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Yes. It's a little sad to see other comments assume that people have something to hide for doing something as basic as wanting to send money back to family. Banking services with h…

I'm moving there. Climate change is going to affect everywhere, and yes, a lot of Spain will experience desertification over the course of my lifetime. I am moving from Texas to Sp…

Bogleheads forum is great: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php There's a Spain equivalent forum also if you poke around

> I think the key is that Spain has a large corps of civil engineers working for the government. I agree with this. In general jobs with the government are seen as high quality job…

The recent citations are definitely interesting, but none of this is really new. I met with some VCs in the early 10s, and some of them talked about "free enterprise zones" in vari…

Gay Texan here leaving the country next year. Maybe culturally in the cities you have a point, but the gerrymandered state government still very much affects you: https://en.wikipe…

Switzerland is, however, a member of the Schengen Area, which is very relevant to this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area EU citizens can freely live and work …

Three moments: 1. When ChatGPT came to the masses, it trivially solved my standard phone interview problem for new SWE hires. It's not particularly complicated, but it screened out…

Your son is not alone: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/no-lawyer-no-money-... https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-c... Good luck to him. I get worri…

I know you are asking rhetorically, but this occurs routinely under the current US immigration regime. There have been over 100,000 children separated from their parents in the Uni…

You can ban the commercialization and mass scaling of the technology. Just because you can't prevent something at a small scale doesn't mean you can't prevent corporations and gove…

I feel like trying to "trick" the RNG into providing stability is the wrong approach here given all the footguns that can occur with having a low entropy seed, but I am not sure wh…

I don't read German well and don't care to run this through a translator, but this is fascinating. I wonder how this list was compiled, by whom, and when it is used (is the gold au…

fwiw i agree with you that the current situation is much worse than in the past, given all the horror's being done in the open without any nod toward reason, multilateralism, or pu…

Yeah, our basic integration test suite takes over 20 minutes to run in CI, likely higher locally but I never try to run the full test suite locally. That doesn't even encapsulate P…

man ssh_config is even more interesting and hidden ProxyCommand is fun

Thanks. Is this one officially not getting released? https://www.amazon.com/dp/151078604X/ I was thinking it would be nice to have a final print edition for the book collection, Am…

What is a mess about the Eurozone and reckless about the ECB?

I haven't tried it, but Signal supports not sharing your phone number/just communicating with usernames: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/ You still need to u…

I haven't used any but there are several it seems: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/google-docs NextCloud looks ok. For some reason I thought it was open to the publ…

You might enjoy the plot of Cryptonomicon

You might need to disclose social media accounts, phone numbers, email accounts, and a lot of other information, regardless of your burner: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g…

Yeah, even those looking for the full segment will have trouble finding it if they are not tech savvy and highly motivated. A relative in their 60s saw headlines about the cancella…