in theory it's stealing something very very very abstwact?

It is of course theft, my point was that I assume the west is also taking whatever they can get so that it would be hypocritical to blame China for doing it.

Eh, that's kind of rationalizing away the threat posed by China's habitual targeting of US military tech, specifically in aviation.

I'll believe China has corrected its dirty sourcing ways when they build their own reliable Mach 2 Fighter Jet from scratch without reading Lockheed's homework first.

Where is the difference to what the USA and USSR respectively Russia did and probably still do to each other? Or the USA allegedly still spying on Airbus? If everybody does it, why only blame China?

interesting that that's interesting enough for you to research and note.

(please re-read the original article.)

It's in the first page of the user's comment history, not that hard to find on a quick skim.

yet FORTRAN and COBOL do

and so do reams of magnetic tape around the Beltway

who will maintain old code? you?

The poster specifically mentioned 14 years with these technologies. The fact that there are technologies 14+ years old is irrelevant to this point.

You can parse that statement in a more favorable way. She has spent 14 years acquiring experience with relatively new (or newly popular) technologies.

So 14 years ago, she would have worked with a technology that is now slightly more than 14 years old--I'd guess C#, which is now 16 years old. Maybe 9 years ago, she worked with Ruby on Rails, which is now 10 years old. Maybe 6 years ago, she started on Node.js, which is now 7 years old. Even now, she is likely keeping an eye on HN to see what would be most useful to learn next.

In other words, she has been continuously jogging on the technology treadmill, rather than staking out a niche to ride out until retirement.

This is likely the only way to avoid moving to progressively stodgier and less interesting companies as you age. The young and hip companies use the young and hip tech stacks. Established companies wait to see whether the new thing can cut costs or increase revenues before migrating, and part of that equation is not paying a premium for specialist developers that are currently in high demand.

>> Though I have 14 years experience with technologies that are suppose to be in demand (Ruby On Rails, NodeJS)

> I don't know why you've been grayed out.

Because we oldtimers know that ruby on rails and especially node.js hasn't existed for 14years. Ruby on rails had it's first stable release about 11 years ago.

Actually used to be a recruiter joke/meme : young rails wizard wanted, minimum 10 years experience (back before 2005 :-)

That said, I didn't downvote, but I suspect this is the reason.

Edit: removed this, I might have misread the post as pointed out by others -> (not being careful with facts, massive hyperbole)

"Maybe I am reading too much in to it...."

No, i don't think that you're reading too much into it. In fact, i like your analysis. I'll have to rewatch it, again. LOL

especially concerning "unity" vs. "FREEDOMMM!"

Is that a Helldivers reference?

"It's a big boy's game for large nation states...."

The Koreans have a saying: "...like a shrimp between two whales...."

"Protectionist trade policies are common in Japan too...."

There are advantages to the way Asian economists do it. For example, not only in Japan, but especially in Korea, cell phones were standard even by the mid-90's....EVERYONE had one. And the rates were quite reasonable, too. (No contracts, either. IfIRememberRight.) But there are(/were) disadvantages to Asian Tiger economics too. After the Asian bubble burst, the Korean Wan [SouthKorean money] depreciated to the point that USArmy Sergeants were trying to buy cars (even Fords, not just Kias and Daewoos) made (or rather bought) in Korea. (The US Dollar-to-Wan rate was so out of wack that it was still more economical to buy AND ship a car back to the US across the Pacific on a boat. Unfortunately emissions standards were different; Korean cars didn't pass EPA muster.) ~circa 1998

Protectionism in my opinion is key to helping an economy that is developing to catch up.

What Should happen instead is quid pro quo trade agreements. But in Google and Uber's case Chinese industry isn't exploiting the US market, so the US companies have no right to complain.

"Ayn Rand's ideas come from a propaganda campaign launched eight years after she published the Fountainhead?"

Yes, I have to wonder how much of "Rational Choice Theory/Philosophy" originated at RAND. And I wonder even more, how much (that is little) of modern individualism originated with Rational Choice Theory - contrary to the main point of the article.

I'm not sure I'd dismiss your argument so quickly. If one considers the "just" to be the best decision, given the circumstances, then most criminals are trying to be just. They may badly need money for their family. Or perhaps to feed a drug habit (In which case, as you said, perhaps they are ignorant of what really is just.) If they didn't think it was the best decision, for some good, why would they do it?