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Joooooooosh t1_j6mcj7l wrote

Reply to comment by mad-hatt3r in Chinese Nuclear Lab Uses Intel, Nvidia Chips Despite Ban | Blacklisted Chinese entities obtain American hardware on the open market. by chrisdh79

You say this but a lot of technical improvements in China have come from importing western specialists.

If you look at a lot of the high tech companies manufacturing there, the design teams and lead engineers come from the west.

The Chinese education system is kinda batshit insane and competitive on a level, few of us in the west can understand. It doesn’t really reward creative thinking or encourage people with novel ideas, quite the opposite really.

Not to say some really bright people don’t make it through but then they are presented with the classic issues within communist systems… cronyism and just endless red tape, very un-talented people gate keeping and protecting themselves. It leads to little or no innovation.

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MochiMochiMochi t1_j6mbseh wrote

Reply to comment by SvenTropics in How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel by diacewrb

Pretty much, though as someone who has worked in tech since 2006 I'm seeing something different now: lots of foreign contractors.

We've always had a big cohort of talent in India working alongside us as longtime employees but now I'm also seeing a ton of contractors from places like Brazil, Argentina, Poland, Mexico, etc.

At my company we're told this is our new way of doing business which means reduced US hiring for the extended future. A bunch of my US peers are experiencing the same thing.

Contractors are taking roles in analytics, UX, project management, change management, media production and some product management roles. Development is mostly staying in India.

My manager said the business English proficiency of foreign contractors has vastly improved in the last decade and the company is going to be saving a ton of money.

I dunno. From my lowly position it seems the winds of change are picking up.

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WelpIGaveItSome t1_j6mb1ix wrote

Reply to Activation Lock is a great feature, but needs a rethink as 2020 Macs are turned into landfill by hugglenugget

Well this is exactly why mac based companies hammer it in to NEVER sign into your apple ID unless your someone important and 9.9 times out of 10, you aren’t.

Kandji and JAMF also have features that disable app store and the ability to sign into AppleID for this exact reason. This is probably a big problem at resellers but for most companies not as much.

Plus if this is a corporate laptop, your local apple store (or the tech) can just wipe the hard drive and bypass most of this anyways. I don’t see how activation lock is a problem as long as the user doesn’t treat their work Mac like a personal computer.

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