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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Save up. Save save save.

    Moving is expensive, and any new job is risky to start. The places you’re looking at are expensive because most sane people want to live there.

    If you can find a remote job, start there: once you’re a remote worker, you can establish yourself at the job before you move. Once you’re confident that you like the job and aren’t going to get laid off out of nowhere, you won’t have to stress about paying rent while looking for a job in a new place.

    Visit a city before committing, make sure it has the vibe you want. Coastal cities all have their upsides and downsides.


















  • There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

    • bill gets signed
    • no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
    • 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
    • years late and at double the budget, it releases
    • two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
    • years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
    • zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
    • new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists