I have to go back to china in 3 weeks - im dreading it

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018111415.html

Remember the good old days when we thought technology would liberate people?

umm.. when was that

? before electricity

Early 90s and 2000s were neat

soon the chinks will be a model surveillance state

they are already quite effective in that regard

now they just want to make it "public"

its one off outcry and then people surrender to it

next up US

then UK

then europe

then russia or afrika which ever gets to that level of enforcing first

(i forgot australia but they have similar setup going on already so ~ )

isnt UK kinda already there

yeah they are

but not that public yet

same as USA

That they can doesn't mean they do

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@Deleted User As @plasticsword said, generally in china/korea/japan they want engineers (software/mechanical/whatever) they want them to speak english, the native language, AND pay them a shit salary for all of the above

yu

I'm getting all that and more

remember you'll be eating soy for lunch unironically

Ah, well. No more traveling to Cheena.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018111415.html

how hackable do you think these are

@ChairmanKaga software engineers in Taiwan get roughly the same salary as in Germany. On one side, you have shit working conditions (7 days off / year) but on the other hand, the living costs are around 60 % of what they are in Germany. So you have a shit ton of money

The thing is the native language stuff. in Germany, most employers will take non German speaking software engineers if they can speak English. In Taiwan, it doesn't work because most people, even people in software, don't speak English. I had so many interviews in major Taiwanese companies and it always ended up like "please learn Chinese and come again". Even the big international companies

But the salaries are really not bad. Most employers write it on the job ad

1.3 - 1.5 kk ntd / year are usual for a developer in Taiwan

Which is also the usual German salary

Was talking to my aunt who lives in Denmark yesterday and holy shit they get 6 weeks off yearly

Was mindblown

What's so special about that?

Ohh got it.

6 weeks is a lot even for European standards. 5 is the usual. In the beginning when 5 became usual, I thought it was a lot, now, I can't really get along with just 5 weeks and aggressively accumulate overtime to make it 6-7

one week is pretty usual for most of Asia, no idea how they get along with that

also they're pretty strict on working times. From what I saw, most companies won't give you flexible working hours. Also overtime compensation is (at least in Taiwan) not guaranteed (although most international companies do compensate overtime)