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Yes. Once US starts playing China’s game, China has won.


China has been playing free market economics despite being a communist dictatorship, so by that logic, liberalism has won?


Chinese investors care way more about money than nationalism.

Capitalism is brutally efficient, even in the guise of Communism.


Not unless the investor is the government itself


Who funds the government?

Will the Chinese government turn down an investor who will give them more wealth and power by investing overseas?

Their competition will use it to their advantage.


No one is forcing companies to do joint ventures. These companies have the option to refuse and not operate in China. Are countries not allowed to impose restrictions on foreign companies?


What is being proposed here is to treat China, and Chinese companies, the exact same way as American companies are treated in China. So, yes, countries are free to have whatever restrictions they want. But we, the western world, must not allow China to abuse our open markets while shielding their markets.


I have no problem with this. Though US' strength has always been insidiously entering foreign markets and forcing developing countries to be dependent on US tech (e.g India, EU, GB). The more US decouples from China in terms of tech, the more incentive you are giving China to be tech independent and thus, be free of US hegemony.


And these Chinese companies have the option of refusing to operate in the rest of the world.

It sounds like you don't have a problem.


So now the US represents the rest of the world? Let me know when the rest of the world bans wechat and tiktok


I'll be sure to keep you posted.


I actually wrote this article! Thanks for sharing this on Hacker News :)


People don't realize how addicted a lot of people are to Tik Tok. It's scary in terms of thinking how much time is 'wasted', but in terms of a product, it can reach the popularity of Youtube.


I know for iOS you can change the location of your account and have access to download apps outside the US. I wonder if Tik Tok users will do this and download/use the app anyways


You can still access tik tok via its website. Though uploading videos may be much more difficult


How is democracy working out in Arab spring countries or Eastern European countries? Most westerners have it wrong where they think Democracy --> Economic prosperity, where in fact it's quite the opposite. Economic prosperity --> Strong government --> Democracy. If you don't have a strong state, Democracy (or any political system) just leads to widespread corruption.

If you're interested in learning more about how China, America, UK, etc were able to rise to power, I recommend checking out this paper: https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2015/2015-00...


You've got it completely backwards. Strong government leads to the corruption of society and a reduction in freedom. If you have weaker government then there is more freedom for everyone and greater economic prosperity.


I'd recommend reading the paper I linked. If you disagree with what the paper says, I'd be happy to discuss!


Just use Google Spanner


There Kafka cluster is actually managed by Confluent. I wonder if that has anything to do with the persistent outage


I recently interviewed there and they said they're still using Postgres master-slave setup most likely on some cloud provider. Could be catastrophic failure with multiple shards going down at the same time. This might also explain why they mentioned their "backups" not working


I believe they are on AWS, so maybe RDS PostgreSQL. If so they should be getting unlimited support from top tier AWS engineers.


If that is true and they're not on the ball they have another hard deadline fast approaching: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-customers-u...

(yes: the URI says February 5th whilst the article says March 5th!)


Why would they get unlimited support from "top tier" AWS engineers?

A company like Robinhood doesn't strike me as a strong candidate for contracting AWS Enterprise support. For the price you get almost nothing out of it.


Usually Enterprise comes with other benefits that, for large enough bills, offsets the extra cost support cost.


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