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How anyone can look at over a billion unique people and say "Chinese this" or "Chinese that" is as far beyond me as anything.
by whatshisface 3y ago
How anyone can look at over a billion unique people and say "Chinese this" or "Chinese that" is as far beyond me as anything.
- makeitdouble 3y agoI think I'd take a "Ethiopians can't build an AWS rival", even if Ethiopians are unique and intelligent. But that wouldn't be true for China (don't know market sizes, but I'd assume Tencent's cloud offering for instance is somewhat viable ?)
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoEthiopians may not, but Indians and to a lesser extent, Nigerians can. The next economic boom after Asia will be in West Africa.
- whatshisface 3y ago...why couldn't Ethiopians build an AWS rival? Google can't build an AWS rival because (ultimately) AWS already exists in the market and has economies of scale. If Ethiopia banned AWS I cannot think of a single reason a cloud hosting provider with perhaps smaller data centers due to the smaller size of the market would show up in Ethiopia.
- eru 3y agoOf course, you can't make universal claims, because there are enough outliers. But you can easily talk about averages and about statistical distributions. Eg I'm fairly confident in saying 'the typical Chinese person eats a fair amount of rice'.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoIn the same way that anything done in America is reduced to 美国人 in China.