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Seems interesting

For Coda this makes sense to kind of kickstart/boost their AI efforts.

But not immediately clear to me why Grammarly is interested in building their own doc builder tool?

What would "I'm stuff waiting" even mean?

It does, if the company has any branch/office/agent or similar in the EU, or if it targets their services/website to EU residents.

What "targets" means exactly in this case I'm not sure, but given that YC actively markets to EU based companies too, I would think that GDPR applies to them as well.

From employee perspective I have been mostly happy with these services.

There has been some minor issues and extra hazzle, but nothing major, and the 2-3x salary compared to local levels certainly helps offset any small issues

Employer wanting to terminate an employee or employer going bankrupt, while maybe not common certainly happens, and it is built-in to their business model. Most of these services do require deposit that covers at least 1-2 months of salary + costs (up to even 6 months of salary), which is meant for these type of cases.

That being said, I do think many of these services are at least partly skirting the laws, or at least threading on a very thin line. As far as I know, most especially EU jurisdictions don't really have exact laws for EOR specifically. In general labor laws do apply though, of which these services sometimes have quite interesting/creative interpretations. But as long as things go well and everyone is happy, I don't think anyone really cares.

Interesting comment. How about people just like different things?

I have heard that Iceland has plenty of stuff to do and various festivals year around. Just because it's not 30+ celsius and sunny everyday doesn't mean that "there is nothing there"

Yeah most companies simply don't care, and/or they don't have the processes the address issues like that

They also likely get dozens of similarly looking messages each day from "developing country" "pentesters" for irrelevant issues, so your message could have also ended up with similar looking "spam"

If you mean the chat.openai.com ones, those just look like SEO experiments. They all follow similar format, and match what's shown on the carousel on the left-hand side of the page

"Last results" as in the 586,000 one or what?

Hmm the times are somehow all messed up, current time shows 4:xx PM, the timeline shows things happening from 2:xx AM, and the controls show 8:xx AM

And how did they verify that it was someone other than yourself? Just a checkbox? Or like document upload or something? SSN?

"hiring", checked like 20 companies, and only found one that was actually hiring

It fluctuated month per month, but something between 500k and 2 million

First $100: Ads, mainly Google AdSense

First $1,000: Ads, mainly Google AdSense