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Well, then we can but also plastic surgery on the mix if that matter.

I thought it was implicit that we're talking about natural beauty without make up perhaps.

And no, beauty does not depends the clothes you wear for example (makeup, yes I second that if is very thick can change the way a person look)

Actually not really, I mean if you're ugly and rich you're just ugly with money. You may get benefits just because you've money. But if you don't show off then there's no way to influence your "perception of beauty"

Beauty has more to do with culture (what do we consider good looking and what not) but there's also an objective beauty that has to do with body proportion for example

https://www.nature.com/articles/526S16a.pdf

So if you focus on my first sentence maybe you can understand what do I mean.

> There's no such a tax avoidance rule that is allowed and tax evasion is not.

As I've said in many European countries both avoidance and evasion are illegal and my reply was about that since the OP implied that avoidance is a good thing while evasion is not. I let you read the other replies in this thread for the link that prove the charges to Google in Europe as I'm tired to post it.

P.S. Europe is not one country as is US and we don't have a federal state. Again, as I've stated many times, many European countries had this rules way before they were standardized at European level as testified by the fines that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook had got in some European countries for tax avoidance.

Hope this clarifies and thanks for your link I gonna study that.

I posted link below as reply to another comment. They were evading taxes and was charged in Italy and France and even on Ireland.

And no, it was not technically legal because many European countries do not distinguish between avoidance and evasion. There's no such a thing and is evasion (no matter how smartly you do that).

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/31/21044662/google-end-tax-...

It was doing something forbidden and they were charged for it

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/technology/google-italy-t...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-google-tax/go...

There's no such a tax avoidance rule that is allowed and tax evasion is not. Also avoid and evade are similar term.

Avoid > keep away from or stop oneself from doing

Evade > escape or avoid (someone or something), especially by guile or trickery.

This is the reason why many US tech companies got fined in Europe (Apple and Google are one of them)

P.S. can someone explain why I get down votes for something factual? This forum is ridiculous at times

I'd say we've to read both sides then.

> The practices of slavery and human trafficking are still prevalent in modern America with estimated 17,500 foreign nationals and 400,000 Americans being trafficked into and within the United States every year with 80% of those being women and children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery_in_the_Un...

The same problem you're referring to is also true for news regarding China. Have you ever thought about it?

I've traveled for an extended time in both US and China and as you say you hardly get shot on a trip in California you also will not get arrested just for holding a foreign passport in Shanghai

As far I'm concerned I felt much safer in China for many reason that I'm not here to explain.

To be honest, as European I think China and US are pretty similar in many ways (propaganda, law enforcement etc).

So said each country has their own problem but if anybody focus more on resolving their internal problem before teaching everybody how to live would be better.

In this forum is very hard to discuss anything serious that doesn't follow the prevalent opinion that you get down votes without reason.

pre 1975 China was pretty different and thinking that it will go back to that state is pretty arrogant.

Now, compared to then, China has a huge internal market thanks to the rising of the middle class that could take the clash of a potential export collapse by leveraging their internal market.

So said, whenever there's somebody exporting there's another one importing. Perhaps we should ask ourselves where are we going to get the goods that now are produced largely in China.

Why there's a country where doing a crime is a good idea? I can recall that also US still have capital punishment for example

Going fast is not the only metric to use to hire someone. To use your example, you might be a great driver that can go 60mph on the snow but you drive the same way when there's traffic on the street, you're basically unaware of the problems you can cause.

This is true in the same way on engineering. Too many kids deploy feature and release it in production without testing or without accounting edge cases that at scale cause massive problem to the user base. While this could not be a problem in a startup it's a big issue in traditional corporation and where error are not an option (you wouldn't consider giving the software of a medical device to somehow who has demonstrates skills but don't know what issues may cause)

Like an African proverb says: If you want go fast, go alone. If you want go far go together

I think that's a good comparison. Indeed while in China living condition of the middle class are good and comparable to what you can get in the west, and the low income class still have a fair access to basic needs (housing, water, toilet) this not exactly the same in India.

So if the open market would be the only reason of the progress we should've seen something similar in the two countries.

The only similarity that they both share is a growing disparity between high income class and low income class

Also Chinese policy is more towards open trade than open market. I feel that complicated topic such as progress can't be condensed into one action that can deliver the expected results. In fact is always a combination of policy that bring the desired effect

Having standards does not imply no more new APIs. But creating them only for one browser doesn't bring progress on the web but rather lead to monopoly and at the end inaccessibility.

Consider that with chrome (and chromium based browser) we're close to the situation we had back in the days with IE.

So I'd say open standard definition for web API should come first, later each browser will have their own release process to include them inside but at least behavior and aspect are defined upfront and this will avoid lots of issue

As of today for example and I'm using both Firefox and Chrome daily. You'd be surprised on how many website have been tested only in Chrome and some stuff do not work in Firefox at all

I'd just not reply to everything to avoid a infinite loop but I like your last point:

> Most people at this point, practice these questions just like leetcode

This is a valid point and as you mentioned is true also for hard skills (eg. Algo prep with leet code). But at one point the question would be: would you rather hire someone that showed dedication for the job to the point that spent weeks/months to prepare leet code or possible other interview questions or someone that perhaps performed worst during the interview?

Most of the time you can always find out who is just memorizing everything by asking follow-up questions (both for technical and non technical questions) and as I guess you know (there's plenty info on the web) you can find books on how to crack any interview

Use standards, that's enough. And avoid that a random Corp create the next unaccessible thing and force it down to everybody and avoid support for not standardized / proprietary technologies

This is the first time I've heard that the financial system has lifted "billions" of people out of poverty.

I thought that the financial system was the consequences of wealth rather than the cause (otherwise this doesn't explain why none of the African stock exchange are fighting with NYSE for the most attractive stock market)

Again, this is pretty subjective. I find people who do these things being very bad communicator because they can talk only to entry level people. Most of the speech in any conference around the world are just simple stuff that can be condensed in an hour. Usually you could do the same in a 10 minutes session if you are targeting a more skilled audience

Also I had experience on working and organizing team of people and I would really point out that is super hard to get people to work together doesn't matter what. There are people who hate each other and can't work together and some that dick head that get along well.

So what I do I just skip the soft skills section in the first place. What I find it useful is scenario base question like: last time you had a conflict in your team how did you handle that. You can understand a good communicator much better in this way than claiming to have experience at speaking on random conference (communication has much more to do with being able to empathize with the other person's point of view rather than keep pushing through your own idea with very nice pointless words)

> List fluffy soft skills like "I am a good communicator" without any backup. Results speak louder than words.

How you bring result/backup about soft skills in a CV? Is already quite hard to get an understanding of hard skill from a piece of paper let alone soft skills.

Unless you think you can condense the complexity of the experience of a person in a two page document.

Also trying to backup something like that with things such as "speaking engagement" etc is not even working. There are people who are "good communicator" for a certain audience (eg. Entry level) but quite bad for another audience (eg seasoned engineers). For example for me a bad communicator is a person that spend 30 minutes to share a concept that can be compressed in 2.