9。 美国的商业，从过去的能力变成现在的骗。这和中国广东的骗术是很类似的。说实话，美国也很卷。大企业，从谷歌，到银行，教育，都是靠骗术，垄断和合法的贿赂。美国法律上是民主的，但是只要51%的傻子投票那傻子就得到天下。美国看起来是法治社会，但是只是一般人要花钱才能买到权利。美国的S E C，F T C也都是一群太子党。社会没有半点透明和公道。这个即使特朗普上台也改不了。
Many people left many exciting comments. Thank you.
Some further remarks:
1. Education does not make one smart. Experience makes one smart.
2. Many people are employees for life. Many live in establishment comfort zone for life (say school teacher, librarian, government researcher). These people tend to lean the government's way.
3. America will certainly decline, just like every empire before had. Netherland, England - these great powers are just a small foot print in today's world.
4. If you are voting or leaning left, and you say "America is great for its freedom and democracy" - then you dno't know the history of how much American have declined, even in the category of democracy and freedom.
错误的天真的认识| Why they say "nothing new under the sun"
从工程师到CEO
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- 第一次到第二次
- 商业正路
- 利润是挤出来的
- 从聪明到睿智的坎
- the hack for an idea
- nerd to CEO path
- you will fail first time ... start now
- Huang and old Yin
- extremely twisted path of startup success: nothing new is needed; learn to sell; productization
硅谷工匠 发表评论于
回复 '文学城普通人' 的评论 : 30 years ago there is no contest that America is great. Today let's say USA lead China by a hair, head to head. This is despite the poor political system disadvantage China has. USA is trying very hard to lower itself to the level of China.
硅谷工匠: ...I trust you, and you need to trust me. It is called mutual trust...
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You got it wrong.
You cannot ask/demand people to trust you, you have to earn their trust with your hard work. Your trusting me does not necessarily mean that I "need" to trust you, and I don't. Your understanding of the idea of "mutual trust" is half baked, if not totally off course.
In my opinion, the way you make your case may easily cost you people's trusts of you, or at least your judgement, instead of winning them.
你弄错了。
你不能请求／要求他人相信你，你必须用自己的努力挣得他人的信任。你相信我，必非意味着我就"需要"相信你，我不"需要“相信你。 如果不是完全弄错了，你对"相互信任”这一概念的理解是半生不熟的。
在我看来，你论证事情的方式可以让人们轻易失去对你的信任／或至少对你的判断力的信任，而不是赢得人们的信任。)
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回复 'ShalakoW' 的评论 : I trust you, and you need to trust me. It is called mutual trust. Thank you for reading my short bio. I don't publicize stuff easily. Hao Han bu ti dang nian yong. But thanks so much for contributing your opinions. I do hear your side of the argument. I am never sure I am always right on everything. And I do make mistakes. I do take pleasure in saying that your assertion about my "lies" are entirely and completely not true. I do have a PhD degree in Engineering, and I don't even tell you which school it is from. I do have tenure position in a ivy level private school, but I don't tell you which school it is. I have published n books, but I don't want to tell people what "n" is. It is not important. America is very divided, and both sides are right sometimes.
硅谷工匠:... 巨匠苏格拉底被希腊人赐毒酒杀死，没有抵抗，死前只说了一句话“the only thing I know is that I know nothing"。我也需要经常提醒自己，自己什么也不知道。
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拿苏格拉底给自己打掩护？
这样的思维，就如把"Are you serious?" 翻译成 "你是希尔芮斯么?" 一样令人觉得无法理解。
再说了，你是希尔芮斯么？
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回复 'ShalakoW' 的评论 : 是的。巨匠苏格拉底被希腊人赐毒酒杀死，没有抵抗，死前只说了一句话“the only thing I know is that I know nothing"。谢谢你提供的其他视角的信息。我也需要经常提醒自己，自己什么也不知道。我唯一可能知道的就是美国的相对国力在下降。原因是多方面的，谁也不是圣人。美国如果能够逃过荷兰和大英帝国的终极命运，就是创造了历史。希望拜登和贺总能胜任。
@硅谷工匠:
When it comes to President Biden, you have clearly changed your mind, though his China Policy has been much tougher towards China than Trump's.
Your story is not convincing.
ShalakoW 发表评论于
@硅谷工匠,
OK. It seems to me that you prefer to measure a president by his China Policy, which led you to like President Trump personally. But when it comes to President Hidden, you changes your mind.
Do you know Biden's China Policy is much tougher than Trump's?
硅谷工匠 发表评论于
回复 'ShalakoW' 的评论 : Thank you for visiting from an ardent citizen. What I meant was "the me five years ago" would not understand "me today". I mean to say that my view has changed, over five years, over ten years, over 15 years. Overall, people's view change.
2016 I was going to vote for Hillary ... then I thought ... I live in a blue state there is no need for me to vote. It was very surprising that on election night Hillary lost. Still I did not understand a thing about this weird guy named Trump. Over the next few years I start to like him, because he was against giving China all the benefits of the doubt and blank checks. That stance does resonate with me. I came to the United States after Tian An Men massacre. I care about a lot of old fashioned things.
ShalakoW 发表评论于
@硅谷工匠,
"Five years ago, I was not able to talk about what I am talking about now" is better than "Five years ago, I wouldn't be able to talk about what I am talking about now", I suppose.
硅谷工匠: You know five years ago, I would not know what I'm talking about.
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重读了你这话之前我的评论，终于明白了你要说的意思。你是想说，5年前你不了解美国，根本说不出你现在的这些评论(与5年前相比，你现在对美国的认识要多得的)。根据对你要表达的意思的新理解，"Five years ago, I couldn't talk about what I am talking about now, 或 Five years ago, I wouldn't be able to talk about what I am talking about now."
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这样说来，我的"I didn't know what I was talking about five years ago" 的建议也是错的，它的意思是"我不知道自己5年前在说什么", 这显然不是你上面英文要表达的意思。
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回复 'cowwoman' 的评论 : Thanks. Actually I agree that athletes from China, Japan and Korea are inspirational and they performed really well. China even won 4x100 swim gold in man's category. Kudos.
I'm impressed by the insightful perspectives and witty writing style of 硅谷工匠. Your article is both informative and entertaining, making it a joy to read. Keep up the great work and continue to share your unique insights with the world!
这种草包行为，也掩盖另一个事实，那就是美国国力的总体衰退。看这次奥运会，美国连金牌总数第一都保不住了。也别老骂举国体制，别老骂全程民主。虽然中国人赢的项目一般中国人一点关系没有，但是看得出来，中国从1984年奥运会得到几块金牌，到现在真的是遍地开花的赢金牌。拿破仑如果在世，会很得意自己的名言。
