wisty

Carbs are often bad.

OTOH:

"To lose weight, you have to eat less calories."

"What kind of calories? Should I cut carbs and eat more protein and fat, or cut fat and eat more carbs?"

"Just ... eat less."

"Just eat less WHAT!? That sentence must be incomplete. Eat less carbs?"

"Eat. Less."

"Less .... carbs?"

"JUST PUT DOWN THAT FUCKING PLATE"

"OK, and what do I replace it with?"

I'd add, it's not just about competition, in the traditional sense. It's about vertical lock-in.

The car is hardware. The software is software. A company might not have the economies of scale to make a car, but might be able to make better software. Or a car seat. Or a cup holder.

Once everything can have software in it, a car could conceivably have so much DRM that even the cup holders would need special approval from the manufacturer.

I was trying to come up with a horrific hypothetical if things went too far.

It's worth noting, Sina's CEO (Charles Chao) is married to Hu Jintao's daughter. For some reason, I can't find it on Wikipedia anymore.

FWIW, 汉奸 is closer to "Quisling" or "collaborator", as it's strongly associated with Chinese who collaborated with the Japanese during WWII. I don't think "race traitor" is a strong enough translation.