China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent' • Hacker News Board

Re: China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

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Post by nojvek » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:58 PM UTC

sharkdesk wrote: post #27

strebler wrote: post #13

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I've lived and done a fair amount of business there. The car thing is true. I would say people there care a lot more about their immediate network of friends / family and a lot less about anyone else. It's very safe to live there, but at the same time everyone's trying to take advantage of everyone else - literal and metaphorical pickpockets are everywhere. The inherent lack of trust makes workplace environments real…

to be clear, white foreigners are treated like minor celebrities.

White foreigners are treated like celebrities in almost every non-western country.

That’s what we sort of mean by white previlege. Thanks to Hollywood movies and music + beauty ads with predominantly white people.

Re: China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

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Post by nolo » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 12:04 AM UTC

I received a 10 year visa and would certainly not call myself Nobel level. Fairly straightforward process, but you do need to provide quite a few personal details

Re: China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

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Post by probablybroken » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 7:18 AM UTC

jdietrich wrote: post #51

probablybroken wrote: post #31

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Television licencing property checks are normal in the UK as well - I've had a few inspectors demand access to my home to verify that I wasn't watching TV illegally. For a long time there used to be "TV detector vans" that would drive around areas supposedly detecting TVs in use in unlicensed properties - I believe it was ( still is? ) illegal to publish any information surrounding the efficacy of these vehicles ( Ob…

> Obviously because they don't work In the days of analogue TV, they almost certainly did. Analogue CRT televisions put out a tremendous amount of spurious RF. The intermediate frequency from the receiver's local oscillator was easily detected from some distance, even with inexpensive amateur equipment. With more sophisticated equipment, it wouldn't be difficult to see exactly what was on the screen using Van Eck phr…

Yes, I was saying that the vans themselves obviously don't work, evidenced by the legislation - not that it's technologically infeasible. It does however reflect on the nature of the UK that an effectively private organisation is granted legal protections to assist them in enforcing a monopoly over a technology with a racket, that looks a lot like something out of a dystopian fantasy.

Re: China offers 10-year visas to 'high end talent'

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Post by jijji » Sat, Jan 06, 2018, 10:45 AM UTC

mirajshah wrote: post #45

jijji wrote: post #18

What they don't tell you is that two of those ten years will be spent in a secret gulag for writing a wechat private message to your friend about how you dont like the great firewall of china. Thanks, but I'll pass.

Inflammatory troll commenter spotted...

It's nice to get a 10-year visa, but having to look over your shoulder every day in fear that the government is going to kidnap you for some random thing you said privately to your friend, that is a real concern. Tell the thousands of people who sit in prison cells for doing just that they are trolls.