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The hard part living in HK for a lot of people is real estate price. It's extremely expensive either to rent or buy apartments. Lot of people live in apartments less than 200 sqr feet, and the average living space per person is less than 100 sqr feet.

Moreover, Shenzhen is one of China's tech capitals while HK is mostly finance.

I guess language barrier is the main issue here? In western companies, it's also hard to advance to high/exec levels if someone cannot communicate in English well.

In China, Fortnite is not popular at all

Trains are way faster than ships and handles much bigger scale than airplanes

If your website doesn't use anything that's being actively blocked by the firewall (e.g. Google CDN), it is most likely usable in China, although it'd be quite slow.

I browse tons of foreign websites when I grew up in China. It's actually not a big issue if the website doesn't serve video.

The title doesn't say why would the government care about the opinion of TurboTax maker at all

Maybe we need Houseparty for work?

> But DP? I've never needed it or used it. Why the emphasis in it then

There are people who did only the multiple choice questions and moved on to the video conf interview. At least they can skip DP question for some people, so probably not an emphasis.

It's not only ads, every AB test you run needs tracking user data

Yeah, I don't think it's a problem and I'm not convinced by the article at all. Also, if an app/website don't track user behavior and improve themselves based on data, they are most likely going to be defeated by their competitors soon enough.

Isn't that similar to Google Analytics and Mixpanel, Segment.io and so many other tracking tools?

By talking to people and reading online. I'm Chinese btw.

Because Taiwan was much more prosperous in the last few decades of last century, before Taiwan fully embraced western democracy and started having two ruling parties. Now, however, with Taiwan's economy/average wage being almost stagnant for almost twenty years, and the huge mess in the Taiwan politics, it is hard to see anything good came out of "democracy".

> But why should they have a realistic impression if information is controlled?

They may not know Taiwan well enough, but on average they know it much better than westerners.

Not a good example though. Many Chinese see the current Taiwan government as a failure and use it as an argument that China should NOT adopt western democracy

I wonder if hard questions, especially hard algorithm questions, has high false positive rate as well. Being good at solving those questions simply requires you to do tons of practice on leetcode, and those who are willing to spend tons of time are probably those who find it difficult to get jobs (or new grads). I don't think the skills for solving hard algorithm questions correlate well with the actual performance at work. Especially if someone is a new grad, they could be good at thise questions but don't have a clue about how real software systems are built.

No. I found almost all ads annoying and just want to block them. If they get to know me better, they have a chance of being less annoying.

> It's not that they don't care, they just don't understand the true implications

Just to give you a data point since you drew that conclusion. I'm fully aware of the tons of the mechanisms website use to track you and all of it's implications. I am not concerned about it at all.

Seems like it. I tend to watch specific type of videos at specific time of day on YouTube. Even though I watch tons of other videos on the same account, YouTube can do a pretty good prediction at that time of day and present me the videos I'm going to watch. I find it so useful!

People inside China also heard all of those things, just with different perspectives.

"Wandering earth" is wildly popular right now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7605074/

Time to watch some Chinese Sci-Fi instead, with Chinese hero and Russian sidekick

Probably most east Asian countries? Likely India as well.

> Studying STEM is not natural to many kids

I don't think there's any intrinsic reason that studying STEM isn't natural. It could be hard to some kids while totally enjoyable to some others. I've seen kids enjoying building stuff and really engaged in their preliminary lessons for coding.

Well, lots of them are truly friends for sure, and I would certainly see them in person whenever there's a chance. But since we don't live in the same country, those chances don't come up that often. Sometimes it could be many years apart. I won't call/text someone that I haven't seen for years unless there're something particular to talk about. Facebook (and other social media as well) are certainly the best way to stay connected.

> Expect the consequences to be fairly immediate: More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever.

Well, since lots of my friends and all of my family live in different countries, I'm sure the consequences for me would not be more in-person time with friends and family at all. In fact I may lose the connection to lots of friends forever. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation.

It occurs to me that the mainstream American media suddenly turned very negative towards Facebook ever since they've got the idea that Facebook was probably one important reason that Trump got elected. While I agree Facebook has some real problems and they need to do better, but the recent reports appears almost nitpicking to me

They probably need higher compensation to attract engineers at this point and their existing engineers are probably leaving the company at higher rate. They also need to hire a lot more people to tackle whatever issues they are trying to solve

Well, though privacy is kind of imprtant to most people, what alternatives do people have (other than stop using all social media?) I don't think the problem of Facebook is unique to them at all - data leak, fake news, whatever - they are instrinsically hard problem to solve, and frankly I don't think there would be lot of companies doing much better.

Personally I'd find in-person sales and cold out-reach much more annoying than simple ads (as a potential user). Not sure if that's common.

It doesn't really need strong ethical standards here. This scientist received almost universal criticism in China.

For any social network to work you’d need most of your connections to get onboard the same thing, whether it’s Facebook or anything else. It’s easy for some people to start emailing their friends but it’s hard to imagine that the general public start doing the same thing, and without that, the alternative won’t go very far.

In fact I’d find it much more annoying than Facebook if I start receiving such emails from friends.