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Kind of shows that at end of the day, the issue is political and depends on who wants what. We can stop housing price increases and decrease future profits gained for current homeowners.

The Chinese internet has adequately introduced a new "proverb" summarizing Tiktok's popularity: 【南抖音北快手，智障界两泰斗】

Which essentially means: Tiktok in the South, Kuaishou [1] of the North, Two titans in a world of dumb-asses.

[1] Kuaishou is a major competitor to Tiktok and is popular in Northern China, Russia and Eastern Europe.

Of note is that Tiktok founder started off with news recommendation app Toutiao.

Strangely, I've never seen Tik Tok ads, care to show me what they look like.

Aka how to not come off as a douchebag at a date.

Easier to grab eyeballs with the word China on your article. Likely to do with the fact that Chinese-related hacking attacks have reached size or quality of Russian or East European attacks.

Jin Yong fled to Hong Kong likely to escape the Chinese Civil War, WW2 or the Communists. No enough info here.

Censorship was there in mainland China but books were still easy to carry around and read.

From the wikia: "Despite Jinyong's popularity, some of his novels were banned outside Hong Kong due to political reasons. A number of them were outlawed in the People's Republic of China in the 1970s as they were thought to be satires of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution; others were banned in the Republic of China on Taiwan as they were thought to be in support of the Communist Party of China. None of these bans exists today, and Jinyong's complete collection has been published multiple times in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Many politicians on both sides of the Straits are known to be readers of his works; Deng Xiaoping, for example, was himself an avowed fan."

I prefer Terry Pratchett or George RR Martin, a lot of high fantasy stories are too rigid and stuck on heroes and villains

Mostly here: https://www.wuxiaworld.com/

Jin Yong didn't retell any stories, those stories were his own. Unless you see Tolkien as retelling stories of Elves, Dwarves etc. then sure Jin Yong is retelling stories.

"Tolkien melded multiple cultural traditions (the Icelandic Eddas, Anglo-Saxon literature, and rural English life) to create an original world that was at once strange and familiar to his readers"

"Jin Yong wrote stories based in Chinese history, with an extra layer of magic, spirituality, and kick-ass martial arts [to create an original world that was at once strange and familiar to his readers]"

The actual study quoted:

https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-opportunity-index-rankin...

Note that a middle class job in their definition pays around $44k to $80k while "professional" jobs are >$80k and the data is really for a family of four when accounting for middle class and professional.

FB ads when you don't really have enough money for a marketing budget anyways. FB ads is really a money game, the more money you spent, the more likely your ads will get conversion.

Likely in societies with more corruption and low labour costs, using gangsters as intimidation and to assassinate your opponents is more frequent.

Happened in China, underground gangsters would phone up rich local businessmen asking if they needed their services. As well, debt collection agencies in certain countries are opaque enough that their practices border on near-criminal.

Yea I based it on the popular and on the rise apps on the appstore which were like anon chat or live video chatting with strangers. Not sure why but they all have millions of downloads and they aren't reported as much in the media.

This was a year ago, I can't find the video I used, it was also max 5-10 seconds. I remember I did the video by recording powerpoint slides, so I used phone or screen recording to record and then each slide of the powerpoint would move to the next one when I clicked or wanted animations. The powerpoint slides had pictures and texts. It was very amateur.

This was the app, I'm in Canada: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/lucid-see-who-likes-you/id12...

I contacted them through Instagram and explained my app and asked if they wanted to post the video for me. Some said yes. Some didn't. I think I also framed it as marketing experience for them too but I'm not too sure what I said exactly, I didn't really have any money at the time. Also some were friends of friends of friends and it wasn't as strange in asking them to post but I still didn't know these people.

I'm not as focussed on the app anymore and sometimes maintain it, I keep it more as a side project link for my resume.

Overall, you just need to be brave enough to message them, I was a bit shy and unsure at first and then afterwards I got used to it because it's easier to communicate online and it was the cheapest alternative I could think of.

I've heard of bus bombs and random unexplained groups of police casualties in Xinjiang but the Chinese Communist Party needs to maintain the facade of stability or else it would be breaking it's "promise" to the people.

I've experimented with influencer marketing before, mainly with Instagram Influencers for app downloads who would post a video I made for the app on their Instagram Stories, although the experience doesn't reflect paid candy subscriptions so it might not be as useful, this was also a small app I made on the side. I do remember getting 300 downloads from one influencer and the rest was negligible.

I figured out it was much easier to use young affluent females influencers from ages 18-25 who had 10000-15000 followers (not too much, as that dilutes the network and those who had too many followers were too expensive anyway) as they're usually super-connected in their network, "popular" and their followers (usually their friends, etc.) trust their opinions.

Interestingly, I didn't need to pay anything even though I didn't know these people, most were happy to just do it.

With Youtube, it would seem that only the big-name You-tubers are worth any kind of sponsorship. I find that influencer marketing is really about trust and credibility as your customer sales really come from trusting the influencer promoting the product and in turn also meeting that need the customer wanted too.

Interesting to see tech globalization increasingly at the crosshairs, used to be McDonalds, etc.

There is armed resistance, the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party

They're deemed a terrorist group by US and EU and have fought in Syria.

The original sadly short news story that started this investigation:

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-daily-news/20171127...

The camps, and BBC mentions this too, is less about Uyghur identity but about imprisoning Muslim followers to stop following Islam, you can tell because they've taken in Kazakh Chinese too and likely devout Muslim Hui who are basically Muslim Han Chinese

I've developed a workaround for the slowness, I star an email and when I open it, the email appears much faster as compared to when I open the email in the gmail tab it belongs to.

Any fish that come from that area? Slightly sketched out about the fish I'm eating now.

Tbh Jobs is more of a Michael Jackson, he started a wave. Both perfectionists and somewhat assholes in personal lives.

Syria is the Levant, Gulf countries are countries in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and in the Persian Gulf.

The article is a bit weird in general, I would say both Calgary and Vancouver have "businesses" from financial to tech companies. But Calgary usually has a lot more energy and mining companies headquartered there so I guess in general it would have more corporations? Basically none of these cities are near the scale of Toronto.

Never thought of Calgary as the de facto business capital of Western Canada (it could also be Edmonton) but could be because I'm mainly in Vancouver.

So no more Myo armbands from now on? I presume they're working on their smartglasses now

The saddest part was that his fiancee was waiting for him to come out so that they would be married after he grabbed his paperwork for the marriage.

My thoughts go out to her.

Been seeing a lot of don't get high and drive govt. ads here in Canada, feels surreal.

Sex work should be legalized.

Making it illegal has only done wonders for pimps and traffickers. Nor has it deterred any persistent customers.

Constantinople is in Turkey, is it not? That must be an awkward relationship. How have they not been disappeared off like the Nestorian Church.