Can we all agree is bad form to share paywall links here? No, I don't want to resort to any hacks since it is stealing but this is literally advertising for the WSJ at this point.
Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus
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#62A commenter on the article made a snarky reply about Apple choosing China as that's where a lot of the manufacturing is - I wonder why Apple/Amazon don't look internationally for HQ2? Are their international offices 'big enough' for what they need?
Isn’t economic espionage a major concern with China, especially if you’re Apple?
Not really when most of the hardware is outsourced.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think that? I think Amazon will get what they want - mainly a city to capitulate to their demands. I’ve talked to people in Pittsburgh and Atlanta and the majority wanted Amazon. I don’t think most people realize outside of tech circles that Amazon will mostly bring people in rather than hiring locally and how much they have strained the infrastructure in Seattle.
> how much they have strained the infrastructure in Seattle You could rephrase this as "How much Seattle's entrenched interests have crippled the city's growth". How many towns and cities would love to have the problem of too many jobs?
It's not "too many jobs"; it's Washington state voters voting down income tax and transit initiatives that Seattle sorely needs.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think that? I think Amazon will get what they want - mainly a city to capitulate to their demands. I’ve talked to people in Pittsburgh and Atlanta and the majority wanted Amazon. I don’t think most people realize outside of tech circles that Amazon will mostly bring people in rather than hiring locally and how much they have strained the infrastructure in Seattle.
> I don’t think most people realize outside of tech circles that Amazon will mostly bring people in rather than hiring locally Why do you say that? Amazon seems to recruit pretty heavily around me, which is far, far from Seattle and SV.
Recruit to work where?
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You can't just open an office in China; you need to be a Chinese company for that, founded by a Chinese native. Second, any Chinese company above 1000 employees needs to have a communist party shadow management - that is, for every manager above a certain level, a party representative is active at the exact same rank with the same (probably slightly higher) management power. That's for China though, for other countri…
Interesting. If this is the case, I wonder how many companies there are with 999 employees?
Chinese government isn't stupid, and isn't bound by the literal rule of law.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't all Apple's hardware IP "in" China?
as a simple example, not necessarily realistic, consider the circuit boards of the iphone. yes, they've got to ship the gerber files to china so the boardhouses can fab the boards. but those are just images of the copper and mask layers. apple doesn't have to ship the electrical schematics, with tolerances and notes and explanations of why things are done the way they're done, outside of their office building in cali…
So, their outsource partners can't invent new things, but can clone every existing thing for a small fraction of the price? That's a good deal for them.
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#67Can we all agree is bad form to share paywall links here? No, I don't want to resort to any hacks since it is stealing but this is literally advertising for the WSJ at this point.
Sometimes the discussion is only about the headline, as there is nothing else in the content.
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#68Can someone copy and paste the whole article into a comment?
If you're on a desktop/laptop computer and have a FB account, use the "fullwsj" hack: Edit the URL to say "fullwsj.com" instead of "wsj.com", and click on the link from Facebook. If on a mobile device, you can do it, but have to copy the URL and then paste into a private browsing window (at least on Safari/iOS.)
We don't use FB anymore.
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Wow: "We are a local media company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. We have detected that you are in one of the member countries of the European Union, which is now subject to the General Data Protection Regulation. ... Until we are able to ensure our full compliance with the rigorous GDPR requirements, we are blocking access from EU countries to our websites , which include wral.com, wralsportsfan.com, highsch…
Reap what you sow, Europer. Seriously though, is GDPR compliance that difficult? What does a news site have to do to comply?
They don't want to risk 4% fo global revenue to find out.
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#70Can we all agree is bad form to share paywall links here? No, I don't want to resort to any hacks since it is stealing but this is literally advertising for the WSJ at this point.
Sometimes the discussion is only about the headline, as there is nothing else in the content.
"Sometimes"... the majority of HN comments are replies to a headline.