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MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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It could be argued that if the news needs to introduce you as "an elite US school", you aren't really an elite school. That's an odd conclusion to draw about MIT though. Who's the target audience here? MIT really is internationally known.

They A/B tested the headline with and without “elite” and the headline including “elite” got more clicks. Then they ran that headline and got you to click on it/comment on it/engage with it.

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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Well when they copy and outcompete all your industries, then I think you’d notice some consequences.

The US has been caught doing industrial espionage as well, more of a pest or cholera situation here.

The US is not regularly directing its hackers to break into the worlds companies to steal all their IP and then put it into play across all industries. The amount of blatant copying is insane... just head to any market in Asia to see the abundant fakes that flood the markets. There is no comparison.

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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post #27

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Well when they copy and outcompete all your industries, then I think you’d notice some consequences.

The US has been caught doing industrial espionage as well, more of a pest or cholera situation here.

False equivalency. The US has not been caught on the scale of China and its forced tech transfer policies. US may have some limited targeted activity, but they aren't wholesale strip mining industry IP.

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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In terms of prestige? Harvard. In terms of academic excellence? Cal Tech.

Found the Caltech student! Jokes aside, why not include MIT or UChicago? The former is arguably a bigger Caltech, and the latter is extremely rigorous, even if not focused on engineering.

> Jokes aside, why not include MIT or UChicago?

...How many schools do you think can fit in the #1 spot?

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

#46

It could be argued that if the news needs to introduce you as "an elite US school", you aren't really an elite school. That's an odd conclusion to draw about MIT though. Who's the target audience here? MIT really is internationally known.

Reuters is writing for the world wide audience here who may not know the nuances of which Uni outranks another.

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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Elite != Culturally recognized Every American knows Harvard, many wouldn't know Cal Tech or MIT.

I'm going to call bullshit on Americans not knowing MIT. It's TV/movie shorthand for someone being a tech genius, same way Harvard is shorthand for being a top lawyer/politician/writer. "Top of his class at MIT"

I grew up in America. I went to MIT. Three(!) of my high school teachers didn't know what it was.

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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post #21

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Elite != Culturally recognized Every American knows Harvard, many wouldn't know Cal Tech or MIT.

I'm going to call bullshit on Americans not knowing MIT. It's TV/movie shorthand for someone being a tech genius, same way Harvard is shorthand for being a top lawyer/politician/writer. "Top of his class at MIT"

Its where all nerd Minstrels in the USA go

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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post #28

It could be argued that if the news needs to introduce you as "an elite US school", you aren't really an elite school. That's an odd conclusion to draw about MIT though. Who's the target audience here? MIT really is internationally known.

Everyone in the West knows MIT. That's a clue the Reuters headline target audience is in the East.

You overestimate the knowledge of MIT in Europe. I worked there and had to explain it to a small but not negligible fraction of my German friends.

Re: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

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I wonder if US carriers can start discouraging consumers from using Huawei, ZTE cellphones. They know the IMEI numbers.

Illegal and unconstitutional. It's not up to the carries to dictate which phones work on their Network. That's the reason for standardization of network protocols

Do you really want, hypothetically, a phone maker, say Apple, to get into a sweetheart deal with AT&T and make phone service on non Apple IMEIs unreliable? Or for AT&T to target certain political, religious groups ....

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