My story with Canadian immigration for tech worker: I worked in the country for 5 years under a student work permit and postgraduate work permit. My last employer filled for LMIA two times, and both applications were returned without explanations without even being officially rejected. The immigration lawyer handling the process told that ESDC does that for a half of applications and that he can't guess any reason for that other than being its policy. Appealing to the ESDC through every possible channel only resulted in this: "ESDC does not consult public on individual LMIA applications"
After that I said Canada bye not because I had no option to stay there, but because I simply felt fed up with weak tech job market and attitude of immigration officials.
Yandex, their Russian competitor was pushing their Yandex Browser with these scamvertisements for years.
How many times you saw this on android? A popunder comes with "Delete viruz in 5..4..3..2..1." and then your phone hangs. If you click on it, it opens that Yandex browser in google market.
>Alibaba Breaks Records, Sells $17.7 Billion on Singles' Day
The trick is simple: Alibaba gives 11.11 participant stores discount ads through the year. As nobody is still buying anything from 90% of the stores, most stores are forced to hire people to buy from them and return goods afterwards just to get those discounted clicks. This is why US SEC is going after them claiming that they faked 2/3 of the digit last year and in 2014.
Yes, because you can't beat industrial scale clickbait networks and clickfarms. For every buck made by Google and FB on ads, Russians exploiting the internet advertising networks can make two, and only a small amount of profit for arbitrage goes to the 3rd tier players and guys with captive marketplaces.
This is "The King is Naked" fact of the online ads industry. Ad industry really dislikes people digging in their rigged audit reports. I myself once worked for a private ad marketplace and was made to sign a 15 page NDA.
Does this mean that for every 3 bucks you spend on PPC, PPM, affiliate, and e.t.c. you give 2 of these bucks to Russian clickfarm? YES! And the whole industry was doing that for the last 6 or 7 years.
When I was renting place in a rather expensive coworking in Russia (USD $800 a month), a third of all places were rented out by a clickfarming collective whose guys all drove BMW 7 and M series cars.
I believe that clickfarming industry will soon eclipse carding in Russia. It is way more profitable, plus it's legal (well, not a big thing here).
>Perhaps a more concrete example might be easier to understand: If information about Russian users is stored on servers in Russia, and information about German users is stored on servers in Germany,
Here how it was designed to work:
1. KGB knocks on Google's Moscow's office and says: you are not keeping data on dissident A, B. and C in Russia because their spooks can't find them in the data they intercept
2. Google responds that A, B, and C registered their accounts outside of Russia
3. KGB claims that they didn't and threaten Google to close them down if they keep withholding data of "Russians"
4. Google gives KGB access to a full mirror of their database including people who have nothing to do with Russia
In 2013, Google gave Russian government an SSL key from their Russian Google market server, most likely with full understanding how Russians will use it (and they thought that they will use it to spy on their own dissidents). But Russians used that SSL certificate to do MITM attacks to remotely install spyware on phones of British members of parliament in Britain. After that, Google disbanded their Russian office, only leaving some non-tech operations people in Saint Petersburg. Of course they also invalidated that individual certificate (Google market was not tied to a specific SSL cert as long as it was signed by Google).
Public companies are all failures in making. You see, a company needs an owner, and only one. Collective ownership of means of production is like 10 men banging one woman in one hole at the same time.
Public companies are a commie thing, subversion agents planted to ruin economies of the free world.
Incompetent people with truckloads of cash, well just like any other company that managed to secure a dominant market position in China. In that case it is "Chinese soap operas on demand". My girlfriend was offered a "personal secretary" position in their Russian office. Amazingly, they appointed a Chinese C-level for their Russian office who does't speak any foreign language at all.
What do they want to push in Russia? Yes, what they are pushing are the same Chinese soap operas, but with computer translated Russian subtitles. They ran a ~50-70 people operation in Russia for close to a year, just to invite market entry consultants, make a single landing page, and do a 1 few weeks trial run of their Russian website.
>I believe we should try the opposite: tell the 3rd world we'll tariff their products unless they conform to certain standards. If enough countries do this, they will change and modernize. Without pressure, they won't change; it's human nature.
That was the original point behind creating the WTO, but Kissingerist idiots insistend on letting countries lile Nicaragua and China in.
I remember, back in 2010 or so: i was reselling cheapo $1.4 Chinese plastic sunglasses on eBay for around 100 to 200 USD each. Every weak at least one guy was making a purchase.
Some of the biggest volume buyers who requested shipping abroad were Chinese. I wonder, did they think that those sunglasses were made in Canada where I was living back then?
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My story with Canadian immigration for tech worker: I worked in the country for 5 years under a student work permit and postgraduate work permit. My last employer filled for LMIA two times, and both applications were returned without explanations without even being officially rejected. The immigration lawyer handling the process told that ESDC does that for a half of applications and that he can't guess any reason for that other than being its policy. Appealing to the ESDC through every possible channel only resulted in this: "ESDC does not consult public on individual LMIA applications"
After that I said Canada bye not because I had no option to stay there, but because I simply felt fed up with weak tech job market and attitude of immigration officials.
Most Americans can't find America on the map
Yandex, their Russian competitor was pushing their Yandex Browser with these scamvertisements for years.
How many times you saw this on android? A popunder comes with "Delete viruz in 5..4..3..2..1." and then your phone hangs. If you click on it, it opens that Yandex browser in google market.
Last year it was like that: 90% China, 6% Russia, 4% everything else
Still, 5.9 Billion bucks is nothing to sneeze at. Their international outlet racked more sales today in Russia than what eBay sells here in a year.
>Alibaba Breaks Records, Sells $17.7 Billion on Singles' Day
The trick is simple: Alibaba gives 11.11 participant stores discount ads through the year. As nobody is still buying anything from 90% of the stores, most stores are forced to hire people to buy from them and return goods afterwards just to get those discounted clicks. This is why US SEC is going after them claiming that they faked 2/3 of the digit last year and in 2014.
Yes, because you can't beat industrial scale clickbait networks and clickfarms. For every buck made by Google and FB on ads, Russians exploiting the internet advertising networks can make two, and only a small amount of profit for arbitrage goes to the 3rd tier players and guys with captive marketplaces.
This is "The King is Naked" fact of the online ads industry. Ad industry really dislikes people digging in their rigged audit reports. I myself once worked for a private ad marketplace and was made to sign a 15 page NDA.
Does this mean that for every 3 bucks you spend on PPC, PPM, affiliate, and e.t.c. you give 2 of these bucks to Russian clickfarm? YES! And the whole industry was doing that for the last 6 or 7 years.
When I was renting place in a rather expensive coworking in Russia (USD $800 a month), a third of all places were rented out by a clickfarming collective whose guys all drove BMW 7 and M series cars.
I believe that clickfarming industry will soon eclipse carding in Russia. It is way more profitable, plus it's legal (well, not a big thing here).
>heard rumblings a while back now that PayPal had cut some kind of deal with AliBaba
Well, they dropped Baba as a customer and banned every Aliexpress merchant back in 2011 or late 2010.
Why would Paypal work for a competitor?
:)
Yeah, those types are trying to teach bees how to make honey
Mark, you can't beat Russian clickfarmers. Russian clickfarms are undefeatable!
>Perhaps a more concrete example might be easier to understand: If information about Russian users is stored on servers in Russia, and information about German users is stored on servers in Germany,
Here how it was designed to work:
1. KGB knocks on Google's Moscow's office and says: you are not keeping data on dissident A, B. and C in Russia because their spooks can't find them in the data they intercept
2. Google responds that A, B, and C registered their accounts outside of Russia
3. KGB claims that they didn't and threaten Google to close them down if they keep withholding data of "Russians"
4. Google gives KGB access to a full mirror of their database including people who have nothing to do with Russia
In 2013, Google gave Russian government an SSL key from their Russian Google market server, most likely with full understanding how Russians will use it (and they thought that they will use it to spy on their own dissidents). But Russians used that SSL certificate to do MITM attacks to remotely install spyware on phones of British members of parliament in Britain. After that, Google disbanded their Russian office, only leaving some non-tech operations people in Saint Petersburg. Of course they also invalidated that individual certificate (Google market was not tied to a specific SSL cert as long as it was signed by Google).
I know how they pull these digits:
They count in wholesale orders, even ones that are done for fulfillment in 6 months time and more.
Are they lying? No. Are they geniune with digits? No No No.
> algorithm had a bug and stopped working, and the trump pages started showing up.
Russian clickfarms are undefeatable!
Public companies are all failures in making. You see, a company needs an owner, and only one. Collective ownership of means of production is like 10 men banging one woman in one hole at the same time.
Public companies are a commie thing, subversion agents planted to ruin economies of the free world.
Incompetent people with truckloads of cash, well just like any other company that managed to secure a dominant market position in China. In that case it is "Chinese soap operas on demand". My girlfriend was offered a "personal secretary" position in their Russian office. Amazingly, they appointed a Chinese C-level for their Russian office who does't speak any foreign language at all.
What do they want to push in Russia? Yes, what they are pushing are the same Chinese soap operas, but with computer translated Russian subtitles. They ran a ~50-70 people operation in Russia for close to a year, just to invite market entry consultants, make a single landing page, and do a 1 few weeks trial run of their Russian website.
Internet strippers will have to register with the party general secrerary office.
>I believe we should try the opposite: tell the 3rd world we'll tariff their products unless they conform to certain standards. If enough countries do this, they will change and modernize. Without pressure, they won't change; it's human nature.
That was the original point behind creating the WTO, but Kissingerist idiots insistend on letting countries lile Nicaragua and China in.
i thought you can only use bluetooth for handsfree on idevices
Tablets are a fad
Who needs a computer with no keyboard? Some lamer AIDS struck hipster tech CEO?
The next big thing: a phone without any plugs lololo
And yes, I didn't mean Apple, I meant Intel
you dont get it, it is a strategic competition
omg, im beginning to forget English...
I remember, back in 2010 or so: i was reselling cheapo $1.4 Chinese plastic sunglasses on eBay for around 100 to 200 USD each. Every weak at least one guy was making a purchase.
Some of the biggest volume buyers who requested shipping abroad were Chinese. I wonder, did they think that those sunglasses were made in Canada where I was living back then?
No, the reason is simpler. They dont want to feed Samsung as it is the de facto only serious lpddr4 maker now