I dont get this idea of breaking big companies up is inherently a good thing.
As a non-American, I think the breakup of AT&T/Bell Labs was a mistake. The world is yet to create a lab as innovative as Bell Labs. Current Google only comes even close with their far out projects(that dont directly make money) such as their quantum computing/deepmind/boston dynamics(when google had them)
Besides, if one does break up google, you wouldnt have those divisions running.
If there are far more opportunities left by the wayside, some one is going to out compete them, ie Slack and Teams
On a broader scale, the marriage of far left and islam are not from some love of shared values. Its from the love of shared enemy, capitalism and western civilization.
Most people think democracy is necessary for economic development. Taiwan/Singapore/South Korea, were pretty much authoritarian yet developed economically immensely. Democratization came much later.
Well the idea was, adoption of capitalism and economic freedom will eventually lead to political freedom. It did happen that way in many countries, but China is still yet to happen.
Some are necessary and some are not, or can be streamlined.
In the context of the article, where it discuses China can develop things fast while America cannot, lets take California highspeed rail.
- The Buy America law hinders supply choice
- Crash test standards are much higher than Europe
- Lot of consultation/assessment and pretty much any lobby group could block the construction
- Sue friendly environment, so makes things costly.
China is just undergoing its own Industrial Revolution which the western world already participated in. They Chinese Industrial Revolution was sparked
in the rural village of Xiaogang. The local farmers were fed up with the communist control, lack of freedom, enforced collectivism, stringent quotas and all. A group of 18 farmers (illegaly) divided their communal farm and went into competition. They outperformed the allocated quota by a large margin. Even the communist government could not ignore the results of this capitalistic experiment. Then they slowly allowed this freedom across the country. Engineers were running the country back then in the communist era too. Soon China opened up to foreign investments in their special economic zones, that enabled technology transfer.
You see, this is the natural result of private property and freedom. People will trade/exchange/compete resulting in better outcomes for all. This is the same thing that happened in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Europe/America and pretty much all developed countries.
CCP has largely adopted capitalism in the economic sector. It still controls other freedoms, mainly speech, press etc.
America is drowning in unnecessary regulations/taxes/red tape. America and Europe did move fast when it was young, just like China is doing in its young phase of this industrial revolution.
I am no American or Chinese. Just an independent observer from a third world country.
Most applications dont need to get data from a relational database. But for those apps that do, knowing SQL is pretty much a must have. The developer himself or someone on the team.