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I guess it depends on how you define "poor". If "poor" is never having to work, getting to chase your dreams and ambitions with your entire life, and never having to worry about food and housing and healthcare, then sign me up.
"Forward Deployed Engineer" is on your website and links to LinkedIn, but it's listed as not accepting applications there.
Your company is awesome, I tinkered with something exactly like this but with a little plastic RC excavator. I'm a web developer but probably not a competitive candidate. Just wanted to say "cool!"
What's the best combination of close to the US, high living standards, good healthcare, and feasible to immigrate to as an American with a pretty normal professional career?
Space junk isn't a problem at the altitude that Starlink operates at and they harmlessly fall back into the atmosphere after a given number of years. Please take the Musk-bashing astroturfing elsewhere.
To dig through the materials these bunkers are made of would require technology advanced enough they would know what radiation is and how to detect it.
My guess is that it challenges the capitalist status quo, which HN posters famously protect
Seems to be a long term strategy against poor people in America
Not much war happening these days that meaningfully test the F35
And this is the problem with the world. We easily have the resources to home, feed, educate, and provide medicine to everyone. But we don't due to greed
Civil forfeiture has a bad track record because it's used on poor and lower class people 99.999% of the time. I imagine if it was only used on rich people it'd have a stellar reputation.
Seattle subreddit is unbelievably awful and it's not just the mods, it's virtually every person participating.
It's currently flagged and not visible at all
It's almost like the people who thought of the first amendment didn't see 99% of speech going through private companies at some point in the future. My snark isn't pointed at you, just at the people whose talking point is "first amendment is about the government!"
My dream smart phone is nano 7 dimensions but with an edge to edge screen
I like this article around this topic. I read it many years years ago and it rang very true for me. Traveling can be fun but it doesn't solve the problem needing purpose (for those with that need).
https://medium.com/personal-growth/travel-is-no-cure-for-the...
This is something I've come to learn as I get older. I used to beat myself up over all the stuff I thought I should be doing with my spare time but didn't. Then I realized - if I'm not doing it and I don't feel motivated to do it, then it's probably not actually that important to me.
I make decent money. A lot less than all the FAANG engineers here, but still probably double the national average. I can't afford a house in the major city I live in and not sure I ever will but I'm comfortable and just trying to enjoy my life at this point.
Not sure if this was the first year for tax returns to have it, but I was asked to document every single time I spent bitcoin to purchase something. Because you have to pay capital gains on the value above when you bought it. I wonder if this is true here but either way it's a massive pain in the ass.
I think if you do something like this it's more about the process than the result. If all you wanted was a cabin it's faster and cheaper to just buy one.
Cutting down old trees happens all the time for lumber.
I would be curious to hear if the odds of life existing on the edges of the universe were lower.
I think the original hit the very small character limit on HN
Politicalhumor posts seem to contain zero humor at least half the time. It's just anti Trump screenshots.
This is simply not true. They banned at least a dozen leftist subreddits at the same time.
It already did. Reddit banned virtually every "far" leftist sub when they banned the_donald. Stupidpol is probably the closest thing left and I guarantee you that will be banned within the year too
US is massive and road trips are boring because you're just in the middle of nowhere for the vast majority of it. But I grew up in the US, so maybe it's less boring for a foreigner.
The entirety of the US is extremely safe. You can probably find trouble in extremely specific neighborhoods of large cities but you'd never find your way to those places as a tourist.
Roads to avoid is a funny question. Country is huge. My general advice is don't drive at night outside of cities. There are deer everywhere and they will total your car, land you in the hospital, and end your trip. I had it happen to me once and now I plan my road trips to never travel at night. Plus it's dark and you can't see anything and you're missing the point of the road trip at that point.
Driving state to state isn't a problem. There's rarely a stop at state borders and when there is they're only there to regulate commercial trucking.
My advice is to pick a few cities and fly between them. Pick cities you can get around in without renting a car. You're not missing much by taking an 7 hour flight instead of a 5 day drive.
The lottery question is a lot more difficult for some than others. I've been asking it of myself my entire life and took a year off working on two separate occasions and never even got close to answering it. Traveling certainly did nothing to help answer it either.
If you're newer to traveling I think a couple weeks is fine. When you visit enough places you'll figure out where you want to be long term
A lot of people don't want a family and are happy in their twenties without a partner
Your third point is maybe a little narrow minded. People travel for different reasons and long term travel can be stressful and uncomfortable for a lot of people, including myself. If I just spent all day in an unfamiliar country by myself where I know absolutely no one, I don't speak the language, I've been trying new foods for weeks, and I'm exhausted because I did 15 miles and 8 hours of walking today - yeah, maybe I want some comfort food and to watch some Netflix. It doesn't mean I'm not appreciating my travels. If anything it lets me appreciate my traveling more.
Are there books that would help me get more familiar with these sorts of things?
Also I got a job that I found on a who's hiring thread.