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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home

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219 points thisisit | 1 comments | 11 Jan 18 16:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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le-mark ◴[11 Jan 18 18:50 UTC] No.16126594[source]▶
Last paragraph is terrifying, does China not have privacy laws at all?

More interesting than prospects for some may be the sheer volume of intimate data available and leeway to experiment in China. Tencent’s now-ubiquitous WeChat, built by a small team in months, has become a poster-child for in-house creative license. Modern computing is driven by crunching enormous amounts of data, and generations of state surveillance has conditioned the public to be less concerned about sharing information than Westerners. Local startup SenseTime for instance has teamed with dozens of police departments to track everything from visages to races, helping the country develop one of the world’s most sophisticated and extensive surveillance machines.

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cubano ◴[11 Jan 18 19:22 UTC] No.16126895[source]▶
Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen?

It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this.

Do they not teach comparative history in schools anymore?

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1. yakitori ◴[11 Jan 18 19:53 UTC] No.16127212[source]▶
> Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen?

The difference aren't that great. The most heavily surveiled society on earth is britain.

> It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this.

And it's confounding how the older generation thinks the west is any better.

> Do they not teach comparative history in schools anymore?

They do but just a lot better than they did in the past.