It is odd that there is such a significant cultural difference.

It is odd that there is such a significant cultural difference. On the other hand, the difference in culture may be more subtle than we realize. For this test, they should have had an automated way to enforce that rule, if possible. Look at the actual levels of piracy in the US versus China. In the US, you will get some people who say they are worried it might be wrong or that they will get caught. But most people will say something like 'watching this free stream doesn't hurt anyone'. In the US, we have no problem with high end shoes that look similar to one another, or low-end similar to high-end. But there is a subtle distinction -- there must be some way to claim that this is not copying the other. But maybe it more often comes down to taking a different attitude towards the same thing. E.g. "cheap Chinese knock-offs" versus "inexpensive sensible alternative to overpriced designer brand". Its also perfectly fine in general for companies to copy a successful business model. But we insist that there must be some distinction. However the difference between these companies may only be slightly greater or mainly surface-level, and so when you get down to the fine analysis, I thinj the real difference between the cultures is smaller than people want to admit.

Posted by ilaksh on Jun 4, 2015, 6:39 PM

Tags

• reliability (Other)

Related issues

• This is my biggest problem with agents, they constantly defensively code for cases that have no chance of happening and in most cases a p...
• I wish there was something like LEAN for biology.
• The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial).
• I probably could have beared with it if it was only limited to programming, but it showing up in creative fields has made me feel all sor...
• I hate that I'm in deep enough to know what you mean.
• The biggest problem with “AI” is that big corps are shoving it down our throats.