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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by microtonal »

Markoff wrote: post #119
microtonal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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).

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by eddieroger »

Markoff wrote: post #14
tremon wrote: post #5

Besides the obvious "don't cross the border with work data", I found this recommendation much more interesting: [ask] for someone to remove you from the Basecamp team for 1Password so you no longer have access to Basecamp logins and passwords. Maybe we should temporarily suspend our employee's accounts too when they travel to the US.

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…

> why one need to be physically present anywhere in 2017?

Because there is still merit to sitting face to face with people sometimes. Not all the time, sure, but sometimes. Also, not everyone works the same as everyone else, and sometimes people need to interact differently. I work remote primarily, but still get value out of my onsite times, just a different value than when I'm sitting at home working on a computer. Even in IT, there is value in sitting with someone and looking them in the eye for a few minutes, or holding two markers to a whiteboard.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by ioquatix »

buro9 wrote: post #94
r3m3mb3rm3 wrote: post #81

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Then you can say that you have some accounts but you don't remember the password anymore: "I'm just logged in from my computer at home. If I delete the cookies I don't know if I would be able to get the password again"

It wouldn't matter. 1. Lying to them falls under "fraudulent access to the USA" and the penalty is permanent exclusion, no Visa will help you, you have no right to appeal. 2. You cannot discuss or appeal anything, there isn't a discussion that you are a part of in which you get to explain your side or proffer an excuse... your actions already did your talking. Don't lie to border control, don't give BS excuses. Eithe…

How much freedom should one sacrifice to enter the USA?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by NickNameNick »

belorn wrote: post #183
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #102

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Parliamentary representation and more than two parties would fix things up a treat.

Most Parliamentary representation I know do still have seats allocation based on districts/political areas, and thus the biggest issue people have with electoral system would still be there. Even the EU with the EU parliament have degressive proportionality system where the larger the state the more citizens are represented per seat. In the end, the idea that low population area have more impact-per-voter comes from…

I think 'proportional representation' might have been what they meant.

I like NZ's MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) system, but there are others that work too. Anything that results in fewer, bigger districts electing multiple representatives should break the power of gerrymandering. And Proportional representation makes 3rd parties viable, which gives you more than a single forced political axis, and just might lift the level political discourse above the current 'My team, right or wrong'

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by [deleted] »

belorn wrote: post #183
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parliamentary representation and more than two parties would fix things up a treat.

Most Parliamentary representation I know do still have seats allocation based on districts/political areas, and thus the biggest issue people have with electoral system would still be there. Even the EU with the EU parliament have degressive proportionality system where the larger the state the more citizens are represented per seat. In the end, the idea that low population area have more impact-per-voter comes from…

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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by birdline »

betaby wrote: post #200
beedogs wrote: post #161

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> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. That is demonstrably and absolutely false.

I let you support your vocal 'false' with data. As for Canadians in Trump era: 'Refusals of Canadians at American land crossings dropped 8.5 per cent between October and the end of February compared with the same five-month period a year earlier, according to U.S. government statistics. The total number of Canadian travellers denied entry also dropped: 6,875 out of 12,991,027 were refused entry, a refusal rate of 0.0…

Trump didn't become president until January 20th. That time period is still primarily the Obama era. It will be more relevant to see the numbers from February - June.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

crummy wrote: post #224
Markoff wrote: post #134

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it's not that uncommon even in Europe to be honest, if you will find German policeman who had bad day and you drive car with foreign (PL, CZ mostly) license plate you can be searched same way under suspicion of carrying drugs and you can do nothing about it and it's happening occasionally

do we have the same definition of "cavity search"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_cavity_search

yes but you won't find articles about this in international media, because it's just lowly Eastern Europeans

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by croon »

tertius wrote: post #191
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #125

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Not voting because of being in a red/blue state seems to happen to both parties. A change to the voting system would probably change behavior and (hopefully) increase voter turnout in general. :)

Though if we look at where the majority of the population lives (NY/CA) and how blue those states are he has a point here. Speculation nonetheless though.

He has half a point. The other half is that a lot of democrats avoid voting as well, since their state is already blue.

And vice versa on both counts for red states.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by bengale »

pjmlp wrote: post #18
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…

Even most IT companies in 2017 still don't allow for home office, and the few that allow it, do a very timid "only in exceptional cases". Meanwhile working for enterprise consulting companies, all of which have offshore teams, means remote work is a daily activity. Funny enough some customers are exactly those companies that forbid home office to their own employees.

Some tax incentives for remote employees may help, would be good on for workers carbon footprints too.

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Post by Pxtl »

sgift wrote: post #109
laGrenouille wrote: post #101

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Not really a fair statement given the oddities of the electoral college. I know a lot of people in big coastal cities (New York, Boston, LA, San Fransisco, Seattle) who don't vote but are very anti-Trump. They know it doesn't matter because their states were always going to go strongly for the Democrats.

I'm not from the U.S., so my knowledge here is a bit sketchy, but wasn't one of the problems Clinton had exactly that some states which always voted for the Democrats fell to the Republicans this time?

Well, sort of. There were several states that Democrats traditionally won federally, but those weren't the "safe" ones like new York and California. The big thing Trump took from the Democrats was the Rust Belt states - the old industrial places like Michigan, which usually vote for Democratic Party presidents but have strong Republican contingencies and often have Republican governors.
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