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Why not all across the world? At least those that can communicate in the same language

It should still be strictly easier than opening up a branch in another country, which large tech companies are already doing a lot. When the gate of remote working opens, you no longer need to fix a head count with a particular location, and that opens up tons of possibilities.

The other 91% mostly don't have enough interest to become CCP member. It's not that difficult if they want to join.

Moreover, the highest organ of the state is National People's Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress), with elected representatives coming from all kinds of professions, including CCP and non-CCP members. The idea is exactly to give everyone representation in government.

+1 on Google Fi. I go back to China every year and Google Fi works out well.

It depends on the size of project and what you want to optimize. The time spent on push and pull of docker images used to be a real deal breaker once upon a time when I tried to improve the deployment speed of a project by switching from heroku build to docker based solution

It's horrible to live in places that you need to worry about home invasions. I won't be able to fight them off with or without guns

Not the same at all. Most Chinese immigrated outside China in the past two decades or so have pro-China opinions and are becoming more pro-China as they live abroad. Younger generations born after 90s living in China also have more pro-China viewpoints. You'd still hear them critisize the government a lot but what they care about is dramatically different from people in western world. In issues like Hong Kong, it's quite rare to see any mainland Chinese supporting rioters in HK, no matter where they live.

Sounds like a fishing scam

Did I ever say "freedom of speech"? English is after all my second language, and I don't expect I could articulate like a native speaker.

Just to make it clear, the most irritating part is that people's opions are clearly shaped by what they read from media, which you'd expect to be more neutral as "freedom of press" is "so great" but it's just not the case.

In China, at least people are generally aware of media censorship, and would take a grain of salt in what they read, but with independent press, people are generally less critical about their reports unless it directly contradictory with to what they know for a fact. As a result you got so many people commenting like they know more truth, even when the "truth" is so absurd. When they are presented a different side of the story, ok, that must be "government propaganda", and whoever supporting them need to be banned?

Agree, I was in Singapore for a couple of years before moving here and I never felt becoming more pro China there

It's not just the comments but those "free independent media" as well. Having freedom of speech doesn't mean having no bias. None of the US media I've seen doesnt have strong confirmation bias towards China. And even for US domestic issues, it's still appalling to see how media could be so polarized. Even when they report truth, they'd select facts that support their views while simply ignore things that's against them. I had to say that's a big disillusionment

Plenty of reasons. To begin with, seeing how biased the Western media are when they report anything related to China is both appalling and disappointing. The impression of what average American has about Chinese government, Chinese people and their relation is light years away from reality.

Moreover, people immigrating to US from China tends to be more pro-democracy than average Chinese, but we got disillusioned after seeing how things worked out in American politics.

The life here is quite unsatisfactory for lots of Chinese, as there are many aspects of China making it a better place to live in compared to US. Can't speak for other people but frankly if I could have got a job with similar pay and similar workload in China, I wouldn't even hesitate for a second that I'd move back.

Just to share some perspective as a native Chinese living in US for anyone interested:

- Most of immigrants from China after 2000 holds pro-China views, and there's strong tendency to become more pro-China after living in US for some time, after having full exposure to US media and getting to know how things really work in US.

- It's probably common to see HN accounts that comment mostly on China related issues. I don't have stats, but this is very likely, because when immigrants like us read HN comments upon these issues, it's usually as irritating as lots of you reading far-right pro Trump comments.

- When people question if an account is genuine just because they have pro-China voice, it's just confirming how hypocritical western "freedom of press" is, and pushing us towards more pro-China.

- HN is still fairly unpopular among Chinese tech immigrants, otherwise you'd be seeing a lot more sincere pro-China comments here.

They probably should forbid all Western media as well, as they has been spreading propaganda against China, without doing basic fact checking and actually got people like you to believe that there is "actual genocide"

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-specific-examples-of-medi...

> What if the article was written by someone from China?

Read the Chinese version then

The quora question is "How mainland Chinese feel about protests in Hong Kong", and the answer IMO is same as the reality of how mainland Chinese really feel about it.

lol just guessing. Chinese immigrants are likely to comment on China related issues and hold dramatically different viewpoints from most westerners, who are blind-sided by the misinformation spread by their media

So where's the proof that they are state sponsored? I failed to find that from the article?

I looked at the comment history and found nothing surprising at all. looks like any other Chinese engineer

I bought a Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 for about $600 earlier this year to replace my old iPhone and I'm quite happy with it. iPhone is sticking with that notch design that I really hate, and it made me started to explore other options. Mi Mix 3 and Honor Magic 2 has a sleek slider design that removed the need to put front facing camera directly on the screen. It's nice to have more options

Well, different country, different laws

Well I grew up in China, and I feel totally different

I didn't see anywhere in the Chinese article that mentioned "politically sensitive information", "bring news about Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan that has not been reported by official news channels", publish “military information.” The sentence "spread rumors" is mentioned in combination with "scamming" and should be focusing on "scamming" part.

> No body notice the date of the newspaper is missing

The article itself mentioned a date, Oct 8, 2017, when the "new" regulation come into effect. So yes, this is old news.

Reading the article in Chinese, I do understand that the main focus of the new article is cracking down illegal activities like distributing pornography (which is illegal in China), gambling, scamming, etc, which are problems on the social networks that are quite important to solve.

I didn't see anywhere in the Chinese article that mentioned "politically sensitive information", "bring news about Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan that has not been reported by official news channels", publish “military information.” The sentence "spread rumors" is mentioned in combination with "scamming" and should be focusing on "scamming" part.

But again, there's nothing surprising that western media interpret this in a completely different way. That's just one thing they all love to do.

If you read the referenced article in Chinese, you'll see the point of the regulation in China is cracking down illegal activities that often occurs in group chats, e.g. selling illegal stuff, organizing crime. I doubt US would take no actions against these activities.

Well, if the work culture in China's tech industry improves after this, it's time to seriously consider moving back to China :)

Still, it would be much more useful to compare total compensation, at least for late stage startups and public companies. Maybe that's something to consider for the next update?

The base salary portion would not be too different

Later stage startups also have equity packages similar to FAANG based on their valuation.

That would be a lot more interesting but it's also super hard to compare equity for public companies and different stages of startups. It probably makes better sense to split the companies into different categories and then do the comparison in the same category