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I'm in a WeChat group for Product Managers in China. Someone asked a similar question a few weeks ago. The context of their question was:

- product management (not engineering)

- working as an employee of a Chinese tech company (not starting something themselves)

With those caveats out of the way, below is the text of my answer to them:

"As I understand it, until maybe 2000 or 2005, there was a lack of people with specific experience in many many areas. So the median foreigner coming to China had better experience (and ability) than did Chinese people with a similar educational background and age.

As China's economy has developed:

- many more Chinese have gained that experience

- many Chinese who worked in US/Europe for many years have come back (or can be tempted to come back)

As a result, most foreigners are equivalent to a local Chinese person, except that:

- they know English very well (advantage for policy/comms/bizdev roles)

- they don't know Chinese well (e.g. hard for a Product Manager to work in a Chinese company when the working language is Chinese and most engineers and other peers don't speak Chinese well)

- they aren't in touch with local culture (e.g. don't use the new live streaming platforms that everyone else does)

- they need a work visa (only a minor issue for all but the smallest companies)

There are foreigners here [in this WeChat group] who work for Chinese companies (e.g. @[REDACTED] @[REDACTED] ) and are very good at what they do. But it's not easy.

I've interviewed at two large Chinese companies you've heard of. Both of them tested my level of Chinese early in the process. One took me by surprise because the interviewer had grown up in the US and so could obviously have interviewed me in English. In the other, I was expecting interviews in Chinese, but one of the interviews was with a data scientist and that kept me my toes as I didn't have the vocab to explain my answers fully/concisely."

Oh, and take note of the last sentence of rlglwx's earlier comment: "Maybe just starting out or if you can be hired into a c-level role." If you're just starting out, then the pace and intensity of working at an early-stage Chinese tech company could be an amazing learning experience. If you bring distinct experience that can get you a very senior role, then you will work very hard but could also be very well compensated. If you're in the middle, it's tricky due to the competitive issues I mentioned above.
How is this different from what the web archive does?
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Sorry I was mistaken, however: Every commenter here is talking about their experiences in private clinics. These are not a part of most universal healthcare systems and it's polar opposite of what the USA liberals are proposing. That's why I didn't want to count UK in, however other commenters have proved to me that it was a mistake - if any homeless man is able to get such treatment, I have to agree it's universal - but is this true? Noone here confirmed that yet.
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SalesForce not like Office 2016 where you install and use it. It's like Oracle EBS in that the forms, workflow, processes and etc needs to be customized for your business and use case. SalesForce has consultants and professional service people that help you with this. They are probably suing because SalesForce consultants or professional services help with the SalesForce setup/integration at BackPage.
It is very common for a company of any reasonable size to provide third-party outplacement services to laid-off employees. Companies like RiseSmart (no association) exist for this. I don't know what the cost is, but it seems like the least a company should do if they want to be considered humane.
>Similarly, gentrification is about people wanting to pay higher rent to live in a nicer neighborhood.

Not the same people though. The quote from the article holds true for tenants who cant afford higher rents. Gentrification is generally a processes of displacement. There the old saying, that graffiti tags keep the rent low holds true.
Ph.D. in Condensed Matter (surface) physics 1992, the "era of the 40 year old post-docs." I had a talent for teaching, so rather than pursue the endless post-doc trajectory I followed my talent and taught.

Now I work on educational software trying to extend my reach.
> Time zone boundary changes and splits

The united states will experience this soon. California and Washington are independently seeking to end daylight saving time. There is no America/Portland or America/Seattle so Washingtonians and Oregonians are using America/Los_Angeles. Unless Washington, California, and Oregon end Daylight savings on the same schedule we'll have to add new id's and users will have to change their configuration, and we'll still have issues described in the link.
> To me, the fact that they say nothing is the important part, and it's why the whole thing works.

Ah, gotcha. :) Thanks.
Now that shutting down backpage made the hardline stance on the issue mainstream, this lawsuit is one consequence of that.
I didn't mean to imply that it was, but that's a good point.

I was meaning to highlight their resistance to intervention by the local governments whose jurisdiction they do their best to ignore.
I moved from Europe to China to work as a mobile/backend dev.

Pros:

- Salaries these days in China's big cities are pretty much same or better than in Europe

- Income tax and living costs are significantly lower

- Former two combined: your living standards will increase a lot here.

- If you live in big cities, life is good and you can live really western life style

- Extremely safe and very peaceful. Street crimes and violence are pretty much nonexistent.

Cons:

- You really have to take much more responsibility. You might find your dream company with excellent salary here or you might end up in sweatshop with shitty salary. General rule: Avoid really local Chinese companies and work for international ones like Apple, Microsoft, Google, western startups etc.

- Internet is blocked (can be easily bypassed with VPN though)

- Chinese culture might be hard to deal with for many foreigners.

- Competence of Chinese developers and especially managers is really low when compared to the West

In general: It's a wild and scary ride, but I'd recommend it at least temporarily.
> Stupid laws are stupid. If person A is legally responsible for person B's actions, they will necessarily start asserting control over person B's life.

Well, apparently the alternative is to subject person B to rather substantial ex-post punishment in order to deter them from committing crimes that they cannot pay meaningful restitution for. I think the option of shifting liability onto third parties that could meaningfully deter B before a crime is even committed might be preferable. It's the same principle that we use to mandate e.g. drivers to successfully insure themselves against some sorts of liability, before they're even allowed to drive.
I always do appreciate attempts to deflate the Disney-esque romanticization of monarchy, though in this case The Lion King is just supposed to be a retelling of Hamlet.
> We should be rather happy he didn't become mass murderer or politician.

Yet... I don't think a presidential campaign is out of the question for Zuck at some point in the future.
Some do go to the beach and never come back. Most dont. Because most are hyper-industrious. Their wealth is a side effect of their addiction to progress.

Last Saturday I was at a billionaires house here in London, and he said he does it for the thrill of the hunt.

Another told me beaches are boring. After you take 2-3 months off at the beach you want to do some more things, you want to return to what you're good at. They wants something to challenge them.
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How do you think they provide a FREE service...in there TOS it says they mine all data you put on discord and essentially resell it...It's been shitcords way since Day 1....If you don't see that IDK what to tell you cause people just don't HAND out free services unless they are getting something in return
I don't experience much noticeable latency on 4g. 5g is supposed to fix that with 1ms latency.
> Similarly, gentrification is about people wanting to pay higher rent to live in a nicer neighborhood. Yes the landlords get more money... but the tenant gets the nicer neighborhood! (Or closer access to more jobs, or whatever.) That's the whole point. That's free trade.

You're misreading the argument. Yes, the renters want to pay more, but the problem is not that they want something nicer, it's that this system takes that natural desire for something better and combines it with NIMBY policies to skew it in a way that results in the centralization of financial capital in fewer people. This cripples the economy overall. The renters ARE getting capital in the form of nicer streets, better coffee, and a shorter commute, but you can't buy goods and services with nice streets, better coffee, and shorter commutes. You buy goods and services with money, but all the money is in the hands of the landlords. The economy does better with a wider distribution of resources because a wider distribution results in more spending on real goods and spending on real goods generates new wealth.

One person with a great deal of financial capital will buy real goods too, but only up to a point. After that, they will invest in markets, which create and destroy money seemingly at random. That's not a good place for most of our economic resources to be. It's better to have as much money being spent on real, useful products as possible in order to maximize economic stability long term.
Depending on how open they are start asking questions about their cap table too, especially if they're offering you equity as a large part of compensation. Getting 1-2% in options is wonderful unless they have a down round or two on the books and those investors are going to wipe everyone out with their ridiculous liquidation preferences regardless of how much the liquidity event is for.
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I'd first go for a pareto approach. There's probably some easy automation that can aid the manual work, which is easy to implement and provides visible performance gains. Stuff like pre selecting interesting image parts (aim for high false positive rates and zero false negatives) or even just an interface for speeding up dull manual work like pulling documents from the repository, associating relevant documents and presenting them in a fast acting UI.
No don't you see? It's obviously a feminist conspiracy

/s since it can be hard to tell on this site
Building physics and chemistry domain specific machine learning systems at Citrine Informatics. It's the best of both the physical science world and the data science world, has really hard problems, works with big companies and has big contracts, and is a team where more than half the people have technical graduate degrees.
It may be a dream but I hope that a tech like Hyperloop could expand the range of a reasonable commute much loke the introduction of the automobile did in decades past. Being able to live in Utah but work in California would do wonders.
China executes thousands of political prisoners per year to harvest thier organs on an industrial scale.
Thanks for the insights, much appreciated! To be clear, are you a westerner who made this move, or a Chinese native? If the former, how did the startup culture compare to the US startup culture?

>of Chinese descent and speak the language

What about westerns who speak mando? Is it workable or still too much of a culture shock? Is racism abundant?
They both rely on procedural generation to build worlds and give users some degree of creative control to build things.

But one became a billionaire and spends his days on twitter whining about how hard it is to be white.
> A local builder sells a two story model with ZERO bedrooms on the ground floor. If someone is elderly or disabled, or just breaks their leg and needs to be in a wheelchair for two months, the house is basically unlivable.

For better or worse, that has been typical of multi-story houses for over a century.
Perhaps we could crowdfund Tor node satellites?
The west village isn't primed for tall buildings (they can certainly be taller than they currently are) and is much denser than most people think it is, since the brownstones are often multifamily. But more than anything else, streets are much narrower there than other parts of Manhattan. I'd argue that the east village is more adequate for upzoning than the west village even though the east village is taller.
What's your spend on those things compared to housing, food and services?
I have high regards for Julia, but I am a little sad to see so little meat behind this promising title. As we find out at the very end:

> I don’t know whether this particular thing really has anything to do with programming, I just remembered I thought it was cool.

Also, I don't really get the main point:

> tensor [Monoidal] categories are about proving (or defining) things with pictures

You could say that about Category theory as a whole already. E.g. "A product is a space which makes this diagram 'universally' commutative.". No?
Bc you obtain them as the result of tensor product between the cathegory algebra and the monoidal algebra, i think
Rent is just another overhead. What good is it to save 50% on investment by moving to the middle of nowhere when you can't readily hire anybody?

Sure enough, other cities are up and coming, but it takes time.
Google Calendar is built around notifications and coordination, which both require an agreed upon "actual" time.

The feature set you're looking for sounds more like an "agenda" to me.
I love this article, but it fails to highlight one of the most important things about Calvin and Hobbes. The art is brilliant, and I'm pretty sure there is no explanation or description that I can give that will do it justice. I don't think any other comic has ever come close to the level of dynamism, variety, expressiveness, and quality that C&H achieved.
> Why don't businesses shop around for cities more?

They do. Amazon's HQ2 search was the most public of these, but other companies are expanding as well.

Apple, without much fanfare, announced a gigantic second campus in Austin, as well as locations in several other cities: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/apple-to-build-new-ca...

Last month, Google announced the lease of a 35-story tower in downtown Austin for up to 5,000 employees: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190131/source-google-to-occ...

Facebook announced the lease of a 17-story tower in north Austin last September: https://www.statesman.com/business/20180906/sources-facebook...

These are just Austin (since I live in Austin, I'm familiar with these stories) and just 3 big tech companies. Other tech companies are also expanding in other cities.

The cost of living has gotten so out of control in the SF Bay Area that these companies can no longer hire and retain good engineers. Also, it took more than 20 years to change this opinion, but companies are finally starting to embrace remote work and remote workers.

There's now a popular trend starting too, where founders live in the Bay Area long enough to get a demo off the ground and raise capital, then leave for greener (cheaper) pastures:
https://www.axios.com/entrepreneurs-leaving-bay-area-for-nex...

Unless California can un-gridlock its housing, I expect this trend will only continue.
i m not sure it would not pass again
I like it in the abstract, but I get itchy whenever I see something that puts politicians potentially in the position of picking winners in the tech space or market space. They just generally lack the engineering expertise to do this and tend to pick "pessimum" solutions for porky political reasons (e.g. corn ethanol, the least efficient biofuel).

Government should just tax carbon and/or fossil fuels to price in their externalities, broadly support research, but otherwise get out of the way.
That would in turn make the area less attractive to live in, and some of the wealthy people who want to have groceries would consider living elsewhere.

It's not black and white like that but in general this is how markets are supposed to work (in theory).
Why wouldn't he be able to love them now?
What are the problems you are personally trying to solve?

How do you like to make decisions?

What do you believe is the purpose of a manager?

What do you believe motivates employees at your company?

From an employees perspective, what makes your company a unique place to work?

How do you recognize major achievements?

... basically I like to dig into culture (which is always top down), and empathy. I want to know whether the CEO considers employees people or a resource.
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Wait, this is still alive? I thought they died because of politics between the two founders.
I’ll add to this. If you’re ethnically Chinese, can speak Mandarin, and have a desire to move to an executive position, then highly consider it.

There won’t be a bamboo ceiling and your assertiveness won’t be seen negatively as aggression [1]

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/study-of-...
Mind reader!

Yeah, I'm keen to give that a go. Interestingly it is not a problem that is very easy to parallelize, since every mass will affect every other mass. There may still be some cool ways to use ECS though.
Good luck finding anywhere legal to launch them. None of the places I used as a kid can be used anymore.
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Revenue rate - Does the company take any money in, or is it simply running off funding

Runway length - Similar to above, trying to gauge if the company is self propelled or not

If received funding, how much and when was it received, also ask for burn rate here.

Very quick estimate of company health = Revenue per month - (burn rate per month + (head count * average monthly salary)).
I mean, I doubt the criminals are using HUMAN_TRAFFIC_ROUTE and PIMP_QUOTA as column names. Past a certain point the logistics of a criminal enterprise looks just as generic as any other corp; It's kinda easy to see how Salesforce could be fooled
If on the other hand they were actually building features designed to keep more pimps on the platform (not sure what that would look like for pimps specifically vs. other Salesforce use cases, but just hypothetically)

Yeah, I have mixed feelings about this article. I've read a number of things that suggest that Backpage was better for women, allowing them to market themselves, protect their safety, etc.

I'm for the decriminalization of sex work -- as described in the book "Working: My life as a prostitute" by Dolores French. She makes the point that legalization usually means regulation and it winds up being just as bad as or worse than being pimped. It winds up being done to benefit male clients at the expense of female sex workers, basically.

So I can easily see a situation where, in a world where the current system typically exploits female sex workers, trying to increase sales as your stated goal could deepen the problems of women who are already victims.

If you are against sex work, please try to help women access other work safely and at a living wage/"equal pay" (instead of or at least in addition to preaching about your opinions that sex work is a bad thing and simply shouldn't be tolerated). Women wind up trapped in part because it pays well and they often have little to no viable alternatives. If you aren't actively working in some way to help make it possible for women to adequately support themselves some other way, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I spent nearly six years homeless. There was no shortage of men offering to give me a few bucks to sleep with them. Meanwhile, I was mostly failing to get taken seriously in my attempts to earn income some other way.

There are reasons why I was able to still say "no" in the face of tremendous circumstantial pressure, but it made me very aware that a lot of women simply don't have enough wherewithal to just say "no" themselves. (There is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to be able to afford a middle class morality.)

I was briefly acquainted with another homeless woman whose solution was to move in with some guy she had just met in order to get back into housing. She apparently only spent a few days on the street because of making this choice.

It's perhaps a more polite form of prostitution to call him your boyfriend and not charge by the hour, but I've thought a whole lot about it and I would much rather charge by the hour than move in with some man for his money and wind up probably essentially being his prisoner. This goes double in the case of a stranger I've just met and know nothing about. Wow. That idea just scares the hell out of me.

Edit: Just for the record, I'm also against UBI, in addition to being against "legalization"/regulation of sex work.
Paypal will happily process credit card charges without needing the customer to have a Paypal account. They call it DirectPay
That would depend a great deal on what the database looked like. A "trafficker and pimp database" could easily look like any other CRM contact list.
I am using Things for a couple of years but have never found a way to make it for a daily habbits so I have 2 apps. One for tasks/projects and the other for daily habbits.
I assume you are correct about the automatic withdrawal, however I was able to confirm my TransferWise account with PayPal just last week. PayPal deposited the two small txns in the Transferwise borderless US account. It took a lot longer than I expected, but it did work. I was able to withdraw from my PayPal account into the the TransferWise Borderless account (no fees yay).

Hope that helps.
Good find.

The US Department of Labor defines a "mass layoff" as one affecting 50 or more employees, which this definitely isn't because that'd require laying off almost the entire company (which to my knowledge hasn't happened).

This is important because a lot of protections only come into force for mass layoffs. There may well not be any relevant protections for the laid off employees here; they may simply just be victims of at-will employment, and not technically laid off as deemed by the law.
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It saddens me to see these people being given awards for improving the surveillance and manipulation capabilities of advertising corporations.

This isn't how you encourage people to use their abilities to contribute to society in a positive way.
In the Czech Republic and most other universal healthcare systems you need to separate pharmaceutics sold to patients directly (prescription or over the counter) and pharmaceutics sold in bulk to (governmental) medical facilities, I meant the latter. These are considered two different fields of business here.
>one could debate whether Taiwan is a country or part of China

At least we can while we're in the west
Cool! Looks like a really nice interface.
Great point, something I've wondered myself. You'd think with the immense amount of money and influence tech companies and VCs wield, they'd do more to out-lobby the NIMBY homeowners and get denser housing approved.
It absolutely is and is made worse when you consider that a large amount of Americans do not have $1,000 in savings. Most would struggle to find $400 in an emergency situation.
"...or it has never been used with a codebase big enough to take >1 day to build..."

I've not worked in this scale of enterprise environments so I find this tidbit fascinating. Why does the codebase take over a day to build? Does that time include rebuilding and deploying the underlying infrastructure?

I'm genuinely interested here. I can only imagine a few highly niche cases myself so I'm curious what I'm missing here.