>They can't offload the containers

I never suggested that they would. Rather I suggested that they would ransack the ship and cargo looking for valuable components or equipment that is transportable.

In the minority of cases this was an in-office employee who went for remote either indefinitely or for a period of a year or two so they could go live somewhere else.

In the majority of cases it was someone in another location who was hired. They had the option to move to where the office was (including help with the visa system if necessary) or just staying where they were and working remotely. If a person is particularly attached to where they currently live and that area happens to have relatively modest employment options for technical people then chances are you will retain that person for a very long time.

I would note that whether retaining staff for 5+ years for reasons like the lack of similarly well paying options elsewhere is somewhat debatable. Holding onto staff for a long time is not in and of itself always a good thing.

Cripple a hugely valuable ship and destroy much of its equipment and cargo to extract a few hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff that you can take with you? Sounds like a reasonable deal for a group of pirates. Hell, they might as well try and sink the ship once they are done with it to make it hard to gather evidence and determine exactly what was stolen.

It would take some time for people to do the math to determine what components of ships and common cargo have the highest value Vs their portability but someone would figure it out eventually.

Probably nothing different. I suspect that investing additional time and energy is not going to be a net win for you.

>The revised ad also made it sound like the position was far more junior than when I initially interviewed.

It is possible that there was discussion internally and they decided against paying whatever it would cost to hire someone like you. "We're not paying that, get a new grad" is not an uncommon refrain in some circles. If it helps, places that like are usually not nice places to work.

source on the Thailand and HDs for those that are interested. This article from 2011 claims that 25% of global HD assembly is in Thailand. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f0f9a234-fb33-11e0-8756-00144feab4...

Much of it isn't even that. A huge proportion are not even real humans but are instead accounts being operated by one of the myriad of pieces of software that enable automatic posting on behalf of a human.

Perhaps my view is skewed as we have a travel blog and know many other travel bloggers but a vanishingly small percentage are real humans actually typing their own tweets in real time.

"Ok, the photos are coming through now. Which, lol, should provide conclusive proof that no one is operating on the dark side of the.... what the hell is that?"

Not at all necessary for this situation to occur. I just finished implementing a system (nothing to do with Pokemon) that also requests permission from external sites in a similar way. The mechanics for doing this are fiddly and checking this is actually set up correctly is likely well down the priority list provided things at least appear to work.

It is entirely possible that someone who had never done it before set it up in a hurry then everyone in the dev team just blindly clicked through without ever properly reading what was being requested because they were all in a rush to finish their stuff.

I have traveled a great deal, at one point travel full-time for several years, but I have only once traveled alone and not for very long. It was a profoundly different experience.

Why yes, it does have very broad appeal.

That is entirely up to the angel in question. I do however suspect that many people would like the reassurance of being able to see you face to face occasionally. Handing a check to someone about to fly out of the country would understandably make a lot of people nervous.

Links for those unfamiliar with those two things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo

Curious where all of that data goes. A giant catalog of x-rays of bag contents could be interesting. To get a little bit tin foil hat-ish, it becomes especially interesting if they system provides some way to tie a bag to a person's identity which would seem to be possible given the context.