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So, you advocate that employees from abroad should have some sort of default lay-off protection? Why do you think this is fair?
Would it be fair to you if _all_ employees had a default lay-off protection ? That would be for the best as well.
Immigration related to work is generally shitty in almost any country worth working in. Even in countries not worth working in. In many countries, Once your employer fires you, then you have 7 days to leave the country. Period. The US/Canada/UK are relatively friendly about this and give a bit more leeway. Don’t get me started on Indian work permits. Yes it’s horrible all around. Working in another country is always…
Just curious because I know nothing about this, but what are 10 countries where this is true?
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I guess you don’t have any junior engineers?
countless remote teams have faced this problem. it's a trade-off, of course, but it's not an insurmountable challenge. for example we are using gather.town. much better than Google Meet (full HD screen sharing, ad-hoc breakout sessions, blablabla, free under team size of 25, if I remember correctly)
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>but there's still nothing else like HN yes there is, lobste.rs is exactly HN but with a lot more selective membership and hence better comments.
i would not say it's "exactly HN". lobste.rs articles are much more programming focused. majority of posts you find on HN you would not find on lobste.rs which is fine, if that's what you want, but, as a daily reader of both, they aren't even close to being the same thing
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i would not say it's "exactly HN". lobste.rs articles are much more programming focused. majority of posts you find on HN you would not find on lobste.rs which is fine, if that's what you want, but, as a daily reader of both, they aren't even close to being the same thing
So the site invite only? It looks interesting, but I’m not sure I know anyone on it or am interested in bumming around for an invite from a stranger. I guess that’s part of the charm.
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I had a coworker in a similar situation. He had just immigrated with his family from Asia for a job, and soon after the startup we were at fired everyone and shut down. I took it easy before finding a job but he had to literally accept the 1st offer he got (which was bad) or he would have probably needed to move back.
Isn't there at least a few months trial period in these cases? :o Or this was after that?
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There's a long history of vaccine requirements, including in the US. For example, NY state requires that children attending daycare or school be vaccinated against a range of pathogens. I don't know what you're envisioning happening with mandatory SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, or why you consider it a "ruse." A "ruse" for what, exactly? I don't think mandatory vaccination equals anyone's "loss of liberty." I don't think th…
Ruse? This is easy. Rewind and remember all that was promised with the vaccinations. The effectiveness. The long term safety (without *any* such testing). Remember the comparisons to other historic vaccinations by professionals well aware the mRNA technology was new and relatively untested. The Covid jab !== The Polio jab. Not even close. Remember how masks were required. Then remember the news that most masks are in…
> The effectiveness.
The vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease and death, which was always their primary goal. If you go back and read the vaccine trial procedures on clinicaltrials.gov, you'll see that their "primary endpoint" was prevention of serious disease, and that preventing infection was viewed as the cherry on top - it wasn't the primary endpoint, and the trials weren't designed to test for infection. The fact that the mRNA vaccines protected so well against infection with the original strain was just an added bonus.
> The long term safety (without any such testing).
There was extremely rigorous safety testing. They followed tens of thousands of people for months. The "long term" aspect you're bringing up is unscientific. Based on the modern scientific understanding of the immune system, the types of long-term side-effects that anti-vaxxers posit are not possible, and there is no known example of such a side effect ever occurring with any vaccine. Vaccine side-effects always show up within a few months at most, and there was extensive testing to look for such side-effects.
> The Covid jab !== The Polio jab. Not even close.
You're right, but not in Ruhe way you think. The mRNA CoVID vaccines are far safer than the widely used oral polio vaccine. The alternative, the inactivated polio vaccine, doesn't prevent infection - it only prevents the infection from developing into paralytic disease. With polio, you have the choice between a safe vaccine that doesn't stop the virus from spreading, and a more effective vaccine that has a very small chance of paralyzing you. The polio vaccines are miracles of mid-20th-Century science, but they're old technology that could be (and are being) improved on with modern technology. One of the reasons mRNA vaccines have been deployed during this pandemic is that they are considered to be a much safer technology that many of the older alternatives.
> don't confuse your confidence with liberty
I don't agree with you on the definition of "liberty." I view the "liberty" to not get vaccinated as similar to the "liberty" to not wear a seatbelt or to buy a car without airbags.
> But that ok, just be sure to carry your Covid papers / Covid passport and you'll be safe.
If you travel around the world, you'll find that much more than just CoVID vaccination is required.
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So the site invite only? It looks interesting, but I’m not sure I know anyone on it or am interested in bumming around for an invite from a stranger. I guess that’s part of the charm.
It is, and I am not a member. I just stay logged out and read only
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Perhaps I wasn’t clear, but I think you may have personalized my generalized comment. Let me illustrate my perspective differently. A person thinks the sky is blue. Then Trump publicly says “the sky is blue”. This person now makes the point to say “the sky is NOT blue” just because Trump agreed with their original opinion. What I find irrational about some people’s reaction to Trump is that they feel compelled to cha…
Well, the whole reason for asking in the first place is to find something I could relate to which could stand on its own, whether Trump said it or not. I think you are reading too much into it, I'm mostly an outside observer interested in the whole situation and curious why there's such a divisive and emotional component to it. From what I gathered, talking about him in any way is greatly unproductive, because you ha…
I can only hope that the middle gets sick and tired of the extremes of both sides and starts voting in a way that makes the extremes reflective on their own behavior.