I really don't know more about resolving complaints as I haven't had any problems. I guess at some point things would go to courts.
Employment is the thing that's defined as employment by the labor law, where the employer signs an employment contract with you and then pays you salary and sorts out your taxes/insurance... Contracting is having a business licence and sending invoices to a customer - with zero relation to labor law. In particular, no concept of vacation, and you pay your own taxes and insurance.
No, your guess is wrong as I had no business license at the time and the local tax/insurance agency would come after me immediately (because nobody would've been paying my mandatory insurance).
I had 25 days of vacation (standard here, 5 days over minimum). The US company had to register with the local tax agency - there is a standard procedure for this situation. Applicable labor law is based on physical location specified in contract so my local law had to be followed.
You don't usually sue companies for violation of labor laws here - you go to the labor agency and complain, then they sort it out. I didn't have any problems though, so I don't know much about this.
Even regular employment is OK. Tested that myself. It actually is better from taxation view for the employee compared to working for EU native companies - might not apply to all EU states though - but it does in my country of residence, thanks to the bilateral double taxation avoidance deal.
It's not like the life extensions pills would make you impenetrable to bullets. Or just stop taking them if you stop liking it. Anyways, if the most important thing to you is visiting a new restaurant every day, perhaps immortality really isn't for you - doesn't mean there aren't people who would make much more of the gift, e.g. see another star (or a dozen) or something, hmm, more imaginative.
There are special payment processors catering to porn/etc, but the problem is that they require extremely large collateral and have other unusual requirements that are untenable to new businesses. Most probably they won't even talk to a startup (I tried, didn't get a reply). There's a reason why startups like OnlyFans used normal payment processors and tried to convince them they're not porn instead of beginning with these specialized ones.
Edit: BTW, a large portion of seemingly independent porn sites are actually run by only few companies. Especially the Xvideos corporation.
Any online service thanks to DSA, for example: Anything that children might use (yes, so everything - intent doesn't count). Anything where users can upload content (writing comments is enough according to our lawyer).
You picked about the only remaining thing where it's not always a requirement. It's a requirement even there if the transaction is over certain threshold (varies by local law, usually around 10k EUR) or certain categories of items (drugs, alcohol, tobacco-related, sextoys, weapons etc).
The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract.
You somehow forgot to mention that most (probably all) EU countries have laws that require you to know the birthdays of your customers - that of course overrides GDPR, or more precisely, the law is the reason to store the information so there's no need to find other reasons.
Also, don't forget that these laws also have requirements on you keeping logs, most of the time 3, 5 or more years. So yeah you have to obey a deletion request when that time is up, not "on request" - that would be illegal in most cases.
In many EU countries birthdate (and more) is public information, btw - my own birthdate is made public by the state itself (on the business registry website), together with my name and residence address. Same for any owner of real estate - be it land, house or unit - names, residence addresses and birthdates are publicly available in the online cadastre.
We're talking about programming apps such as Google docs. It is a hard requirement. Your reply is completely useless from technical perspective. Sorry-not-sorry to be so blunt but I have no sympathy for "yeah you can do it without any JS if you remove all features". Let's just go a little further and throw away our computers - we can send carrier pigeons to each other, right? And what's this paper stuff? Useless! Stone tablets 4ever!
And as a user, it is a hard requirement for me too. I never want to go back to locking and versions, that's absolutely terrible and completely kills the workflow I have with my colleagues. Collaborative docs editing is single most awesome development of the modern web and users are choosing the otherwise not-so-good Google Docs solely based on this feature. Perhaps not every user needs it - but there are countless users that do. If I wanted to edit without collaboration I'd use Word - much better UX and document editing capabilities... Sadly no truly working collaboration - it's too much like locking/versions, so it's not an option. I'd rather use collaborative raw text editor than the best of the best locking/versioned WYSIWYGs.
Tell that to the solar flare that randomly burns everything on it... Or the asteroid that crashes into it... Or the black hole that eats it... Or the aliens that invade it... Or the plague that kills everyone on it... Or the supervolcano that causes "nuclear" winter...
We could be doing our absolute best and still be surprised pikachus anyways. And there's no scifi remedy that will help us resolve these problems, we're not even K1, much less K2 - who's on Earth when it comes dies.
As the only known example of intelligent life in the observable universe, we should be doing everything we can to preserve ourselves. Having everyone on one planet is not a good idea if you're looking for survival on geological timescales (and/or have bad luck).
To expand, it seems to me like he worked to be friendly with the largest European economy while continuing to stomp on the smaller ones who didn't have their West part to look after them. Manipulative and calculating, definitely not good. Thank your West German friends, not Gorbachev.
Hmm, why don't you specify your development-time dependencies as devDependencies in your package.json? Then you can simply install only the production ones in your final step Docker image - and only use the devDependencies in your build step. I'm doing it, works like a charm. It'd be really weird and wasteful to ship my TypeScript and Eslint and whatever to cloud/Lambda/...
Botany-related articles don't ship together with the discussed plants... If you want to repeat some experiments, you're looking at a hardcore mountain trek at the other side of the world. Is this too different?
What if the training sets are proprietary (as in, they don't have licence to share)? Should they keep the research to themselves just because of that? I don't think that's better than not sharing the training set. It also doesn't mean the research is invalidated - find your own pictures and it's going to work. Same as - find your own plants and it's going to work.
TBH, I just don't see the training set as part of the research... In my case, I'd feed it tons of electronic circuits to try to teach it generate some. Why should I care about some random other pictures? I care about the research and I have my own training sets.
The notion of open in software and in academia is different, that for sure. But does that make one or the other wrong? My friends doing physics or math don't understand the hate at all when I discuss it with them. From their point of view, you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars to read it = it's open. The research is there, code is left as exercise to the reader - that's also normal to them... And the notion of giving away free compute time is funny to them. Run your own cluster, they say.
I'm not saying I agree with them, I'm a software person and open means to me what it means to you. I'd prefer if it was truly open by our definition. But I don't think we can bash the choice of the word so easily.
I really don't know more about resolving complaints as I haven't had any problems. I guess at some point things would go to courts.
Employment is the thing that's defined as employment by the labor law, where the employer signs an employment contract with you and then pays you salary and sorts out your taxes/insurance... Contracting is having a business licence and sending invoices to a customer - with zero relation to labor law. In particular, no concept of vacation, and you pay your own taxes and insurance.