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Hi, I'm a lawyer (solicitor, England and Wales) and I specialise in privacy and internet law. I'm obliged to say that I don't have all of the facts about this matter, and so what I write is general guidance only.

"Only customers of Airbnb Ireland UC / UK Ltd. or Services Limited (‘Airbnb’) are eligible to exercise their data subject rights under the GDPR. [...] GDPR generally does not apply to users of Airbnb Inc."

As several other commentators have mentioned, this is wrong. The GDPR has extra-territorial scope, meaning that it applies to a company in any country - even those outside of the EU - if it processes personal data belonging to an EU resident. For reference, see Article 3 GDPR. For further explanation, see Recital 23 GDPR. The fact that your friend may have contracted with the US entity of AirBnB does not (to my knowledge) have any bearing.

As an aside, remember that this is for EU residents and not simply citizens - so a French citizen who is resident in Washington D.C. would not be covered, but an American citizen in France would be, if that makes sense.

If your friend was my client, I would suggest that they both 1) push back on the request, as well as 2) file a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office here in the UK (or, if Ireland is more relevant to them, the Irish DPC).

I hope everything gets sorted out! If you or your friend would like to discuss further, you can find me over on twitter @KelseyFarish
Duh! It is 1/3 the cost (bullshit aside) for someone from a culture of hunger, hard work, desperation, and oppression. That makes them easy to work very hard, unlikely for them to push back, and so they have superior output for 1/3 the price. There is no book-cooking megacorp in the US that doesn't prefer H1b to citizens with the same qualifications. Not one.

A "competitive" work schedule in China is 9-9-6, or 9am to 9pm for 6 days a week. That means "normal" is a 72 hour work-week plus commute. A 40-hour work week, is comparatively cake. The 72 hour work-week is 80% increase over a 40 hour work-week. The HR ghouls say imagine salaried employees being glad to work 80% more hours, including nights or weekend hours, for the same pay: amazing; sold!

The book-cooking for h1b is intense, but after talking personally with a dozen or so folks, they really do only take home about 1/3 to 1/2 what their peers do. There is bs about job duties, titles, responsibilities, but that is just folks trying to pay the lowest price for a commodity worker. I've seen several fortune 100 companies say they prefer "low cost geo's" as much as h1b so that gives a second population with similar pricing. It is open knowledge that engineers in Malaysia, India, or Costa Rica are paid 1/3 of US wages for what is, as far as HR can tell, the same job. They do the same job, and get a lot lower wages for it.

When someone was bullied as a child, they are easier to bully as an adult. Stupid/evil/inept bosses love employees who they can abuse without pushback. Folks from cultures of oppression aren't going to report safety issues to safety folks. They aren't going to report managerial violations to those who police managers. They are non-reporting victims. The HR ghouls see them as "don't make waves" or "get along" and the hiring managers see them as "easy prey". In grad school there were prof's who wouldn't let overseas grad students get even a short break to attend their own mothers funeral, and those guys got away with it. That is "liberal academia" and not the underbelly of corporate/industrial America. Think about what that means for bully-bosses in the workplace.

It isn't going to change unless the value of the commodity can be forced into a competitive market, where the price will go toward actual parity, and the rate of preference will go to parity with citizens. Until that, h1b is the lottery where the only way to lose is not to play.

There is one and only one solution, and it is a lottery. If it becomes an auction, then the h1b prices will double or triple - that is to day they will go up to parity for US wages for the same job.
> Indians abuses the system severely by setting up phony staffing companies and do fake multiple filings on h1b application, etc.

Most Indians I know, hate this H1B abuse as much as Americans. (maybe even more. I have seen people spout some genuine hate towards it)
It ruins the reputation of most Indians in Masters programs at well regarded R1 universities (most people at such programs, get proper full time roles to my knowledge)

> There is a saying, that if an Indian becomes a manager, soon all his department becomes Indians, which really stands out among all other races. I will not be surprised someday they will be sued for not following equal job rights.

haven't seen enough teams here to refute this claim. Hope it ain't so, but knowing Indians, I wouldn't be that surprised if some Indian managers did behave in such a manner.
Those merchants don't always have clean hands, either. Lots of services where you can sign up with one click, but canceling requires a lengthy phone call during which they pressure you to stay. And the call has to be during business hours, hope your boss doesn't mind!

Imagine how much worse it'd be if the dispute process didn't exist. "Oops, our only cancellation department employee retired last year and we forgot to replace him!"
> you NEED a car to reasonably participate
> in most parts of society.

Not for most people. Unless they have a very severe mental or physical disability. Driving is much less efficient than biking and/or public transit in how I have planned my life.
> how realistic are the odds of being bitten by these issues when using CoffeeScript?

In my experience, minimal if you know the language well and can work around its quirks. Having said that, I prefer working with a language that doesn't require much time to tame and let me do concrete work, at the same time holding my hand when necessary (because of time schedule and pressure and so on). This is less of an issue with private projects, but still there are no downsides in learning a tool that is great for both lone and team work, so there is no real benefit in using coffeescript when there are much more solid languages that compiles to Javascript out there. Hell even heard you can change Glasgow backend compiler to make haskell output Javascript haha

I can't answer about lua and moonscript, I'm completely unfamiliar with them.

About typescript and purescript being compiled in browser, I have never even looked into such approach, they feel unrealistic, because from the top of my head it would require a compilation tool written in JS, which is not particularly efficient for this kind of task that benefits from parallelization, specially if you are not doing deep checks, just translating code. Then there is the matter of what to do with the resulting code. Can we dump it into a file and load it programatticaly? I would be surprised if we could. Eval() the output? Not without some serious security checks that would further compromise performance.

So I believe there is no motivation in not pre-compiling and distributing the result dist code
There is a big difference between struggling to live, and struggling to afford a detached house in Mountain View. I don't think it is reasonable for every Google employee to be able to afford a house there - there just isn't enough supply, and that isn't Google's fault.
Nasojejunal intubation would make more sense than how the article describes the clinic trial. Unfortunately, I am not able to find any documentation regarding the study, which appears to be named "Faecal microbiota transplantation in the management of obesity and type two diabetes mellitus"
I had an ex-colleague whose offer to join Google was 2x the total compensation at our company.
> Alex Jones (an idiot) removed from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

Alex Jones engaged in stochastic terrorism. The lawsuit against him will likely confirm that. Unless perhaps you agree with him that Sandy Hook was a false flag operation and those parents were crisis actors?

Jordan Peterson is a quack but I believe in the right of people to have stupid opinions and express them.

Sorry but I'm going to ignore the "liberals" on campus because I think that is a unique situations and kids are obnoxious on both sides of the aisle. I will agree that they have gone way too far in censoring dialog but I also think that one could make a cogent argument that there is such a thing as "hate speech" that at a certain degree does not deserve a platform (the problem is qualifying what that degree is).

I was referring to adults when I made my statement. Although now I'll concede that most people have difficulty hearing the other side; I've certainly seen a lot of that on HN when it comes to social issues.

I'm an old school liberal raised to be anti-war, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-corporate-statehoodism, question authority, blah, blah, blah. I can still point out "gotchas" within all of those that most liberals can be blind to. Because no system is perfect.

I would love to have a civil dialog with you to see if you can see and admit that conservatism has flaws too.

You gave one example that we could debate:

> because a discussion necessarily implies "denial of a trans persons right to exist,"

Would you care to engage?
I saw a copyright on every version of that image I could find.
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There is a difference between squashing together thirty commits of someone working on one concrete thing (I don't need to see all the mistakes and reworks you made, I just want to see the result in a nice, easy to read diff), and thirty commits of someone working on thirty things.

The latter is, of course, wrong as it makes the repo history harder to read, while on the other hand the former improves readability.
You don't know what I'm referring to when I say about utensil because you don't know what Indian women used in those times before pads were invented. If you don't know the fact, stop assuming you are right and I am ignorant. Because in this case you are the ignorant one

Did you not read the rest of the post? Or are you the kind of person who reads only one sentence and then goes on a lecture spree?

I have read what I have said about the "utensil" in books written in my mother tongue.

You won't be able to read them unless you learn the language but I will be happy to provide the name and even the book if you are interested.

Don't assume I am an idiot who doesn't know what I am talking. But in India women used a utensil in a special room which they did not leave until their periods ended. That's the reality and that's why women weren't allowed tomove around in the house those days

I have literally seen grandmothers restricting their daughter in law to a corner during the girls period. This happened in 2017.

They don't understand the reason behind the tradition. Just follow blindly
Often? When you're trying to see when a specific change occurred you often have to go down to the specific commit, a high level group isn't good enough (particularly when the group could be shared by multiple people).
Oh interesting, thanks! Do you have any references on how Signal Desktop works and keeps the messages in sync across clients? Do they have separate keys, etc?
I think there is quite a difference between a shot of sub-zero alcohol and a ingesting liquid nitrogen, which is at minimum -210°C vs the at most -70°C the alcohol will have, though likely the easier drinks will freeze at higher temperature anyway, usually starting at -5°C for a beer.

edit: It also helps that ethanol is likely going to stay liquid in your stomach, liquid nitrogen boils off; that pulls a lot more energy from the environment.
Wasn't this card one of several that could damage the motherboards that they were installed into? I wonder whether they've reimplemented those details; given that, just like the original, this version has idiosyncratic power management, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Not really. Advertisers want access to us, not to our behavior. The goal is not to advertise to a behavior. The goal is to advertise to a person who will buy. Behavior is just a proxy to the real goal: selling something to a person.
I'm a physician for a non-profit and I'm going to continue making my blanket statement. But thanks for the link.
I think the author was referring to the lack of "fun money" that he and his wife were anticipating having in the budget once their kid was born.
This just runs full circle back to the LXC project which Docker 'forked' without attribution in 2013. Run unprivileged , runs daemon less, support layers, advanced networking and more important a standard OS environment.

The whole community around containers is not about the technology or understanding how to use them efficiently but who is marketing it and how many layers of complexity and buzzwords can be added on top. A bash script to build containers thus becomes 'declarative' and running a copy of a container becomes 'immutable'.

A non standard OS environment, single process environments, the uncontrolled use of layers, ephemeral storage all add dubious layers of complexity to containers for questionable benefit and increase management overhead and fragility at the base of the your stack. Now 5 years later its back to LXC but 'reinvented' by Redhat. So we get another round of hype to reveal the inadequacies that should have been known 5 years ago but throwing no more light on the core issues lest users get wind its just the LXC project in new clothes.
If its unclear, people need to speak up and promote alternative platforms
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I tried to cancel SoFi Money online (after not using it because of terms I didn't like that they didn't mention til after signing up), and they told me I had to call to cancel... this after everything else on their site that I use is online-only.

I told them if I had to call, I would call my lawyer first, who would be calling them... and then they wrote back that they canceled.

So, these companies don't need to make you call, and even if it's inconvenient, difficult, or impossible to call to cancel, some won't budge. This should be illegal; if I sign up online, I should be able to cancel online. Making these artificial steps hampers business, my work time, my personal time... sitting on a phone waiting or slogging through steps or upsells is not a good way to do business and interferes with everything else.

It hasn't bothered the politicians enough, who are corporate shills anyway, so they haven't made it so companies have to be reasonable with this, like they did with CANSPAM.
Vegans and vegetarians live without consuming meat. There's plenty of plant substitutes for the nutrients we get from meat (nuts, mushrooms, soy and so on).
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nobody should ever try to make a thing if a thing that does the same thing already exists!
> It seems that centralized power would benefit from encouraging differences and factions in its citizenry.

Key word being "encouraging". A possible(!) recent example of this would be the maga hat kid. The beauty of this incident is, the initial incident is guaranteed to polarize people, but even if more truth comes out it the result is even more polarization. Can't lose strategy, provided no one notices what's going on.

I believe this is a bi-partisan issue, I imagine many similar examples could be found with the political roles switched.

An effective modern day Napolean is going to need the persuasive skills of Donald Trump combined with political beliefs from both poles (~ Trump + Bernie Sanders), but even then with the top down control (censorship) over modern means of mainstream communication it could be difficult to even get your message out there.

So far there always seems to be reason for hope though, while Bernie is getting along in the years almost out of the blue here comes this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez girl, almost like a "far left" Donald Trump to keep things interesting.
There is some evidence that your gut flora and fauna influences your appetite and calorie intake [https://www.nature.com/articles/nutd201121]
They bled. The blood would've made them technically "impure"

This blind retarded logic is used by religious retards now
Unlike most, I don't see a problem with it being Lua or JavaScript. I'm just curious why people pick such high-level languages in the first place. I'm planning to make a fantasy computer myself (basing it off the z80), and would never think to make it scriptable in something other than machine code.
A nice feature would be the ability to group and split commits afterwards; like adding a "novel branch". So that you could keep both the exact history and a parallel high level description.
Your description of both models is way off.

Actors are always cheaper and faster than CSP processes with channels or "transport objects" as you call them. In a way actors can be described as cancellable asynchronously programmable channels in CSP. Asynchrony is key for implementations to achieve high performance and cancellation together with asynchrony are keys to model unbounded nondeterminism of the real world. Synchronous semantics greatly limit achievable performance and lack of cancellation limits usefulness. Hence no language exists where CSP actually works acceptably well (even Go struggles with it since the beginning, but they still refuse to admit that it was an awful choice).
Talented employees have the least to lose. They can simply switch to a higher paying job. If the minimum wage that the union negotiates is lower than what I can get, then the minimum wage is useless for me.
Been @ Google 7 years, and never gone for promo precisely because the process is obnoxious. I'm fine with my level and salary anyways. But the process is ... Very showboat. I just want to do a good job and be a person who contributes incrementally and care-takes a code base. Promo encourages another kind of personality entirely.

To me, Google in many ways reflects the very academic background of its founders and senior employees. Larry & Sergey never worked in industry before Google -- they founded Google out of their project @ Stanford. The office is a campus, with cafeterias and layout like a university. Promotion and other things are done via committees like a graduate thesis committee. Design and planning is often about large documents and presentations like term papers or group assignments. When I worked in another product area there were poster sessions to present your work similar to what my wife had to do for some of her uni coursework. The interview process is like a test for your final year algorithms and data structures courses.

Its an environment that is immediately familiar to academics, researchers, and recent grads.
At least that how it seems, to me, as someone self-taught who worked in smaller companies and startups for years before coming to Google.
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the entire point of the H1B program is to outsource labor costs for a 1/3rd of the price
To quote the top reddit post:

"""

This is why I watch Linus for entertainment and not for learning. I enjoy watching these videos because he does things that I cannot afford to do myself and in my opinion the projects are entertaining to watch. The Techquickie videos are great to watch for learning, because they actually spend a lot of time on having correct information.

"""
I tend to commit, read my commit, and then find all kinds of mistakes and have to amend or redo the changes on a separate branch. If those options aren't available I just have a messed up commit history. This is all because git makes modifying your commit history very difficult to do. I think this immutable feature makes git worse because I have no intention of lying to myself or my team about my commit history. I would just like easier tools for pruning and organizing it. Instead my commit history is always a mess that better represents my knowledge of git than the progress of whatever I'm working on.
If cheap credit made countries powerful, Japan would be the most powerful country in world history. They've had access to among the cheapest rates of credit for two decades, a time in which their economic output has gone nowhere.

Cheap credit helps one party and harms another within a country. It doesn't make a nation powerful. Technology, invention, scientific output, universities, capital for investment, scale, production / manufacturing, attractiveness to foreign talent and investment, modestly sane regulatory and tax policies, strong protections for property rights, ease of establishing and doing business, ease of trade, etc. Those are a few of the things that help to make a nation powerful. Those are things the US has either been the leader in or one of the leaders for the last century plus.

Much of Western Europe has had cheaper borrowing than the US for many years now, including in real-estate, corporate borrowing and at the government level. It didn't spur a great boom and increase their power. At best it has helped them tread water, which is all it did for Japan.
You seem to not understand what you are reading. If you bleed then the blood is on your body. That makes you technically "impure"

The same logic is being peddled by retards in this century to say women r imoure during periods.

Learn to read objectively and if you can't then keep your ignorant thoughts with yourself otherwise you go around announcing your ignorance.
To be honest, this sounds pretty much like the same process as Google, with the main significant difference being that the promotion is approved by committee. But even then the purpose of that would seem to be exactly the same as your statements "Managers then all get together and level set on performance and promotions. Managers have to defend a promo and performace with data." It's just done with more formality at Google due to their size and desire for equitable treatment across teams.
How are they different? Both are targeted.

Sure the tracking ads aren't as good, but imagine they were just as highly targeted and relavent.
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Well sure. The point I contest is that the definition of middle class is “the class of the person/household with median income.”

Currently in developed countries it happens to be the case that the people with median income are middle class. However this was not always the case, ie the group referred to as middle class did not always include people with median income and so the above definition does not coincide with what middle class typically referred to.
Oh good I’ve been needing to talk to my psychologist again. His name is Dr. Sbaitso...

https://books.google.com/books?id=fpQP3e54P-gC&pg=PT80&dq=sb...
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To be fair something like an ESP32 runs circles around the PCW1512, which we had on the school computer club, where we spent countless hours playing Defender of the Crown.

So we don't have to necessarily constrain ourselves to Assembly and C on those tiny devices.

Naturally it depends on the use case.
Did you have problems with motivation or feeling that the project was too daunting? Or was it natural? Some projects I wanted to do I just stopped because I wasn't getting anywhere and felt like someone possibly did it better before (though I don't think anybody did something similar to what you did there) and I just quit it. Do you have any method to overcome such dead ends or negative mindsets?
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They should try, but maybe if they make the most common RNG mistakes they aren't suited for reinventing this particular wheel. There are many issues with the RNG and cryptography methods if you read the other comments.