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The artificial islands are in response to the US holding the first island chain [1]. Without a foothold in the South China Sea, China's military and economic access to the outside …

Van rental is $40/day. Leaves a budget of $60/day for fuel, food and fun. Quite easy if you prepare most meals yourself and limit purchases that are prohibitively expensive in Aust…

Thankfully affordable co-working spaces offering a quiet environment with high speed internet and dedicated work spaces are abundant.

Seems ingenuous to compare digital nomads that are flying around the world several times a year to commuters who never take vacations or fly for business.

Both countries are still incredibly culturally significant, they've just traded their authenticity for whatever tricks draw dollars. Thailand for example has been a hedonistic para…

That is Roam's entire value add. The large majority of digital nomads are looking to find likeminded individuals with the same constraints in the same foreign city as they are. Sim…

Neither Portugal or Thailand have been authentic cultural destinations in decades. What you see as "gentrification", they see as "progress" and a prerequisite to future tourist dol…

Out west (the outback) is used on the east coast, but unlikely linked to the the cardinality.

Europe does not value software or developers anywhere near the levels the US does. Other developed economies e.g, Australia, Canada and Singapore are closer to the US but still tra…

It's a perfect example of "doing things that don't scale", an immediate UX improvement and differentiator in the sea of password managers.

The enormous value that the technology provides is anonymous, distributed consensus. It enables digital asset ownership. It enables self-organising permissionless networks. It enab…

While facilitating buying goods and services is a positive, the largest benefit to global welfare is in the invention of the blockchain.

Taxis are only quick in the UK because everyone else is using public transport. In any undeveloped capital you're forced to use a taxi (or unregulated alternative) to travel any si…

The cities are where all the autonomous weapons of mass destruction are.

The US public sector is actually middle of the pack [1]. 1. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/PublicSe...

> Social Justice Unicorn. Genderqueer. Intersectional feminist. Work for @Google but opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/them/their This is Alon Altman's (@epsalon) current Twitter…

It's not unrelated, to quote your original comment: > If you're a white male conservative Google engineer who feels oppressed and leaks such details, maybe the best thing for you t…

To be fair, promoting gendercide is not even in the same ballpark as only supporting heterosexual marriage.

Sure it can, if a vegetarian friend of yours said "If you want to increase your health remove all the disgusting meat from your diet", would you read that as them saying that all m…

I believe the original text was "If you want to increase diversity at Google fire all the bigoted white men" — this can be read as either all the white men at Google are bigots, or…

Welcome to SV. It's becoming increasingly common within tech, even more disheartening is the complete authoritarian shutdown of discourse around the issue. See your sibling post fo…

No, but it does lead to the incessant infighting as described in the article. That behaviour then leads to firing people.

This is what diversity looks like. Diversity of political and social ideals.