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Haha, all this is irrelevant when you can always count on your government arbitrarily banning foreign companies. Not really complaining. It's just business. And we need them more than they need us so they're turning the screws.
Is it really just business? Why doesn't the USA do the same to all foreign companies as well?
> Jack told me: “I started looking at the market and realized that, pretty soon, eBay was going to try to get aggressive with its business in China. They’d start with consumers, but over time they will start coming after Alibaba’s wholesalers. Competition was inevitable. So I decided the only way we can slow them down is to launch a site to compete directly with their Chinese language site." That, plus the fact that…
Haha, all this is irrelevant when you can always count on your government arbitrarily banning foreign companies. Not really complaining. It's just business. And we need them more than they need us so they're turning the screws.
Is it really just business? Why doesn't the USA do the same to all foreign companies as well?
Do you mean "Why doesn't the USA government do the same"? US government is slightly less omnipotent than Chinese.
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Is it really just business? Why doesn't the USA do the same to all foreign companies as well?
"Why doesn't the USA do the same" Do you mean "Why doesn't the USA government do the same"? US government is slightly less omnipotent than Chinese.
Competing against eBay is like saying you're competing in a 100m race against someone in a wheelchair. eBay has done nothing to make itself better in the last 15 years. New "features" routinely fail, and their APIs are a graveyard of dropped ideas. I hope Taobao expands to the US, eBay needs real competition, anyone working there should be embarrassed for themselves, more importantly the Directors and above.
As you can tell from the tldr; I was politely told they would not be interviewing me.
All because of one trivial line of code, in a 4 hour demo done in my own time.
To be honest, I knew the chap was giving me a chance to correct it by giving me a few days, but I thought it would be in bad faith to do it when I spotted the issue.
Anyway, I didn't sweat it, I walked into a job at good startup, literally with gaffa tape on my sneakers and got it.
They obviously make terrible decisions before even interviewing people in person.
Haha, all this is irrelevant when you can always count on your government arbitrarily banning foreign companies. Not really complaining. It's just business. And we need them more than they need us so they're turning the screws.
Is it really just business? Why doesn't the USA do the same to all foreign companies as well?
Just business.
The Chinese do it even better because the government is more powerful there than the US Government is here.
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"Why doesn't the USA do the same" Do you mean "Why doesn't the USA government do the same"? US government is slightly less omnipotent than Chinese.
You act like the US Government hasn't already banned Chinese companies from buying or doing business in the US. That would be incorrect.
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"Why doesn't the USA do the same" Do you mean "Why doesn't the USA government do the same"? US government is slightly less omnipotent than Chinese.
You act like the US Government hasn't already banned Chinese companies from buying or doing business in the US. That would be incorrect.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because people don't like Donald Trump.
They do not like him so much, that they elected him the President.
As only the second most supported choice.
After Hillary Clinton, who has long been one of the most widely despised national political figures.