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Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by TeMPOraL » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 11:48 AM UTC

trqx wrote: post #48

asimilator wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://i.imgur.com/Kz5JHuJ.png I get only 2/3rds of the headline on mobile. I guess it’s nice that the Medium app is made for readers, cause their website sure as heck isn’t ...

Is it recursive day? This is what I get when I click on your link. https://tmp.shroom.party/joy.jpg

imgur seems to have this weird and annoying habit of detecting you're browsing from a mobile device even on links direct to the image, and then redirecting you to their site and lowering quality of the image you're looking at. At this point I just don't open imgur links when browsing from my phone.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by thisone » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:09 PM UTC

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #41

kranner wrote: post #30

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This is true in general for digital nomads, whether they blog/podcast or even just freelance, a lot of whom continue to work a few months at a time in foreign locales on tourist visas. I've seen their blogs refer to visas as a gray area. I'm pretty sure this is a mistake.

I've looked at a few of the digital nomad guidence sites and none I've seen do much more than say its vague. If Steven King goes to the UK and writes a few news about his book, is he working? If I visit the Uk from the US on vacation and I answer a work email using my phone am I working? Probably these countries don't care, but where is the line between answering an email and "working" while living in the uk in a hot…

entering the UK under a tourist visa or waiver program, you must be able to fund your stay. The tourist visas are No Work or Recourse to Public Funds. If you are funding your stay in the UK by working remotely, you are not abiding by the terms of your visa. This isn't the same as getting an emergency call out while on holiday.

How does the border agency know? They ask you a whole bunch of questions upon entering the country. So if the plan was to work remotely you'd end up lying to them. Digital Nomads calling it a grey area is often a nice way of saying "unless you tell someone the truth, you'll be fine"

If it's something you plan on doing, I'd highly recommend knowing the regulations for each country yourself and not relying on a third-party website to tell you things. That way you decide what you say to whom and what risk you take.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by radcon » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:31 PM UTC

The title doesn't mention it, but this only applies to Japan where podcasting isn't nearly as popular or economically viable as it is in other countries.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

Kurtz79 wrote: post #35

ggm wrote: post #24

A hidden threat in this, is that podcasting can look like journalism to many economies. If you "report" on current affairs in any way, you can fall into the trap. Mainstream broadcasters are always super-careful when staff are sent to the USA, to get the right visa. If the staffer just goes to the USA, they have to make damn sure they don't return to work, even if they take that call about some story, there is a risk…

I always thought that a "tourist" visa allows you to do "work" for your non-US company, it just prevents you to from "working" for a US company, or being paid by a US company for work done during your visit. I entered the US dozens of times on an ESTA for work reasons, I always declare I'm there for "business", offering detail if needed, and never had any issue.

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Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by coldpie » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:56 PM UTC

puranjay wrote: post #28

As an aside, when I landed on this page, I had a sticky sign-in bar from Medium, a sticky menu from Noteworthy, and a sticky bottom bar asking me to sign-up. The text - what I came to the page for - occupied just 60% of the screen. What a horrible UI!

I have the sticky navbar, which I don't personally find intrusive, and otherwise none of what you mention. Just the article text. I use NoScript. Maybe you should, too?

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by criley2 » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:00 PM UTC

Igelau wrote: post #50

ggm wrote: post #37

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Somehow journalists make headlines when this happens. Lots of people enter on a tourism visa and do not earn income but are in the us for a mixture of reasons -what gets reported, is journalists being caught and expelled. I have an APEC card. I only ever enter for work. I think it's considered ok to recreate, having entered for work related reasons.

> Somehow journalists make headlines when this happens. Journalists make the headlines because journalists make the headlines.

AK-SHU-ALLY journalists write articles and copy-editors write headlines.

Sorry, had to do it.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by wolco » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:12 PM UTC

thisone wrote: post #52

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've looked at a few of the digital nomad guidence sites and none I've seen do much more than say its vague. If Steven King goes to the UK and writes a few news about his book, is he working? If I visit the Uk from the US on vacation and I answer a work email using my phone am I working? Probably these countries don't care, but where is the line between answering an email and "working" while living in the uk in a hot…

entering the UK under a tourist visa or waiver program, you must be able to fund your stay. The tourist visas are No Work or Recourse to Public Funds. If you are funding your stay in the UK by working remotely, you are not abiding by the terms of your visa. This isn't the same as getting an emergency call out while on holiday. How does the border agency know? They ask you a whole bunch of questions upon entering the…

If you are visiting and not working for a UK company it is perfectly legal to do work while travelling. If you overstay your visa different story.

Put another way vp of sky visits Canada answers a few emails/calls while on vacation, perfectly legal.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by danielscrubs » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

Reads way more humble then what the podcast name would suggest.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by ufmace » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:36 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #55

puranjay wrote: post #28

As an aside, when I landed on this page, I had a sticky sign-in bar from Medium, a sticky menu from Noteworthy, and a sticky bottom bar asking me to sign-up. The text - what I came to the page for - occupied just 60% of the screen. What a horrible UI!

I have the sticky navbar, which I don't personally find intrusive, and otherwise none of what you mention. Just the article text. I use NoScript. Maybe you should, too?

I finally started to use Firefox more when the news came about about Google probably dropping support for real adblock. I had always run NoScript on my Firefox, and tended to be reluctant to use Firefox more because of it, due to how much time I needed to spend guessing which scripts to enable to get a site to work well enough. Now that I'm trying to use it more, I'm actually not finding it too bad - it seems to block websites from doing annoying things before I even knew they did it more than needing to fiddle with which scripts to enable.

Oh yeah, also using it in hopes of having real adblock on mobile.

Re: How I made money podcasting and why you probably don't want to

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Post by coldpie » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:41 PM UTC

ufmace wrote: post #59

coldpie wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the sticky navbar, which I don't personally find intrusive, and otherwise none of what you mention. Just the article text. I use NoScript. Maybe you should, too?

I finally started to use Firefox more when the news came about about Google probably dropping support for real adblock. I had always run NoScript on my Firefox, and tended to be reluctant to use Firefox more because of it, due to how much time I needed to spend guessing which scripts to enable to get a site to work well enough. Now that I'm trying to use it more, I'm actually not finding it too bad - it seems to bloc…

Yeah I actually installed NoScript on Firefox for Android a couple months back, exactly because of the kind of shit mentioned in this thread[1]. While I recommend NoScript on desktop to anyone with some technical chops, it's clumsy enough on mobile that I'm not ready to recommend it. That said, I still like it better than the popups.

[1] Try to spot the article content! https://twitter.com/ColdPie1/status/1115247985410048001