I have always seen Crypto as a red flag. Initially, there was just a suspicion, but then I ended up meeting with some Crypto people in real life, and corresponding with recruiters in the Crypto space. And if I was on the hiring department, Crypto on a resume would get a hard-pass from me. It filters out people with a mentality that I do not like to be around.
You can't choose how you will be identified by people as being of some race, gender, religion, political beliefs... which all constitute illegal discrimination for employment in some countries (France is an example where it's illegal to discriminate on political opinion, or in our case, supposed opinion I shall say).
A hard pass on crypto means passing on people who
- wanted to bank the poor
- wanted freedom
- wanted self sovereign identity
- wanted border-less transfers for their family abroad
etc... Many people want to do good with crypto.
Questions: is it immoral to be in it only for the money at a carbon sequestration startup? How do you tell, from a resume? What if this startup is just greenwashing bs in the end? What if the money is to help his grand parents in the Philippines?
I think there's no clear cut way to judge the morality of someone from their resume: not from their skin color, nor from their previous work places. And I think it's unethical to judge people on what you presume of their own morality.
To paint an accurate picture, an hard pass on crypto would mean:
- wanted to bank the poor, with crypto.
- wanted freedom, with crypto.
- wanted self sovereign identity, with crypto.
- wanted border-less transfers for their family abroad, with crypto.
They could have chosen any of those areas without, but they chose to do it with crypto. There is a clear choice for them to do that, as well a very reasonable option for an employer to choose an employee "who wanted freedom, with XXX" over an employee who "wanted freedom, with ZZZ (crypto)". This does not equate to racism (neither is it unethical imo), regardless whether the employer chose to exclude based on perceived morality of their crypto choice.
Staying overseas, I also got my account locked last month when I invoiced a consulting client. Seemingly out of nowhere because the previous 22 invoices cleared without an issue. But I am properly set up for this. We initiated a refund, and then I invoiced them through another EU business I set up just for this type of scenario. Then I issued a B2B invoice to my business in Europe, from my LLC in Asia; which then paid it out to me as a salary. Fees are steep, but tax is low; so that balances out.
If you're still an American citizen, don't you technically still owe US to taxes on that "salary"? And since you're paying it as salary, I'm not sure that you're able to deduct any of the fees as expenses from what's owed.
The foreign tax credit is provided to prevent the double tax burden when your foreign source income is taxed by both the United States and the foreign country.
You just submit that you already paid taxes on that income to a foreign government and then no additional US taxes (to a limit, I beleive).
It's not that simple. There are a lot more details, but at a minimum you will still need to pay US taxes to the extent that the foreign government taxes at a lower rate. You'll also often still need to pay state income taxes.
The answer depends on how your specific state defines tax residency (for example California is notoriously difficult to escape).
Generally the rules will be something like you remain a tax resident of your old state, regardless of how long you stay abroad, until you establish a new permanent tax residency (whether in a new state or country).
What I eventually did is return to the US, sign a 1 month lease in Florida so I could get a drivers license and register to vote, and then return abroad. According to my tax accountant, that was enough.
Americans abroad shouldn't pay taxes (since they get basically no benefits) or vote (why should those who live abroad affect the laws they are, largely, not subject to?)
Americans abroad get a very valuable guarantee though. If shit hits the fan the full force of the US Military and Government is around to help out. They also are a last resort for Americans in emergencies abroad. Emergency assistance, flights and travel back home, etc.
It's not like we give up everything but leaving the country.
And your citizenship allows you to get visas/dual citizenships that you wouldn't have access to if you weren't an American citizen. An American passport is pretty valuable, even if you don't live in America.
This is all less relevant if you move to, say, the EU, but it's still worth noting.
It's not much of a guarantee when it depends on the administration in charge. Recent debacles come to mind first, but the willingness of the government to help (in particular, with your mention of the military) is extremely variable.
To be honest pretty good. But I made the transition from employee to being an independent contractor just before the market turned around. Now a new project is just a few emails away, because I have quite a bit of clients in my network for whom I already completed a lot of work. But its all temporary (but still enough to fill 6-12 months at any given moment).
Can someone explain to me how state management is done in HTMX? I'm a native Django developer, and I really do like HTMX and wrote my own personal website with it (nothing special, a digital garden). But for my startup, I chose react, and it has pretty much become a SPA, where I need to keep track of so much state. Now, I would love to transition to HTMX, because I find Django a lot more ergonomic to work with. But I couldn't imagine not running into issue managing state.
I don't think there is a single answer to state management with htmx as in "put your key-value pairs here“. Instead the page depicts the application state and offers ways to change it or to change what is depicted each time updating parts of the page. So the state is what's on the page so to say. However some options are: 1. you can have some form of state in your url by having every user actions change a param, returning the updated page with updated links/forms. 2. You could keep a session on the backend. Never used this myself, however Django which you speak of above should have support for sessions without a user/login. 3. you can keep state in the database if is important enough and you have a user. 4. htmx also sends a lot of js events which you can react to by using some plain Javascript yourself. You can also send your own events and have htmx listen on them to have different components react to a page/state update elsewhere with their own page update.
State management is done in whatever day your backend does it. HTMX is mostly concerned with sending requests to the backend and shoving the HTML response in the right place in the DOM
My assumption is that we are moving back to a pre-covid buyers market for the tech industry. It did feel like childs play to get a job during covid, from anywhere. I am certainly happy that I found (German) clients and a job during the covid period, and don't have to go looking for them now.
I outsource as much as possible, I have a maid clean our house twice a week (+ laundry, dishes, etc), a concierge service for all of our grocery shopping. An accountant and personal assistant which work together for all of the households and my businesses administrative tasks. The only shore I spend time on weekly is cooking. Living in south east Asia, I am paying around 500$ per month for the entire convenience. It buys me a full workday per week of time I can spend on leisure, working out or being more productive.
I got hired by one company advertising on who's hiring, been there for 6 months now. Very happy! They told me that the threads are gold mines for good candidates, because 99% of the people who apply on LinkedIn or through their websites are really bad.
