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I think VMWare played a massive role in building the talent scene in Costa Rica. I've heard down the grapevine that an average dev's salary in Costa Rica would be significantly higher than i…

I've been on sales calls and in PoCs with a couple major Mexican conglomerates (think Cemex, Pemex, or Azteca level or the MX operations for BBVA or Santander) so I've had the chance to inte…

I know Lee. I also have close friends and ex-colleagues of mine who work at the New America Foundation. Ironically, they also lobby and help write legislation (by your definition). For example, a lot …

Amen to that. I've seen a lot of bad takes by people on here who support politicians on either side of the aisle. Most commentators here on HN honestly suck at anything social sciences related an…

No offense, but I worked on the Hill as a Staffer and activiely worked on helping draft legislation. Having a front-end developer with no legislative experience trying to explain my former job to me a…

Model Acts exist, but they are an exception to the rule, also they are aimed at State Legislatures, not Federal. In addition, they serve a valid purpose to harmonize laws. For example, the CDC's …

I used to work on the Hill. This is bullshit. Lobbyist input is taken into account, but "writing an entire law" is more of an exception to the rule. What's with the conspiratorial cynic…

To be fair, the academic (Awad al-Qarni) is a Sahwa (Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that influenced Bin Laden and a number of other Saudi jihadists) [0] [1] [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x…

As I commented above, There has been a semantic shift with the word boomer - for older people it means the baby boomer, but for much younger people (like Gen Z) it just means anyone 30 or above.

Yep. How I write on HN is different from how I write in Twitter or Reddit.

You can't really moralize linguistic drift. By that standard your usage of "dumber" is grammatically incorrect with the 19th century English usage of the word Dumb. Language changes, gr…

Them's boomer talk /s There has been a semantic shift with the word boomer - for older people it means the baby boomer, but for much younger people (like Gen Z) it just means anyone 30 or ab…

Gut feeling and general tone. I'm Gen Z and the way people talk on this forum is tonally and syntactically different from my cohort. Also, ime, most early career peeps prefer subreddits to HN - H…

Amen to that! At least talking to people who went through 2001 and 2008, it looks like there are more opportunities across the board now. If you got laid off from $randomYCStartup as a SWE or SRE, you…

Because HN is basically filled with Boomers at this point, maybe most commentators don't realize that there are different segments of young people. Those who were in the Class of 2020 and above g…

Java is a pretty big island just saying.

To be fair, Dutch control of Java was more on paper than it was in reality. Most governance was devolved to local Rajahs who paid tribute to the VOC. Actual guns on the ground control across Java and …

Agreed that GP's comment is innacurate on that point, but... Are you White? That's the differentiatng factor. If you're of South Asian or Chinese or SE Asian origin (not even nationalit…

I'll copy an earlier comment I made on a separate thread specifically with South Asia in mind, but I've seen similar dynamics in ASEAN as well. Also, I think you are an L1 Japanese speaker. …

Wages for SWEs are lower than other comparable countries in Europe, Canada, and APAC (SG, AU, NZ) and Japanese fluency (not a PR requirement but still needed to live in Japan) is hard to acquire. Why …

NYC already has private trash pickup and it's a bit of a S#1Tshow - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/nyregion/nyc-garbage.html …

I think you misinterpreted some stuff. Generally, for ex-Indian and ex-PRC nationals, coming to the US on a TN and working on a TN indefinitely is preferable to having to return to India or China, bec…

As a Canadian citizen, it makes more sense to immediately move to the States to work because of the TN visa, but if you are an Indian or Chinese national who is dealing with a 30-50 year greencard bac…

Ooooo, I gotta check that out. I've never really been much of a podcast kinda guy, but given the CJR's quality, I'd trust it's pretty good as well!

The sources below are almost entirely submarine articles, but that's how trends arise. Remember hearing about ransomware attacks in the news? That was a purposeful choice a group of Cybersecurity…

Not surprised. Why go to Japan (in reality only Tokyo) where median software TC is around $60k [0] when you can go to Canada where median software TC is around $90k [1] and English speaking, let alone…