Eminent DNS posted:

Android has always been big there tho.

FuzzySlippers posted:

I’ve been curious if Chinese devs would develop their own alternatives to western operating systems. Both to make sure there’s no intelligence service back doors and be immune to any weird tech embargoes. I see huawei has something called Harmony OS for phones and tablets that most recently has split off completely from Linux and Android but I wonder if there are any desktop focused efforts.

Even with Linux considering how strongly Western and allied tech aligns with US foreign policy objectives (both for Ukraine and Israel) I’m not sure how much I’d trust Western dominated open source if I was a US competitor.

mila kunis posted:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/mid-career/in-indias-semiconductor-moment-spotlight-on-talent/articleshow/108336340.cms

There is demand for 40,000-50,000 employees across job roles in 2024, a 25-30% increase over last year, says staffing company Randstad. The sector is expected to see more than 800,000 to 1 million job openings over the next five years.

India’s burgeoning semiconductor sector is facing a surge in demand for talent, fuelled by new investments and the government’s ambitious plan to transform the country into a chip manufacturing hub. The government recently approved $15 billion worth of investments into the sector including from the Tata group.

[...]

US chipmaker AMD, which in July 2023 announced plans to invest $400 million in India over five years and create 3,000 new engineering roles, said it is hiring engineers across levels from similar hi-tech companies, partnering with academia for fresh engineers and hiring through employee referrals.

[...]

“The next chapter of semiconductor growth is ready to witness increased emphasis on advanced skilling, job creation and Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) will lead actively on all these fronts,” said Shivendra Srivastava, Head of People, Samsung Semiconductor India.

stephenthinkpad posted:

If poo poo hit the fan its possible the State Dept make google stop offering google framework to Xiaomi and OV. Which means no Android app store and google map and some minor payment stuff. But its a nuclear option because all these phones will just be forced to immediately decouple. But once they do, the US can no longer hurt their sales.

quote:

One of Benioff and Weiss’ biggest changes to the books (along with their co-showrunner Alexander Woo) is in rewriting nearly all of the main characters.

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indelicate handling of racial and gender dynamics (the remaining Chinese characters in this once fully-Chinese story are barely developed, outright villainous, or both),

mila kunis posted:

its just a matter of time. it'd be criminally incompetent if they weren't working on a way to wean everyone completely off reliance on american software

Danann posted:

https://english.news.cn/20240308/dd042f4bb08e4b858da327acfbc9547f/c.html

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The use of new energy vehicles accounts for 77.6 percent of China's public transport system, Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng said Friday on the sidelines of the ongoing "two sessions."

Talking about the achievements made in the development of transportation, Li said China has seen rapid development in green and smart transportation.

The country has been accelerating the construction of smart roads, smart railways and smart ports. New energy and clean energy equipment have been more widely used, he said.

Li also said the country has built the world's largest high-speed rail network, expressway network and postal express delivery system, as well as a world-class port cluster.

China's transportation service support capacity has seen continuous improvement, and China has been strengthening transportation cooperation with other countries, he added.

The "two sessions" refer to the annual meetings of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. ■

genericnick posted:

what's a smart road?

genericnick posted:

what's a smart road?

Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1766554597890412663

Not So Fast posted:

Wasn't there a Chinese language adaptation recently, I thought I had it bookmarked on YouTube but couldn't find it

Not So Fast posted:

Wasn't there a Chinese language adaptation recently, I thought I had it bookmarked on YouTube but couldn't find it

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

yeah but I keep falling asleep trying to watch it

In Training posted:

I can't really tell

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202309/14/WS65027211a310d2dce4bb5aec.html

Seems like they're building infrastructure to be paired with self driving vehicles, if they're ever allowed to exist? For now the smart roads largely just turn their lights off when there's no traffic to save on electrical consumption

Votskomit posted:

This has convinced me that the USA will definitely do this.

mila kunis posted:

its just a matter of time. it'd be criminally incompetent if they weren't working on a way to wean everyone completely off reliance on american software

stephenthinkpad posted:

You know how ARM got around the "tech company being forced to choose between China or US" dilemma?

They created an " ARM China" licensing company, which is a classic 51% China ownership company inside China. ARM licenses their chip design to ARM China, and AC licenses the designed to Chinese companies (Huawei, set top chip makers, embed chip makers) and these companies can continue to develop and modify ARM designs up to V8, but not the newer stuff in last couple years)

ARM China also has power to sell perpetual licenses to fork a chip design, which I think new ARM stuff no longer allowed.

As far as I can tell from a laymen's angle, this is an analogy to ARM switching from retail game disc to cloud gaming, but they opened a loop hole and allowed Chinese customers to buy all old games on disc.

So back to google framework, if google cares about having the Play store and google map service available to every device in the world in the future, they would have to spin off that part of the service out of a US company's hands.

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

yeah but I keep falling asleep trying to watch it

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

It's 22 hours, which is way too loving long. You can feel it dragging when you watch.There's a fan edit I liked which cuts it down to a more reasonable 6 hours:
https://disembiggened.com/

fits my needs posted:

stephenthinkpad posted:

When 5G war started, there was great talks of using 5G to communicate between autonomous driving cars to provide safery driving environment.

I find it weird that Huawei hasn't announced a standard for car talking protocol, since they have been selling cars for a couple years.

Eminent DNS posted:

It could still be a possibility, but I think spinning off/having a separate search for China was a direction they were going initially, but just abandoned the idea all together after bad press about it. That was a different era and product area though, maybe they'll do that.

crepeface posted:

bad press from the CIA and NSA maybe

mila kunis posted:

Someone criticize or vibe check this position I've been leaning towards

Both the USSR and the PRC attempted liberalization. It destroyed the USSR but massively boosted the PRC. And while I'm sure there's plenty to criticize in the way the USSR went about it, the ultimate reason it failed there but succeeded for China is that any similar or dissimilar flaws (or meritorious features) in the Chinese model were irrelevant due to the sheer volume of capital and technology transfers coming in which were denied to the Soviets, under a capitalist embargo. In other words, the quantitative aspects of liberalization completely dwarfed and subsumed any qualitative defects.

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Marx’s analysis, from the first formulation of historical materialism in The German Ideology through to Das Kapital and his last works, was that human and economic development was based on the increasing socialisation of labour. Indeed, the very word “socialism” derives from “socialised” labour and production. In Marx’s analysis each mode of production saw a greater socialisation of labour than the one before, until finally the enormous socialisation of labour in large scale capitalist production produced the preconditions and necessity of socialism.

Regarding this last phase, of the transition from capitalism to socialism, in the famous words of Marx, in the 32nd chapter of Das Kapital on “The historical tendency of capitalist accumulation”: “Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever-extending scale, the cooperative form of the labour process, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the economising of all means of production by their use as means of production of combined, socialised labour, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world market, and with this, the international character of the capitalistic regime…. The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.”

Several immediate conclusions flow from this analysis by Marx of the increasing socialisation of labour and production:

• Large scale socialised production is the foundation on which capitalism is overcome – such large-scale socialised production should be “expropriated”, that is it should be in the socialised/state sector of the economy.
  
• The largest scale socialised production is necessarily international.
  
• As analysed in detail in Das Kapital, increasing “socialisation of labour” does not only apply to labour produced at the same point in time, a “geographical” concept of socialisation of labour, but it means increasing use of labour produced in previous production cycles – that is, in economic terms, an increasing role of fixed investment in the economy, or historical socialisation of labour. This is analysed by Marx in Das Kapital in terms of the increasing “organic composition” of capital.
  
• This process of socialisation of labour and production is inevitably uneven in its development – some sectors of the economy will be based on very large-scale socialised production considerably in time before such large-scale socialisation exists across the entire economy. That is, while large scale socialised labour and production exists in in some sectors, in others production will still be based on much less socialised production. The necessity of expropriation of these sectors of the economy based on much less large-scale socialised production therefore does not follow from Marx’s criteria.
  
• Factually agriculture lags behind urban production in development of socialisation of labour – i.e there will be relatively non-socialised production in agriculture and small-scale urban production.
  

The structure of the economy in the first stage of the development of socialism
The economic structure of the first stages of socialist development which flows from the analysis of Marx above is clear.

• Large scale socialised production should be in the socialist/state sector.
  
• This large-scale socialised production must participate in international production.
  
• There will be a relatively less socialised production sectors, in particular in agriculture and parts of urban production – which therefore do not need to be in the state sector.
  

This is, indeed, the economic structure during the initial stage of socialism which Marx outlined in the Communist Manifesto, the Critique of the Gotha Programme and other works – the relevant quotations from Marx are given in “The international and historical significance of the resolution on the history of the CPC”. Given I specialised in the international economy and economic theory these theoretical points by Marx were clear. In 1972 for the first time, I studied the Soviet economy within the framework of the international economy. It was immediately obvious that the Soviet economy did not correspond to this analysis of Marx. Certainly, in the USSR large scale socialised industry was in the state sector but:

• nstead of participating in the largest scale socialised production, that is international production, the USSR was building a largely self-contained economy – therefore cutting itself off from the largest scale of socialised production.
  
• Not only was large scale socialised production in the state sector, but far smaller scale, relatively non-socialised production, was in the state sector – something not called for in Marx’s analysis. In particular agriculture, and smaller scale urban production, was in the state sector. In Marxist terms, instead of the base determining the superstructure, that is the economic relations of production determining the legal forms of ownership, legal forms of ownership, state ownership, were being imposed on the economic base.
  
• Therefore, while the 1929-40 total statification of the Soviet economy, and its relatively autarchic character, might have been necessary for short term military purposes, in economic terms its continuation into the post-World War II period was an ultra-left deviation from Marx.
  

The conclusions which followed from that were therefore also clear.

• Because it was a deviation from Marx’s analysis in terms of long-term economic growth the Soviet model would be unsuccessful.
  
• It was required for the Soviet economy to begin to participate in the international economy.
  
• The collectivisation of agriculture was a mistake in long term economic terms, as was taking smaller scale urban production into the state sector – that is, agriculture should be decollectivized, and non-large scale urban production should be released from the state sector.
  

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/ArmoredWar/status/1766797084341027011?s=19

Pinoy guy named Rommel driving an Israeli tank

Best Friends posted:

I did a double take on that and…is that his first name? am I correct in guessing that Rommel is not exactly a typical Filipino name?

Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1766554597890412663

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/IranSpec/status/1766286687179813019

more trains for the train god

PhilippAchtel posted:

lol

Guess they didn't want couldn't get the Chinese show

https://youtu.be/CzHJK4Qsrow

Edit: Oh I didn't see I was maliciously and duplicitously redirected to a different thread!

mila kunis posted:

Someone criticize or vibe check this position I've been leaning towards

Both the USSR and the PRC attempted liberalization. It destroyed the USSR but massively boosted the PRC. And while I'm sure there's plenty to criticize in the way the USSR went about it, the ultimate reason it failed there but succeeded for China is that any similar or dissimilar flaws (or meritorious features) in the Chinese model were irrelevant due to the sheer volume of capital and technology transfers coming in which were denied to the Soviets, under a capitalist embargo. In other words, the quantitative aspects of liberalization completely dwarfed and subsumed any qualitative defects.