Much of my professional network moved during covid. I keep an address in the bay area to keep up appearances with clients. I fly into town when nessary. Life is cheaper and better.
> I keep an address in the bay area to keep up appearances with clients.
If you have to be deceptive about where you are living because you think it's the only or primary validator of your value to clients (in terms of $ rate), it's not a good thing.
I know multiple freelancers and consultants who left places like the Bay Area and NY and their clients didn't suddenly seek to reduce their rates because they went to lower COL locations.
It's a dangerous thing for your rate to be based on your location and not the value you provide.
There's nothing dubious about this. Companies and individuals frequently have an address in high-profile locations while most of the work gets down elsewhere. You're forgetting that a lot of clients want to tell their clients that they have a NY or SF based team working on such and such. Marketing is, always has been, about image and spin.
> Companies and individuals frequently have an address in high-profile locations while most of the work gets down elsewhere. You're forgetting that a lot of clients want to tell their clients that they have a NY or SF based team working on such and such.
Renting a virtual address in NY or SF is not the same thing as telling your clients you're based in those locations or have teams there.
Pretending you're based in a place you're not is not only deceptive, it's a great way to find yourself dealing with painful tax and legal issues you don't want.
If you have a non-negligible amount of money on the line, you'll want to leave sooner than later and plan very carefully.
California is aggressive in going after people who leave the state, even years later, especially if you have a liquidity event shortly thereafter and/or plan to maintain ties to California. Keeping an address, coming back regularly to meet clients, etc. are all precisely the things the FTB uses to argue that people are still California residents.
You know you're failing politically when you start resorting to punitive measures to keep people from leaving.
During the cold war, Ronald Reagan correctly pointed out that one of the clearest indicators the Soviet Union and their allies were in the clutches of a failing ethos, was that they had to build walls to keep their own people in rather than to keep their enemies out.
While California absolutely is overzealous in looking at people who leave the state, it's also reality that plenty of people don't really leave or blur the lines to the point where there's a legitimate question as to their residency.
If you're going to leave California, leave. Don't keep a California address, tell clients you're based in California, come back all the time to do business, etc.
I have been studying the law and will consult with tax professionals soon. Starting next year I will not need to do business in California anymore; my next full time employer is not CA based and none of my current clients are either.
I just feel uneasy leaving most of my professional network behind. Sometimes even the most trivial social interactions end up turning into very lucrative opportunities.
Indeed. The article intermixes a few very valid points (e.g. web-apps practically cannot be audited because there is absolutely no guarantee the server will serve everybody the same code and delivered code can change with every request) that one should be aware of before using a service like protonmail. But there are better articles discussing things like that.
And then it really quickly diverts into "it has ties to MIT which has ties to NSA" 6-degrees-of-Mossad drivel. Congrats, everybody who ever studied at or worked at/with MIT is a spy now.
They do understand. They don't care. SF is a transient place for many. They stay while it is good and leave when it isn't. They never really get invested in the city.
This is the exact opposite of my experience: it’s the techies who want to fix San Francisco and the longtime residents who shriek that nothing is wrong and how dare you even suggest we need to change anything you racist.
I am pretty sure you are regardless of the hack. If your Tesla hits someone your at fault not Tesla. Laws would have to change a lot for that not to be the case. In that world, do I even need car insurance or is volkswagen liable? If you're talking ethically, you have a point.
Last time I checked (a year ago), after login, authentication was using MAC address and no encryption is used (not WPA or WPA2). You can easily sniff a MAC address and impersonate a device that is using xinfinty wifi.
Kinda? It was in South Florida, but it was a test-lab school kinda program.
My brother did an alternative where he could take some credits at the local CC, but it was still part of the standard high school experience. Seems a little closer to your experience in your other comment
There was definitely more camaraderie among the students in the program I did, mainly because of being all stuck together in 9th grade and how Everyone ended up taking classes at the uni (oftentimes together, since there's a lot of overlap in undergrad programs).
Yea, camaraderie would have been nice. Only 2 kids from my high school participated in the program. For financial reasons, I had to fully commit to college and couldn't do part time. Anyway, cool, I really liked the program and think it is a good option for some kids.
Lots of states have programs where you can go to college and earn highschool credit (duel credit). Alternatively, drop out, get a GED and go to college. This hard commits you to finishing college but I have a few friends that did it. I did the dual credit thing and avoided paying for a few years of college (state covered books and tuition). Be careful though, lots of kids aren't really ready to leave all their friends they have known for 10+ years. If you go to college at 16 you miss onboarding and the "college experience". In many ways you are alone. It fit me but not everyone.
Just left Denver. The job market is weak for software developers. The housing is not as expensive as California but the pay vs housing costs is probably worse. Remote gig is better than what is available locally. Expect some hostility if your moving in from CA.
For traditional text captchas, bots are better than humans. Flow usally goes, pay humans to solve 50000 ($500) then train an ML model. For things like recaptcha things get harder because it is not easy to proxy the captcha puzzles to have humans solve them (which is nessary to collect training data).
Because I want to pay people in the 3rd world to solve them for me. There are a bunch of services that take crypto or PayPal and solve captchas with humans. Using those systems requires you download the image, send to service, get response (proxy is not 100% accurate)
