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Yeah the idea that there could be a country innately incapable of innovation is absurd. Sometimes people ask me if I am worried about India taking my job (prog

• kalleboo 10y ago
  One problem countries like China and India could face are brain drain - if all the brilliant engineers leave the country for the west. Of course, the US is doing their best to make sure that doesn't happen.
  • sfifs 10y ago
    And THAT's what's changing on the ground in the tech world - especially in China. I work for a multi-national that as a matter of course offers globally mobile careers and we've struggled to attract high quality talent vs. the BATs of the market.
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    • stevesun21 10y ago
      BAT stands for baidu, alibaba, and tencent
• sp527 10y ago
  My response is more along the lines of "in the case of almost all of the major tech industry successes you can think of, there existed diminishing returns to technical brilliance". Strategy, execution, and product design are so much more essential at the outset of any venture that isn't dealing with significant technical complexity. It doesn't take a genius to learn full-stack development. It's not even too difficult these days to pick up enough stats and ML to do some serious damage on the data science side of things. Innovation is instead about having a system structured in a way that encourages and rewards risktaking (in expectation).