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Selling US devices (HP computers) in contravention of US sanctions (ITAR, probably) for payment that probably touched US banks

Note that this arrest was due to the lesser sin of export control busting, rather than Huawei's biggest sin: facilitating surveillance and IP theft. Remarkable that they (she?) wen…

This doesn’t really hold true in China —- Steve Jobs is revered there but their startup scene is heavily oriented towards iterating and pivoting

I think it is easy to imagine several countries, India among them, that are both worse than China from a skills/supplychain perspective but better from a normative/geopolitical per…

The Four Seasons is technically in East Palo Alto -.-

Worth remembering that you'll find similar complaints about construction projects within Chinese borders -- this isn't necessarily reflective of China being cruel to the developing…

When Schmidt was ousted, people speculated that it was in part due to his links to the candidate who lost

Wanted to highlight coworker.org here -- worked well for the Maven issue earlier this year

Two things stand out to me here: (1) CrowdStrike, for all intents and purposes, failed. Russia had access to dem servers for four months after they were hired (2) Donors trying to …