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by handle584 4mo ago
> huge emphasis on sharing knowledge > developer forums in China Care to share a few such forums or websites, genuinely curious as someone who reads basic Chinese. A decade ago, I knew there were CSDN, jvjin (may not be the correct pi
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by handle584 4mo ago
More likely related to the slave labor in their Brazil factory [0]. I personally will not buy any Chinese EV until they fix stuff like this. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Brazil_working_conditions_...
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by handle584 4mo ago
I mean worst come to worst you can drive Uber full time until the market recovers? And this is certainly not an option for H1B. Unless Americans does not want this type of job, which actually validates your cynical interpretation of OP&#x27
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by handle584 4mo ago
All I am saying is foreigners' experience does not necessarily reflect that of citizens, just like in the US the current ICE raids and immigration visa tighten up does not affect most citizens, but changed many foreigners' life fo
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by handle584 4mo ago
The way Chinese and US treat foreigners are at two extremes. Simply from your example, > didn't register our accommodation which is mandatory >> Foreigner: just let us go on our trip anyway >> Citizen: sent to detention
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by handle584 4mo ago
Ah my bad, my brain was reading Snail House [0], a popular fiction that got adapted to an even popular tv series and its theme is on living in Chinese apartments. While nail house is the Chinese version of holdout [1], and it exists eve
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by handle584 4mo ago
> nail house term was invented in China after all I do not see how this is related to property rights? In urban China you do not own your home, it is a 70yr right to use the land. Some of their construction is good, but not private hom
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by handle584 4mo ago
Yep I would rank Japanese QoL higher than US or Canada. Skin color aside, they can even be xenophobic to second gen Japanese born overseas like Brazil. Living space is quite good and affordable by Asian standards, you either live in mansion
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by handle584 4mo ago
This has also been covered by Chris Brunet [0]. All I can say is academia hiring is a dumpster fire right now. [0]: https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/exclusive-chinese-american-pro...
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by handle584 4mo ago
What you said is true, but it pertains to how to balance the game once it started, while I was giving a explanation why the game is started in the first place. > consider what consistently giving away seats for free would do to the remai
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by handle584 4mo ago
Having been in academia for a bit, I find it somewhat hard to believe multiple professional mathematicians in different fields give meaningful reply to a random email solicitation from an internet stranger within three weeks, simply bec
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by handle584 4mo ago
That's exactly how Chinese android market works, every phone/pad is No.1 upon release and within a few week's PR campaign. After a couple months a new one is released with another No.1 bla-bla, while the old one goes on life-
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by handle584 4mo ago
The best part of this scandal is in a press conference a major producer, Mengniu, publicly announced that milk made for Hong Kong is not affected. This one-sentence message demonstrates a lot of the problems of Chinese manufacturing if yo
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by handle584 4mo ago
Also the enforcement of standardization is really poor, almost to the point nobody cares. Chinese manufacturers can make quality stuff and can be rather honest to work with once you show certain knowledge of the field, they will even tell y
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by handle584 4mo ago
On average yes, but for savvy people they are worth much more for biz/first class travel. There is even a whole industry built around mileage booking. Why subsidize? There is no subsidize at all, an empty seat on a flight is an empty s
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by handle584 4mo ago
So do credit card companies run transfer bonuses. There are only a handful of airlines who sell pts < 2 cent per point during promo, like Avianca. Others, including the big three US carriers, seldom do this. Also the big part of this gam
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by handle584 4mo ago
>in the US we get to work our nice 60 to 80 hour weeks That is hardly the norm, if you work in the hottest AI startup or some field of quant then sure, but average SWE do work the same 40 hour week. Lack of paid vacation is true tho.
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by handle584 4mo ago
Until you learn the hard way that they are not up to the standard advertised, if they happen to be rated in the first place. It is common knowledge that Chinese manufacturers maintains at least three configs of the same product, the best
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by handle584 4mo ago
Like the other commenter said, all you can say is less evil . Basically everything from China is made by factory workers working 12 hour shifts with 1 day off every 14 days, or programmers working 12 hour a day with 1 day off every 7 days.
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by handle584 5mo ago
Not really, Aliexpress is from Alibaba, who has been in the exporting business for many years. While Temu is from Pinduoduo, a competitor to Alibaba known for malicious business practices including exploiting an Android 0-day vulnerability
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by handle584 5mo ago
Problem with insulation is that it kills off all sound, not only noise. For example people might actually enjoy the sound of wind blowing leaves, squirrels running around or an occasional car driving by. There are devices generating natura
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by handle584 5mo ago
Assuming English is the language, CEFR B2 is roughly 75 in TOEFL, such a low standard that community colleges would think twice before admitting such internationals students. In reality H1B tech workers easily blows 100+.
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by handle584 5mo ago
That note is grossly wrong though, ICE was/is putting them in jail while they appear for immigration hearing at courts.
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by handle584 5mo ago
Exactly as the other comment pointed out, in China you would not run such a business to begin with, let alone to be blocked later by payment processors. By legal platforms or creators I suppose you mean the dispute between card processors
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by handle584 5mo ago
Source about alipay/discover partnership? I could not find any and it is hard to imagine how a card-based network can support a qrcode-based system. The acceptance of Alipay at CVS/Walgreens is native, meaning you pay by qrcodes,
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by handle584 5mo ago
Of course you do not talk about cheap labor when you are exploiting it, from which all the speed, all the availability-at-any-time come from. The closest quote I can find is The story is told of when Apple did a last minute design change o
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by handle584 5mo ago
In the opposite direction unionpay works at major US retailers directly or at least through a partnership with discover, even Alipay is available at CVS, while us processors presence in China is next to zero.
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by handle584 5mo ago
I don’t get the example, any payment in China is basically a duopoly between WeChat and Alipay, meanwhile in US there are visa, mastercard, American Express and discover counting credit card payment only.
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by handle584 5mo ago
Supposedly OP meant foreign nationals instead of overseas Chinese, while Haigui is even a broader term for anyone with a overseas degree. On the other hand, there is large exodus post 2022 due to domestic COVID-19 policies.
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by handle584 5mo ago
Comparing to fraud 3DS reduces sales turn over by a lot, and this is the reason why for the most part it is not required in the US, too much friction during check out hurts business.

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