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That is one of those grey areas.

They would argue that they don’t intend to stay forever in their new country so that makes them expats.

But like the post I replied to pointed out, someone from Bangladesh would not be called an expat but migrant worker. This is where class and social status gets mixed up in this as well.

I think they are both temporary immigrants.

To make it even more confusing, I know a few people who are ‘expats’ in their country of origin because they immigrated and then their employer moved them temporarily to their original country.

I keep seeing this question often. It used to be simpler when there were only immigrants and expats but now other categories exist so everyone is confused.

An expat is typically someone who is being moved by their employer, to a country other than their own, for a limited amount of time. Being white has nothing to do with it. I have known expats of every color and national origin. This term is still used by companies that send ‘expatriates’ out to other locations. Think someone going from SF to London for 3 years to set up a new office.

If you are moving somewhere on your own volition, you are an immigrant. You can also be a temporary immigrant, an undocumented immigrant etc.

If you are moving from country to country for short periods and working, you are a digital nomad. If you are moving countries but not working, you are a tourist. If you choose to stay forever in a country, you turn into an immigrant even if you were an expat, a digital nomad or a tourist before.

I guess what you are called comes down to your intent.

Source: personal experience of being an expat, an immigrant, and a digital nomad at different points of my life.

You said factual. But what is factual for you and I may not be for someone else. There are a lot of recollections in the article where sama remembers one version or doesn't remember at all and the other party remembers something else. Combine that with the nature of the article and the legal issues considering egos and sums involved. To top all of that New Yorker is known for fact checking that is exhaustive to the point of paranoia.

I am just speculating but if @ronanfarrow is still checking the discussion here, it would be amazing to hear the actual reasons.

Ronan Farrow, the write of this article, made a comment in this thread that is buried in all the comments, "As is always the case with incredibly precise and rigorously fact-checked reporting like this, where every word is chosen carefully (the initial closing meeting for this one was nearly eight hours long, with full deliberation about each sentence), there is more out there on that subject than is explicitly on the page."

I saw that before I read the article and it made me read the article in a very different way than I normally do. As I was reading, I found myself thinking, "Why is it worded that way? What else is the writer trying to say, or not say?"

It made reading this a lot more interactive than I normally associate with passive reading. Great job, Ronan!

Another vote for guitar. Will love to get this for guitar.

The easiest way to solve this is to salary rank the H1B applicants. Those with the highest salaries get picked; not the ‘lucky ones’ that get through a lottery, which puts a PhD from MIT and a new hire at Tata from a no name school in India on equal footing. And I say this as someone who was on H1B. The current system benefits no one but these visa mills.

Edit: for grammar

Came here to say this. Will happily pay for it.

Growing up in an Indian village, everyone relied on the local Kirana store. Everyone had an 'account' at the Kirana store. The farmers would zero out the account at the harvest time.

Now when I go back, there are eCommerce motorcycle delivery drivers everywhere though the number of Kirana stores still remains about the same. I have never seen a Quick commerce delivery driver though - I guess villages aren't the target for Q-commerce companies.

I love this. I have my commonplace book in Roam Research. Search in Roam is not perfect and I have wondered lately if there was a way to get all of the content into a graph DB and then query using LLMs. But I haven't had time to tinker with it - I am sure open source libraries exist that do exactly this.

Can your library take all highlights from Readwise or just Kindle? I use Readwise Reader quite a bit and will love something that takes everything I save + all highlights + other places (Roam Research, Email, Calendar) etc. and I can just ask it questions.

This 100%. You also have to keep in mind that taking photos in public spaces is protected under the first amendment in the US. Yes, the first amendment has become a bit unpopular lately but even then, fighting this battle is going to be extremely difficult.

What I do wonder is how private space owners will deal with AR/VR.

The only negative of studying in the US is that it is becoming close to impossible to stay long term after your degree to work due to the outdated work visa process.

But your other option is to move to Germany, which you can still do after getting a US degree. So you seem to belong to one of the rare categories that I think should study in the US - globally mobile and not super tied to staying in the US after getting their degree.

The only other category is if someone are genuinely brilliant i.e. companies would fight to keep you even if that involves dealing with a crazy visa process.

I remember Computers@Home. Convinced my parents to buy me my first PC after reading that magazine. The included CDs were a delight. Internet was so slow that I only ever played game demos from the CD. Haven't thought about that magazine for years!

Steve Rinella of Meateater interviewed the hunters in this case on his podcast.

It is quite an entertaining listen - 1:03 is where he explains the background and 1:08 onwards is where the interview starts: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-342-getting...

It really depends on the publication. In a past life, I was a newspaper reporter in a town with two papers. There were strict guidelines against doing this. If you lost the scoop, well, too bad.

I have seen this behavior more often in Europe but I guess it might be a thing in the US now too - I have been away from the day-to-day journalism scene for a long time.

Readwise Reader for a week and so far I am really liking it.

Before that, I used Feedly and Google Reader before that.

Looks amazing! I played with Reader for the last hour or so and it looks so much better than Pocket. The import from Pocket - delightful!

I had originally started using Readwise to sync my Pocket and Memex highlights with Roam and it looks like you guys have removed the need for both by building Reader.

My pocket (pun unintended) thanks you, provided price isn't going up. But I think there is a lesson here. Pocket has done no innovation for years - a classic 'cash cow'. But then you guys show up and make a product that (for me) is 10x better. It is also clever that you haven't taken any VC funding because I don't think this a product that will ever be venture scale. Now, you guys can build cool stuff and make a good living in peace without chasing that elusive venture exit.

Once upon a time i.e. before COVID, Bay Area had a really exciting meetup scene. In fact, going to meetups used to be the highlight of my visits here - the energy in the room was uplifting and always put a smile on my face.

I moved to the Bay Area about a year ago and it seems like COVID has killed a lot of meetups. A lot of groups have gone virtual and moved to Zoom, Slack, Discord etc.

I strongly prefer the in person camaraderie and going through the following thread, it seems like I am not the only one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902293

So, I decided to scratch my own itch. I have created a Hacker News Meetup for Bay Area:

https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-zxkdpjmb/

It looks like enough people are interested in different parts of the Bay Area that we can alternate meetups in SF and in South Bay/Peninsula.

If anyone wants to help out or can host a meetup, please email me - my profile here has my contact details.

I have been looking for good meetup groups in the Bay Area for a few months and finally got inspired by you to solve my own problem.

I have created a Hacker News Meetup for Bay Area: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-zxkdpjmb/

It looks like enough people are interested in different parts of the Bay Area that we can alternate meetups in SF and in South Bay/Peninsula.

If anyone will like to help out or can donate space to meetup, please email me - my profile here has my contact details.

This is 100% correct.

The biggest risk is the remote country coming after the employee and/or employer. If you are the employer, and you are 100% sure you are never going to do business in the country, you MAY be ok. However, there are tax treaties at play as well and that can complicate things.

If the remote country goes after the employee, it may get ugly especially if the employee is still there. That indirectly also impacts the employer.

So if you or your employees are going to work from a different country, read their regulations and be very careful about staying longer than the time period that they consider you a resident for tax purposes.

This is quite an interesting space for some future startup.

This.

Also, I have friends in high level HR roles and HR functions have become smaller and smaller over time with a lot of offshoring and outsourcing. So a lot of 'nice to do' things that were traditionally done by HR simply aren't done anymore.

Second both FT and The Economist. You can get by just with the Economist if you are happy with it being a weekly.

Both FT and Economist are very good at not including any fluff, in the language they use and in the content itself.

Second this one. Absolutely amazing listen, especially if you grew up thinking hunters just go around shooting anything that moves, which admittedly, I did.

Growing up in a village in India, we only ever bought raw milk because there was no packaged milk available. Everyone had a deal with a local farmer. Every morning or evening, we would walk over to the farmer's house, pick up our milk and bring it home. My family in India (and the whole village) still does that.

And this is where the similarity ends.

The first thing my mom (and everyone else) did is to boil the milk to pasteurize it. Once boiled, it is allowed to cool down till a layer of fat forms on top. That is removed to make butter and ghee out of. Milk is then used and refrigerated.

No one ever drank (or drinks) raw milk - not the farmers, not their workers, not the buyers. It boggles my mind that people are willing to take the risk by drinking raw milk.

You must be in the US.

In certain parts of Europe, it is becoming very common for couples to not get "married" but still form a nuclear family and from what I have seen, a lot of them are doing a lot better than some of my married friends.

Also, if you had spent any time in Asia, you wouldn't be singing the praises of the cultural norm of keeping the family together. Growing up, I saw a lot of cases of frequent abuse (even beatings) but the woman was supposed to keep the family together. Did you know divorce is not allowed in Philippines, please read about the impact that has. Asians in the US typically are better educated and education has more to do with lower divorce rates than an ethnicity.

edit: this is coming from a married person, in the US

No, it doesn't.

Moved here 6 months ago. Lot of what you read is hyperbole. Truth is always somewhere in the middle. Bay Area can be amazing or horrible depending on where you live, where you work and how much you earn. There are some areas where I don't want to go but there are a lot more areas that are thriving, full of friendly people with great communities.

Yes, it is expensive - that is very true. Yes, taxes are high. But despite those, there is no lack of people moving here so there must be something right, right?

I have lived in 6 states in the US and 5 countries globally including most that people throw out as alternatives to the Bay Area. In my experience, Bay Area has the highest concentration of smartest and open minded people that I have come across. You want to build something? Bay Area energizes you because everyone will be encouraging and ready to help. Weather is nice. There are plenty of gorgeous places to visit, within the area and even more with a short drive.

However, I'll repeat - it is expensive! This is the most expensive place I have lived. We are a dual income household and money is less important than it used to be so for us it is totally worth it. Some years ago, we probably couldn't afford to live here.

There are two kinds of people I am seeing moving to the Bay Area - 1) high earners that can afford it and 2) those early in their careers who don't mind living in a less than optimal situation and moving here gives them a wage bump .

By large, the people moving away are those with average to good incomes who have kids and can't afford the lifestyle that they want. In the end, it comes down to what you value more. In the Bay Area, one thing you do NOT get is value for money. Will we be here long term? Who know but right now, I am in love with this place.

USA here - ordered a Tesla Model Y in July 2021. Estimated delivery was October 2021. A couple of weeks ago, that date changed to April 2022.

Everything you said aligns perfectly with what I have heard from friends who still live in Austin/Houston. I personally would still rather live in Austin though as opposed to Houston or Dallas.

Property tax is higher but there is no state income tax. Also, property tax increase rates are significantly higher as compared to California. Austin is also growing very fast and is quickly turning into the sprawl that I have always associated more with Dallas and Houston.

Financially speaking, either place may turn out advantageous depending on your house's price and income. CA (Bay Area) has a lot of other positives that are almost impossible to get in TX - tech scene (quality and quantity), nearby sea, desert AND mountains, good weather are just some of them.

Many years ago, I chose to move to TX as opposed to CA. But most recently, after living abroad for some years, I picked Bay Area to move back to mainly because most of my friends have converged to Bay Area over the years - almost all are in tech. However, if you aren't involved in tech and don't care about some of the other positives of the Bay Area, Austin is almost a no-brainer.

The book ‘Cod’ goes into detail on this.