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Ask HN: Digital Nomads, How Do You Navigate Bureaucracy While Living Abroad?
Hello fellow HN members,

As more and more people transition into remote work or the 'digital nomad' lifestyle, we're finding ourselves in a world where our living and working environments can be miles apart, both figuratively and literally.

The advantages are evident - flexibility, personal satisfaction, and an opportunity to experience new cultures. However, one aspect that doesn't get as much attention is the bureaucracy involved when living abroad. From managing visa applications to understanding tax implications, handling healthcare to setting up a bank account, the process can be quite daunting.

For those of you living this lifestyle, I'd appreciate your insights on the following:

- What bureaucratic challenges have you encountered while living and working abroad?
- How have you overcome these challenges?
- Are there certain countries where it's been more or less challenging to deal with these issues?
- Do you utilize any specific tools or resources that have facilitated this process?
- Your insights would be invaluable to both existing digital nomads and those considering this path. I believe this discussion can contribute to a more thorough understanding of the practicalities of remote work and digital nomadism.

Thank you in advance for your time and responses!
This is a weird take. Nothing Oracle did was wrong. RedHat's model can be used by anyone, why shouldn't another company make use of the source's? It's the risk of the model RedHat has gone for and also RedHat has added clauses to they're terms preventing resharing of sources which is against GPL.
Sony's Mocopi avatar motion-capture system is coming to the US
The weirdest thing in all this debate is that selling yourself for porn is perfectly legal. How is prostitution different is beyond me.
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I was having major issues getting federation to work while using the mobile web app. Now that I installed Connect for Lemmy (android) tonight, I finally have a seamless experience subscribing to and interacting with communities from all over the fediverse.

It's a brand new technology and system, for the most part. Give them time to make it more user-friendly. It's worth it joining and participating now IMO, but I think in 6 months or a year it will be MUCH more friendly to the average Joe.
I guess people interested in "no JS implementations of things" are here so I would humbly like to ask:

Does anybody know of a viable way to implement (geographic) maps without JavaScript?
Except of course that everyone in Seattle east salmon and the Columbia is once again a salmon river is it not?

Cesium replaces potassium readily, which is part of why the Bikini atoll is still so dangerous.

So there’s that.
Hackers exploit zero-day in Ultimate Member WordPress plugin with 200K installs
This approach is women-positive, not sex-negative. Here's an account of the awful reality of when prostitution is fully legalised: https://www.adoptnordicwa.org/uncategorized/insights-into-pr...
I had a glass of Louis XIII Cognac a few years ago and was really surprised at how much better it was than a VSOP. As you say the tail lasted so long and was so rich and complex, I didn't expect it to be that incredible.
the worse part of this is embedded http content in a https site breaking due to changing browser policies. images are upgraded to https if possible, otherwise broken. script embeds are just unilaterally broken if the embed is http, even if https is available.
Isn't the more important point that his consistent lying makes his disparagings unreliable as a signal?
Because I’ve spent the last 18 months implementing marketing integrations and continuously playing around with settings just to be able to read some documentation got old after a week.

But perhaps that’s why Google lets this harmful crap fester on their ad platforms. Perhaps they simply aren’t aware of it because everyone there runs an ad blocker. This would somehow be comforting, compared to the alternative.
There are stores where you can pay with cryptocurrencies. That said, GP said "almost". We will see if it ever reaches the point where this word will not be needed.
We might see a comeback of something like CORBA. One of the things CORBA was supposed to do was to enable a mechanism to ask a server "How do I talk to you"? While that wasn't really used much, it has real potential for the LLM era. We need technologies where a client asks the server how to talk to it, then generates the appropriate requests automatically.

For example, you should be able to ask anything with a shopping cart how to buy stuff. Especially for B2B E-commerce.
RIP Don. I still have many of his books , some purchased in the 80s The TV typewriter immediately comes to mind.
> Expensive, college educated cops are outside the budgets of many of these tiny police departments

Sometimes it's not budget, they've been known to hire dumbass cops on purpose:

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/jordan-v...

> In the recent case of Jordan v. City of New London (2000)(Connecticut), a police applicant was denied employment due to scoring too high on the cognitive ability portion of his written application test.
Please don't post flamebait and please don't use HN for ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seeing Preact mentioned, just wanted to give a shoutout to one of the authors, Marvin, an ex colleague. Absolutely amazing dev and person.
the amount of usage per IP-address is limited though
This doesn't really work. It's been tried for years now in Norway, and prostitutes, while no longer defined as criminals, still have to avoid the police because their customers getting arrested means they lose money. And they're prostitutes, so aside from a small minority, they really need the money they make. Very few people become prostitutes if they have other options.

They also don't get the same legal rights that workers in fully legitimised businesses do.
COBRA in production: 29 minutes of imagined glory, 1 minute of ignominious RETREAT!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thbICk05yPk
> Why no type checking? Generate an Open API client for target languages.

I dunno. Why aren't more people using openapi?

What I see in practice is that almost everyone is using JSON as the transport mechanism and not generating that JSON serialisation code from open API specs.

The type-checking in CORBA was not opt-in, it was mandatory.

Type-checking in browser fetch() calls are optional. To opt-in you have to go outside of the standard.
Amusing that I called precisely the cause well before Elon tweeted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542697) and was downvoted for it.
Because false advertising, especially advertising fake medical devices, false drugs, and made up treatments, is illegal in the countries I was in.

Putting up a billboard with any of this crap would get someone in prison. And justly so.
> I want a community for my football club, but there are already 3 across multiple instances - which one do I join?

I would use the community browser at https://browse.feddit.de/ to find the most populated and active community, and stick with that one. If the other 2 aren't very active, maybe make a post in those communities letting them know there's a more active community at X.
Trying to stop demand for sex is a fool's errand.
Those are not really useful for getting the feel of federated communities. Check out the lemmy browser & search around for your hobbies and interests:

[0] https://browse.feddit.de/
The parent comment already mentioned that "Europeans" is too broad of a generalisation.
It would he just as unwise to claim "the US has legalized sex work" due to this headline which clearly is not about the whole of the USA.
I interviewed with AT&T for a job and the interviewer was sure a piece of concurrent code was sound and I was sure it was not, but couldn’t articulate it at the end of a long day.

I would have been working in CORBA when it was already on its way out. Silver lining that was a bullet I dodged entirely, except of course having the pay the opportunity cost all early Java devs paid because there was an ORB in the JDK for ten+ years.
> It shouldn't look like any other function call.

I'm sorry, This is the stupidest thing I see commonly repeated in public discourse about software.

Every single distributed application I've ever worked on in my 30-year career (including working for multiple companies you've heard of) wrapped remote calls in something that looks like a normal function call. It doesn't matter if your low-level RPC stub throws RemoteException or returns RemoteError, somewhere up the call stack someone has wrapped this into a simple method that looks like this:

doSomethingUseful();

In real life, you make a call to a function and you live with the consequences. If you're lucky, the docs let you know the performance and failure characteristics. If not, you make some assumptions. When those assumptions are wrong, you spend some time debugging and profiling.

Adding a bunch of syntactic noise to the callsite doesn't help. The first thing any competent programmer will do is abstract your noise away in convenience methods. Because 99% of the time, it doesn't matter that your call is remote.

Take a look at your own codebase that makes client REST calls to some other service - you may hand-wire a bunch of http calls, but somewhere up the stack there's a function that hides the http mess. Everything below that function is accidental complexity.
Potentially the mass murder, rape, and genocides of 20th century Japan were bad
You can't attack others this aggressively on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

Your comments in this thread were so egregious that I briefly banned your account - but your earlier contributions to HN have been fine, so I don't want to do that. If you could please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and comment in the intended spirit in the future, though, that would be good.
The same trick was played by some Italian newspaper for Bush vs Gore.

I don't remember the details but one definition was 'island country in the Atlantic Ocean' and it could've been either Ireland or Iceland (in Italian: iRlanda vs iSlanda)

I thought it was an original idea and now I'm a little sad.
You decide.
API rate limits are more easily enforceable. If they keep scraping there are methods to detect and thwart behaviour. I don't think twitter has the appropriate talent and work environment to allow proper solutions to be implemented. It's all knee jerk reaction to whatever Elon decides.
I would bet that the first multinational organization to corner an intercontinental market was the apostolic church of Rome.

If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_international_trad... is right, the necessary technology for international trade was not available before 4000 BCE (horse riding ~3700 BCE, long-distance sea travel ~2000 BCE).
The problem with these Reddit alternatives is that just like 99% of Reddit, they're a complete waste of time. There's nothing of substance, no real community, and no value add to anyone's life. I just opened lemmy.world and I don't see anything of substance, just posts talking about Lemmy and how Reddit is dead.

For me personally to use any of these sites, it has to at a minimum be a place where one can learn and have stimulating conversation. Reddit was like that in 2008, and it stopped being that way when memes, marketers, and political correctness took over. HN is the only site of this style that I regularly frequent because the quality is relatively high. Without keeping a high quality bar, I don't see why anyone would care to use any of these sites unless there's enough of a differentiating factor, and I don't think fediverse is an attractive enough of a feature to attract any serious users long-term. I mean look at Mastodon - it peaked when Elon took over Twitter, but has just been in decline since then.

I built my own HN/Reddit alternative [1] with the sole mission of retaining a high standard of quality. Will it work? Doubtful without at a minimum getting the ball rolling seeding it with content, and marketing is not my forte or interest. But in any case I hope we'll see more competitors trying to build a "better" Reddit than attempt to replicate the cespool that is Reddit (outside a few high quality niche subreddits), that persists not due to any superiority but simply just from network effects at this point. We don't need more of the same, we can do better.

[1] https://zsync.xyz
And here I am learning an Erlang language…
> aside from major metro areas

Wtf? They don’t need that at all
This is unnecessarily combative though it’s also probable I’m reading too much into this since I’m one of those swervers - from cloud computing guru to AI aficionado.

Personally, my mental bent is towards tinkering - I like wiring things up to make them work. I used to do that with wires and screwdrivers as a kid, now I read api docs and do the same thing.

The point being, it’s likely that I’ll continue connecting things to each other just to see how they work and offer that as a service until the day I die.

You need people who invent the algos, people to wire up algos to each other, people to sell this service to people, people to want to pay for that service, and so on. None is better than the other. They’re all necessary for people to put food on the table and live the life they want. Sneering at them is pointless.
A huge influx of “programmers” that knew only JavaScript and thought that HTTP is the only network protocol, that’s why.

But seriously, the root cause of the regression is the web and its associated limitations, quirks, and bad habits.

For example, many web developers started out with eval() and maybe JSON which they thought was simple because it is text based and can be interactively experimented with in the browser console. They could “get started quickly” and they were “moving too fast” to think about codegen tooling, protocol efficiency, typing, or security. Doesn’t matter, they hooked up the form, push it to prod!

It’s a cycle that happens over and over in IT, a variant of the eternal September.
platforms like Cadence and temporal reminds me of CORBA - basically when you think about it, they are CORBA or EJBs just in a new flavor.
Decriminalising prostitution, providing support services to prostitutes, and making the buying of people for sex illegal is harm reduction.

This Maine law doesn't go far enough in that there's no provision for structured support to help those who are prostituted exit the sex trade.
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Possibly not. AWS had an outage in Sydney in 2016 where the longer interval available with a battery UPS might have avoided the problem.

https://aws.amazon.com/message/4372T8/
> was about 15.76 litres of pure alcohol

I've done the maths on that and it comes out at 39.4 litres of 40% spirits a year, 750ml a week, or 108ml a day. In the UK that is basically two double spirit drinks.

Four UK units a day is above the recommended 14 per week and I'm sure isn't great for your health long term but most people wouldn't notice they are drinking at that level.

I appreciate this is the average so many will be way above that, but interesting to extrapolate it out.
Your reasoning is sound, but is based on this assumption:

> These are relatively rare scenarios.

I wonder if this is true...
don't forget frameworks like cadence and temporal :)
We should not treat as equal things which are fantasy and things which are real. Harry Potter isn't real and neither is the story of God nuking a cities because they were perverts. There is no Sin of Sodom. In reality there are folks who are exclusively sexually attracted to people of the same sex and their choice is to live without love or join with people of the same variety.

Trying to make life harder for those folks who are doing nothing wrong to anyone by loving people is unjustifiable moral evil that isn't made less so by explaining the fantasies that justify such.

It's exactly as if you explained to me that how all bald guys were really death eaters and you had to keep them down so that Voldemort doesn't come back.
Perhaps not a degree, but definitely enough study to make it harder to get in.

Cops in pretty much any developed country go through one to four years of training. Most give trainees extra points for related studies, like law or criminology. South Korea, for example, has a police university.

Then you have places like the US, where training plus probation time is, on average, less than a year.

I’m not saying that it would make US police necessarily better, but it is clear that they need better, harder, and more comprehensive training, given the current state of affairs.
I used it for synchronizing web series to my Kobo reader, and indeed the lack of proper organization makes large amounts of items a very tedious task.
Dropbox's desktop client is STILL the only desktop client that doesn't suck or choke on multiple git repos. Aside from syncthing it is the only program that I can count on to get file synchronization right
Firefly's Rockchip RK3588 SBCs Are Now Available with 32GB RAM
"only" for one of their best selling series.
RedReader: An unofficial open-source Android app for Reddit
> Discrimination against Japanese, Chinese, Irish, German, Mexican, Native American and more are not "imaginary harms".

Never implied they were. I implied that the harm felt by one’s “minority friends” being helped is a figment of one’s imagination… you then replied with a list of other minorities who will also be harmed by this absurdly idiotic ruling.

> Are we in favor of reparations for every group? Or is it just this one?

We can safely start with the victims of chattel slavery — at the very least those who signed up to fight and die for a government that promised 40
acres and a mule and then reneged on that (extremely minimal) token — and then widen the net to those who also can make a legitimate call for reparation.

> Reparation talk is a way to buy votes - nothing more. It's a total non-starter if you dig into how you'd go about it...

It’s really not… if reparation had been made in a timely fashion it wouldn’t be nearly so difficult now, and even today just the very doable token of 40 literal acres and a morally equivalent mule (with interest, and a sincere apology) to the descendants of those for whom clear records exist would be a welcome token step in the right direction. Truth and reconciliation don’t mean wiping out all harm in a single reparatory act, they mean proactively working to an acknowledge and repair… the abominable corruption that is the Supreme Court just abandoned the proactive part entirely.

> We can't pretend like handing people a pile of cash will suddenly solve all the issues the community endures today.

Only those who aren’t part of the community can possibly pretend that a pile of cash wouldn’t solve (or at least substantially help) an extremely significant number of those issues.
ASML Hit with New Dutch Limits on Chip Gear Exports to China
Price is still expensive when compared to a x64 mini PC, but ARM is slowly getting to the point where it’s worth considering for a small workstation (depending on workload)
Are you really sure it's legal? In theory it's not different from providing the same information from API or website... but do people working in law think so?
The J2EE 1.0 spec was so goddamned infuriating, owing to the fact it was introduced by the company who penned the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing. At least half of which it was obviously in violation of. I walked away from it. Or tried to. Every successful implementation violated the spec, because the spec was idiotic. So we were all doing “J2EE” and with each revision what they said we should do looked a bit more like what were were doing already. But by the time it was almost good it was captured by industry.

Then Rod Johnson lambasted it famously and then lived long enough to become J2Ee.

I still have his book here somewhere. I keep meaning to sit down with it and the Spring spec and see how badly the abyss stared into him.
Look at my screenshot. For german users, the map display price is $131. That's the $81 base price plus taxes plus fees. All shown in the initial UI where it's easily understood by the user, nothing hidden.
Good thing that the EU is planning on mandating the amount of updates phones need to get[0]. It should cut down on the amount of phone model spam - or at least they get updated and not abandoned.

The regulators have suggested that phone vendors provide at least five years of security updates and three years of OS updates to their devices. Moreover, the said security and operating system updates should reach users “at the latest two months after the public release.”

EDIT: it seems that te initiative has already passed: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-smartphone-updates-rules...
This is, astonishingly, more cesium than Fukushima released. This must have been the entire inventory of multiple nuclear reactors accumulated over years.

- "In October 1986, a spill of a highly radioactive waste stream containing cesium (137Cs) and strontium (90Sr) occurred in the B-Cell of the 324 Building in the 300 Area of the Hanford Site. The spill is estimated to have contained approximately 1.3 million curies of radioactivity. An unknown fraction of this spill was lost to the subsurface through a leak in the sump in the floor of B-Cell."

https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_re... ("Numerical Modeling of 90Sr and 137Cs Transport from a Spill in the B-Cell of the 324 Building, Hanford Site 300 Area")
> And essential medicines, like insulin, can be brutally expensive.

only in America.

Generic insulin are available in most other countries.

There are "better" insulin that cost a lot more, but the generic one are cheap enough outside america
>you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site. No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy.

This is a feature in my opinion. Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit). It's taboo, but gatekeeping communities is absolutely required to stop mass adoption and the downward spiral. Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.
It was truly insane. I still remember seeing in my book example of container that could host excel inside of my program and save files etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding

I often think about many things that were explored in that time as Birds of paradise. The desktop as it was seen then was mostly solved, and new challenges of internet didn't yet materialized - many engineers need to do something. So they started to do very weird things
If Google doesn't provide a way to say "please don't scrape my site", then it 100% unethical.

We have robots.txt. If Google doesn't respect that, it's unethical. Don't you think so?
I love the wide variety of tastes you can get. Beers are getting there, but there is no alcohol free wine or spirit that comes close to the flavour carrying profile of decent drinks.

I make quite a lot of cocktails and have some quite decent alcohol free ones in my repertoire, but compared to the alcoholic ones there are a very poor imitation.
This spill occurred 40 years ago. Humans are capable of improvement over time. Look at airline safety, for example.
Not a physicist, so you'll correct me if I'm wrong. The Cesium decay into something. So we could measure the concentration of the resulting atom compared to those of Cesium.
Xiaomi let you remove any app. Most more popular ones have a huge ROM community so long term new android builds (no company actually does that)
Well their mobile version is so bad, I was avoiding clicking on links people send me, so that change only implements what i have been doing...