"And even though they make up only 5% of the total student population, international students earned nearly half of all Master’s and Doctor’s STEM degrees awarded in 2019, a total of 117,000 degrees."

That's an interesting stat which might be the source of the parent post assertion.

Remote working was quite common in IBM when I worked there, ten-ish years ago. I stepped foot in an office only a handful of times.

Maybe contact Have I Been Pwned?, work with them to add it to their leak database, notify site owners afterwards with a timeframe for disclosure and release your findings/blog post? Give people a way to check with HIBP, site owners a way to mitigate and claim the credit for the discovery.

This is probably the best option for anyone actually trying to fix the problem.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs#SubmitBreach

> If you've come across a data breach which you'd like to submit, get in touch with me. https://www.troyhunt.com/contact

Good luck on your OPSEC, should not have used your 7 year old account... might hit up dang to change the account so you don't get kidnapped.

Seriously, this. You just publicly stated you have access to millions.

That is not a very special occurrence. I’d argue you can find almost anyone with access to a million dollars online. Just go to Twitter or so.

Take a look at the hn reaction to your post, this is a special occurence. Regardless it's your decision and I imagine you have your reasons.

Finding such a thing might be somewhat special, but (referring to your comment) having theoretical access to money is definitely not a special thing.

Right, and Have I Been Pwned is about findings.

Yes sir, not contesting any of that, Troy Hunt may receive an anonymous email soon.

He might have tried a burner account that never got approved (so no posting showing up).

I've never been in this situation, but this seems like a good option--reach out to someone like Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned or a tech journalist who does security related content(maybe someone at Arstechnica?). They probably know how to raise awareness in a way that reduces their personal liability.

1) That's far from true. I had a company in an incubator associated with one of the largest federal universities. Professors were supportive, overall. A few helped with contacts in the industry and ideas.

2) The overall tax rate isn't that bad (I live in England now, you'd be surprised). The tax system is complicated but for small companies, falling under Simples rules, it's fairly easy.

Re. labour laws, the fact that labour debts aren't protected by limited liability is fairly bad.

Re. regulated, yeah, it's also pretty complicated to get good legal counsel, despite the amount of law school graduates.

1) Some universities are good, but most of our public universities are not. UFMG, USP, Unicamp, UFRJ and some others are exceptions, not the rule.

2) I agree completely that the tax rate is not bad, it's around 30%, less than Germany and other countries. The problem is the number of taxes and how complicated is our tax system.

Yeah, I'm here. Ten years on the road and a lot of failed dreams. Some days I feel like finding a high beam and buying some rope. Anyway, it's been a fun 10 years - people should be aware of the risks, but it's fun to try.

I've failed at a lot of things too. I'm not doing exactly what I want to right now in terms of tech, but I'm making up for it in other ways, e.g., playing music. I look back at all the mistakes that have been made though, and I can't really fault anyone else but myself for the trajectory I've taken.

It's up to me to learn and find a better way.

Almost all pages of cat-v.org read like that. It's a good read. Most should be taken in a light hearted way - it's just software, after all. People unfortunately tend to get outraged by it. Also unfortunately, the original author, Uriel, passed away a few years ago. If you enjoy it, try taking a look at suckless.org

Most pages in cat-v (and suckless) tend to favor the Unix way, small connecting components communicating through pipes. It seems sensible to me. It's comprehensible, it's easy to break down and analyze stuff when it's breaks. I never dabbled in Node.js - js is not my favorite language - but it does looks like complex and hard to understand its internals. Maybe it's not.

Back when I was remote sensing, I remember some talk of people using SAR images (Synthetic Aperture Radar??) to search for Maya roads. I imagine something was found since then but I didn't kept up with the literature on the subject.

I'm sorry but 16k USD is not a good salary for a senior programmer in Brazil, at least not in Rio or São Paulo, working for a large company.

USD 26k to 37k is a common range for senior developers in my employer. And I'm not counting "13 salary", bonuses, overtime pay, health and dental care.

I doubt the average is less than 16k.

Then Catho, past companies where I worked and people I know are all liars?

The highest I was paid was 5k BRL as contractor (no 13, bonuses, overtime, etc...) and back then I was one of the highest paid persons of the company (that had about 50 programmers). I remember talking to other people and lots of people except DBAs and exotic language specialists working on IBM had also similar pays.

I have no ideas for companies you worked for, but I wouldn' trust Catho :-)

apinfo.com.br salary survey matches my experience for average salary. BRL 5k is an average salary for a senior developer. I was making BRL 4k after I graduated from UFRJ about five years ago.

A senior specialist (band 8) working for IBM earns way more than that, plus benefits.

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C++, Qt, Python, image processing, biometrics, UNIX and Linux.

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