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What about health care costs? A big difference in much of the eu is that a health emergency won't bankrupt you.

Economic downturns are often times of great cultural movements. The renaissance, hip hop, punk/ post punk all emerged from economies in decline

Maybe he wants some control over what a large corporation keeps about him.

Or the car will take a detour past certain billboards

Could you give more details about the price fixing cartel?

Who is in it?

What is the effect of this cartel likely to be on prices /progress?

Will it be elaffected by eu/us regulation ?

It's quite useful. For example Brazil ARE the best (refers to the Brazilian football team). Whereas Brazil IS the best refers to the country. Chelsea is good could refer to the place or a person. Chelsea are good refers to the team.

Which macbook do you have?

Perhaps the more deadly strains are infecting people in hospitals (health care workers and other staff and patients)

This looks similar to wechat mini programs. They are instants apps availible from within the chat app. They are very easy to share. They are a real game changer. E. G you go to a restaurant scan a qr code and order and pay through the mini program.

Many jobs in China have two days off a month. This is true of waiters, cleaners and many factory workers. Software developers are a bit better off often working six days a week from 9am to 9pm

This is very compatible with Chinese culture. It is very normal to do business (even very small transactions) with your friend group. This is partly because of very low levels of trust in society and partly to keep money from leaving your social group.

Douglas Adams - a puddle

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'

Nobody in China can use play store or Google services. There are many local equivalents of them all

who are you?

The name of the place is

The name of the place is

The name of the place is

It's like a dream come true, a dream dream come true

In China academics get bonuses for authoring papers.

There is an informal market for buying selling authorship.

I wonder if this contributes

10,000 in Chinese often means a big number.

It is the equivalent to myriad in English.

That all depends on how powerful the leader is. If you look into the quite recent past this comment would be absolutely untrue. There was massive gridlock between factions it was just so opaque that we could only guess what was going on.

Also, How do you get the bureaucracy to actually do what you want?(A major recurring problem in Chinese History).

There's a lot of vc money floating around China(lots of nouveau riche people + limited ways to invest). This means a lot of competition. Unlike Uber Didi has a lot of competition. Consumers will use whichever service discounts rides the most.

Recently didi has seen a few new, well funded competitors and coincidentally a rash of negative PR.

In China I often get spam iMessage texts from illegal gambling services advertising their apps. These apps are often disguised as something else. You download a calendar/video app etc hit the right button and it turns into a casino/sports betting app. During the world cup I was getting 4-5 texts a day.

China is going cashless -mobile payments are increasingly the norm. There are two main ways to pay with your phone wechat pay and Alipay(run by ant financial).

It will potentially handle a huge percentage of ALL payments in a country as big as china.Maybe 150bn isn't such a crazy valuation

"Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely"

This is still true in the countryside. It's a cultural not racial difference.

'Search' might be solved, but 'find' isn't.

Didn't the pioneers of rocket science come from nazi Germany?

Bitcoin is great in a crisis.

All you need is a computer, electricity and the internet!

great tutorial

Could you link the previous two?

Will you offer the service to fiverr sellers? Whitelabel it to agencies?

What is your current revenue?

bbc2 commissioned this to mark their 50th anniversary. Very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlSHw_y0Lw

I can only counter with 'house is a feeling'.:-)

It's not singularly responsible. It would have happened with or without it (the people responsible for Hip hop and house/Garage/Techno were incredibly resourceful making the the best of what they could lay their hands on)- but it would sound very very different. No 808 and whole genres like trap and electro probably wouldn't exist.

I was told that Hackney has the greatest concentration of fake pound coins.(no source on that)

Have received many in my time.

Machines don't like them

They seem to be not quite straight.

Sounds like the sugar cookie test is a way of filtering out people who won't blindly accept arbitrary rules from authority.