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Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by busterarm »

arbuge wrote: post #15

OK, I have to be that guy. Barcelona to Casablanca is not a "transatlantic cruise". Anyway, interesting idea if you can live without internet. Technically speaking, if you're in international waters (and not a US citizen, which is a long story), you won't even owe taxes on the work you do aboard.

In ship lingo it is. A trip from Florida across the Suez Canal and out to Singapore is also considered "Transatlantic".

Basically it just matters what your starting ocean is and if it's round trip or not.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by sliverstorm »

ssharp wrote: post #54

Having been of a few cruises, I'd like to point out a few things: 1) Listed prices generally DO NOT include gratuities. Low level cruise employees like the cleaning crew, cabin stewards, waiters, cooks, etc. are paid ridiculously low wages, because cruise ships are registered to countries like Panama and the companies do not need to adhere to U.S. standards. I don't recall offhand, but for a 7-day cruise the "automat…

the crew went into "don't get sued" mode really quickly

I hate this kind of thing. Why do we allow this sort of situation, where fear of lawsuits results in worse response/care?

I don't know exactly what would need to change, but this the legal process at its worst.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by busterarm »

bane wrote: post #37

Folks who are interested in this in terms of lack of distractions might also want to consider doing commercial freighter cruises.

I'm actually not into the whole cruise entertainment experience anyway and would appreciate a few weeks to mostly be a loner while my needs are taken care of. Commercial Freight is a fantastic idea that I plan on doing hopefully next year.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by __david__ »

na85 wrote: post #98
kronholm wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't mind doing that, but not what sure you mean with "wifi hotspot functionality"?

I took it to mean "put it on your phone and let the phone serve it"

Why not just server it on your laptop, locally?

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by Irishsteve »

MattBearman wrote: post #9

Wow, I don't think this would have ever occurred to me, but it's genius! I can go from London to San Juan in 14 days, for about £32 / day. That's cheaper than life at home. Think I'm gonna book myself a cruise soon Edit: Just exploring this guy's blog, and it turns out he's Herbal from "The Game" - an excellent book if you've not read it.

Does this include meals etc. ? Where did you find it ? Seems like a great idea indeed

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by ZoFreX »

larrys wrote: post #99
mathattack wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hear you, and that's how I learned. :-) But I find it much tougher on the topics I'm learning today. Perhaps it's because the old stuff is hard wired because it needs to be, but I keep less of the new topics in long term memory because I can outsource that storage to Google?

Yeah the memory thing is a problem for sure. I've noticed that and it worries me. A few years ago I built this php/mysql just to store things that I learned or figured out (correct syntax for rsync might be an example) so I wouldn't have to re google them. [1] But now what I'm seeing is that most things can be found by google quicker than in the format I am using the db for. (But it's still helpful because I can cut…

Stop cutting and pasting and start typing. I try to copy from memory, but even writing it out while looking at the original still seems to help retention.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by MattBearman »

triangleman wrote: post #102
MattBearman wrote: post #9

Wow, I don't think this would have ever occurred to me, but it's genius! I can go from London to San Juan in 14 days, for about £32 / day. That's cheaper than life at home. Think I'm gonna book myself a cruise soon Edit: Just exploring this guy's blog, and it turns out he's Herbal from "The Game" - an excellent book if you've not read it.

That was a terrible book! You might as well read Rich Dad, Poor Dad .

I've not read RDPD, but unless I'm mistaken isn't it a self help type book? (in the vein of 4HWW). Where as The Game a novel, you can't really learn to pick up women from reading it, so not sure they can be compared.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by bennyg »

sliverstorm wrote: post #112
ssharp wrote: post #54

Having been of a few cruises, I'd like to point out a few things: 1) Listed prices generally DO NOT include gratuities. Low level cruise employees like the cleaning crew, cabin stewards, waiters, cooks, etc. are paid ridiculously low wages, because cruise ships are registered to countries like Panama and the companies do not need to adhere to U.S. standards. I don't recall offhand, but for a 7-day cruise the "automat…

the crew went into "don't get sued" mode really quickly I hate this kind of thing. Why do we allow this sort of situation, where fear of lawsuits results in worse response/care? I don't know exactly what would need to change, but this the legal process at its worst.

Less people suing would reduce that. The problem is that people sue over everything, so why deal with the hassle when you can go into defense mode early and stave off frivolous court proceedings? I agree, it sucks.

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by ZoFreX »

slg wrote: post #23

Like others here, my major concern would be access to the technical resources that are freely available on the internet like StackOverflow. I was curious and consulted the StackExchange API and license. They seem to indicate it would not only possible to pull down the site's entire contents but it also would be allowed under the CC license that is used. Although judging by the various throttles in place, it would tak…

It's always friendlier to first look for an official data dump before thinking about scraping - and in this case, SO does have one[1] :)

[1]: http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...

Re: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

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Post by edsrzf »

wiggle_bar wrote: post #30

I wonder if Tynan would be as gung ho about working on cruise ships if he didn't happen to be launching a cruise deal aggregator site

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around: he wouldn't be launching a cruise deal aggregator site if he weren't so gung ho about working on cruise ships. http://tynan.com/cruisesheet
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