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by vertis 5y ago
Yes, I did wonder about this. The call centers I've been exposed to would notice in a heartbeat if you weren't picking up the phone at all.
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by vertis 5y ago
The rest of the article does go on to talk about more reasonable examples of people deciding not to go back to jobs, but I agree the Author would have been better served without 'Gavin' (from a credibility perspective).
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by vertis 5y ago
Okay, I want the whole project by the end of the day. /s It just doesn't work. Complexity of tasks, scope, resources all make for something that is very hard to measure. I agree with your sentiment, but it's hard to execute.
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by vertis 5y ago
No, I'm talking specifically about the first example in the article in which they describe a person that is deliberately shirking. I'm not interested in the technical solutions to this, they're abhorrent also. With regard to
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by vertis 5y ago
A lot of the HN are familiar with balancing work for employers with time clawed back for side projects and startups. We do this a lot more on the level though, by only taking a enough contract work to make ends meet rather than what I can o
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by vertis 5y ago
Fastmail is subject to Australian laws though. Australia a passed a troubling anti-encryption law[1], which pretty much means any tech company can be compelled to render assistance. [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12&#
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by vertis 5y ago
My GF has a M1 mac and is quite happy with it. I have a problem rewarding Apple with another purchase, given the dismal performance of this machine. The 2018 mac was a top of the line purchase. I think it came to about $5000 AUD if memory s
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by vertis 5y ago
Apple as well. I have a 2018 15" Macbook Pro with problems: - The battery is dying - The touchbar flickers whenever it is 'off' - a hardware fault that requires the full top case to replaced[1] - Quotes of $400-1200.
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by vertis 5y ago
This blog post by a VPN company is totally not biased and not written to promote their totally independent (for now) , transparent (for now) business. I mean they're not wrong, but it's hard to take seriously when they've got
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by vertis 5y ago
This is just a rip-off of Google Drive. No-one creates anything original any more. :troll:
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by vertis 5y ago
Yeah, for the most part I use either time based tokens or my Yubikey. Where that's not possible and I can't avoid dealing with the provider as you mentioned it's Google Fi since they have a web gateway I can retrieve them on.
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by vertis 5y ago
Google Fi has actually been reasonably useful despite the fact that I can't get it to work because I'm not in the US. They have a web messaging interface that I can collect 2FA from. I avoid phone based 2FA where possible, but the
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by vertis 5y ago
This is one of the biggest things that stops me from using Signal. I don't have a phone number really any more (I'm a digital nomad, and pick up regional sims) I'm not really interested in the disappearing message either if I
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by vertis 5y ago
You have to be able to prove you're a resident somewhere overseas though, and that you've broken your ties to Australia. It's more complicated for digital nomads that don't really have a permanent place overseas. Other t
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by vertis 5y ago
This is a really interesting read. I'm not a US citizen (AU & NZ) and don't face the same problems when being overseas, but I definitely relate to it not really feeling like home now that I've been away for several years.
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by vertis 5y ago
This is probably over engineering though. I know for a fact that the two apartment buildings next door have codes that most of the delivery drivers know for this exact purpose. They don't have front desks, so it makes sense that they l
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by vertis 5y ago
Definitely a gateway pet. I've started using dogs now.
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by vertis 5y ago
There are many things to criticize Amazon about, but I feel like removing a e-book that is being fraudulently sold is a stretch. They have to operate with the legal environment. In this regard we're not close to 1984. It's not eve
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by vertis 5y ago
It's not just an unlicensed version though, it's a version that someone sold without permission. This doesn't say Orwellian to me, it says Amazon living within the prevailing legal environment that they operate in. Correct me
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by vertis 5y ago
> Coming soon to your region! > Enter your email to join our waitlist, and we'll get in touch as soon as Neeva is available in your corner of the world. Not available unless you live in the US I guess
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by vertis 5y ago
The don't change your recipe is certainly true. I remember Arnott's (Australia) has a disastrous backlash[1] when they tried to change the flavour of BBQ and Pizza Shapes. [1]: https://www.smh.com.au/business/
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by vertis 5y ago
If you sell me a HD/IoT, and say it does X/Y/Z and then no longer want to provide X/Y/Z, I should get my money back. This whole, "ah sorry we decided to end-of-life that because we couldn't make any more m
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by vertis 5y ago
I'm both an Australian and NZ citizen. One of my parents is Australian and the other NZ. Not that my ancestral line matters at all the legitimacy of my views. I spent 30 years living in Australia and I'll point out all the flaws I
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by vertis 5y ago
If the AU government didn't have such a denial / fossil-fuels attitude, I could even accept that. Unfortunately, with every other position that they hold it's hard to take that kind of explanation seriously.
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by vertis 5y ago
I said nothing about NZ (except that I was born there).
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by vertis 5y ago
Like you, I really struggle with Australia (I was born in NZ. Lived 30 years in Australia, now a digital nomad). Australia seems to be doing everything in it's power to not be climate friendly. Dismantling carbon tax, trying to maintai
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by vertis 5y ago
Just a reminder, the internet is global. Many people on HN, aren't from the US. Many aren't even from 5-Eyes countries. This distinction is a bit shit. If US wants to portay itself as leader of the free world, it needs to stop act
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by vertis 5y ago
They didn't even have to skirt the rules to get the benefit. Even if it wasn't US criminals they still get to turn around and say "look, we made the world a safer place".
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by vertis 5y ago
Offshoring and outsourcing can be a nightmare. It doesn't have to be though. I've seen at least one example that works very well. Of course it was less about cost and more about the ability to quickly provide additional resources,
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by vertis 5y ago
While I think a hybrid situation is perfectly fine, there are also a bunch of solutions to this that don't require a permanent office. For example, co-working can facilitate some of the desired interaction while at the same time puttin

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