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by fnid2 17y ago
I believe improvement is valuable for the sake of improvement. I don't believe competition is the only reason for improvement. See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213199
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by fnid2 17y ago
It may be true. I wonder though, if google had 75% of the market share in china search, would this be happening right now?
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by fnid2 17y ago
You know, philosophically speaking, I'm not sure competition really does help the end user. Is a constant search for something better good? Is life now bad? Do we really need it to be improved? Perhaps the idea that it can be impr
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by fnid2 17y ago
I'd like to see a source for that claim, because the source I provided above says google has 17% or so.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Except they have barely half that percentage and it's declining.
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by fnid2 17y ago
And the numbers seem to indicate that they are choosing to use Baidu over Google more and more. Google has less than 20% of the search market in china and it's declining.
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by fnid2 17y ago
They didn't turn away from taking money on moral grounds. In fact, they censored results for 4 years until now. Why now do you think, after 4 years they are changing their stance? Did it take them four years to come to their senses? Why
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by fnid2 17y ago
some of us are engineers.
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's a really good idea actually. I didn't realize they had return policies.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Because we expect foreign entities doing business in our sovereign nation to respect our laws. The golden rule, so to speak.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I use alibaba, but I didn't get there through google. Nonetheless, it's a good example, except that the google that is referring people to alibaba is the US google. I should have been clear, how is google.cn benefitting google's economy in
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by fnid2 17y ago
The question is, will usb device manufacturers pay for the extra hardware at the end of the wire?
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by fnid2 17y ago
I don't think Sam Harris is your Joe. He has an undergrad in Philosophy and a PhD in neuroscience. He's also written several books, some of which are quite controversial. He's not as well known as Dawkins or Dennett, but he's not a quack
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by fnid2 17y ago
I'd argue that you should do just that. Throw them right into the middle of it. Dive right in! I think they'll get a lot out of it. As an intern after my freshman year, I had no idea what a database was, but I was thrown right into it a
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's okay. It'll be that way forever. I look at code I wrote 6 mos ago and gasp at the inefficiencies. If the freshman finds a better way, all the better -- the sophomore learns more too!
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by fnid2 17y ago
How exactly does Google help grow China's economy? I don't really think China cares much for Google -- not the people or the govt. They won't care to lose them. I don't see any evidence that they will. Baidu can take care of whatever cr
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by fnid2 17y ago
- They didn't seem to have many moral problems for the first 4 years. The reason Google didn't have a problem for the first 4 years, is because for the first 4 years it wasn't clear who was going to win the search engine war in China. Now
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by fnid2 17y ago
I really don't think China is afraid of Google leaving at all. Baidu is beating Google in China. China also has hackers that according to Google themselves are able to defeat Google's security measures, so I'd say China will do plenty fine
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by fnid2 17y ago
There are also lots of laws about fraud. Imagine if a Chinese company came to the U.S. making fraudulent claims about its products. We'd condemn them, yet we applaud Google. I don't understand.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Well, for one, lobbying is legal. Why Google isn't lobbying the Chinese government to change its censorship laws is my question. Instead, they are putting people in harm's way and tarnishing the relationship between east and west. What r
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by fnid2 17y ago
I fear for the safety of the Google employees who are still there. At best they are going to lose their jobs -- at worst, their lives .
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by fnid2 17y ago
Extreme programming could be a better alternative. Have the experienced person solve the problem while the novice types out the solution. It's better than simply reading the solution, because you're hearing the rationale for the lines a
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by fnid2 17y ago
I've heard this many times before, but it is largely irrelevant. Consumers believe they are paying for the content. They pay $30 a year and get 12 issues. It's like saying the shopper doesn't pay for the lettuce, she's paying for the t
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by fnid2 17y ago
The SOAP tragedy was my first thought. In 2000, SOAP was just coming out and I had written an XML to Javabean mapper based on reflection that was much more lean and with much higher throughput than SOAP. At that time, Microsoft was the bi
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by fnid2 17y ago
[Google] must follow Chinese law and international custom, and responsibly handle the aftermath Momma always told me, "Pick your battles." I am not sure this is the right battle to be picking. The Chinese don't play around. They recent
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by fnid2 17y ago
For someone who has spent the better part of his life studying ethics, I'd expect you to come up with a better example to refute someone who has also spent a great deal of time studying ethics and written books on the subject. I think you
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by fnid2 17y ago
I never really thought that was a hard question. Of course I'd divert the train.
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by fnid2 17y ago
This seems like overkill really. Rest is just fine. If i have to look for 10 minutes to figure out how to share my data with oData, why bother? It's available with REST already.
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by fnid2 17y ago
so if an entrepreneur signs up, (s)he's got a 90% chance of being sent home? I wouldn't like those odds.
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's exactly my point. It seems like his time would be more productive spent somewhere else besides going to amazon, searching for the book, getting his affiliate code in t.... on and on

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