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Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform

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Re: Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform

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Post by eddsh1994 »

screamingninja wrote: post #7
omgtehlion wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh come on already... Of course FSB has a backdoor to *data* collected by Yandex, but the code itself (as well as coders) have nothing to do with any three-letter-agency within Russia.

> the code itself (as well as coders) have nothing to do with any three-letter-agency within Russia. citation needed

Why don't you read the code? The amount of people commenting on this, if there was something to hide they'd have probably caught it already and if not surely by next week.

Re: Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

reisse wrote: post #26

There is an interesting take that Russian part of the Yandex group opensources as much as possible, in order for the overseas companies of the group to leverage technologies without legal or financial ties with Russia. For me this seems very plausible, as for the last year they first did everything to distance from anything related to politics (e. g. they sold their news and their blogging platform to the basically s…

Would be a clever move but I have doubts that no longer Yandex has much to say in Russian Yandex. The latter seems very close to the Kremlin now.

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Post by speed_spread »

galkk wrote: post #24

There is a conspiracy theory that recent open sourcing of Yandex tech and to some extent even a leak is a preparation for global Yandex exodus from Russia.

You can take Yandex out of Russia... but you can not take Russia out of Yandex. Admittedly, the same could probably be said about any other $big_search:$nuclear_power pair. It's just that the other companies either can't or have no reason for exile.

And so I suspect Yandex leaving it's home turf would essentially be a covert invasion of wherever they'd swarm to. Somehow, money tells me UK would be a likely target. Source: worked briefly for an exiled Russian company. Would not repeat.

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Post by 0xDEF »

reisse wrote: post #26

There is an interesting take that Russian part of the Yandex group opensources as much as possible, in order for the overseas companies of the group to leverage technologies without legal or financial ties with Russia. For me this seems very plausible, as for the last year they first did everything to distance from anything related to politics (e. g. they sold their news and their blogging platform to the basically s…

Yandex is incorporated in the Netherlands and the founders live in Israel.

I think they will create several spin-off open source companies (like ClickHouse Inc.) outside Russia to continue doing B2B business with the outside world.

Re: Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform

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Post by maxdo »

perryh2 wrote: post #35

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It's a problem of entire Russia. My Asian girlfriend from china was denied to enter a restaurant in Moscow because of her origins...

It's absolutely legal to put restrict your rental apartments nationality. In yandex you can ads like " will lease my house only to russians". It's everywhere.

If you will ride a taxi in russia, an offensive words to other nationalities/ethnicities is everywhere.

The problem is so big, that even non russian/slavic people applied to offend each other. I've been in a taxi when two middle east decent people start screaming to each other "churka" even they are both could apply to this definition.

I personally trying not to invest into anything Russian, simply because that society is very, very sick and they are very far away even from recognition of this problem. They think it's their strength...

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