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Can someone name one innovative or disruptive technology that has come out of China in the last 20 years? Honest question. I am admitting ignorance here. I have this assumption that many Chinese companies just copy/refactor existing ideas and apply them to their protected market.
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Protectionism is a sorta tragedy of the commons type of deal, if everybody did it the advantage it offered would disappear.
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(And of course if anyone chooses to engage with those of the wrong group, violence will be used to stop them.)
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What's wrong if black people only pocket black people's money and white people only pocket white people's money? (And of course if anyone chooses to engage with those of the wrong group, violence will be used to stop them.)
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I've been proselytizing linux over here. Ubuntu Kylin is pretty cool to set up for people, but the wifi cards on a lot of laptops don't take too well to it.
Why Kylin and not Xubuntu or Lubuntu?
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Protectionism is a sorta tragedy of the commons type of deal, if everybody did it the advantage it offered would disappear.
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I see myself as a citizen of the world, and I don't want to be put into a tiny nationalistic box as "my rightful place in life".
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What's wrong if black people only pocket black people's money and white people only pocket white people's money? (And of course if anyone chooses to engage with those of the wrong group, violence will be used to stop them.)
So is protectionism then the same as racism?
What principle do you use to distinguish between them?
(Incidentally, if you want my view, it's the following. Racism and patriotism/nationalism is just a feeling and is intrinsically harmless. However they often motivate intrinsically harmful behaviors such as protectionism or other more direct forms of tribal violence.)
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Absolutely. Corollary: When running a country, protectionism of tech businesses can really pay off if your population is large enough. Should every country follow Beijing's example? I'm not sure it leads to a good outcome globally, but on a per-country basis it seems like countries with large populations do have something to gain by acting selfishly.
What does China actually gain from this? For the government the answer is clear: locally situated companies that they have total control over. WeChat will obviously never pull a Google style "encrypt all the things" - they'll happily help the state reduce the credit scores of political dissidents and anyone who is friends with them. For politically connected cronies (e.g. WeChat owners), the answer is also clear. But…
Can someone name one innovative or disruptive technology that has come out of China in the last 20 years? Honest question. I am admitting ignorance here. I have this assumption that many Chinese companies just copy/refactor existing ideas and apply them to their protected market.
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Bing is really reasonable for dev search results. Honestly not sure if the people bashing it have ever tried it for that purpose.
I bet the MS employee has tried it for that purpose. He still uses Google at work.
I also resent not being able to use google at home, so I like using it at work.