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by av_engr 6y ago
Including address and phone number? Doesn't that also enable public workers to be target of harassment?
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by av_engr 6y ago
You don't have to wage a war upon a broken treaty. China even complained that UK was considering giving path to citizenship to British National Oversea passport holders. Many things can be done. Point is, an international treaty is bro
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by av_engr 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law It does, article one states HK should have high degree of autonomy and etc... Furthermore, article 23 states that HK should make their own national security law, not Ch
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by av_engr 6y ago
"I don't have a point so I'm going to pull the race card". Most Hkers are against CCP not China, who does a great job in blending the nation-party-race elements together in disguise. Hkers don't feel superior, it&#x
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by av_engr 6y ago
Now where do 5 demands state independence? Flags of other countries (mostly dominant countries like US and UK) were raised due to US and UK had huge stake in HK from the international treaty of the 1984 joint declaration. Since China has br
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by av_engr 6y ago
If they are working for it, then yea? Sounds like HKers are working hard for it and on a legal basis it's their right to make their own law within Basic Law , so what's your point here?
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by av_engr 6y ago
Exactly what the US just did now? (Removal of special economic and political status) HK receive "Special" treatment in many ways for being NOT really China. They are economically treated different from China and in someway exempt
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by av_engr 6y ago
I'm still skeptical about everything they propose as "secure" and "safe" after all the previous security issues and censoring meetings for the memorial of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. Also, the one-time verification
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by av_engr 6y ago
This is kind of off-topic since the issue was these scientists lying about their ties to a foreign government. I wanted to address how people think there's no IP theft here. Although results and information about the research are often
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by av_engr 6y ago
I think the problem is failing to disclose ties with foreign governments. Scientists, just like any professionals, should be held accountable for any potential conflict of interest. Not saying we should bar scientists from collaboration, bu
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by av_engr 6y ago
Agree on this. Ive seen social media post portraits the message in the lines of "if you don't support us, then you are part of them". I believe this is a bad tactics to gain support in a movement. Excluding people will only l
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by av_engr 6y ago
I agree that a fresh-grad engineer will need some hand-holding in order to get them up to speed, but I disagree they are equivalent to an amateur in the similar field. The mathematical/engineering education obtained through their degre
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by av_engr 6y ago
I see what you are saying. I think it is hard to separate anti-China and pro-democracy. After all, China is against democracy in the case of HK (Backed by example why universal suffrage legislation was crippled). The question comes down to,
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by av_engr 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_independence#Colonia... In the 60s/70s China was in bad terms with
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by av_engr 6y ago
I see, you meant true independence as a nation? Hong Kong has a very complex history and culture about independence. To be brief, majority of Hong Kongers never wanted independence as a country. (It's weird but there was a split of peo
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by av_engr 6y ago
I read the tweet you posted about HuXiJin (chief of CCP-backed media), and I LOL'ed very hard on how he responded. (Seems like Xi's 'Wolf Warrior' Diplomacy is true) To be honest, China really sees itself as a world powe
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by av_engr 6y ago
Chiming in on anecdotal evidence, I personally experienced a 15% reduction as well. I'm in a smaller startup working on robotics/autonomy. The outlook for VC funding is uncertain so the decision was to reduce salary for extended c
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by av_engr 6y ago
But the Swiss arm industry probably made some good fortune during the protest by exporting equipment to HK police.
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by av_engr 6y ago
They are quite different. Personal take, imagine Scottish English vs American English but 2x that.
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by av_engr 6y ago
Essentially, yes. Besides China having sovereignty over the city, it has its own currency, government, different law system than China, a border with China, and different passport. In recent years on the rise of Chinese Nationalism, the Chi
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by av_engr 6y ago
First of all, the law has been used in China to persecute political dissident. (Political dissident in that case is anyone who expose any problems in the country or being vocal about particular problem in the society or government) Second,
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by av_engr 6y ago
Anyways, totally agree on your last part of the comment. China is for sure showing no patient and will value its political stability over any economic benefit reaped from HK. In fact, while listening to the press conference of the pro-china
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by av_engr 6y ago
Capitalistic and free society Vs. "Communism" and suppressive society. The Sino-British Joint Declaration was to address these concern on merging such polarizing society together, which is giving HK a special status, different law
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by av_engr 6y ago
Agree on the part about China threatening since the 60s. If I recall correctly, there was a wave of movement on British Colonies raising referendum on independence from Britain since the 60s ? Hong Kong did not earn that right due to Commun
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by av_engr 6y ago
The Lee's family is like another CCP, just that they can speak English, went to elite west university, and used economic prosperity as an excuse to push down on dissident or threaten to their power. Singapore is somewhat suppressed and
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by av_engr 6y ago
From my understanding, they were filibustering because a pro-china legislator was the former chairwomen of the internal committee (a group that review policies before submitted to vote in general legislature), and for her to be re-elected,
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by av_engr 6y ago
Also consider that most Mechanical Engineers desire making flashy products that are consumer facing than boring machines or parts that sits in a factory. This is also reflected in salary, mechanical design engineers are generally paid bette
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by av_engr 6y ago
Kiwibot isn't exactly that. Their vehicles are basically modified Traxxas RC cars and their "autonomy" is offshoring remote control work to Columbian workers for situation that the robot can't react to. Unlike Mars Rover