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My brother in law moved to Silicon Valley because he had a very low salary ceiling in Vienna.

I quit a previous job and took less money because I got moved to maintain the crumbling Forte4GL core system - I did get a handsome raise for that, but the writing was also on the wall as they were also working to replace it. Migration project has been ongoing for 8 years and is nowhere near done, I might have been able to retire before it's completed though. It was also soul-sucking.

Fortunately the U.S. didn't kill all Chinese manufacturers, Samsung and the rest are overpriced compared to them.

Scott Hanselman is one of the highest-profile remote workers, check out his blog entries:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CategoryView.aspx?category=Re...

I mean, you know he´s going to be monothematic about his beliefs, but I heard nothing besides that.

Other countries (at least Europe and Latin America) basically don´t have athletic scolarships and any athletic program is a strictly extracurricular activity.

I personally know 2 cases of people banned from Google, in one case they were actually infringement (they made an app using copyrighted characters), and in the other it was the same case stated elsewhere - grandmother clicked repeatedly on the ads thinking she was helping her grandson, and he got banned from AdSense forever.

That´s everywhere. I was told that in Austria the only major petty theft is bike theft (in one of the most secure countries in the world).

I don´t even need to mention how prevalent it is in my country Uruguay (which tries to encourage bike use).

Other posters do have a point about probably illegal wiring and no fire exit planning. And the low ceiling must have sucked (Japanese micro apartments actually have high ceilings, mine was standard height).

It´s not usually applied though.

IMO Teams is much worse but I guess it gets the job done not horribly enough.

But people are REALLY REALLY expensive (not only the ongoing costs, but hiring, firing and overhead), and Cloud has another huge advantage: accounting tricks (which help a lot to said midsize firms).

Literally one of the first things they teach you at the Azure training is the difference between CapEx and OpEx: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundament...

Some of the most immoral jerks I know are extremely successful and very wealthy.

That´s why Paul Graham et al advise against it. There´s some very useful knowledge, especially financial and accounting and knowing organizational dynamics if you want to go B2B (not to mention connections).

I personally sometimes regret spending the money and effort on my master´s (a Tech MBA). It definitely didn´t give me the career advancement I was hoping for.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/29/killing-your-1000...

of course, that´s a lot of rice, noodles and beans (not that there´s anything bad with those, but I´d get bored).

The police ARE the state goons, so the outcome doesn´t change much .

Yes. I work remotely from Uruguay. It´s basically the only option to compete with U.S. talent, the whole point of remote work for the company is to get the best talent at a price they wouldn´t get in the U.S.

I know that if I get an H1B visa or whatever my salary would immediately go up. Location and salary are unfortunately correlated (it´s not even cost of living, Uruguay is more expensive than 2/3rds of the U.S.).

That´s not necessarily true. I´ve worked with very good, serious consultancies, and I´ve seen a quote for thousands of dollars for exploratory work to give an estimate. Of course that was for a million dollar project - smaller projects might not have this opportunity.

Other companies had some interesting approaches where they gave order-of-magnitude estimates and then refined the estimate iteratively.