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Re:Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal by golergka on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:41AM (#28328426)
Eastern Europe and Israel seem to have a decent proportion.
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Re:Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal by dasil003 on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:00AM (#28328718)
My hypothesis there would be cultural factors drawing out a greater percentage of those with the potential.
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Re:Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal by rory on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:59AM (#28329450)
In eastern europe it's pretty simple. The collapse of the soviet union left a strong education system and also poverty. Learning to program is one of the most straightforward and doable ways to a good income, so lots of people do it.

Israel is probably a knock-on effect of that, since most (jewish) israelis are (or descend from) eastern european migrants.

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Re:Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal by golergka on Saturday August 28, 2021 @02:31AM (#28336071)
> most (jewish) israelis are (or descend from) eastern european

That's a popular, but unfortunate misconception. Majority of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahim that immigrated from middle eastern countries, running from persecution by Muslims.

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Re:Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal by rory on Monday August 30, 2021 @08:05AM (#28354801)
Huh, thanks. Wiki says it's about 50/50, fwiw.
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