We need to form a committee that will discuss the format of the procedure to be used to formulate open proposals about how to wake her up. Urgently
Dear Europe, please wake up
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#22This misses the big one: California bans non-competes, bans anti-moonlighting clauses and lets you quit with no notice. If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.
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#23Does the data presented here distinguish between full-time and part-time employment? Or hourly and salaried employment? I wasn’t able to find any information other than “hours worked per person employed”, which seems a rather vague statistic to be used to support any claim.
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#24This misses the big one: California bans non-competes, bans anti-moonlighting clauses and lets you quit with no notice. If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.
The flipside is your company can't just fire you at will, which is rather nice in this day and age.
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#25This misses the big one: California bans non-competes, bans anti-moonlighting clauses and lets you quit with no notice. If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.
> If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.
India has similar non-competes to Western Europe, but is able to maintain an innovation ecosystem.
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#26Wake up from what? I couldn’t find the thesis in the first few paragraphs…
I keep seeing more and more from business types in the EU salivating over US business conditions: weaker labor laws, weaker regulations, record profits, etc. From the US it seems like the EU is doing fine and enviable from an employee perspective (except wages).
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#27I can't scroll this webpage to read it unless I plug my laptop in. Scroll events have a lag time measured in whole seconds, then the page scrolls down by either a fraction of a line or by multiple paragraphs, so I can't keep track of where I was reading. Plugging in my laptop, which changes the power mode, makes the webpage barely usable, but my cooling fans are spun up to full speed now. This is using Chrome on a De…
I have visited the site in a Mac browser and on iOS Safari and scrolling is perfectly normal. Not sure what issue you are running into.
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#28Teaching English will just reinforce Anglo-American hegemony.
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#29These e/acc types are insufferable and if anything "SF" has been ruined by them. I know I'll get downvoted or flagged given this is HN, but there's more to life than startups and private equity[0]. Let's leave Europe alone, huh? [0]: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2023/world-happiness-trust-...
Why are you on a startup forum then?
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#30"If you go to the south of France – our hope and prayers in the global AI race – and order a coffee there is a chance that the waitress doesn’t understand the word “coffee”, can’t explain you what’s in the salad – happened to me twice."
Oh they'll understand. They will just pretend not to. It's France.