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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

microtonal wrote: post #231
Markoff wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what's wrong with Japanese and Korean cars? according ADAC Japanese are by far most reliable cars beating all European brands, top 10 most reliable cars usually consists of half normal Japanese cars (eg. Toyota Corolla) and half niche European cars you will hardly see on road (think Porsche)

Nothing. We also considered some Japanese cars, but we found that they were generally more expensive (than e.g. similarly spec'ed Skodas or Seats).

uh, Seat is very well known for being very unreliable and by far the most unreliable brand of VW concern, Skoda is decent but pretty bad value against Koreans, if you equip Skoda same way as Korean you end up for sure on higher price. Japanese in general cost slightly more, but it's worth it for better engines, high quality, low risk of stealing and decent resell value, while Seat has zero value

I can't really imagine someone in US butting any of brands you mentioned, Seat is pretty bad deal even in Europe

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by submeta »

briandear wrote: post #159
microtonal wrote: post #45

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We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

Did the travel ban affect you? Are you from one of the six affected countries? I read a lot of commentary about how the travel ban has influenced travel decisions, but I'm not seeing much practical impact to the vast majority of travelers. Everyone has a right to vote with their euros of course, but I am curious if a single traveler has avoided France because of their policies in French Guyana, the Magreb or Sub-Saha…

I think it has mostly to do with how the TSA treats us non Americans. We don't have to be from one of the banned countries. Every non American has to fear being asked to hand his laptop / cellphone and whatnot.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Mithaldu »

microtonal wrote: post #74
klausjensen wrote: post #71

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Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/10/13587462/...

So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. The remaining 43% voted for 'I'll take whoever wins'. So, ~72% of the eligible voters can be held accountable for him becoming president. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. Definitely, it is legitimate, even if we don't like the outcome ;).

> The remaining 43% voted for 'I'll take whoever wins'.

Or they lived in some of those insane regions where only a single voting office served thousands of people and couldn't affording standing outside for 8+ hours, or they couldn't get a tuesday off (sane countries allot a whole weekend for voting), or they couldn't afford to get sufficient id to satisfy their state's demands. (Yes, i know, mail-in voting is a thing, but i'm sure there are good reasons to keep people from using that as well.)

There's plenty of reasons otherwise eligible voters didn't vote beyond "didn't care" and many of them are "they were prevented from doing so by institutional problems".

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Post by maxerickson »

ptaipale wrote: post #150
microtonal wrote: post #45

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We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

Is there any real change in the entry procedure to the US after Trump became president? I wouldn't think so. If you were happy to visit Obama's US, you will hardly find any difference in Trump's US.

Obama never tried to revoke visas while the people holding them were in the air.

I think there can also be a big shift in who is given a visa, without there being much visibility. Time will tell. That's not part of the entry procedure but is part of border policy more generally.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Vivtek »

microtonal wrote: post #74
klausjensen wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/10/13587462/...

So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. The remaining 43% voted for 'I'll take whoever wins'. So, ~72% of the eligible voters can be held accountable for him becoming president. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. Definitely, it is legitimate, even if we don't like the outcome ;).

You know, "I'll take whoever wins" might very well be the best way I've ever seen of putting that.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by rapind »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #137
mstade wrote: post #96

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Recall that these are instructions to employees – the company's first obligation is to protect the company, not the employees. Wiping work data is simply a means of limiting liability. Should sensitive data leak out due to a laptop getting seized at the border that's a lot more serious to the company than if your nudes were stolen.

Contrast this with my employer's advice: cooperate fully with the authorities, our lawyers can and will defend the company, we are more concerned about your safety. Telling people to work travel and then telling them to not bring work data seems like you should have told them not to travel at all?

Retracted. Misread the article. Apologies.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by youngtaff »

s_kilk wrote: post #139
mugsie wrote: post #58

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Dublin airport also has the same arrangement - it makes travelling much easier.

And if we're honest, Dublin is a better airport than Shannon

Each time I've been through it the US immigration hall in Dublin has been a right 'zoo'

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Vivtek »

submeta wrote: post #242
briandear wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did the travel ban affect you? Are you from one of the six affected countries? I read a lot of commentary about how the travel ban has influenced travel decisions, but I'm not seeing much practical impact to the vast majority of travelers. Everyone has a right to vote with their euros of course, but I am curious if a single traveler has avoided France because of their policies in French Guyana, the Magreb or Sub-Saha…

I think it has mostly to do with how the TSA treats us non Americans. We don't have to be from one of the banned countries. Every non American has to fear being asked to hand his laptop / cellphone and whatnot.

If it makes you feel any better at all, we Americans are also treated like dirt for the disloyalty of leaving the country in the first place.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

mugsie wrote: post #99
Markoff wrote: post #14

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maybe just stop traveling to US would be easier and cheaper solution, why one need to be physically present anywhere in 2017? i find it odd, i can understand it for my father that when some of his agricultural company partners has training, people from neighboring countries must travel there for hours to stay there for few hours and go back, but IT company in 2017? reminds me of Huawei which is still organizing telec…

Well: A) - Full HD video conferencing for ~ 100 people is not cheap. At all. Bandwidth costs alone would be huge. B) - For teams that work together remotely, it is very important for them to meet in person from time to time. Communication issues drop when you can put a face and personality to a name on IRC / email. (and no, this is not achieved via video calls)

what's expensive about providing one one way video stream with live text chat for participants to ask questions?

as for putting face to name,I can't hardly imagine how this could be positive for concentration and work, I am more likely going to be neural and more efficient if I treat other party as robot than someone with face, because then you lose focus on work

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by panglott »

microtonal wrote: post #45
8draco8 wrote: post #10

I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…

We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

Remember that a minority of Americans voted for Trump—a majority voted against him. He is president because a majority of states voted for him, not people.
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