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Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

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Re: Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

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Post by ethbro »

learc83 wrote: post #98
fmajid wrote: post #78

I'd be more concerned about Chinese financing of Hollywood. Nearly every big-budget production these days has Chinese co-producers. This leads to farcical episodes like the remake of Red Dawn featuring feeble North Korea as the villain rather than China as originally envisioned.

Russia was the villain in the original movie and China was on the US side (but were only briefly mentioned). Or do you mean "as originally envisioned for the remake"?

In the original, it was in fact strongly implied that the Warsaw Pact nuked China once war broke out.

Re: Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

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Post by mariushn »

thih9 wrote: post #145
sorenn111 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find jokes are rare on HN, but I'll always upvote one that makes me chuckle

I think people here avoid puns and offtopic humor on purpose, so that it doesn’t distract from the discussion. I like this aspect of HN.

Not only that, but we also avoid inflammatory posts, affirmations without proofs/research to back them up, criticism without offering help & better suggestions...

Re: Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

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Post by duxup »

potatofarmer45 wrote: post #120

It's not just Chinese investors, even having large Chinese customers raises red flags during BD work for us. We provide a SaaS for data analytics and often we hold a copy of the client database to provide rapid answers to queries. We were recently finalizing a deal with a US based retailer when it came out that we worked operated in China and the tone of the conversation shifted immediately. They literally sought all…

That doesn't seem too unusual to me.

I worked with US and European financial institutions who regularly requested / needed guarantees that data (not necessary financial data, all sorts of data), who had access to what, and etc.

Most of it all seemed design to ensure that the things / company / people were within a reasonable legal context, sometimes that context was just what country the data was in, the people who worked on it.

Laws provide everyone a framework to know how things might play out if something goes wrong, if someone is in a country that generally doesn't respect those laws all rules are out the window.

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Post by cwkoss »

ethbro wrote: post #187
hiram112 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of Reddit, a citizen of Hong Kong had a post this morning make it to the front page giving out a bit of info about the protest. Nearly half the comments were purged by the mods. Reddit had gone down hell in the last few years, but this was something else.

Aren't all Reddit subs driven by their own moderators? Or are there core subs that are Reddit-moderated? I had a lawyer friend who liked to post in a legal advice sub, moderated by someone in law enforcement, who banned him for posting information about your rights if you're arrested.

I suspect that Reddit intentionally keeps the moderators of core subs a group of "normal users" (who will follow any requests by the admins) as a level of obfuscation for any corporate-driven censorship or vote-tampering.

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Post by etrma »

fmajid wrote: post #78

I'd be more concerned about Chinese financing of Hollywood. Nearly every big-budget production these days has Chinese co-producers. This leads to farcical episodes like the remake of Red Dawn featuring feeble North Korea as the villain rather than China as originally envisioned.

It's not like Hollywood is currently controlled by America. ;-)

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Post by umeshunni »

elefanten wrote: post #58
jeremyjh wrote: post #51

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Our relationship with China looked a lot different in July, 2016 when they took that investment.

Ehhh.. no, not really. Not to anyone watching China beyond what appears in the mainstream headlines. Things have been on a strong downtrend since 2012 and alarms have been ringing loud since around 2014. Edit: Anyone writing a business plan including sensitive technology sales to the US government should DEFINITELY have seen this coming in 2016. Edit2: Also, candidate Trump had loudly been yelling about China for ove…

> Things have been on a strong downtrend since 2012 and alarms have been ringing loud since around 2014.

Can you elaborate?

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Post by Buldak »

fmajid wrote: post #78

I'd be more concerned about Chinese financing of Hollywood. Nearly every big-budget production these days has Chinese co-producers. This leads to farcical episodes like the remake of Red Dawn featuring feeble North Korea as the villain rather than China as originally envisioned.

Part of me thinks that competing propaganda might actually be salutary.

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Post by ethbro »

cwkoss wrote: post #194
ethbro wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't all Reddit subs driven by their own moderators? Or are there core subs that are Reddit-moderated? I had a lawyer friend who liked to post in a legal advice sub, moderated by someone in law enforcement, who banned him for posting information about your rights if you're arrested.

I suspect that Reddit intentionally keeps the moderators of core subs a group of "normal users" (who will follow any requests by the admins) as a level of obfuscation for any corporate-driven censorship or vote-tampering.

And I suspect there's a secret cabal of mole-men (and -women) who are selecting presidential candidates for the Democratic primaries.

Are either of these claims falsifiable?

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Post by singularity2001 »

potatofarmer45 wrote: post #120

It's not just Chinese investors, even having large Chinese customers raises red flags during BD work for us. We provide a SaaS for data analytics and often we hold a copy of the client database to provide rapid answers to queries. We were recently finalizing a deal with a US based retailer when it came out that we worked operated in China and the tone of the conversation shifted immediately. They literally sought all…

  >> Now we have to specificlly mention in our integration docs that when we do multi-zone backups, none of those backups are in China.
Similarly I've seen docs which explicitly mention that no EU data is backed up to the US
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