People really love taco bell. It's cheap, accessible and is injected with addictive sugar and fats. Their phone app is a privacy nightmare, food is low grade, but people love it so much that they learn what time food gets thrown out to get higher quality. Its practically a cult/religion. One of my friends is a fanboy and orders everything vegi + meat because it's cheaper than the normal meat versions.
Eli5 VPN: https://dnsleaktest.com/ Visit this site unsecured and it will display your general geographic location (county/region). Connect to your VPN and try again incognito and under most circumstances it will display the VPN location instead.
Example scenario: you are in Canada and connect to Netflix and are incredibly disappointed with the Canadian selection. You connect toa VPN from New York a few miles away and you get access to the full United States catalogue. (Netflix is fighting this)
Example 2: you setup your smart vacuum on your home network and being concerned about security, you disabled access outside your home. You can connect to a personal VPN you configure to "spoof" being inside the house while on vacation to modify your vacuum settings.
Vpns are also commonly used as "public transit" for users to obfuscate their identity.
Benefit: When you make a request against a website, they often put trackers on you including your operating system, browser application, and store data like your geographic location. Advertisers are tracking your history, sites are using cookies to charge more with dynamic pricing when you revisit, data brokers are selling that data. There have been use cased where whistle blowers are identified off that purchased data from known journalist meetings. There's a lot of reasons to have a VPN, but never use a free one. Adding an extra jump to your VPN location is definitely adding latency, if you don't need one, it's just extra weight.
Buzzkill checking in, this means your pets water bowl is empty
Insurance IS the third party. From an idealist perspective, insurance is supposed to be negotiating rates with doctors (independent contractors) to try to set a baseline for services and negotiate on your behalf to make sure a doctor isn't charging 10k to apply a bandage.
Eventually insurance companies found out they were holding both the patient approval and writing the policy and started lobbying until they became monster they are today. Now both patients and doctors hate they have embedded themselves in the process siphoning money.
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-54.
Tax guide for abroad citizens, blocking me doesnt make you right, it means you did some research and walked away when you realized you're wrong.
Lol you recommend not budgeting for a lawyer and call me clueless. I've actually worked internationally, and brought up cost blockers. Stop spreading ignorance.
Oled model. Never got much more than an hour, but it depends on compute requirements. Imho it's portable not wireless
Comments are wild. $220k is a sizable salary in the US, entry level working professionals usually start pushing 80k nationally, ~$140k in larger cities like NY and San fran. Realistically you need to ask some questions:
Are you paying double income tax? It's safe to assume 25-40% of your income will be going towards taxes for EACH government if you retain citizenship.
Do you need to live in New York for your visa? You mentioned new jersey, but Connecticut ect, also has reasonable public transportation to the city.
Are you expecting major expenses like a car, medical, credit card bills or student loans? Are you paying relocation fees? US typically requires first and last month payment. And new york real estate is brutal. Do you have a nest egg if something falls through? Do you need to pay for a lawyer to process your travel visas?
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And anyone setting up the joke "sorry I falafel for you" is going to pretend they were in the emotional stage and then go look for new friends.