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With so many remote job boards, some of them could do more to be useful to target customers (people looking for jobs, not companies posting them) by not simply being "remote job board for X, Y or Z", rather focus on the facets of what makes working remote actually work.

Time zones, for example. A lot of remote jobs are with companies that only consider remote work to be work done from your home and only if in the same city as their office, and during the same hours. While this technically shouldn't matter, it greatly limits the success and talent pool available when you don't consider all the available time zones and cities which are great for remote workers.

Additionally, I've found working remote for companies that don't have a remote first culture to feel more like grunt in the corner that is ignored than part of a team and as an experienced professional with values and insights to contribute to the team. While that might seem like a great deal on paper — lower on costs — it works out terribly in the long run with ROI.

Working with a completely distributed team (no HQ) on the other hand is the best job I've had in 10 years, both in terms of culture, team dynamics, subject matter, salary, location, work environment, etc etc.

Facebook might be known as a US company, but they pay taxes in Ireland (amongst other low tax territories) and hold most of their assets there to avoid paying taxes in US.

If you don't want the overhead of another extension, a quick win is to add this to your `/etc/hosts`:

    127.0.0.1	facebook.com
    127.0.0.1	www.facebook.com

After a week you'll completely forget you have facebook.

Oh hey Sandeep, sorry about that, I came across this as a suggested article on Medium and thought I'd post it to HN. For all reading this: See correct link above ^^

I was impressed when it was just 1B accounts, to think they actually had 3B accounts, that in itself is impressive.