They're all cryptocurrency jobs? Figures.
Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously
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#42I don't know generally the use case for this though I remember seeing the most brilliant person I've ever encountered (a forum long ago) enquiring if a job enabled people to work anonymously; he was very cautious with his identity. I do think it makes sense in this day and age - with pseudonymous discourse long established online - for people to be able to work anonymously within reason (constrained by accountability…
I wonder how that works as far as risk goes.
The employers asking for folks to work anonymous, could it be that there's a lot more risk with them for other issues compared any non anonymous employers?
I know a dude who is a big believer that every employer is trying to scam him / squeeze out ever last drop of productivity / life out of him. So he plays the same game trying to squeeze out every last bit of money / bouncing from employer to employer looking for the next extra dollar. There's no relationship there with him, his employer, most of his coworkers.
He's managed to jump from big corp (the natural place you find looking to maximize income) to big corp and run into a lot more bad situations than I ever have ...
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#43Every single job posting is from a weird crypto bullshit company. Great.
I wouldn't describe any of the organizations listed as "bullshit". Weird, maybe. But they actually do really interesting and valuable work!
> interesting and valuable work
I suspect we may not share the same idea of what's "valuable".
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would suspect you would not be considered an employee but a contractor. I am not sure how they much they're required to report about their vendors.
In the U.S. at least, you are still legally required to report the legal identity of any contractor to the IRS and must ask them to fill out an I-9 form: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/complete-and-correct-form-... Any contractor making >= $600 have to fill the payment and they receive a 1099. There are very few exceptions to that and they are listed in the article.
Thats interesting. I have contracted with multiple entities in the US for many years and they never asked for anything like that.
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#45I am generally in favor of more privacy, but it’s hard picture the real-world use of this for anything other than overlapping jobs (“J2”) and evading sanctions. What else is it for?
I could see it being useful for jobs that make you a political target maybe? Security contracting, intelligence, or journalism?
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#46Here is a question I have often wondered about: Say I am running a business in Europe. And one day I need to translate some text from German to English. I go to Google and enter "German to English translation service". Up comes a website that says "We translate one page of text for ₿0.000048". The website does not tell you where it is operated or who operates it. They state that where they are, they are not obliged t…
Anti money laundering would get in the way, right?
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#47Here is a question I have often wondered about: Say I am running a business in Europe. And one day I need to translate some text from German to English. I go to Google and enter "German to English translation service". Up comes a website that says "We translate one page of text for ₿0.000048". The website does not tell you where it is operated or who operates it. They state that where they are, they are not obliged t…
Do they provide an invoice that fulfils the accounting requirements of your country? I suspect not, so you wouldn’t be able to deduct it.
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#48Aren't employers in most jurisdictions required to verify work eligibility and report income? Does "pseudonymously" just mean that they these employers commit to supporting your alternative identity when engaging with the public, the way publishers might handle a pen name? Or is this something different? I'm probably not the only person who will wonder about this, so it might help to put the answer as text on the sit…
I would suspect you would not be considered an employee but a contractor. I am not sure how they much they're required to report about their vendors.
In Europe you'd get issues with accounting, both in terms of figuring out value added tax, in terms of your local tax authority asking uncomfortable questions why you have expenses without valid invoices (and yes, an invoice has to show who is invoicing). The first probably isn't an issue in the US, I'm not sure about the second.
You could try to set up a company to hide your identity, but how well that works depends on the jurisdiction (in many places it's trivial to figure out the director of a company).
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#49Here is a question I have often wondered about: Say I am running a business in Europe. And one day I need to translate some text from German to English. I go to Google and enter "German to English translation service". Up comes a website that says "We translate one page of text for ₿0.000048". The website does not tell you where it is operated or who operates it. They state that where they are, they are not obliged t…
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#50> 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 arti…
Thanks for sharing stranger, that was a powerful piece.