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China is too strong, so companies will still make deals, will still buy and sell there, will just do whatever the China government wants. The same with the politicians bought by the companies.

Any tribunal will not change anything. Even UN is paralyzed as the all sanctions against China will get China's veto and there won't be any decision.

Even when Mr. Trump made concentration camps for children (just like Germans did during the WW2) did anything change after publishing the information about that?

So my final thought is quite sad: nothing will change, live on, be happy that you live in such a country which respects some other values (e.g. exploits work of children in Asia but not your children, so you can think that nothing happens).

I'd love to have storing PDFs (with searching), storing web pages as images and as text (integrated with my browser), writing notes with markdown, latex, asciidoc, adding links. All that should run locally (as it is my data) with an online integration on a website, so people can edit the data as well. Also teams, projects, content versioning, online conflicts resolution (if more people edited the same file), categories, tagging... Configuring a custom pipeline e.g. to build a pdf from my markdown/latex sources.

Additionally a nice keyboard-UI, so I don't need to click all day, as it slows me down terribly.

I'd happily pay for this.

I pay about $10 per month for a national health insurance for my whole family (I pay much more, but most of that is deductible from income tax - so when I calculated how much money would I have if I wouldn't pay this, it was $10).

As my wife is sick, she needed some special treatment. For the first days in hospital she got antibiotics, 4 times a day, $300 per injection. I payed nothing. Then she got some more drugs, sometimes a box for 5 days was worth about $3k - I payed nothing.

When our kids were born and spent the first 6 weeks in hospital on an ICU, the cost was about $150 - I payed nothing. When they had to get a special medicine for $4k - I payed nothing.

And yes, my taxes are a little bit higher than in US, but come on, I'd go bankrupt if I had to pay for all that. Or rather: I wouldn't pay, I'd live on street, and we would be dead now.

And yet it gets to the 1st page on HN, no one complains, and my comment will get huuuge number of negative points, I know, as usually when someone posts a comment about this kind of bad design of a page/author people worship.

Just remember: the real bonuses will go to the managers, not you, they will get rid of you as soon as they will need to find someone to blame for their decisions.

And of course the non-technical managers will know that "everything is easy, you will do the new dropbox over the weekend, right" (however that's so easy that they cannot do it themselves).

a. oh no!!!

b. nobody will go to prison

c. a programmer will be fired

d. managers will get bonuses

e. nobody will change the way they write programs, process data, etc.

f. go to point a

So when you will have an idea to pay your rent with the money you will get from your new book, just remember what you wrote: "Knowledge isn't a property. Copying is not theft.". So I assume it's fine that you will get nothing. So the choice is simple: you will be either a hungry homeless writer or you will find some other job.

And we will end with little books, little knowledge, little art.

They gave me premium account for a month. I didn't use it. A couple of months later I wanted to check how it works, so I asked them to enable me the premium account for 1h or 1 day. I wanted to check how the features work. After a week I got an answer: the premium account is available when you will pay. So I resigned. I don't like paying for I-have-no-idea-what.

If lose it, I will spend months for finding a new one.

I will send emails with no response.

I will be offered to spend enormous time for multilevel recruitment process, just to be rejected at the end.

I will spend hours making shitty take-home tasks, just to be rejected. Some companies even don't check them when I upload it on a server.

I will be asked terribly complicated white-board questions about forgotten algorithms used in no place. All that just to be offered a job about coding ETLs or adding some Javascript to a website.

All just to get a simple job. It doesn't look like companies are afraid. It rather looks like companies have endless stream of candidates and want to crawl them first, so they could not hire them later.

My last job hunt: 55 resumes sent (I was a perfect fit for 15 positions, not 100% for the rest). 10 companies responded. 5 were interested only about the salary, 4 of them didn't respond, 1 responded with "you wanted too much, we are not negotiating salaries". 2 terribly complicated take-home things (one company didn't event check it before rejecting me). Just 1 job offer, I took it, as I didn't get any other option after 3 months of searching.

It was 2 years ago. I'm looking for a job again... I've sent 20 resumes. Got no answer.

All 55 companies were posting the same job ads for the next months. About 5 of them are doing all the time, and the web is full of opinions how great the companies are.

So generally I feel like I'm rather useless than needed for the companies.

Writing anonymously here is cool :)