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Comment #28310543
And yet you stand in a 1 KM queue to get a visa to the "west". :P
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Comment #26902985
Its not an unpopular opinion in my book. The first sentence, especially the "it might be harder if you have a family to feed", is distressing. If an average developer salary is not…
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Comment #26821379
I am not in the US. But your point is actually in support of my last sentence :). Of course, I do agree that there are a bunch of worse work environments.
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Comment #26821338
His work wasn't objectively easier - he worked hard but on his own schedule. To be fair, I am measuring quality of life by what's important to me (rather than any standard metric),…
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Comment #26821119
You need a bit of perspective. The last part of your sentence hasn't been true in our country in the last 50 years. Working 3 jobs like a robot isn't what I consider high standard …
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Comment #26820695
My grandfather who was born in a poor country and was a farmer through out his life had a better life than these employees. Its a shame that decades (or should I say centuries) of …
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Comment #26805263
Yes, it is a new problem when you take into account scale, cost and targeting. Traditional media couldn't target audiences at the granularity Facebook can. And running propaganda v…
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Comment #26647473
I am assuming this is a joke, but if it isn't, then guess which countries have/don't have the manpower to be thrown at killbots :P
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Comment #26647448
Okay - Without understanding a specific tech, would it be possible to defend against it? And subversion may not be possible against certain countries. I would rather have these typ…
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Comment #26636505
What credibility has Amazon got? (The Amazon experience is typically good for a customer, but bad for an employee. My question is in that context.)
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Comment #26631794
Consider the statement "Autonomous weapons are inevitable" carefully. What it means is, any state actor can potentially invest in tech to develop these type of weapons and succeed …
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Comment #26608839
Again, my point is that, if an authoritarian government has the power to silence a person, then they certainly have the power to make a person say what it wants them to say. (Not d…
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Comment #26601903
Well, my point isn't really about whether I care or not. Any rational actor wouldn't give any weightage to celebrities supporting an authoritarian regime, simply because they don't…
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Comment #26601578
Agree that there is no need for CCP to coerce celebrities. But, help me understand, why should we give a rat's ass about what those celebrities say in favor of CCP policies, given …
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Comment #26601549
Do they have any other option other than "support" Xinjiang cotton? The only other option Dilraba possibly would've had is "re-education."
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Comment #26453299
I agree with the above comment and disagree with posters saying that the OP will struggle in a FANG. (They may indeed struggle, but that is not a certainty ;) Answering interview q…
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Comment #26445257
"So is there a court that can take the arguments from the scholar on behalf of the people, and the arguments from the military, and make a ruling?" NO. They wouldn't be in the curr…
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Comment #26369004
If those are your reasons then realistically I don't think you'll be happy with relocation to anywhere on Earth. The best you could do is to get a short term visa to a country with…
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Comment #26368809
Are you saying that the demand for developers is greater than the supply ? Where exactly? Bonus Answer: Some of us live in countries we want to get the fuck out of :( I am actively…
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Comment #26354247
"The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government." - Based on what metrics?
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Comment #26353061
What is NFT and how will it disrupt the entire software engineering field ?
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Comment #26260852
findbssales.io is down.