“Profit is up 1000% and they’re creating some plants last month and hope to use advanced packaging in 2 days…” Wishful thinking and hyperbole yet again! Social media runs with these unsubstantiated claims with no verification. It’s boring and tiresome to see this versus the reality. They’re decades from being fully independent. It was only recently that Washington revoke Intel, AMD and NVIDIA licenses to export chips to Huawei.
Stop believing everything you see on social media. Think critically. Do the claims sound too good to be true? Probably are, we exist in a misinformation media environment.
Google is the new Yahoo and sliding into irrelevance. Layoffs like this cut the core engineering functions of a company. After a while it becomes harder and harder to innovate and create meaningful products. Offshore teams can never replicate or replace these functions. This is crazy and the executives are clueless. Bring back Larry and Sergey now before it’s too late!
What can be described as “Western Civilization” is a much bigger cultural zone than we define it. Historically people also never really divided the world this way. It’s just modern academics that screw these concepts up completely, have obvious agendas and lack context. Europe, North Africa and Middle East are all part of “The West”. The regions were only ever divided at various times by empires, language groups and religions. The author of this article is disingenuous with their argument at its core as a result. Musical traditions from Baghdad are still western. This is why music could influence other music because these were all western musical styles.
Edit: Wanted to add that the alphabet is a western linguistic concept that’s common to all western languages.
Because you're looking for a very specific language or tool experience and not capabilities. This is a common mistake. Many developers might have loads of experience in the problem domain your company needs but not a specific language or framework. Like you do integrations for banking clients. You look for a Java developer and find someone who knows the framework you're using but they've only ever developed APIs for mobile apps. Instead look for the person who might have done some Java a lot of Cobol and has worked with mainframes and banking systems. That person might have even been a sysadmin and learned coding but they'll hit the ground running.
This is a bubble and one that will burst very hard. AI is the perfect technology for this. It's opaque and most investors (who barely understand tech in general) have no clue what it really does or how it works. This is the closest we've ever had to multiple large respected tech companies selling "snake oil" a cure all. The capabilities of AI they mention as if they're available today are literally many decades and generations away. Automating information workers, creatives and engineers will take AGI that's simply impossible with our technology.
When the AI bubble bursts I wouldn't be surprised if takes down major tech companies with it.
Wait does this mean that private corporations from the United States will compete against national governments in space? If so it’s history repeating itself and the private corporations will probably win again. Great news and proof that it’s working bravo!
The problem is Chinese companies are subsidized by their government to manufacture things of little or no intrinsic or critical value. Automated vacuum cleaners and consumer drones are niche electronic novelties. Electric cars using solid state batteries are also novelty that will be obsolete once electric engines that use liquid fuels become mainstream (fuel-cells).
The purpose of subsiding what are zombie companies is to maximize employment to ensure internal stability. The wins these companies show are propaganda wins only and don’t make the country more competitive. Foreign manufacturing is also migrating out of China at an alarming rate as shown by falling exports and GDP growth.
None of the development in the Chinese technology sector is sustainable. These companies would never survive on their own without subsidies and are dependent on them. It’s a cascading failure waiting to happen in the Chinese economy and will likely be a global shock. At least the Americans may appear to take longer to develop winning companies but once they do they tend to be sustainable and long lasting as organic enterprises.
Edit: The American free market is working as intended because it rightly values robotic vacuums as useless devices.
No it's not real engineering at all but a different thing altogether. Engineering is the application of hard sciences like chemistry, physics and biology to solve real world problems. Software development can be part of what an engineer does to solve that problem but it's not engineering in itself. Software "engineering" is actually applied mathematics particularly logic to program a computer to complete tasks organized as algorithms. This is why some algorithms and functions in software can be proved via mathematical proofs.
This is an entirely naive view, debt is debt even if it's domestic and funded by government funds. Evergrande is one of several high profile defaults now occurring with major property corporations in China. Cascading failure even slow failures will impact the national economy in really bad ways. These failures happen slowly and gradually and then all at once towards the end of a nations downward spiral.
A nation that overproduces manufactured goods but has to import food from foreign nations to feed it's own people and braces with power cuts even it's most industrial areas is in trouble. Put in a toxic debt scenario, reliance on foreign states for energy, worsening foreign relations and a pandemic and you have a recipe for cascading effects. This is the same path that the Soviet Union took and at one time they had taken lead in many areas such as space exploration. The Soviets also had the advantages of energy independence and plentiful natural resources. China has no such advantages and doesn't nearly have the overwhelming global power that the Soviet's did at their height. The Soviet Union could have been described as a global empire something that China hasn't yet achieved.
What makes the impending China collapse worse is the magnitude of debt levels and the impact on the global economy due to China's deep integration with it. They won't just go down but will take all other industrialized nations with them.
There's no government functions in China that have any ability for transparency, accountability or self-criticism. China's current militant "wolf-warrior" stance in world affairs telegraphs it's own insecurity. They internally know they're failing and the risk is increasing but can never admit it or take corrective actions because that would mean admitting their top leadership have made mistakes.
Stop believing everything you see on social media. Think critically. Do the claims sound too good to be true? Probably are, we exist in a misinformation media environment.