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Silicon Valley is Running out of Juice in 2018
- jwilbs 8y agoIn which the author restates his title thesis in every paragraph, without ever mentioning supporting evidence.
- lucasmullens 8y agoExactly. I kept reading and waiting for an explanation, but they keep dropping things like "American capitalism fueled by a perversion of Silicon Valley could result in the decline of America as a whole." with no evidence. It's absurd.
- robbrit 8y agoIt's proof by assertion. Just repeat the same thing over and over, eventually it will be true. It's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
- johan_larson 8y agoAbsolutely. No doubt about it. If you want something to become true, just repeat it over and over.
- mlazos 8y agoEvery argument presented in this article is a straw man, the writing is pretty bad, and then he says SoftBank vision fund is positioned to grow because of ridesharing, AI blah blah - as if American capital isn’t hugely invested in those fields.
- Caillebotte 8y agoI agree. This article is a case for an alt-economy more than giving evidence of the decline of Silicon Valley.
- noetic_techy 8y agoA lot of Anti-American statements with no supporting evidence. The scant examples it gives for China's rise are the facial recognition algorithms China uses to subdue and control its population. As if that's somehow better than what Facebook and Google do. The entire article is hollow garbage.
- megaman8 8y agoWhat's really scary, is that facial recognition articles it links to describing the dystopian future that awaits China: the "ubiquitous surveillance network". Video cameras everywhere watching every move you make and reporting it to the social credit system.
- johan_larson 8y agoWe regret to inform you that we have decided not to proceed with your application for the position of Junior Online Troublemaker. The writing sample you supplied is simply not up to the standards of rhetoric and general wordsmithing we expect of our junior troublemakers here at Middle Kingdom Troll Farm and Heavy Industries. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
- fatjokes 8y agoAmazing the power of mainstream media. How quickly the villain changes from China to Russia, and now back to China.
- johan_larson 8y agoWell, the author does go out of his way to say how the Chinese will own future of this industry, so if he's shilling for anyone, it's them.
- fierro 8y ago"lol" - San Franciscan