Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB

Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by mmanfrin on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:27PM (#15367781)

  China is the biggest creditor to the US national debt

Uh, no it ain't. Not even close. Domestic funds are the lions share, with Social Security Trust holding 2.5x what China does (2.8t vs 1.1t).

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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by yeukhon on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:30PM (#15367813)

Uh, excuse me, can you check this?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/investing/china-us-debt-trea...

Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

"The Treasury Department has ranked China as the biggest foreign creditor to the U.S. for the overwhelming majority of the past nine years. "

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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by tkfu on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:42PM (#15367944)

"Biggest foreign creditor" and "biggest creditor" are worlds apart; it's not just about being more precise. More than two thirds of US debt is held domestically.

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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by throwayit on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:24PM (#15368328)

I think the OP wanted to make clear that domestic creditors far outweigh any foreign one so saying "biggest creditor" was a deceptive statement.

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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by icelancer on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:04PM (#15370551)

>>Do you want me to be more precise? Foreign creditor?

That's not being more precise. That's something entirely different.

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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB by jacquesm on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:42PM (#15367947)

foreign. That sense said just creditor without the 'foreign' bit.

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