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    scottalanmillerS

    @popester said in China ends presidential term limits - The government is defending its vote:

    I am missing the "Obligation" that the crown has to liberty.

    It's called nobles oblige and is the singular requirement for granting liberty to others in all forms of government. People can argue all they want about its lack of utility, but history shows it works, and the alternative is "zero obligation." So even if it doesn't work well, it's better than nothing.

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    mlnewsM

    @DustinB3403 said:

    Maybe I miss-read it, but searching Kylin Ubuntu appears to be made by the Ubuntu Org (with specific feature request and additions by the Chinese Government/Programmers)

    Did you look on Wikipedia? It's been made by the Chinese government (through a university) since 2001 before Ubuntu was around. They moved to Ubuntu as a base but I've seen nothing being done by Ubuntu themselves listed. Maybe I've missed some details but as far as I have seen it's all inside of China.

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    scottalanmillerS

    Fujitsu's own numbers suggest that the upgrade (which I checked, would quadruple the cores) would be expected to result in a 10 fold increase in petaflops.... from 10 to 100!! It could "easily" be three times the performance of the top ranked Tianhe-2.

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    Yes, but finding someone who can correctly read/write technical Chinese (good to have both simplified and traditional, the latter for those suckers off the mainland 😉 ) and also speak technical English with the same proficiency is not that easy. In fact we used to have a programmer who spoke Cantonese, he grew up in Hong Kong, and yet he was fairly bad at translating our software. Further, keep in mind because of transliteration systems like pinyin, younger people are becoming handicapped to the needlessly complex Chinese writing system (even so-called simplified).

    This may be why companies tend not to do Chinese right away, and what ends up happening is a local Chinese company ends up cloning it (Facebook, Google, etc) and so the original which is more popular in the west, ends up losing out. So, we try to put as much as we can in something other than English, Spanish, French, and Japanese, which seem to essentially rule the multilanguage software universe. As in we start with Eastern European languages, because the same thing which happens in China, also happens in places like Russia.

    Also internationally you have to price things with the non-western country in mind. For example we may charge $5 per user in the US, but in Turkey we end up charging only about $1.10 per user (if billing address is in Turkey, not just because they use Turkish). Our system of calculation is just based on the differences of income.

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    My understanding was that just as many of the vulnerabilities came from the fact that Microsoft released their source to China in order to get into their market in the first place. I forget where I heard that but I could be wrong.