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Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running... by 0xbear on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:43PM (#15708649)
That reminds me of an old (and highly illegal at the time) Soviet joke: it’s 1917, the Russian revolution is getting into its full swing. An old man is lying on a couch reading a newspaper. His grandson runs into a room, and excitedly proclaims: “Grandfather, Bolsheviks have seized the means of production, and there will be no rich people anymore”. To which the old man replies: “Funny, the revolutionaries of my generation fought so there’d be no _poor_ people anymore”.
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Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running... by kaybe on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:08PM (#15708889)
Similar to what a Chinese teacher abroad told me:

We tried even distribution and found that everyone being poor sucks, so now we let some people get rich first then actually have something to even out.

Very optimistic but seems to be the official reading of the plan.

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Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running... by 0xbear on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:16PM (#15709257)
Those folks have been through the communist grinder too. It’s only the doe-eyed idealists here in the US who think they’ll do it right this time, just like their Russian counterparts 100 years ago. 100M deaths later we’re back to square one.
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