lol Valley
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1:14 · 793K views · Apr 12, 2018
A short Silicon Valley clip in which Jian Yang copies popular apps and launches a new Pied Piper, and Seppen listens.
Used as a joke in threads about app clones and the TikTok ban.
3 comments from Hacker News
It's fascinating to watch the US government paint China as the new bogeyman and utterly fail in it's policy of containment. The first obvious conclusion is that China has been utterly vindicated to keep US tech giants out of China. Some have a token presence but it's clear that the Chinese government will never let a US tech government "win" in any domestic market. It will always be a Chinese company. Obligatory Silicon Valley [1]. The second is that, to that end, IMHO the US government made an error blocking the sale of high-end chips (particularly NVidia) to China. Why? Because it's created a captive market for Chinese chip manufacturing. Huawei now has billions in potential sales that might've otherwise gone to chips produced in Taiwan and South Korea. Third, the US can somehow ban a Dutch company (ASML) from selling EUV to China. This has forced China to replicate it and they will within a few years. The interesting part of this is that all it really takes is throwing money at a few key researchers and engineers who worked for ASML. It really is using the mechanics of the Western economic system against itself. Last, the US government will try and make US tech giants "own" or "win" AI. And they will fail because the Chinese government will make sure they fail. How? By releasing ever-better open models for free. I believe China considers this a matter of national security to not be beholden to US tech giants (and thus the US government). The ironic thing to me is that the
I love the scene from Silicon Valley for this: Jared: Jian Yang, are you copying all of those companies? Jian Yang: Oh, no. <whiteboard behind him shows "New Reddit", "New Snapchat", "New Facebook" etc> this video
Related: [LINK] Also: From HBO's "Silicon Valley": "Jian Yang, are you copying all of those companies for the Chinese market?": this video (Jin Yang erases "New Pied Piper" from the whiteboard... <g>)