People having been claiming the death of high salaries for years. My employer (FAANG-like) is willing to hire across 3 hour time zones, we have 20+ headcount to fill, and still can't find people fast enough.
Fact is, good engineers that can scale reliable systems, build product, work with other teams, mentor junior engineers, etc. are still damn hard to find.
Wow. Another HN post for nerds to self-diagnose their inability to function normally in everyday life. I remember this site used to be about entrepreneurship and founders helping each other bootstrap their startups. The Eternal September continues.
Preaching to the choir, but the man openly admits violating the law and then complains about not being able to obtain a visa. I've heard countless similar stories for students and professionals trying to enter the United States from very politically friendly countries, with a select few being banned from the country altogether, based on very trivial violations of the law (we're talking job semantics here).
In other words thems the rules. China's no different.
I won't go into details of why you're wrong, but let's just say random posters with unknowable credentials shouldn't comment on geopolitical or economic affairs of a foreign country.
"I like walking around Baltimore because I like the potential of being violently mugged, because you do have to keep your wits about you. If I walked around with a backpack and got mugged I would blame myself."
It's exaggerated/false reporting. In 2015 Google was in the process of cleaning up its finances. The sale of Boston Dynamics really came from BD executives and Google execs clashing over the future direction of the company where one party wanted to continue from a more pure R&D direction, while the other wanted a path to revenue/profitability in < 5 years. Not having come to an agreement Google/Alphabet put up BD for sale.
For whatever reason you seem to be on a puritanical crusade against anything DRM.
So tell me again how Netflix subscribers, who are only purchasing the right to be able to stream videos on a limited release cycle, are hurt by Netflix's use of DRM? I followed the massive draconian DRM push by the gaming industry, MPAA and RIAA during the 00s and let me tell you son - this ain't nothing close.