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by alephnerd 2y ago
I was a PM for a team like that. We did well - ended up making a 8-9 figure product line. Most of us can speak English, and Engineering fundamentals like algorithmic complexity are the same all over the world. Just pay in the 70-90th percen
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> where core infra is on shore but less critical teams and back office is distributed Nowadays, even core infra and IP is being developed and PMed abroad depending on the segment of the tech industry you work in. Much of the cybersecurit
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Grayson Deysher - the author of the paper and the experiment - is a PhD candidate at UCSD (go tritons!)
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> But when you go fishing for cheap, which is usually the reason for seeking it in the first place, you're never going to find it That's the thing - employers aren't paying peanuts abroad anymore either. Just take a look a
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by alephnerd 2y ago
It isn't about the "financial cost" from a competitive standpoint - it's about scalability. Costs savings are usually around 20-40% of what you would spend in the US, so not that significant in an industry with 80-90% pr
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> the growth we see in other countries is just laggards catching up to us. But it's something that needs to be examined, too. This was documented in the 1990s [0] with a smaller sample of OECD members (OECD only expanded significant
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Yes. But being a small farm does not absolve you from following very basic employee safety laws that are mandated within the EU. The Dairy you went to might be better run, but the experiences tend to trend closer to the negative experiences
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by alephnerd 2y ago
You can't justify leaving migrant workers to literally die due to workplace accidents and not taking them to get medical care [0][1] This has been an issue for decades in Italy. While Italy might be in Europe, it's rule of law and
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> The subcontractors were Chinese-owned firms, prosecutors said. They said most of the workers were from China, with two living in the country illegally and another seven working without required documentation This is how almost all &quo
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> There's no Irrawaddy for Venezuela, Afghanistan, or North Korea There are several for Afghanistan (Tolo, Rukhsana, Bano, Khaama, Pajhwok, etc) and Venezuela (Pitazo, Efecto Cocuyo, Runrun). You just choose not to read them, or don
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> In China, they focus on attracting customers by having Japanese-style "spotless interiors and white-gloved service", a much more pleasant experience that traditionally found in stores in China In Asia, 7-11, Circle K, GS25, e
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by alephnerd 2y ago
The Asian equivalent of a trashy and cheap American 7/11 or Circle-K would be street vendors or a hyper-local general store/bodega with a bare minimum amount of goods. In much of Asia (JP, SK, and TW excluded), convenience stores
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by alephnerd 2y ago
It was cram schools that were bribing printers to get the answer keys to critical exams. (Cram schools across Asia are big money and often owned by politically connected actors). Basically, the argument the article is making is that compute
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Eg. "La red" vs "Internet" back in the late 90s/early 2000s. Guess which word took precedence?
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by alephnerd 2y ago
In CEE (which is where most ICT FDI is going) it's your governments that force employers to spend $500k-$5 million on an office with at least 10-50 people in order to get tax benefits ($8,000-13,000 per employee). Otherwise, we'd
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Agreed! Prescriptive language bodies are dumb and prevent languages from organically evolving.
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> Employees of that company must feel really valued They were paid on the higher end of Czechia TCs > don't let the door hit you on the way out Most of the high TC companies across Eastern Europe required hybrid so there aren&#x2
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by alephnerd 2y ago
My old employer did in Czechia - 2 day hybrid or move to Romania, Poland, or India. Foreign Tech Companies get tax holidays from the Czech, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, etc governments if we invest $2-5mil in an office AND can pr
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Spain Spanish isn't "Standard" Spanish though. The closest thing to "Standard" Spanish is what the RAE prescribes, but no one listens to them. Insurgencies and protests were fought over this fact in Spain during the
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by alephnerd 2y ago
RAE is supposed to be the prescriptive source for Spanish, but no one cares about it outside of a subset of Academics in Spain.
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Chilean Spanish is heavily influenced by Spanish, German, Italian, and Croat immigrants from a pronunciation and colloquialism standpoint because those were the 4 main immigrant communities to Chile. Also, Spain Spanish is not necessarily &
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Shein keeps option of Hong Kong IPO as back-up plan(ft.com)
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Most of the commodity Ag Machinery market in the US is already been taken over by a multitude of American, Japanese, European, and Indian vendors already (and as I previously listed)
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by alephnerd 2y ago
> I wonder if Mexican executives are also cheaper The cream of the crop (UNAM, ISTEM, Ibero) end up earning roughly comparable to Canada or work in the US. For example, Associate Consultants (entry level w/ MBA or MS/PhD) at Mc
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by alephnerd 2y ago
I'm not denying that they don't have all the above, but they are much smaller portions of their business than at CAT, Kubota, Mahindra Group, etc. Just look at the earnings call for CAT [0] versus John Deere [1]. Q1FY25 revenue fo
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Depends on investor sentiment. Most investors in any company are institutional investors (hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, etc). They tend to have longer holding periods (years instead of days), and most are still riding
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by alephnerd 2y ago
You can make a profit and still lose market share Here's John Deere's Q2FY25 earnings report [0] Sales have dropped 10-20% in just about every market they are in (they have hidden the Asia figures which are probably even worse due
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by alephnerd 2y ago
CAT's factories are barely 2 hours away from John Deere's and they haven't had a similar layoff in almost a decade. John Deere's leadership is just uniquely incompetent in the agtech industry.
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by alephnerd 2y ago
The winners in this case are Japanese (Kubota), American (CAT, AGCO, New Holland/CNH), European (CNH, Kioti), and Indian (Mahindra) manufacturers - all diversified conglomerates from countries allied or aligned with the US.
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by alephnerd 2y ago
Their harsh IP stance would have made sense if they were also constantly innovating. They just weren't. You were paying a premium and facing litigation for tinkering with a better branded Kubota. John Deere was also nowhere near as div

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