Yeah I have, I started my own company about a year ago. I hired my first employee 2 months ago. Edit: Go ahead and down vote me, can't change the truth!
You have no reason to hire non-Americans there are so many competent and skilled people. Instead of going through all the paperwork try training a local person. This helps the local community tremendously. This reminds me of a story involving IBM. They are notorious for bringing in lots of people with H-1B. I was volunteering to teach underprivileged youths how to use a computer. IBM donated 500 gaming computers to the children. I was thinking about how instead of donating all these computers, they should hire from the community and train the employees. That would have a much greater impact on the community than donating some disposable computers.
Not only that, but H-1B destroys communities. I'm from a small town that was nearly 100% white, it's now less than 50% white and is mostly Indian/Asian. Most came in through Infosys, IBM, Credit Suisse, etc. The result is the community my ancestors have been in for hundreds of years is destroyed. I know people will say that this is what happened to the Native Americans, and how I'm a racist white man for saying it's bad. I still can't help feel sad since people in my family died fighting for the soil from 1780 to as recently as 2007. Just because population replacement happened in the past doesn't make it right now.
My point was never that journalism is not unbiased, I was pointing out that Mozilla has a leftist bias.
"Water is wet, and pointing that out brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion." That's most of the comments on HN, the only reason I browse this place is because the rest of the internet is even worse.
Seems like a bunch of publishers that have a leftist bias. I wonder if they'll give The Daily Wire, TYT, The Daily Stormer, etc the same opportunity or if it'll just be neoliberal outlets.
I'm not in college, I live as a digital nomad in Eastern Europe. My parents wanted me to go down the traditional path so they made me talk to various companies/agencies to make sure I didn't want to get a normal job and go to school before I left. Your post made me even more glad I didn't go down the traditional path though.
I'm 19. I've never been a fan of the NSA, my bad I should have been more clear with what I meant.
At least I got a cool notepad https://i.imgur.com/yu103Lg.jpg
People in this thread are talking about how they wouldn't trust the NSA at all. I went to a presentation and talked with people from the NSA before and at face value they seemed like a silicon valley tech company. In their presentation they talked about how they were interested in open source, diversity, big data, artificial intelligence, and all the other buzzwords. They all seemed like they genuinely thought what they were doing was helping people. I know what they've done (and continue to do) but it's strange being able to attach a face to an action. You're more likely to believe them and buy what they are saying. I suppose the best thing to do is check over their code and accept it if everything looks good. They probably are being genuine.
As a an extra piece of information that I found interesting, they were pushing the diversity stuff hard. Everyone that gave the presentation were women (and they weren't low level people), they had an African-American person that worked there talk about how inclusive it was, they talked about how they're super accepting of LGBTQ+ people, and on and on. The tech stuff was for like 5 minutes, then the rest was on diversity (at a tech presentation, looking for recruits). I'm not exaggerating.
It might be because Slack has support, a great UI, lots of users, and 'just works'. A company I worked with tried to setup Riot and Matrix and they were having all sorts of problems. Even when they tried to use the Riot.im website there were bugs and features from Slack they needed that were missing. What Matrix and Riot.im is doing is still good though, I hope it takes off.
"But Jonathan," I hear you say, "by providing a gateway aren't you just making Cloudflare a centralizing institution?"
The problem is the market share of these institutions. Google could argue that they aren't the sole gatekeeper to search since services like DuckDuckGo exist. This isn't really valid when you control a huge amount of the market share. I'm worried about how the internet is becoming super homogeneous, it really hurts startups. I'm not saying what Cloudflare is doing is bad, but the amount of control Cloudflare has is increasingly worrying based of all the services they are launching. Look at what it did to The Daily Stormer (I think they are disgusting and have zero support for them), it's clear that they aren't unbiased. If Cloudflare blocks your service on their VPN, DNS, DDoS protection, IPFS site, Ethereum, etc you are majorly screwed. Most people aren't willing to change their setup just to visit your one service. I still think what Cloudflare does is awesome, not trying to be too negative, just a little worried.
It'd be interesting to see 'super private browsing mode' which has Tor integration be shipped with Firefox. Making Tor easier to use and more accessible for normal people is a huge win for privacy.
