yushuf

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.

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

Not unless the investor is the government itself

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

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?

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

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

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...

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