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shanghaiawayon South Korea and Sweden are the most innovative countries in the world

Butthurt because Murica isn't #1

shanghaiawayon Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

Put it in the bin, write a blog post about it, submit the post to hn.

They're optimizing for people who are good at storytelling. Storytelling is emphasized on at Ivy league admissions and MBA admissions. So that's the type of people they'll get.

shanghaiawayon Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns

As a European, student debt after a masters degree will be $50K or more. Yes, without tuition.

shanghaiawayon Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

No, actually explain why licensing by country is backwards.

It's obvious and perfectly rational.

shanghaiawayon Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

Useless comment.

Lasted 8 months at Snap, 20 years at Amazon. Something is clearly wrong with Snap, and it's their CEO.

shanghaiawayon Apple Leak Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone

iPhone Xi, unapologetically designed in California for China

shanghaiawayon Ask HN: What books should we get non-technical product managers to read

This is so arrogant

shanghaiawayon Which countries are on the right track, according to their citizens

Being a tourist is far from being an authority on a culture

shanghaiawayon How China could dominate science

How much do you really know about that?

shanghaiawayon Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry

American isn't a race

shanghaiawayon A rocker’s guide to management

Having worked in Chinese tech companies, they are both more and less efficient (fast to execute really).

They're fast because there's no planning being done. Because there's no plan being followed, people can jump on a new project. They're not held up with long term projects and goals.

On the other hand, some large projects are half assed and started fresh over and over because they keep failing due to lack of planning and proper organization infrastructure for execution (processes).

shanghaiawayon Chinese venture funding in U.S. startups has slowed under new regulatory regime

Nonsense. The US is restricting trade. Frankly, I'd like to see WTO step in here.

shanghaiawayon Chinese venture funding in U.S. startups has slowed under new regulatory regime

This is whataboutism. The US is restricting the free market - regardless of what any other country does.

shanghaiawayon The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR

They skimped on RAM. No finger print scanner. Falling behind in photography. Poor OS.

shanghaiawayon Strategy – Alibaba and the Future of Business

Loads of BS.

shanghaiawayon Chinese venture funding in U.S. startups has slowed under new regulatory regime

I guess the US are against free markets

shanghaiawayon What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week

Tell him that there is no need to reply outside of the 9-5 schedule

shanghaiawayon Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?

So let's say you have 5 product managers, 5 project managers, 5 architects. Do you think they should all report directly to the CEO? Or should they report to a... Manager?

shanghaiawayon Gaming worth more than video and music combined

Top writers don't negotiate through unions, they have agents.

shanghaiawayon The ABCs of Jacobin

It's a leftist publication, of course it's not reactionary. It's Marxist, of course it uses obscure language.

shanghaiawayon Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?

Nope, not special.

shanghaiawayon Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?

Sounds like you're in a filter bubble.

Can't have good engineering without good management.

shanghaiawayon Leaders lose mental capacities, most notably for reading other people (2017)

Being in a leadership position requires disregarding what people think and feel in order to make the best decision. Also, as you're in the center of attention, it causes cognitive overload. Tuning down empathy is probably required to do the job.

shanghaiawayon Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?

Every employee is expected "to be able to fill out reports, spreadsheets, provide data metrics, understand the work place harassment polices, health care benefits, present in team meetings, etc.."

Engineers are not special.

shanghaiawayon Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?

Bring in McKinsey

shanghaiawayon China Thwarts U.S. Effort to Promote American Culture on Campuses

Tell me what you learnt when you sold things in China.

shanghaiawayon A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power

Interesting armchair analysis. Nuclear is both the cheapest and cleanest source of energy.

shanghaiawayon Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

Susan Kare is not an artist but a graphic designer. She doesn't claim to be an artist herself.

shanghaiawayon Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range

American-style democracy aka managed democracy aka inverted totalitarianism