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Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by slt2021 »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #35
curiousgal wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, people seem to forget that this happened. They lose their shit at the slightest mention of Huawei/China but don't even have an issue using software released by the NSA[0]. Unpopular opinion, but if I had to choose between China and the U.S. spying on me, I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra

> I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. Frankly, I despise what the American government did to Assange and Manning. However, you can't even remotely compare their fate to what is happening every day to hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of China like Tibet. You have no chance of escaping, no chance of trial not to mention any…

You can't just compare what US does to some individuals, and what China does to the entire minority populations of Uighurs (13M people) or Tibetans (7M), like harvesting their organs for example

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by timthorn »

krona wrote: post #44
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #4

Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe. They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.

Also, Huawei are building a 500 acre R&D facility next to the ARM headquarters in Cambridge, UK.

Not quite next door - 15 minutes drive away.

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by trasz »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #35
curiousgal wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, people seem to forget that this happened. They lose their shit at the slightest mention of Huawei/China but don't even have an issue using software released by the NSA[0]. Unpopular opinion, but if I had to choose between China and the U.S. spying on me, I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra

> I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. Frankly, I despise what the American government did to Assange and Manning. However, you can't even remotely compare their fate to what is happening every day to hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of China like Tibet. You have no chance of escaping, no chance of trial not to mention any…

Interesting opinion, given what Tibet looked like before Chinese invasion (tl;dr: it was a totalitarian hellhole, not comparable with the current situation).

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by gopaz »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #4

Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe. They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.

There is a rumor here that Huawei approaches key personal of competitors and offers to match the salary + 12000usd/month (which alone is probably more than 90% make)

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by cosmodisk »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #4

Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe. They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.

This is what happens when business strategy spans decades and not from one quarterly report to another.

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by DiogenesKynikos »

esbranson wrote: post #47
DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #37

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> they insist Chinese law is used outside China They're touchy about people recognizing what they view as separatist movements, but that's relatively minor compared to, say, the United States forcing its sanctions policy on the rest of the world. Everyone around the world is afraid of doing business with Cuba, Iran, Huawei, and other targets of US sanctions, because the US aggressively applies secondary sanctions. Th…

> The US is even sanctioning Germany The US has not sanctioned Germany. E.g. a US company subject to the EU Global Human Rights sanctions regime does not mean the EU is sanctioning the US.

This is a major project that the German government is heavily involved in. Major German companies are under threat of sanctions. The US is using sanctions in order to try to force the German government to change its strategic and economic policy. This is a bit more than the US sanctioning some random German company.

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by DiogenesKynikos »

b0rsuk wrote: post #39
DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #37

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> they insist Chinese law is used outside China They're touchy about people recognizing what they view as separatist movements, but that's relatively minor compared to, say, the United States forcing its sanctions policy on the rest of the world. Everyone around the world is afraid of doing business with Cuba, Iran, Huawei, and other targets of US sanctions, because the US aggressively applies secondary sanctions. Th…

Ever heard that Taiwan is doing a stellar job holding off coronavirus? No, because China presses WHO into not mentioning Taiwan. We could learn a lot from Taiwan. China doesn't just boycott Taiwan, it makes others act as if the country doesn't exist. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan

There's a frozen civil war in China. The government is obviously touchy about other countries recognizing what it views as a breakaway province. China views such recognition as meddling in its internal affairs.

In Western news coverage, though, I see precisely the opposite of what you see. Taiwan is often listed as an example to follow, while China's combating of the epidemic is largely ignored. A lot of people even seem to think that the epidemic is still raging in China, but that it's all just being covered up.

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by dash2 »

trasz wrote: post #53
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would pick the one who's less likely to have me extradited from whatever country I am in or ban me from flying. Frankly, I despise what the American government did to Assange and Manning. However, you can't even remotely compare their fate to what is happening every day to hundreds and thousands of people in different parts of China like Tibet. You have no chance of escaping, no chance of trial not to mention any…

Interesting opinion, given what Tibet looked like before Chinese invasion (tl;dr: it was a totalitarian hellhole, not comparable with the current situation).

If it's so improved, you have to explain why Tibetans regularly risk their lives escaping over the border to India, where - so long as they are not shot by border guards - they join the ruler of that former totalitarian hellhole, the Dalai Lama, in Dharamsala.

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by cosmodisk »

brianwawok wrote: post #46
netsharc wrote: post #34

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Here's me being European and thinking, how many of these could be applied to USA as well. At least Xi Jinping is a properly ruthless politician, his thinner-skinned equivalent in the USA is just a fucking idiot running around screaming. Yeah, yeah, "whataboutism". BTW, Chinese values, or Chinese government values? I'm sure the average Chinese would speak up if they knew they wouldn't end up in reeducation camp. Yeah…

> I'm sure the average Chinese would speak up if they knew they wouldn't end up in reeducation camp What is the average standard of living in China 50 years ago vs today? There has been remarkable growth for millions of people. If your standard of living was 10x your parents, you might not view life as that bad?

This is exactly the point a lot of people miss: as long as the quality of life keeps growing, nobody will do anything about it. However, once it starts slowing down or even going down, then the government will start having really hard time. This repeats throughout the history again and again.

Re: Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

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Post by dash2 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #17
absolutelyrad wrote: post #6

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What can congress do? They're already blacklisted. The only thing left is to shoot your own foot. Maybe avoid that? I've seen nothing logical that came out of Trumps silly blacklisting except cashing out on the reputation the US had for pennies on the dollar. China is destined to be Europe and the US combined in term of tech. Time will tell if their culture causes problem for them. Smart high intelligence people + st…

Suggesting that human intelligence varies by race is a very old, very debunked idea that no-one believes any more outside of some small racist cliques.

I don't read the comment as suggesting that Chinese people are genetically smart - just that they are smart. That IQ varies by race or ethnicity is an established fact, not a debunked theory. The controversial question is why it varies - nature or the environment?
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