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Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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This is a wonderful idea, but the first listing I clicked claimed being anon-friendly while also asking for a mandatory resume. I assumed these would mostly be merit-based positions, how do these two concepts harmonize? I have gotten anon roles before and they did not require a resume. Also, it would be useful to filter by part-time/full-time/contract positions.

Hey! Thank you for the kind words. Really means a lot.

You raise a valid point. I suppose you could submit a resume associated with your pseudonymous identity. I have two resumes personally, one for my legal identity, and one for work that I do under my pseudonymous identity. It does present a challenge though. It's not easy to separate the two and either one alone may not provide a holistic and accurate view of you as a candidate.

Without speculating and relying too much on buzzwords, I wonder if you could use Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that you have certain credentials or experience, without necessarily having to share your legal/irl identity. I don't have all the answers myself but I do have many questions, hence why I built this! And thanks for the feedback about filtering, you're right. Will ship that asap :)

Could I ask if you were hired as a full time employee or as a contractor? Trying to figure out how organizations may handle the legalities/taxes for full time employees.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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>using your legal identity at work is unnecessary, and puts your safety, security, and privacy, at risk. It is? I want this? I tried watching a bit of the video but it kinda lost me with the bitcoin stuff as I don't really think of bitcoin and my relationship with my employer ... have anything to do with each other.

Admittedly, that sentence might be a tad hyperbolic right now, but I do think increasingly it will be the case. I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job. I can even imagine using Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that candidates reside in certain territories, if that's a requirement that your job might have.

While I partly agree on asserting they're suitable for a job, actually employing them is entirely different. If someone has access to proprietary information/IP/Assets/etc, I don't want a pseudonym and a bitcoin transaction receipt when any of those go missing or an employee used my infrastructure to commit crimes and the feds are now asking me questions and my only answer is 0xPersona that I met on anon.com whom I pay with crypto.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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post #9

>using your legal identity at work is unnecessary, and puts your safety, security, and privacy, at risk. It is? I want this? I tried watching a bit of the video but it kinda lost me with the bitcoin stuff as I don't really think of bitcoin and my relationship with my employer ... have anything to do with each other.

Admittedly, that sentence might be a tad hyperbolic right now, but I do think increasingly it will be the case. I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job. I can even imagine using Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that candidates reside in certain territories, if that's a requirement that your job might have.

I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job.

Respectfully, are you extremely young?

Someone near me was recently convicted of embezzling $3.2 million from our local government. Should she be able to work as a city controller at another local government when she gets out of jail?

I could bring up another certain population applying for jobs at childcare centers but hopefully I am just misunderstanding your position because it seems so ludicrous.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

#24
> soon most work will be done pseudonymously

Eyebrow raised very high

81 days this article was discussed in HN: https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/mourning-loss-as-a-remot...

In it, among other things, we learn a team member who was not even anonymous passed away, and the company only found out when the person's wife created a support ticket because they didn't know basic facts about them.

If after reading that article, you walk away thinking it's a great setup, I'm thinking you're likely very different from anyone I've ever met.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Admittedly, that sentence might be a tad hyperbolic right now, but I do think increasingly it will be the case. I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job. I can even imagine using Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that candidates reside in certain territories, if that's a requirement that your job might have.

While I partly agree on asserting they're suitable for a job, actually employing them is entirely different. If someone has access to proprietary information/IP/Assets/etc, I don't want a pseudonym and a bitcoin transaction receipt when any of those go missing or an employee used my infrastructure to commit crimes and the feds are now asking me questions and my only answer is 0xPersona that I met on anon.com whom I p…

Absolutely! I would just posit that the organizations listed on the site seem to be handling this somehow (for now). I myself would be really curious as to how.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

#28
post #10

How do these companies address tax reporting requirements?

1099 contractors handle all their own taxes iirc, but I guess you can’t be anonymous and receive a 1099? Guessing most of these actually pay in cryptocurrencies which puts the onus on the individual I guess, but if the individual is not paying taxes in the US that’s illegal. Will one get caught? Maybe, who knows, the IRS is fearsome.

I love the idea though, was reading the Delfillama one and sounds very intriguing, aside from the fact that the pay is minuscule for full time work, seems like pay is in crypto, and all the onus would be on the worker to deal with taxes and figuring that out, but maybe that’s not more than a 1099? I love the ideas here in general though.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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post #9

>using your legal identity at work is unnecessary, and puts your safety, security, and privacy, at risk. It is? I want this? I tried watching a bit of the video but it kinda lost me with the bitcoin stuff as I don't really think of bitcoin and my relationship with my employer ... have anything to do with each other.

Admittedly, that sentence might be a tad hyperbolic right now, but I do think increasingly it will be the case. I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job. I can even imagine using Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that candidates reside in certain territories, if that's a requirement that your job might have.

Regardless of the philosophical debate of whether this should be the case or not, it is definitely not true in most places simply for existing legal reasons.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! Good question. I wish I could give you a better answer but the truth is I don't know (yet). That's one of the reasons I built this. I want to learn how organizations deal with things like that, and share that knowledge so we can create best practices. I promise that soon as I know the answer, I'll circle back!

Make the max job size $600 and the contracting company technically won’t need to send a 1099…

If they’re in the US*
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