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by ashray 27d ago
Another great and somewhat sad read is Flowers for Algernon.
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by ashray 9mo ago
I'll post an example for the parent just in case they are honestly confused about use cases. Here is one that happened to me. I had an eSIM on my iPhone. My iPhone broke (screen became somewhat unusable, and the phone was stuck in a re
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by ashray 1y ago
So for Visa Waiver countries one of the requirements is to keep that number under 1% or so to stay in the visa waiver program. For visa required countries, if the visa vetting process wasn't so strict, probably the numbers would be a l
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by ashray 1y ago
It's well known that people often lie on visa applications and try to immigrate illegally. The US publishes a yearly review of overstayers broken down by country of origin. So you can see where the highest problem areas are. Sometimes
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by ashray 1y ago
I have several examples and lots of personal experience. I’ve been asked to go back from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile while traveling there and applying for a visa to Peru. Finally the Peruvian embassy in Chile gave me a visa to visit Peru bec
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by ashray 1y ago
This was already the case for almost every other country. Most embassies required you to be resident or a national of the country you are applying in. So oddly, the US was far more permissive than other locales in this one aspect. All this
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by ashray 4y ago
Thanks for posting context. I was pretty annoyed at Revolut after reading the twitter thread but didn't know about this part of the situation. Of course, it's not obvious from the twitter thread at all.
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by ashray 4y ago
Thank you for having the time and patience to reply to everyone about psychotherapy and how it's not a one-stop-shop to fix all your issues. I feel the same but honestly do not have the patience to take on this immense debate with most
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by ashray 4y ago
They do. Teslas come with two NFC card keys. The phone unlock is optional but really convenient.
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by ashray 5y ago
This makes sense but why are some people able to cope better with this system than others? Why do some get depressed and others fare okay? What’s the reason this is happening? I’m yet to understand this..
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by ashray 5y ago
Not trying to convince you of anything but just wanted to share this with you. It has started happening... Zug in Switzerland accepts crypto for taxes. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/switzerlands-crypto-valley-h...
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by ashray 10y ago
I've been a digital nomad for almost 6 years and have written in great detail about this subject here: https://bkpk.me/digital-nomads-tax/ The gist of it is that it depends a lot on your citizenship, the kind of w
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by ashray 10y ago
The context of this discussion is smaller publishers/bloggers/etc. If you see the grandparent post it's clear that industry leaders will not find it technically challenging to get on board with both TLS and HTTP/2. The q
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by ashray 10y ago
No, of course not. What would be the economic incentive towards carrying out a sufficiently complex MITM attack on a blog or a newsfeed? In my experience the times that I've had users complain about "injected" information or
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by ashray 10y ago
I agree with you 100%. What I don't get is the tradeoff that happens in this case for sites that do not necessarily need to be secure by design (what about a news site that has no login/etc or a blog?). Should all information on t
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by ashray 10y ago
What I don't get is why the industry has decided to force encryption with HTTP/2? The spec does not require TLS however almost every single major browser only supports HTTP/2 with TLS. Is this a push to make the internet more
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Nintendo takes down fan-made Metroid 2 remake(torrentfreak.com)
3 points by ashray 10y ago|1 comments
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by ashray 10y ago
What about social circle? This is the biggest question I have when I think about moving to a small place. And when you say small, how small do you mean - and where? A village in, say India, is very different from a developed country. You&#x
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by ashray 10y ago
Would you mind sharing your contact info with me? I'd love to pick your brain about some of this stuff, especially your perspective on Berlin, startups, tech cofounders, etc.. I checked your profile AND your website (and domain WHOIS t
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by ashray 10y ago
I read your article and found it quite interesting. However, all the points you raised would have been more interesting if you'd have gone deeper into them. Like raising tech wages. Now, that might attract talent but wouldn't that
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by ashray 10y ago
Please email me (link in bio), I'm also looking to fund grassroots initiatives like this and I've found a few but two heads are better than one :)
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Why the risk of AirBNB is not worth it anymore(bkpk.me)
4 points by ashray 10y ago|0 comments
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I AM living the dream, here's how(bkpk.me)
2 points by ashray 10y ago|0 comments
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I'm not living the dream(medium.com)
15 points by ashray 10y ago|4 comments
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by ashray 10y ago
What's wrong with having a local company (hence subject to laws in your jurisdiction) and then having a bank account in another country with friendlier banking facilities? If this is a new business it's not usually worth the admin
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by ashray 10y ago
Is there no rent control in SF or other US cities? How do people get priced out?
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How to Open a US Bank Account as a Non Resident Foreigner(bkpk.me)
1 points by ashray 11y ago|0 comments
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by ashray 11y ago
Yeah but the problem the parent mentions really comes to the fore when you're trying to make a Dec 15th - Jan 15th reservation (1 month) and AirBNB hosts are unwilling to do a reasonable monthly rate because the middle dates are peak t
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by ashray 11y ago
Is it really that bad in Sofia? I checked it out on aqicn earlier and it looked alright there.
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Why I left Dubai and won't come back(bkpk.me)
5 points by ashray 11y ago|0 comments

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