Can you explain how you got these well-paid remote jobs in the US for EU/German people and the process for the applications?
I got 7 years of experience in developing with Python/Django, JavaScript/Vue/React (B2B platforms), I'm looking for $160-250k jobs in the US which seem to be on par with my current skillset (I led teams of 10-15 employees, built a B2B platform with hundreds of customers and running the infra on AWS).
> I feel bad because I'm younger than they are, but [I enjoy privileges]
The world is not fair. You are not responsible for the way the world currently is, but you have a responsibility as a citizen of the world to work on lessening the inequality and pain.
It’s good that you feel bad, but the next step is to use this feeling effectively and act on it by volunteering, working in politics and working in businesses that have a positive impact on society.
> You might say I "deserve" my current place in life.
No, you don’t deserve it. Nobody deserves their current place in life, some just got luckier with their genetics and circumstances. Believing in a just world is useful for society and the individual („they’ve earned it“), but it’s not true (truth is more „they got lucky they weren’t hit by a truck when they were 7 years old“).
I can, however, respect your effort and that you work hard. Doesn't mean that somebody else who can't work like that is deserving of a lesser place.
> I feel uncomfortable interacting with people of lower social classes.
Spend more time with different people from different backgrounds. This sentence is the result of being alienated from your fellow human beings and honestly sad to hear. Realize that we’re all the same.
> I give rather large tips, but it doesn't make me feel better.
You try to minimize your bad feelings with small gestures and you know it. That's why it doesn't make you feel better. To truly feel better, you need to involve yourself in making the world a better, more equal place for all human beings.
> I usually tell myself that they probably greatly appreciate the jobs that they have and are using it as a stepping stone to achieve their dreams
Stop telling lies to yourself. Many people are stuck in soul-sucking jobs and are imprisoned by their responsibilities to their families. The US is unkind because the system makes you feel responsible and seems to judge you for the outcome of your life while your life has a lot of randomness and luck in it. It needs to change. - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/21/17687402/ky...
Never knew that so many developers go to such extremes w.r.t minimalism.
The site you've linked has great videos in the background and I like the animated logo, that really helps in making it interesting.
Personally, I still prefer those sites I've linked, because I know that they are harder to make than those minimalistic/no-css sites. I think it depends if it's a backend dev or a full stack web dev with a focus on UI/UX. In the latter case, it's a good way to show off what you're capable of. With those minimalistic designs (some of them also have bad UX) I don't really know if they're able to create modern, responsive and more complex websites.
> What's the culmination of all this?
> What's even the point [...]
I can assure you that the answer to your question leads to something that you don't want to endure.
I receive my dopamine from browsing on HN. Is this better? If I would be an AI that is able to simulate real interaction and you wouldn't know it, it wouldn't change anything. reminds me of https://xkcd.com/810/
I don't say that I support or like anything like this, but you can have disadvantages if you don't build your personal brand. - And after all, the meaninglessness of all of this fits well with my way of thinking about this world.
Those social media platforms are creating alternate realities that can become the meaning of life for some. Still better to live in this fake society than being complete nihilistic. I can't even express what I want out of life because I'm too deep in it, I don't want others to feel that void. Better numb than seeing the nothingness.
For HONY: Sociopathic guy supports people in poor situations only for personal gain. This is what I envision - this style of living is perfectly suited for human beings. Being nice because of pure egocentrism. I've thought long about a stable paradigm that enables humans to do good things and help other people - this is exactly the conclusion I've come to.
I don't judge if this is good or bad, there's no judging and no "Sigh" on my side. It just is.
I'm not sure if this is a society I want to live in. But yeah, sure, give them a platform. But I guess they won't stop destroying people in the real world just because they have influence on social media platforms. Most humans don't work that way, sadly.
Agree. I'm living in Europe and there are people who value their privacy and talk about it loudly. I don't expect that global companies hinder their growth without regulation forcing it. That's the reason we fight for our right for privacy and use the only language they understand: financial penalties.
Murder is illegal here. Now we do the same with privacy. We're in power, not them. It's not the job of the hitman to be ethical (although it would be nice). It's the job of our society to fight for our values.
tl;dr - I explain in detail why you should use Facebook for your advantage instead of complaining about their lack of decency.
Anybody who denies Facebook doesn't recognize its true value for ones personal brand. It's not about your data - you shouldn't do anything remotely personal on this platform, ever. It's all about personal marketing. And for this purpose, it is the perfect tool. You can decide how people perceive you and gain social power and influence other people.
If you refuse to take this chance because they sell your data, you're wasting a big opportunity. It's known for years that they don't care about privacy, and neither should you when you use those platforms. Use encrypted and decentralized communication channels if you want to communicate without being spied on.
But Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat can be used to build powerful social influence. And this can be used to gain further power - I'm not a fan of Nietzsches "Will to power" bullshit, but I'm interested in power regardless to build my personal empire (maybe based on deep insecurity and narcissim, whatever rests under the consciousness).
For all those Facebook haters: Your distaste for this platform stems from the fact that they don't value privacy and that people in general don't really care. But don't miss this opportunity just for the matter of doing "the right thing". If you're an existential nihilist like me, you recognize that all those opinions don't really matter (including yours) and are often used to find value in oneself like many vegetarians, no-facebookers, minimalists, etc. use it (I'm a vegetarian - it can be used to feel good about oneself if you prefer to give your narcisstic side those impulses. I try to avoid doing it for those reasons to overcome myself).
Sigmund Freud called this the "Narcissim of small differences", don't get fooled by your unconscious side - even if you think that it's rational to avoid Facebook. Think in terms of power and how you gonna get it. I know, this certainly sounds like a sociopath, but you can do good things with this power. "Humans of New York" is a Facebook page that shows us how we can use this power for good.
Don't hate the game. It's man-made and without any purpose like our whole existence. Learn to play it if you want to master life in this society.
Otherwise you just support your ego - exactly like the people who are on Facebook. You're not smarter than them. Nobody here is including me.
I just hope that people learn to value the opportunity and do a rational risk-assessment instead of using emotions of rejection because a company is selling user information.
I don't support that Facebook does that, but we can still use their platform to our advantage while hiding our true personality (and therefore enforce our privacy).
edit: Maybe most people who are on Facebook see it like this - although I have the notion that most people don't reflect on this level about their Facebook and social media usage.
Those are some crazy stories - makes me feel a little bit better that I didn't invest in coins back then.
I followed the advice of an investment banker who said to me that this is a bubble in 2012. Maybe it is, but the returns speak for themselves even if you liquidate it now. Pity!
But some guy put his laptop on fire with all his bitcoin on it because he was on LSD - hilarious. Thanks for making this!
Thank you so much for this link, that is the best text-to-speech with an open architecture I've ever heard 'til now. Under https://github.com/keithito/tacotron you can find a pre-trained model based on this paper, although it isn't matching the quality yet. Maybe I can get some cluster time to train a new model using multiple datasets.
Most of the time there are <100 devices connected to the wifis I'm connected to. I don't want to do the math now, but I expect that a collision is pretty unlikely.
If you mean that some cards have problems with handling those mac addresses, I would love to hear about that.
> I also used to randomize my local hostname
Great idea, missed that. I'll integrate that in the future.
> I only know about mac whitelisting in protected networks managed by wary administrators.
Wouldn't make any sense for properly securing a network. As an attacker you could just create an evil twin (same ESSID), let some students connect to it and just use their mac addresses (and even drop their connections when they try to use the university wifi).
Edit: You don't even necessarily need an evil twin to get their mac addresses. You only have to listen to the wifi traffic and get some - even encrypted data packets still contain the raw mac address as far as I know. airodump-ng is the perfect tool to do that.
> Unless avoiding this becomes common practice and then the whole story changes
If that means that everyone starts to use random mac addresses, you still can't identify specific persons based on their randomized mac addresses when they change them every time they reconnect.
You can spoof DNS requests of a victim when you are in the same network as them (the router knows which sites you visit through those DNS requests anyway). It doesn't matter which DNS server the victim uses. As long as they don't use encrypted DNS they expose the websites they visit.
Takes 5 minutes to configure your OpenWRT router to log all DNS requests: https://superuser.com/questions/632898/how-to-log-all-dns-re...
Or if you are an attacker without control over that router: search for dns spoofing. I did this several times to demonstrate companies that their public networks can be hijacked.