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I think they're going the right route though if its a tutoring service that is always online and accessible, I wish I even had that in university

It should be noted that the mainland govt. doesn't need to mobilize troops. The 6000-strong combat-ready PLA Hong Kong Garrison is already in Hong Kong. The only way for them to enter is if the Hong Kong govt. gives permission or the violence/demonstrations escalates to a point where troops need to be sent in or if the garrison is provoked. Otherwise, it will likely be ignored like the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong and no military will be sent in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Hon...

Note that Child & Co is actually the oldest bank in Britain, not C.Hoare & Co.

Child & Co. was sold which is likely why its no longer the original banking dynasty but it is still around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_%26_Co.

If USA is having a good relationship with Saudi Arabia which is not even really giving women rights and only recently allowed women to drive then you know USA don't care.

Smells a bit similar to the Handmaid's Tale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale

Vice youtube video from 3 years ago on Mosuo women, a bit out-dated but good explanation of their lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

You can see it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

To be truthful, most of them are leaving the villages because they see better career and living opportunities in the cities which is why they are adopting mainstream values.

My dad was a student in Beijing at the time and was going to join in because that was the cool thing to do for students at the time, however he was stopped at a bridge by soldiers and didn't participate. He is pretty chill about the whole thing and says that if he did end up participating, he probably wouldn't be alive or his career would be ruined.

You can actually gain a lot from investing in "poorer" Eastern European countries, like a lot of tech outsourcing occurs there because the intellecutual labour is much cheaper yet the quality of work is comparable to Western European standards.

A lot of products or scientific research can be made at a much cheaper price in East Europe and maybe even at a higher quality. The issue for Western European countries is that they don't need to and likely don't have the huge budget that China has to put into foreign investment. Also although China may seem like it is investing a lot, it's not much in terms of its budget so it seems much more affordable to China.

Also China is also investing in Western Europe as well, they are more or less doing a scattershot approach as can be seen by the German acquisition. Its probably just that Western Europe isn't as receptive and doesn't need as much.

Had a friend who did this and then moved to BC. My friend lived in Quebec for most of his childhood but left during teenage years. Not sure about this stereotype about "rich foreign students driving expensive cars", because I think that is only some and not all, but people only notice the few people with rich cars. It's a free world, who cares about rich students buying expensive cars.

What I think people don't understand is that only the rich and intelligent come in through this way. You need at least $1M in the bank to even be considered.

I remember that Amazon Home Services had a goat rental service couple years back for mowing your lawns, not sure if still there.

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/24/meet-goats-amazons-new-g...

EDIT: Found it, seems like these are the guys that provided the actual goats: http://www.rentaruminant.com/ they're all over the US.

Its not that they wouldn't care, its just unintentional blindness to issues that plague young people, likely people of an older age can afford housing while younger people can't and thus is confused what the big fuss is. Or its just for older generations, they are more concerned about older problems or politics from previous times in the 1980s like combatting marijuana or like same-sex marriage while young people have issues stemming that are more relevant to 2000s like internet and social media addiction.

Yea but you've breached NDA and likely committed some kind of intentional sabotage because this was done 4 times, so what happens to you is up to the courts and how you can argue it.

“For Southeast Asian neighbors, China’s navy may be intimidating, but its prowess is limited to waters near the country’s shores.”

- A retired PLA officer

^This quote from the article basically summarizes the whole article. The rest of the content is speculation or facts that prove the Chinese navy isn't as powerful as the US navy, except for anti-ship missiles.

This is probably a better url as it is the one that is being used as the source: https://gizmodo.com/chinas-new-video-game-rules-officially-b...

Also this seems to only be affecting Chinese-made/Chinese-published online games as far as the Gizmodo article has sourced. Also I can't find the exact document they're sourcing because they linked a generic legal document on the Chinese-made online games approval process as I can read Chinese.

Here it is google translated: https://translate.google.com.hk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=ht...

I'm very confused where Gizmodo sourced this from, because I've read through the recent SAPPRFT news (aka the censorship organization and theres no recent news since April 10th)

Ok it seems like its from a SAPPRFT gaming conference in China, hilariously, the few Chinese forum sources I can find reference this techcrunch article too, this is probably the original link everyone is sourcing from: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/21/chinas-new-gaming-rules-to...

Thats bs, you only need to google "china bikesharing competition" to know what it means to compete in China. Startups in China will resort to any means, legal and illegal to bring each other down. A lot of bikesharing companies went bust because people essentially competed to the point of reducing price to wipe out the other competitor.

Even if you succeed temporarily, your competitor will clone you and your technology. Its similar in USA but in China its multiplied by the population factor in a region the same area so its more intense.

The competition also permeates downwards and creates beasts like the 996.

I saw a similar article like this last month or so.

This is a more realistic article on the subject: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2019/03/11/renting-luxury...

Note that I've tried figuring out where to rent these rooms and reaching out but so far have remained fruitless.

I would guess it is because to East asian authorities, you would only be getting a tattoo if you were being initiated in a gang or wanted to engage in outlaw activities, so stopping tattoos is indirectly stopping "outlawry" and thus preserving "morality" in society.

Tattoos are generally stigmatized in most of East Asia: China, Korea, Japan and cultures affected by these countries.

Although there are some ties to the past with tattoos predominantly being used by outlaws, criminals, prisoners, slaves (prisoners and slaves were branded with tattoos on the face to ensure people knew who they were and was also considered a punishment of its own) or soldiers (in certain periods of history, soldiers weren't respected in China and considered a lowly job as there was a high chance of death and they often were involved in pillaging in the more chaotic times), modern-day stigma is from criminals and gangsters who would use tattoos to differentiate themselves and show themselves as "hard and not to be messed with" or to inspire courage within themselves.

Nowadays its a bit more relaxed but even now people will hide tattoos in job interviews because it can mean an automatic rejection.

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I remember that they organized several online hackathons around their data that I participated in before.

I would argue its too early to tell that things are going bad, the Cannabis Act was put in place on October 17th which is only 6 months ago.

Moreover, most retail stores in Ontario were given very short notice (~2-4 months) to build the stores and open up on April 1st couple weeks ago. I would say in a year or two, we would have likely forgotten about all this and will be having normal and regular deliveries via Canada Post like any other product.

https://www.thestar.com/news/cannabis/2019/03/18/will-ontari...

I can see this being very popular on Instagram, it is already moving in that direction. People love aspirational images of "themselves in the future" and these ads always sell well.

Its because Jack Ma still sees his company as it was in the startup days where the objective was out-competing anybody (even Western tech companies) through creativity, brutal price-cutting and sheer mental and time overload. These are qualities he attributes to people in their youth who can burn the midnight oil for their dream. It is also built on top of East Asian exploitative/"hard-work brings success" work culture.

Looking at this another way, this one-quarter revenue coming from users in five cities probably is showing these users as the power users of the app so these are probably the least likely to suddenly give up Uber because they already have a habit and Uber is already such a big part of their life.

Used Godot 3.1 for a game project recently, really surprised at how good it is.

Sounds like Google, Sidewalk Labs and Sidewalk Toronto

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-g...

This build-a-city approach is also probably due to the large rural population in China that have been steadily urbanizing or just moving to the cities for work. So there is some expectance that cities will be filled which does generate false hope and random ghost towns near places of economic activities. Good example in the past is Shenzhen which became big and the other unknown cities built around that time and was grouped with Shenzhen that people have forgotten because they never became big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_China

I did this before but was mainly because was too lazy and busy to eat.

This will also attract more people to want to work for BoA, right now their average teller salary is $13/hr so this is probably an amazing improvement.

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/new-york-city-teller-salar...

China is a bit less than half of their sales, the rest is global sales, so it will hit them still pretty hard.

Source, their IPO documents: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/bitmain-hong-kong-ipo/