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by ddeck 7y ago
It's not hard when you have government gifted statutory monopoly and are also given control of listing and clearing regulations. The government ban on any competition to HKEX means that their net profit margin was 61% last year. As act
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by ddeck 7y ago
You do indeed, but the the power distribution is far from even, as many a Chinese tycoon has discovered when they've come out on the wrong side of Beijing and found themselves in prison. There are always laws that can be selectively br
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by ddeck 7y ago
if you can vote at all You cannot, when it comes to the executive branch. The Chief Executive is "elected" by a ~1200 person election committee, which is heavily stacked in the interest of business and Beijing. The candidates mu
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by ddeck 7y ago
I am quite surprised that the Chinese have allowed the crony capitalism that the Hong Kong Government system is based on to continue unabated. The continually rising levels of inequality that it has generated have been an obvious risk to so
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by ddeck 7y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Many outside of Hong Kong are unaware of the outrageous level of income and wealth inequality and poverty. While the extradition bill was certainly the proximate cause of the protest movement, the underlying
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by ddeck 7y ago
The study is here: (pdf) https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/134...
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by ddeck 7y ago
Less shady link (the article source): https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/army-microrobots-can-wipe-o... And the original publication: https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/29/eaaw2388
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by ddeck 7y ago
It means it's shouldn't be on this list[1] for example, because it makes brute force guessing from a dictionary of common passwords easy. - Of all the password databases breached in 2016, "123456" made up 4% of them [1].
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by ddeck 7y ago
The same is true in Hong Kong, no ID required. You can even purchase cards without ID that also work in Mainland China and aren't subject to the great firewall.
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by ddeck 7y ago
Please don't make unfounded accusations under the guise of asking a question. Your claim is unusual and as pointed out by several other commenters, goes against prior experience and existing arrangements. In such a situation, it is per
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by ddeck 7y ago
>I’ve heard... Heard from where? >According to the people dealing with foreign student CBP has never done that before. Again, do you have any sources?
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by ddeck 7y ago
I recently returned a 13 inch laptop to Amazon from Hong Kong after they sent 2 and it was around $120 (reimbursed by Amazon - the original Amazon delivery charge was ~$18). $370 did sound particularly egregious, but I just checked UPS&#x27
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by ddeck 7y ago
Indeed, although in this case it seems it was not fabricated. According to the Guardian article, the idea came from Geologist Scott Bryan: Bryan said the raft will be the temporary home for billions of marine organisms. Marine life includi
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by ddeck 7y ago
From the article: "The figure is 2.7 km (1.7 mi) tall with a perimeter of 28 km (17 mi), extending over an area of about 2.5 km2 (620 acres)"
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by ddeck 7y ago
The number is enormous, but is inline with the Chinese government figures of 170 million nationally (400 million expected by 2020). >Or are they all supposed to be some kind of "smart" cameras that detect and isolate faces, ve
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by ddeck 7y ago
>And they don't want to leave HK either. I'm not sure if it's harder to get visas to other countries nowadays, but a lot of people are choosing to stay and fight for their country and their way of life rather than running
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by ddeck 7y ago
The Taiwan government had already mentioned back in March that they would not accept the bill, would potentially issue a travel alert on HK if it were passed, and that their requests to the Kong Kong government for assistance in the murder
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by ddeck 7y ago
*>Be aware that the famous "tank man" was not actually run over. You can see the rest of the video if you look online. I'm not sure how that is relevant and I believe the declassified material you are referring to was an N
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by ddeck 7y ago
Not to mention paroting the red herring regarding the motivation for the legislation. Four paragraphs are dedicated to explaining that it is being proposed in order to ensure a murderer faces justice in Taiwan, when in fact the Taiwan gover
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by ddeck 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Your statement is entirely accurate and the Inkstone piece is far from balanced. The SCMP is famously biased: SCMP: "Man who killed girlfriend in Taiwan could be free by October, setting effec
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by ddeck 7y ago
Hyundai have a plant in the Czech Republic that produces about 1500 cars a day, but I also didn't see any indication that this bus would be produced there. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Manufacturing_
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by ddeck 7y ago
>they have proven at least as reliable as their diesel counterparts Things may have improved recently, but that certain was not the experience in Hong Kong: "Five Hong Kong electric buses pulled from service in under two weeks du
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by ddeck 7y ago
I'm not sure if qualifies as big and/or fat, but LinuxQuestions perform an annual poll of their users on all manner of topics [1] including "Desktop Environment of the Year"[2]. Not sure how representative it is and it&#
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by ddeck 7y ago
Perhaps explained by this: Office Depot and Alibaba team up to tap small and medium businesses Office Depot on Monday teamed up with Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd to launch a co-branded e-commerce website, seeking to tap into the opportunitie
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by ddeck 7y ago
>the idea of giving the government, military, and police a monopoly on weaponry (or radio receivers, for that matter) sounds even more insane. I've heard this line of reasoning often when discussing this topic and never really und
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by ddeck 7y ago
Despite claiming for years that they are working hard to bring their devices to more countries, the availability is pretty embarrassing: Pixel 3a (1 more country than the Pixel 3 - +India) Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland
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by ddeck 7y ago
I think they are actually receiving the funds. It is worded quite ambiguously, but I think what it actually means is that they receive GBP25-30 million a year from the Scott Trust, which they use for expenses and capital costs. The article
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by ddeck 7y ago
Salmonella comes from a variety of sources. I don't see how you can reach your egg conclusion based on overall rates. Food: Contaminated eggs, poultry, meat, unpasteurized milk or juice, cheese, contaminated raw fruits and vegetables (
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by ddeck 8y ago
>Tin whiskers has nothing to do with it. This is not accurate. Tin whiskers are a well-known problem resulting from pure tin coatings (although the mechanism is not well understood) and lead has historically been added to mitigate thei
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by ddeck 8y ago
>do you by any chance have a handy link to an actual graph on how cones react to various spectra of light? I think you'll find everything you need here: http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color1.html and el

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