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This will probably crush Bitmain and other Chinese bitcoin mining giants and they will probably move elsewhere, however Chinese courts have said bitcoin itself is legally allowed. Probably what is going to happen is that you can own but you can't mine or even obtain more bitcoins in China.

https://www.ccn.com/chinas-merchants-are-legally-allowed-to-...

Sixth Tone isn't a propaganda outlet though, every media source in China has to get their news approved before they can publish it. The stuff in there is there because it had to be to get published.

And I quote: "For instance, in November 2018, Chinese authorities wrongly accused entrepreneur Dong Mingzhu of jaywalking after a streetside camera identified her face in an ad on the side of a bus." - this is clearly not the work of a propagandist.

Article brings up a good point, pigs are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet, yet pork production is increasing every year. More than half of grain also goes towards livestocks. Intelligence and consumption efficiency of other produce isn't really a good excuse for not being eaten as the markets have proven.

https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/animals-us...

https://www.theecologycenter.org/resources/pasture-raised-vs...

Just comparing smartphones in general, not really Android vs IOS. Samsung was probably the top-range Android phones in terms of pricing.

Wikipedia page on this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City_(Beijing)

Wikipedia page states that is 85 square km.

Also another much longer and detailed Vice article of it: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nnmk8b/chairman-maos-unde...

Signals to the end of an era, smartphones have matured and are becoming ubiquitous like laptops. Moreover, the most profitable smartphones belong to Apple which held 86% of smartphone profits generated in the industry in 2018. Samsung was competing more in the mid to affordable segments so it was bound to start losing once others started catching up, especially since its Chinese competitors are basically giving up profits for growth in the affordable to medium segments.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/17/apple-grabs-86-of...

Social media links are broken btw, wanted to give you guys a like.

Sounds like these issues will always appear at scale where the company is just overwhelmed at what people can do. Will be a lesson for anyone who wants to take their company to that level.

Has the backend crashed? The screen just keeps loading

Investopedia has a good article on this: https://www.investopedia.com/university/ipo/ipo2.asp

Nationalized, crown or state-owned corporations are still corporations. The fact that they get large govt. subsidies or discounts (if they do, some don't) is part of the deal. Nationalized corporations also have their downsides like frequent government/bureaucratic interventions that make no business sense and having to fork a lot of revenue for governmental purposes when needed. You can find a lot of nationalized corporations that don't do so well or are essentially failing.

As quoted: “Aramco is wholly-owned by the state and is expected to remain largely under government ownership even after any potential IPO in the future,” Akbar added. “While there is a clear track record of Aramco having been run as a commercially independent company, the government’s budget is highly reliant upon contributions from Aramco in the form of royalties, taxes and dividends.” in below article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/01/saudi-aramco-made-111-billio...

The issue is that the shows on iQiyi like Rap of China or Yanxi's Palace tend to be huge hits not only in China but also in places like Vietnam, Yanxi Palace was apparently the most Googled show in 2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Yanxi_Palace). So banning them in Taiwan would probably just lead to Taiwanese audiences pirating the shows anyway.

Also these shows are actually broadcasted for free on the day that episode comes out which attracts huge crowds and buzz (although lots of ads) and you don't have to be a paying member or even a member to watch and they tend to be popular even among non-paying members so there are probably more watchers than the official 2 million daily active users.

Example of Yanxi Palace fame: https://sg.style.yahoo.com/singapore-actor-lawrence-wong-sen...

I'm pretty sure this move will hurt the DPP more than help.

My mum basically did this for her restaurant, its only open around 12pm for preparing the ingredients and is open until 11pm in the night, nobody comes to eat breakfast at a fine dining restaurant anyways.

Don't most Chinese devs in China use VPN to access Github anyways?

Actual place where the data visualizations came from with better zoomed-up pictures instead of blurry ones in the link: http://www.carrieosgood.com/dataviz/world-population.html

The places that sell food on there have optimized to keep costs down ==> no physical locations except for a kitchen, no waiters, etc. They're literal food factories that optimize for food delivery capacity and probably only buy a few main ingredients in bulk and shorten down their menu selection to minimize costs even further.

They are only restaurants in name. Also I've noticed that these kind of "restaurants" are also appearing in Western food delivery apps too where the price + delivery is actually cheaper than buying from a physical restaurant, I once experienced this buying shawarmas on a food delivery app.

Chinese or most East Asian food restaurants have wooden single-use chopsticks

There is a million Taiwanese living in China, most of them go there to work or have families in China. Mainland China tends to have higher wages, lower living costs, better working conditions and a lot of young Taiwanese talent move to the Mainland which is cited as a brain drain problem in Taiwan.

Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Taiwanese

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4906162/taiw...

In general its not really a fringe belief and there are whole communities, typically older folks who believe in it. However those that severely believe in Qi's ability to heal and all that can be seen as slightly wacky or "traditionally religious".

In general, its not really a fringe belief and there are whole communities, typically older folks who believe in it. However those that severely believe in Qi's ability to heal and all that can be seen as slightly wacky or "traditionally religious".

For those who don't know, Falun Gong is perceived like the Chinese version of Scientology in China, although a lot of injustice was done to Falun Gong followers and most of their assets frozen, there isn't much sympathy for them and they're typically regarded as a bit weird, believing in Qi, faith healing and all that.

Don't think it's collusion, it is probably just the reality of things. I've noted that my original comment made it sound like this was insidious collusion but what I mean is that it is likely just the stark reality.

Probably makes more sense for these companies to reduce supply and rent for a higher price than have to rent or provide a lower price to renters. Speaks more to the market structure and power of both sides here.

It depends on what you are measuring, if you are comparing national power and influence then GDP is still an alright metric, while internally something like Andrew Yang's quality of life metrics or GDP per capita makes more sense.

By GDP per capita, Liechtenstein and Qatar is number 1 and 2

Used waffle.io for many years in my university years, however the market is very competitive and I understand why they shut down.

What are things software developers (which I presume most of HN is) can do to make more recycling possible?

EDIT: It does seem, reading from this, that the packaging of goods have gone too complex to be simply sorted by hand because the packaging itself can be contaminated by the paint etc.

Using Godot 3.0 right now, Godot has been great and amazing considering its open source game engine. I'm amazed at what the developers have been able to do. Great job guys!

This was uploaded in January 7th by the way if you check the date, not recently so this isn't to explain the Lion Air issue but rather Boeing's history

I think another key issue that encourages consolidation in the dairy and other agricultural industries is the encroachment of automation, a lot of tractors are self-driving and many equipment increasingly don't require human hands. Mostly large corporations are the kind that can buy and invest in this technology and also are the ones who can benefit the most from it, which creates a loop where only large corporations start thriving and out-competing any smaller companies.

The only direction I can see for smaller farms is to probably go the "organic" or "natural farm" route, but even that would be hard to achieve because larger corporations can probably just sub-contract and own smaller organic farms too.

Agricultural industries is going the way manufacturing did a while back.

This is pretty big news in China although the West doesn't really report much on it (Search Wang Linqing and you will find nothing), people are citing this as an example again of the extreme magic realism that is in China and how CCP and their corruption needs to be tackled.