Readit Newssolaarphunk commented on Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race chinatalk.media/p/deepsee... · Posted by u/sunny-beast
I don't know, I've been hearing the story that China is about to upend the US as the leading global superpower ever since I was a kid. There's always a new vogue and novel twist put on the rationale and how it's gonna happen, but so far it's like fusion, always a few years away.
Economic superpower perhaps - just take a look at their relative GDP over time.
I'm always unbelievably pissed off when I reserve a premium tier of car at SFO for a business trip, and Hertz tries to stick me with a Tesla, as if it is a premium car (horrible interior build quality), and with the assumption I have time to install apps and figure out how to use car charging infrastructure.
> They have large teams globally that do just that.
You are spreading the misinformation. Google can't keep up with the censorship shit and gave up as stated in their official blog
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
> a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results
> We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn
People seem to forget Google had a notorious record a terrible customer service. And China always demand more.
Google did everything right in terms of local execution to get all the required licensure and top talent, and then Sergey threw it away.
> They are blocked because they don’t censor content.
These platforms certainly do censor content. They have large teams globally that do just that.
I agree, but they have clearly not met the standard for what China needs. I mean Zuck literally was jogging around Beijing 10 years ago trying to build goodwill to get in, and it was Google that made the decision to exit the market.
Literally does not matter. ByteDance is a Chinese company and beholden to the CCP.
Just like US companies are beholden to national security letters that can compel them to spy on non-US persons who may be users of their product?
Reciprocity is key. Google and Facebook and most Western web services are blocked in China.
If that is the case, then there should be no complaint with blocking Bytedance/other Chinese apps in the West.
They are blocked because they don’t censor content. If they did agree to, they would be allowed - just like Microsoft, Bing, Apple, and a handful of other digital products are not blocked in China.
Edit: for those downvoting me, Google literally shut down their China operations because they were unwilling to comply with censorship requirements. Conversely, Google and other US companies seem completely willing to comply with national security letters that compel them to spy on non-US persons, which should make other countries where US companies operate equally uneasy.
Americans can’t invest directly in Chinese companies and shouldn’t be obligated to host Chinese companies in their markets or be surprised when political whims ban them, since the lack of shared investment is political too. People clearly enjoy the content on there so the outcome is sad but it’s a complicated economic dynamic that is hard to grasp
Americans can definitely invest into most Chinese tech companies- the exception is direct investments into non-tech, licensed companies, that require a VIE structure, which enables Americans to still invest.
solaarphunk commented on Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios · Posted by u/jjmaxwell4
Are you paying yourself with securities lending revenue?
Most people in Seattle "tech" are middle management with no discernible skills other than organizational deckchair arrangement. It is a place to optimize for work-life balance, and not take risk - this is why the region, despite its technology density, has such a disproportionately small startup scene.
AI IS a huge threat to a place like this and I am not optimistic about the ability for people to adapt.