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by chibg10 8y ago
The US doesn't have a Huawei equivalent. Nokia and Ericsson are the Western counterparts in telecom iirc, and neither is American. The leading US smartphone seller is Apple, and there's nobody seriously comparing Apple to Huawei i
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Apart from reasons already mentioned (business), I suspect another large contributor is that the these types of articles only reach a relatively small audience in the US (albeit an audience that has outsize influence on FP matters). If thes
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Isn't China's recent law requiring all companies to comply with government data requests enough? What if Huawei (willingly or not) put in a backdoor tomorrow? Are we supposed to be prepared to rip out all telecom equipment nationw
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I don't know about this. I'm on board with not using race as a covariate -- people are born with their skin color and to penalize someone's loan application over something they're born with and have no control over is un
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> For a while in the late 20th century, it felt like these sorts of actions were beyond realpolitik and there would be true international condemnation and shame. I wish those days were still with us. It's personally been very eye-op
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The viewers of Fox News find it valuable as well I'm sure. That something's users find it valuable says little on its own imo. This is a separate point, but what exactly does Twitter do to provide a direct connection to the masses
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Eh, just because they throw the broad label "national security" on the project doesn't mean it has limitless value to them. At the end of the day, the CCP is rather obviously optimizing for maintaining its rule. An economic s
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Depending on the use case, I'd argue Spark can be a better choice for aggregating/filtering than SQL. SQL is great for simple queries, but once my queries start getting into the many hundreds of lines than I start to miss all of t
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>[1] And city dwellers in China sure as hell aren't living on a dollar a day. They are living nearly-first-world lifestyles. This depends tremendously on the city. For Shanghai this may be true-ish, but there's much greater var
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As long as one sells their property within 75 years, the investment functions the same as it does in the US. Each new buyer of a property gets a new 75-lease. At least this is the way my wife (who is Chinese) explained it to me.
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>Is IBM included in metaphorical Silicon Valley? What about Expedia? Or Concur? Seems very arbitrary. Is metaphorical Silicon Valley only applicable to negative actions of tech companies or does it apply to all big tech companies? I sear
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As far as I understand it, there is no smoking gun. Ignoring some blatant IP theft some years ago, I actually think modern Huawei has been pretty free of wrongdoing in recent years. And, yet, I still agree with the US position. I think a lo
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>Unluckily many students who attend lectures have an attitude where they need to be convinced instead of taught. Isn't this backwards? If you're just accepting the lecturer's word as dogma, I would argue you're not re
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> _Most_ people regardless of country of residence or origin want a peaceful and fulfilled, free life. You can never please everyone but arguing from basis of 'fear of the other' is a bit disingenuous and leads to these literal
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There is no data (or even a link to a study) in this article that gives the the reader any sense of what the mortality gap between the wealthy and poor is, or even how "wealthy" and "poor" are defined. I come away from t
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>As for why home ownership is a good thing, from a societal level, it's pretty well established that home ownership correlates to all sorts of good stuff like wealth development, better schools, lower crime, etc. I'm going to g
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by chibg10 8y ago
There is astonishingly little actual data in this article. The only non-anecdotal justification of the headline is from a study that received its own article when it was originally published quite a while ago. Makes me wonder why WaPo decid
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by chibg10 8y ago
>I'm not interested in efforts to treat political compromise as holy writ. The concept of natural rights started with philosophers, not politicians. You seem like you need to do a little more reading on this subject.
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>On the other hand, Westerners (whether black or white) are seen as exotic and high-status and their presence in China indicates how far the country has made it. This is an oversimplification. Westerners are seen as exotic and high-statu
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>But arresting foreign nationals in other countries for violating US sanctions? That's the equivalent of Russia arresting American business executives and extraditing them to China for violating Chinese sanctions against Taiwan - an
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As a developer, do you really want to live in a world where "security is a top priority" at every company? Does such a world even make economic sense after accounting for the opportunity cost of the time most that developers would
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The margins may well have shrunk significantly by the time the "long-term" materializes though. Cloud computing seems to me like an industry at high-risk of being commotitized after the initial gold rush -- similar to smartphones.
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Coming from someone who agrees with supports environmental initiatives on e.g. plastic management and climate change, I always find it condescending and insensitive when people assume political differences will be resolved by "educatin
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by chibg10 8y ago
While we're sharing stories: My wife was in a near-fatal traffic accident on 2015 (she was a pedestrian). She spent about a month in the hospital and a month in in-patient rehab. Extremely fortunate for us (and most importantly), she&#
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My wife was born and raised in China. I love her dearly, but my anecdata in large part concurs with yours. I should mention she's certainly conflicted and aware of some inconsistencies in a good number of her beliefs, even if she gener
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I'm sure "China" went from China Proper to enveloping Manchuria, southern China, and modern-day Xinjiang through purely peaceful measures as well... [I should note that I find these types of discussions useless in the first p
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I'm not familiar with the specifics of how the negotiations actually went down, but I can't imagine negotiations work like this when regulators are telling you "You must buy Company X" and you weren't interested i
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It's complicated I think. Behind the keyboard, there generally aren't the same social pressures (due to anonymity and often others aren't directing their thoughts at you as an individual, but rather as a group) and time const
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Of course a CEO "manipulates" the stock with every other word. But the words, especially ones expected to greatly affect the stock price, have to be accurate. Investors would lose confidence in the market (and thus not invest, hur
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And Tim Cook also makes a lot of money from selling iPhones to a highly nationalistic Chinese populace

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