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Western democracy is treated like a religion these days. You either adopt it or die. Seeing people claiming China should be destroyed because it's a totalitarian country is amusing to me, it reminds me of the christian crusades. In reality, most Chinese don't give a crap about democracy as long as economy is flourishing.
You don’t see any Russian propaganda probably because they were all filtered out by western media. Same probably goes the other way in Russia. Propaganda machine is definitely going to be running non-stop during war times. That’s why it’s important to reserve some critical thinking skills reading all these news. Unfortunately, people eat the propaganda like breakfast on this side, I’d imagine it’s probably the same situation on the other side. All these echo chambers just add fuel to the feud. I’d hate if this is what kicks off the next world war, with both sides feeling justified and righteous, dumping nukes on the other side because “they all deserve it”.
Mac are not friendly to a developer. And they never were. The only reason why developer use them is because they need to program on iOS and thus need XCode (that is a terrible IDE) and the iOS toolchain.
That's just wrong on so many levels. The majority of developers using Mac don't touch Xcode at all.
Politics are the modern day religions. You are either with the cult or you are the enemy. Really is a funny circle.
It has been a decline for a while now.
What? Where did you get that information from? Their total units of sale is definitely not declining. And market share remains steady according to this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216459/global-market-sha....
Didn't know we are are Commerce News.
I have been using this app for 9 years because of its polished UX. I don't even mind paying for subscription model because of it, but this is killing its top selling point for me. Bye bye 1p.
Chinese government is afraid of people getting smart and saying screw this totalitarianism
You people can really spin anything China related to a conspiracy. The Cold War propaganda machine has worked really well. Get a grip.
like nothing has been going on
Because nothing happened. So many westerners are so brainwashed on any China related topics that conspiracy theories are accepted as fact without any sort of filtering. If you think CCP is going to make the richest man(a popular public figure no less) in China disappear overnight, you ate way too much propaganda.
What would Salesforce gain from this acquisition?
"With tiktok and the chinese government's explicit approach of combining public & commercial interest..."
You got to be kidding me for blaming the Chinese government for combining public and commercial interest in this context. The amount of hypocrisy is astonishing. The banning of Tiktok, Zoom and Huawei is nothing but a political decision. It's amusing to see someone can blame this on China.
I am pretty sure she was arrested for selling/profiting exotic sex content. Agree with it or not, selling pornography is illegal in China. I think her sentence has more to do with explicit sex content itself rather than being lesbian/gay.
This is also a perfect example of media manipulation, is it not? Put on a sensational title to grab attention, but convenient ignore the fact that similar sentences were given out to people selling straight porn. While I don't agree this should be illegal but this is not a good example of prosecutions against the LGBT group.
China is a great place to be if you've got the right connections
This might be true for the majority of China, but for big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, no, connections mean far less even comparing to western world.
but no so great if you're gay, muslim, tibetan, or like to have opinions.
Do you get this from reading western media or did you actually go there and talk to those actual human beings? I can't speak for everywhere, but being an ethnic minority comes with tons of perks in China. For ethnic minorities, one child policy never applied to them, the kids get extra points during high school/university entrance exams, my Mongolian roommate even got extra financial support due to his ethnicity. People would fabricate document to gain minority status because that gives their kids an edge in almost everywhere. Growing up, as a Han Chinese, I always feel this is unfair and absurd.
As for religions, again I can't speak for Xinjiang itself, but from my experience in east coast, no one cares what religion you believe in. It's only an issue when you try to challenge the government with it. You can find mosque and churches in most cities.
And gay? Believe or not, I know it sounds absurd, but being gay is sort of a hip thing among the youngsters. The will obviously face repulsions from older generations, but this rings true all around the world. Bottom line is, the general public does not actively persecute the LGBT group, nor do they care.
The only thing that would bring you trouble is having an opinion against the government. I am not saying this is not a big issue, but stop pretending that the country is constantly oppressing everyone.
Chinese citizens and migrants who didn't leave China for political reasons.
According to whom?
People subscribe to overly simplistic thinking - if something is not perfect, it must be the worst.
Sometimes I think this is a result of information explosion. People gets overwhelmed by the amount of available information, so as a self-protection mechanism, they subscribe to the simplest binary thought process.
You are being downvoted because you are talking nonsense.
Reddit is overrun with pro-PRC shills and trolls
I challenge you to link one example in any popular post. My experience is that if you dare to say anything remotely pro-China, you will get downvoted to oblivion.
I tried to buy my $2.50 Old Spice deodorant in Shanghai. The price tag when translated to dollars was over $8.
This particular case is likely because the usage of deodorant is not a thing in China. The majority of East Asia doesn't have the body odor issue. It's a gene thing.
I only see Chinese netizens appear in huge angry voting brigades, spamming threads with proclamations, denunciations and flimsy claims.
You will never see it anywhere on the internet, because from the very beginning your decision has been made. Anything you read will be morphed according to your belief. Anyone pro China on this site is immediately either labeled as brainwashed retards or paid shill. That's why there are no discussions, it's just your echo chamber.
He didn’t create a very valuable company. It’s deeply in the red (the opposite of what you are claiming).
Unfortunately, in this day and time, sometimes company's value has very little to do with profit or even revenue.
not even remotely the same feature set, display quality and size. Garmin doesn't have magic batteries. It's all about trade off.
He was Cantonese
What does that even mean? He's a dialect? Sun Yat-sen is widely regarded as the founding father of modern China(as apposed to Qing dynasty). This is beyond political differences. That's why he's highly regarded on both sides. And believe or not, Kuomintang started out as a left wing party as well. They received tons of aids from Soviet Union when they were initially founded.
"Unfortunately, we know that people are literally paid to post pro China activism on the internet."
It really goes both ways. You don't see pro-government support from western media because it doesn't fit their narrative. It's a two way filter. Stop thinking just because you have "free media", you'd have all facts. The fact that your parent commenter believe this is a 100% one sided matter shows how these brainwash propaganda can affect both sides.
I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them.
Just curious, why do you think they are disappearing? I thought they still have lower cost/passenger, especially for long haul?
Calling Tencent a Chinese censorship powerhouse is a bit of a stretch. Might as well call every Chinese IT company a censorship powerhouse because they are all censored by the Chinese government.
divvy, textual
Neither of these are freeware?
It works on every database known to humans
Except any non-relational DBs.
Docker performance outside of Linux is always going to be a problem since it will need to rely on VM. There is a big thread of discussion here for docker on Mac: https://forums.docker.com/t/file-access-in-mounted-volumes-e....
Our development environment has been with docker on Mac for a few years. It's definitely slow, but we found it acceptable. Do you happen to use a very large image with tons of IO work?
That totally depends on who you pissed off, see Snowden.
Disclaimer: Although I come from China, I never worked for a Chinese company. All of my opinions were gathered from internet and friends. And definitely not all companies are like this.
One of the reason that they need to work long hours is because they need to constantly change requirements to cater to market demand. The competition is always fierce in a country with 1.4 billion population. If your competitor come out with a good feature that you can't duplicate in a few days, you bleed out user base really fast. IP laws are hard to enforce here, companies copying each other all the time. Tech giants like Baidu/Tencent have extremely low bar of integrity. If you can't grow you user base to the extent that it's cheaper to just buy you out. Those big boys will just copy your product and promote the shit out of it in a few months. You won't stand a chance against them with the uneven playground. On top of that, poor planning and the fact that PM often come from non-technical background definitely doesn't help either.
Because of the demanding hours, developers are expected to change career path when they pass 30. It's really hard to keep up with the pressure when you have a family. As a result, coding is not seen as a craft but rather a mere part of a feature development process. Quality is generally considered less important than feature completion. Copy pasta code is prevalant among smaller startups because they would rather spend money on marketing rather than on good developers. Users are to be blamed for this as well. Regular Joe's care more about features and who's advertising for your product(hiring celebrities to promote apps/websites are a common thing in China) rather than how polished and well thought your product is. These are definitely not issues unique to Chinese companies, but it's just much worse.
Saying all this, just like in western countries, if you know your stuff, you will be paid very well. Big companies like Alibaba/Tencent/Baidu can usually pay 50k USD or more per year for new grads. Not Silicon Valley good, but will definitely put you in middle class in China.
the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles
Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content.
This is hardly a unique thing to Chinese.