"And even though they make up only 5% of the total student population, international students earned nearly half of all Master’s and Doctor’s STEM degrees awarded in 2019, a total of 117,000 degrees."
That's an interesting stat which might be the source of the parent post assertion.
Maybe contact Have I Been Pwned?, work with them to add it to their leak database, notify site owners afterwards with a timeframe for disclosure and release your findings/blog post? Give people a way to check with HIBP, site owners a way to mitigate and claim the credit for the discovery.
1) That's far from true. I had a company in an incubator associated with one of the largest federal universities. Professors were supportive, overall. A few helped with contacts in the industry and ideas.
2) The overall tax rate isn't that bad (I live in England now, you'd be surprised). The tax system is complicated but for small companies, falling under Simples rules, it's fairly easy.
Re. labour laws, the fact that labour debts aren't protected by limited liability is fairly bad.
Re. regulated, yeah, it's also pretty complicated to get good legal counsel, despite the amount of law school graduates.
Yeah, I'm here. Ten years on the road and a lot of failed dreams. Some days I feel like finding a high beam and buying some rope. Anyway, it's been a fun 10 years - people should be aware of the risks, but it's fun to try.
Almost all pages of cat-v.org read like that. It's a good read. Most should be taken in a light hearted way - it's just software, after all. People unfortunately tend to get outraged by it. Also unfortunately, the original author, Uriel, passed away a few years ago. If you enjoy it, try taking a look at suckless.org
Most pages in cat-v (and suckless) tend to favor the Unix way, small connecting components communicating through pipes. It seems sensible to me. It's comprehensible, it's easy to break down and analyze stuff when it's breaks. I never dabbled in Node.js - js is not my favorite language - but it does looks like complex and hard to understand its internals. Maybe it's not.
Back when I was remote sensing, I remember some talk of people using SAR images (Synthetic Aperture Radar??) to search for Maya roads. I imagine something was found since then but I didn't kept up with the literature on the subject.
I have no ideas for companies you worked for, but I wouldn' trust Catho :-)
apinfo.com.br salary survey matches my experience for average salary. BRL 5k is an average salary for a senior developer. I was making BRL 4k after I graduated from UFRJ about five years ago.
A senior specialist (band 8) working for IBM earns way more than that, plus benefits.
I'm sorry but 16k USD is not a good salary for a senior programmer in Brazil, at least not in Rio or São Paulo, working for a large company.
USD 26k to 37k is a common range for senior developers in my employer. And I'm not counting "13 salary", bonuses, overtime pay, health and dental care.
That's an interesting stat which might be the source of the parent post assertion.