query, etc. It was just as difficult to get any support whatsoever as it is for the average gmail customer who pays nothing. Among most enterprise IT folks, mentioning google and support in the same sentence is some sort of running joke. I’ve had crummy support experience with the others, too, though it appears google is exceptionally bad.

I don’t know what’s going on in this Stack response. Surely, they must have heard of inflation adjusting a monetary figure from the past? Or is there a 2022 Judas incident I haven’t heard about?

Conversely, tech folks can learn a lot from non-technical people. Watching my mom deal and helping her with technology has shown me over and over again how no piece of consumer tech is well designed in terms of UX. Printers, iPhones, laptops, routers, modems, digital radios, web & mobile apps - all have inconsistent and often shit UX. My mom will never understand how data is nested in folders, trying to replicate some sort of real-world filing system, for example. Similarly, what is and isn’t a button is not clear enough, and especially in apps, there’s no reason why things couldn’t be more standardized. Tech design should be pragmatic and not an end in itself.

I’ve lived in nyc for 20+ years, moving from a country that is “hundreds of times safer”. I’ve never felt unsafe.

As others remarked correctly, aggregated numbers are useless and not representative for the avg person. If you truncate NYC’s crime numbers by stripping out high crime areas such as Brownsville or the South Bronx, crime here is shockingly low. Even more so if you correct for crime that would be er affect you unless you’re in some sort of drug gang (many of the violent crimes are gang on gang crimes).

Also saw folks here mention East Harlem — I assume that’s a joke?! That hasn’t been a “dangerous” neighborhood for 35+ years. It’s now a very sought after area esp. for families, and it’s got plenty of artisanal BS stores that come with gentrified areas. I can’t afford to rent there.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

Yes, the rent here in NYC is too damn high. No, these stupid media reports say nothing about a normal renter’s experience. Averages aren’t a good indicator if the underlying distribution is not normal. As construction in NYC disproportionally focuses on new luxury buildings for both owning and renting, averages are overly skewed.

Founder = worked on biz for months or years without salary. (If founders did have salaries then that’s a different situation.) If you get to join an existing startup with a salary then you’re basically post-founder stage, as the company already raised capital. Of course, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t get the title but your equity is likely going to be lower regardless.

Founding engineer = first engineer but it’s not clear yet what the long term role should be (eg CTO vs VP Eng). Sometimes it means the person is very junior and it’s a wait and see type of situation. Sometimes it means it’s not clear to the involved sheet things will head in terms of your work.

At least that’s how I’ve been using them. If you joined my startup as a first engineer, then you can pick your title, but I would nudge you in the direction that makes sense. It often comes down to many CTO folks being architects and not active code writers. In an early startup that’s not always ideal of course, why it’s often better to start with a founding engineer title.

If you think you’re heading in the direction of being the future CTO, I think you should angle for 5%. My guess is they’re not seeing you as that (eg if you’re very junior), but your equity is def very strong for a non-CTO role IMHO.

P.S.: the company valuation and your market comp determine your %. For example, if your market value is considered $200k and the company can afford to pay only a $100k salary then you’d get $100k worth of equity.

And that’s a good thing. Heavily export-dependent economies such as Germany that have outsized influence on EU’s economic performance need a weak Euro in this time of crisis.

There are very few meritocratic systems. Chess may be one. Some sports. But other than that, it’s hard to assert that meritocracy exists in practice. Claiming that it existed in any complex system would be like claiming it where it is already impossibly hard to establish correlation.

When all three founders wear turtlenecks on PR photos, you know there’s something amiss…

In US corporations that hire for narrow departmental specialties that stay with the company for a few years at best, most definitely.

In European corporations that hire for cross-functional talent that can move around and stay with the company for a long time, founders are a much more welcomed breed.

I can’t speak to other countries.

The above is based on my own experience, that of founder friends, and an interesting exchange with the US and EU heads of one of the largest headhunter firms in the world.

Exactly. Contemporary British English is usually non-rhotic, so very unlikely to closely resemble anything prior to the mid-19th century…

If you paid $150 for LatAm outsourcing before, then this is definitely a better setup. You overpaid by a lot ;)

I used Pocket for a few years but the company never fixed any bugs that severely restricted its utility. Since then I’ve switched to Raindrop.io and have never looked back. I use it on web and mobile, and it’s excellent.

Yes… That’s how all of science works (minus the cabal). Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is about this dynamic…

Same here - no inner voice, no words, no images (unless that’s specifically what I want to do).

So first they’re telling people they must upgrade, then they change their mind and add this option. However, people who have already upgraded because they thought it was the only option are getting screwed now, because they no longer are given this option. I feel like this warrants a complaint with a bunch of consumer protection agencies.