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by unimportant 12y ago
Meeting a potential employees significant other? I would like to see the person that agrees with that. :D In the end its a managers ability of good people judgement to keep problematic personalities out, in combination with probation period
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by unimportant 12y ago
The real estate and university thing is more of status symbol than a real exit strategy. Most wealthy chinese people would not feel comfortable living outside of China due to a lack of language skills, cultural unfamiliarity and a lack of e
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by unimportant 12y ago
Local government and companies have borrowed way too much based on real estate value that a crash would be allowed to happen based on what I have read, as it would have much broader implications than in the US. Rents in Shanghai have remain
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by unimportant 12y ago
Too much of the economy relies on the already shaky real estatemarket for this to happen in the near future imo. A sales tax on third properties and beyond was introduced in Shanghai to curb speculation and couples simply divorced or used s
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by unimportant 12y ago
A country with more than a billion people that is rich in resources and changing from communism to capitalism is bound to produce a number of extremely wealthy people in a short time, especially since chinese people are very entrepreneurial
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by unimportant 12y ago
Wealth is a funny thing in China, because it hardly buys you a real lifestyle, as the author already hinted. I would argue that broke foreign students partying in Shanghai have more fun than local multi millionaires struggling to find stuff
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by unimportant 12y ago
Companies exist to make money, the market is very limited, the sales process is long etc. but feel free to compete. People generally dont try to replace a 100k job with another one when they start companies, but are looking for a (multi) mi
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by unimportant 12y ago
Everything in that article is dated 2008, but even then the minimum salary requirements for japanese people were 35k baht to get a work permit. All the japanese expats I've gotten to know in Bangkok last year were well paid and no japa
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by unimportant 12y ago
If you're from western Europe you can easily get a 1 year working holiday visa and go from there. Staying in Thailand beyond 1 year these days legally is also difficult, so it works out the same. I have never heard about the call cente
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by unimportant 12y ago
$100 in Chiang Mai is possible for nothing fancy, but only if you speak thai. A fresh of the boat foreigner will pay $250 rock bottom without thai skills for a very basic apartment. Visa costs are at least $50 a month and you'll also
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by unimportant 12y ago
The line is 24 terrabit, so it's reasonable to assume that everyone will have a chance to peer to it, as it's unlikely to be fully booked.
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by unimportant 12y ago
Any bank / investment company that does high frequency trading and the like where milliseconds matter will have servers located locally in Tokyo or London.
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by unimportant 12y ago
I doubt all of this takes much bandwidth though and I doubt they're willing to invest huge sums for something everyone will have access to anyway after it's completion.
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by unimportant 12y ago
Can someone enlighten me about the real interests behind this venture? 80k people, of whom only a fraction might actually be interested in purchasing internet access is a really small amount compared to the huge cost of the project. Japanes
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by unimportant 12y ago
Reminds me of the appalling CIA MK Ultra program in the 50s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#LSD
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by unimportant 12y ago
Few companies like remote for various reasons and this is unlikely to change. Only the top x% of engineers that have already proven themselves beyond any doubt and are pioneers in startup technologies are likely to have a steady access to r
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by unimportant 12y ago
A call for immigration reform is almost always an attempt to reduce wages and to avoid having to train people, instead of a real shortage. The likely result of open borders would be something like London startup salaries, which are extremel
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by unimportant 12y ago
I can't stress this enough. In Germany all kinds of industries have been whining about shortages for ages, but in reality they're all looking for unicorns that work for peanuts in combination with an absolute unwillingness to trai