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by jhancock 17y ago
I can see this being the case. One thing people miss while they are bashing the China gov about corruption and oppression is that a great deal of the "bad behavior" in China is caused by business leaders (small and large), not government.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Chargify has yet to send me an email for their beta (which I've signed up for several times). They don't even bother to send an email acknowledging my interest. Its a great looking website and an interesting value proposition. When it ge
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by jhancock 17y ago
When my son was 2, he could unlock and enter the passcode to his mom's iPhone. About that time, we had a TV crew at our house filming for a China talk show. He was captured on camera (and broadcast around China) playing Blackjack on the i
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by jhancock 17y ago
If every CEO was a devote human, environment, and IP rights advocate and they all agreed to protecting these rights in the same manner, we wouldn't have a problem on this side of the equation. Government and their proxy organizations, such
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by jhancock 17y ago
"Clearly, the current system of suppression isn't working perfectly." No argument there. How would you do it differently? I have to ignore the history comparisons by you and more so the parent as they cover far too large time periods and I
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by jhancock 17y ago
You can find many examples of China or other countries playing the bully. You'll get no disagreement from me. Your point that "American CEO needs to think long term before moving jobs to China" gets closer to where we may find a solution.
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by jhancock 17y ago
"This would mean that China would prosecute and disavow IP theft." There are (at least) three major areas where outsourcing to China provides economic benefit to foreign companies: 1 - Wages - Many Chinese are paid a wage that despite China
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by jhancock 17y ago
Good anecdotes. It is funny to think of a parking meter company trying to break into China. The last one, about work gangs sitting around doing nothing reminds me of just about every road construction crew I've ever seen in the U.S. One t
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by jhancock 17y ago
I agree that its fine to point out problems you've observed from living in China. Certainly no country is beyond criticism. I have been reporting the other side of the coin in my posts simply to balance out the conversation. I have a lon
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by jhancock 17y ago
Then enlighten us. What is the structure of the Chinese government? National, Provencal, City? How are their leaders elected? Are there term limits? Does no one get to vote? If not, who determines the leadership? How do laws get made i
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by jhancock 17y ago
The currency manipulation was agreed to by many foreign countries. China could not have done this without WTO and U.S. approval. There are many human rights problems in China, but it is unfair to say they throw _all_ these issues aside. I
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by jhancock 17y ago
Its my understanding that a WFOE is not a Chinese invention. Many countries can be strict about foreign investors/owners as they feel there needs to be a local citizen that holds legal liability. China is very pragmatic in these areas of
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by jhancock 17y ago
Good summary. When I first started in China, this was also the deal but the laws and processes for forming and managing these entities was uneven. One positive change is that the rules on these entities have become much more clear. I wou
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by jhancock 17y ago
Western IT and Internet companies find themselves being marginalized and having their intellectual property copied. There exists quite a bit of local innovation in applying tech to China as much applied tech requires different workflow mod
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by jhancock 17y ago
You are technically correct on some of your points. However, the net is that most of the value created stays in China. This is the nature of the game. The real or de-facto operating entity, is almost always Chinese.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I think what your saying is that even keys need to be managed well. I agree.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Nice analysis. [advice for those not doing it right]: if your sshd config allows id/pw login, turn this off and only use kays. Also, move your sshd listener port to something besides 22 to eliminate most of the bot login attempts in your l
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by jhancock 17y ago
The IPs would get blocked. If you had many IPs, chances are they would be from a small group of ranges and the entire ranges would get blocked. For years the way I worked around the firewall from Shanghai was to run SOCKS proxy through an
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by jhancock 17y ago
I take Google's statement at their word. If its no longer feasible to compete in China, they know and will make the best decision for themselves. As to corruption in China, it certainly exists. If you come from the U.S. and have never bee
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by jhancock 17y ago
Good comments lhuang. I am often surprised at the negative "drive-by" comments against China. China does have a lot of problems to solve. I'm truly amazed they've made it this far and we should spend a bit of time celebrating their advan
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by jhancock 17y ago
The numbers I've seen show that economic growth since China joined WTO in October 2000 surpasses any other period you may choose. In my original comment, I mention "change" (social, political, and economic) in China over the past 10 years
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm not defending the China gov for these actions (and many not listed above). When criticizing these actions, it helps to understand the tremendous strains within China. China has changed more in the last 10 years than possibly any other
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by jhancock 17y ago
That is conventional wisdom. However, if we pulled the patents from pharmas, the demand for drugs would not go away. I suspect things would open up and researchers would share and open-source their work. The total research may actually
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by jhancock 17y ago
I suppose the parent comment was being sarcastic. Safari can also mean an adventure (using essentially slave labor) to illegally kill lions and elephants. The name forChan doesn't mean the same thing to non-IT-geeks. This seems to be just
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm a single founder: by circumstance of location, self-funding, age, and family. I do understand why investors prioritize investment into startups with co-founders. I suppose if I was splashing money around, I'd do the same. I have been
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by jhancock 17y ago
jacques, sorry to hear you're getting harassed enough to make this feature request. I don't pay any attention to the leader board (or my own karma), but I guess some do. I think most of us can tell the difference between a great contributo
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by jhancock 17y ago
Perhaps this thread made sense at one time, but this is the first I've noticed it. Its a hell of a long thread and I'm not sure the HN tools are oriented to glean value from old and lengthy threads that few know about. Thanks for letting u
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by jhancock 17y ago
Next time you watch a DVD you bought, not rented, pay attention to the intro screen text. You will usually see a clear statement that the movie is licensed for home/personal use only. Some claim such a license statement cannot be enforced
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by jhancock 17y ago
For my servers (linux), I use tarsnap. For my workstations (OS X) I use SuperDuper.app to image my hard drive.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The article does not support the author's 'just works' perspective. Its not much of an article at all but simply lists a few product he's tried on various platforms. For me, I expect a certain amount of setup in any secure and fairly robus

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