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I'm thinking its more to do with the fact that meat was expensive and takes much more effort to cook back then, not that they were willing to just eat grains and vegetables, likely grains and vegetables were cheap and much easier to cook.

Farmed meat was a luxury in Roman times and game or wild meat was likely also expensive enough to not be eaten every day. We live in different times.

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

https://www.historyhit.com/what-did-the-romans-eat-food-and-...

https://www.quora.com/What-did-soldiers-eat-in-the-Ancient-R...

https://www.thoughtco.com/did-roman-soldiers-eat-meat-120634

More in-depth article on loneliness and impact on health, I can see loneliness having a direct impact in the future on people's health:

https://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20180504/loneliness-rival...

Summarization:

- South East Asian Royalty adopted Islam due to being likely swayed by rich Muslim merchants + missionaries and then gradually became popular.

- South East Asian Peasant populations without strong Buddhist/Hindu religious influences adopted it to fill void of previous Animist religions or even just Animist traditions.

Yeah but the ethical backlash against being able to cure but not curing will be immense

A lot of fearmongering here, drug manufacturing & trafficking in small amounts is punishable by death in China, if you are making narcotics in China, you don't fear the Chinese govt or the Chinese army and you basically have nothing to lose.

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

It's like saying you're gonna stop all the drug dealers in US to stop selling drugs, its very hard for China to stop all narcotics.

Heres an official report by the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission on Chinese Fentanyl Production: https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/USCC%20Sta...

and I quote: "China is a global source of illicit fentanyl and other NPS because the country’s vast chemical and pharmaceutical industries are weakly regulated and poorly monitored...Chinese law enforcement and drug investigators are unable to effectively regulate the high volume of drugs and chemicals the country produces.In many cases, the chemicals used to produce fentanyl and fentanyl-like products are illegally diverted from legitimate pharmaceutical uses, with criminals taking advantage of inadequate enforcement protocols to produce unregulated chemicals and NPS. Until 2014, a regulatory loophole allowed Chinese chemical companies to operate in a gray area of oversight, freeing them from inspection requirements and other certification systems. That loophole was closed in 2014 when China’s State Administration of Work Safety implemented new regulations on chemical production to improve management of nonpharmaceutical businesses, including enforcing stricter licensing requirements. Even under the new regulations, Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies continue to divert chemicals from legitimate pharmaceutical uses and adulterate legitimate pharmaceuticals during production.This makes drug enforcement within China difficult, as many manufacturers of fentanyl and other NPS are legitimate companies legally producing chemicals. Although some of these chemical manufacturers knowingly ship their products to the United States for illicit purposes, Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical exporters continue to operate with little oversight"

Do not get me wrong, I've seen the impact of Fentanyl and I want China to step up on crushing its production.

You're presuming a dictatorship is easy to bring down, the Syrian Civil War is still fighting on but no-one cares anymore about their attempts for democracy.

Its not even big news on the media anymore, at this point the fighting is just a free-for-all.

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

A lot of people on here presume getting rid of a dictatorship is easy and presume the Chinese people == Chinese govt., however last time I checked the Syrian Civil War is still going on and the Arab Spring is all but vanquished.

Moreover, the Tiananmen massacre happened 30 yrs ago and somewhat fresh on the memories of my parents cos they were almost part of it and in Beijing at the time.

My sources based on govt handbooks, note parent poster to whom I'm replying to said minimum amount of hrs per week, which is why I put down the minimum amount:

https://my.hr.gov.nt.ca/handbooks-agreements/excluded-employ...

My sources based on govt handbooks, note parent poster who I'm replying to said minimum amount of hrs per week, which is why I put down the minimum amount, I'm not looking for maximum or average but minimum because OP said minimum:

https://my.hr.gov.nt.ca/handbooks-agreements/excluded-employ...

Well until now minority groups got preferential treatment as compared to Han Chinese. You will notice that the ethnic Uyghur Xinjiang governor actually supporting the camps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China

Otherwise now the Party is treating the same way they treat normal Han Chinese who have different thoughts on the CCP. However not everyone in Xinjiang is affected, mostly the religious.

Cloning isn't really an unnatural process per se, apples and bananas are grown through cloning. The majority of people see it as unethical or whatnot but if you're being born from a mother, grown up like a normal child, are you really unnatural?

Although it is true that there is a large failure rate and it is in essence a pretty expensive operation for something people can already do, which is reproduce.

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/cloningmyths...

Can I know how you got that number? Presuming you work 37.5 hours per week which should be the minimum fulltime labor amount at 5 days times 7.5 hours per week.

2080 divided by 37.5 is about 55 weeks, while there is only 52 weeks in a year. If you count it as 40 hrs per week then it is 52 weeks but people usually don't count the extra half hour which is usually a break but that could be your number.

This is probably a better comparison to the korean number for the US: https://www.fool.com/careers/2017/12/17/heres-how-many-hours...

The Shaolin monk livestreaming reminds me of that time I saw Tibetan lamas playing basketball on their basketball courts and I realized how close-minded I was.

Not true, see the Mandate of Heaven and its emphasis on Right of Rebellion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven

If famines persisted, it was seen as as the doing of the emperor and that they were unworthy and thus could be replaced by anyone who had military strength, the Han dynasty founder was essentially a middle-class policeman.

Moreover emperors have long been got rid of by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, if people are sheeple, why would they violently depose their emperor?

You seem to also have forgotten the Tiananmen protests and subsequent massacre, which were against the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine.

Reminds me of that mobile popup I always get that tells me to download their mobile app when I'm viewing Linkedin on a mobile phone and I can't move on unless I press something.

Likely the reason why a lot of VPN apps are Chinese is because there is an actual demand for VPN usage in China. You then multiply that with the population size (19% of the world is Chinese or roughly 1 in 5 people in this world) and you will have a massive market to grow for local Chinese VPN developers and for them to prosper.

The article author sounds surprised but it is quite logical if you think about it.

The person who posted this on HN is the original author of the paper, please be somewhat respectful and not rude. If you want to call him out, talk to him directly here.

North is generally colder in climate to the more tropical and warmer South, Northern Chinese traditionally eat grains and wheat-based foods like baozi and jiaozi (dumplings) while Southern Chinese will eat rice and rice-flour based foods like rice noodles. Northern China was occasionally under the influence of nomadic powers which shaped its culture. Southern culture is shaped by the gradual immigration of Han Chinese peoples from the North and assimilation of the native peoples into Han Chinese. Roughly before 1000 AD, Northern China was more economically powerful and the South was generally a hinterland while roughly after 1000 AD Southern China was more economically powerful (for example, see Guangdong/Canton region). Non-Han tribal minorities in the North tend to be descended off nomadic horse tribes while in the South they are usually descended off river and mountain-based tribes.

As of Modern China, the North tends to be politically powerful as it is dominated by Beijing while the South tends to be economically powerful, dominated by Shanghai, Guangdong/Canton, Shenzhen, etc.

For more info, click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_and_southern_China

To some degree, similar to the North-South Indian cultural divide if you want to look that up too.

Foxconn produces at least half of the Iphones around the world, source: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-factory-foxconn...

Lumentum etc. are also some of Apple's largest parts suppliers.

Indie writers are pretty big business in China, a lot of their works turn into shows. Also when I mean indie, I mean really indie as in they're known occasionally by internet pen names which resemble your normal Hacker News pen names.

Isn't cybersecurity similar to a minister of defence but in the cyber realm? Wouldn't they have to at least know how things work?

Thing about dragons in Chinese mythologies (and to a certain point the East Asian Dragon mythos) is that dragons are neutral to good creatures that are typically a sign of awe, justice, fortune and wisdom (think Shenron in Dragon Ball anime) but can also be evil like in the famous Chinese story of Nezha conquers the dragon king which is a dragon-slaying story.

Dragon is also used as a symbol of respect. Someone you rever to is usually referred to as a dragon (if you're male) which is known in Chinese as 人中龙凤. The emperors of China saw themselves as living dragons or dragon emperors and were referred to as such. Dragons were part of the divine beasts of China and are considered lucky and are involved in other Chinese aspects like the Chinese horoscope.

Also the article didn't discuss the feathered serpent or dragon of Aztec mythologies or the Nagas of Indian mythologies which are lost opportunities of discussion.

Quite right, basically if you're an established company, the app store works with you to establish the guidelines

The issue about declining fertility rates in my mind is sustainability. Does fertility rate keep decreasing simply because there are now even less people as time goes on?

Facebook is still being used, the majority of users are between 18 to 44 as can be seen on statista thru google search. However there is basically no young people. Having this dating feature kind of matches with their adult demographic who likely can pay. After all fb is dying with no young people signing up in North America, its gotta find a way out. Note that around the world but not North America and Europe there are still many young people signing up for FB.

Thought they meant ancient books from the whole world from all the old civilizations like Egyptians, Roman etc.

Doesn't matter what to call these symptoms, sex addiction or extreme sex cravings, there are stranger mental and other illnesses and urges out there, the understanding should be that something is causing harm for those who have it and should be some kind of help provided.

To be truthful, it aint a fair world out there, everything tends to deviate to playing some sort of game. Seems like OP just didn't want to play that game.

Although I do feel this is a norm in all big modern companies not just tech. Realistically there isn't a big life goal or changing-the-world impact for any one employee inside the company. I would say once you enter the company, just get used to playing the game and keep advancing, its easier that way.

What is the legal basis for outlawing prostitution? Seems like I've read so many articles about "stopping" prostitution which have merely moved to another form and continued on like this article stated.

Although the paper proposes to merge all kinds of EU-based EV and battery companies together, the issue is still that the European market is 1% of the global market. EU companies will be likely selling to Asian EV markets for a long time.