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by spacehunt 6y ago
Congratulations, you've just violated the brand-new HK National Security Law, which according to article 38 applies to everyone on Earth.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Correct, hence there is currently no pathway to citizenship / "settled status" for BN(O) holders. This is why the recently proposed BN(O) changes are quite significant.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> They're asking for war This is a gross misinterpretation. What the protestors actually wanted was: - For the UK to grant BN(O) holders citizenship to show that they are no longer bound by the Sino-UK Joint Declaration. - For the U
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by spacehunt 6y ago
No, by "vested interests" I mean whoever had power at the time. In the 70s-80s it was the ExCo, which had on it a few business elites hand-picked by the British. In the 80s-90s, as China opened up its markets and needed HK investm
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> the HK people didn’t exactly fight for it People tend not to demand a democratic system until they are dissatisfied with the governance. > or make it easy I still don't see how you've come to this conclusion. > I can st
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by spacehunt 6y ago
The key detail you missed is One Country Two Systems, which is what allowed Hong Kong to have a financial system integrated with the Western world's, and a legal system that works more or less the same as in London and New York.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> stalled by HK people themselves From the article you linked, it says it was stalled by vested interests and the CCP. Where does it say it was stalled by HK people?
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by spacehunt 6y ago
I'll illustrate with an example. Under the British, while it was true that the governor and many government officials were Brits, a surprising number of them were able to speak fluent Cantonese. They actually took the effort to underst
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by spacehunt 6y ago
You can still select the text and choose Look Up from the Services menu.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> But the url has seemingly been changed from underneath me, for a reason I still don't fully understand. Is the Redis add-on attached to the Heroku instance? This is how Heroku knows which instances' environment variables need
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by spacehunt 6y ago
This happens in Hong Kong already, where renting a parking spot is more expensive than hiring a part-time driver.
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by spacehunt 7y ago
How would that support phone dial-ins? (Yes, lots of people still dial into meetings all the time.)
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by spacehunt 7y ago
If you consider that there's really no such thing as "Chinese pronunciation" -- Chinese is a writing system for a group of spoken languages such as Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese -- then it makes sense that people are used
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by spacehunt 7y ago
> none of the "wear masks all the time" people are telling you to also wear eye protection all the time Huh? The earliest local news article I could find[0][1] that mentioned the importance of wearing glasses and goggles was ba
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by spacehunt 7y ago
2097/2297 are nice, 7093 is a bit better as the plastic casing provides a bit of protection against the rain. 60926 is anecdotally proven to work in environments highly polluted with oily crystals for at least a few hours.
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Who says we don't understand? I get that not everyone has been through both SARS and the wanton deployment of tear gas, but it's just common sense for us to dump everything in the wash and have a thorough shower as soon as we ge
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Lots of consumer electronics already support it.
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Fair point, but by the time the federal government recommended it, many flights were already being cancelled, especially through hubs such as Singapore and Hong Kong. It was not easy to organise flights. My flight to Melbourne via Singapore
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by spacehunt 7y ago
> The virus has a name Covid 19 Which was so named after the Chinese government put significant pressure on the WHO. Giving the Chinese government a free pass at bullying international organizations and the scientific community also pote
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by spacehunt 7y ago
I understand your point, but China did indeed try to call the 2009 flu pandemic "North American flu".[0] 北美 = North America, 流感 = flu, 鍾南山 = Zhong Nanshan (still widely respected in China due to his work during SARS) [0] https:&#
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by spacehunt 7y ago
I don't know, to me not allowing people to qualify the virus using the place of origin (as was the convention before) is an insult to those people -- you are assuming malice, that these people must be racists. I'm saying this as a
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by spacehunt 7y ago
> people don't see a difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese people Which is entirely the Chinese government's doing. They have been pushing the narrative that they represent the entire ethnic Chinese race for
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by spacehunt 7y ago
It's sad how Hong Kong is often left out or lumped together with China in these visualisations. I'm glad at least Taiwan is listed separately though.
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by spacehunt 7y ago
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will be streaming their performances live on YouTube, starting from tonight's (in about 3 hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBYvd5LKa4
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Definitely, pretty much from day one the PRC has been accusing the CIA and MI6 for inciting the "riots" designed to hurt the feelings of Chinese people.
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Of course. But I'm specifically talking about "rioting" as referenced in the Five Demands.
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Social media in China is also heavily censored and manipulated. There are quite a few in mainland China who understands what's going on here in Hong Kong, but most buy into the state propaganda and wants us exterminated for being &quot
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by spacehunt 7y ago
As a Hong Konger, thank you for writing this. One nitpick: Hong Kong has its own legal definition of "rioting". It's from the Public Order Ordinance[1], and carries a maximum 10 years jail sentence. The entire law itself is q
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Do the plain clothes wear face masks?
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by spacehunt 7y ago
Look, did the police in Italy go right next to your house and tear gassed the whole residential area? That's my personal experience last night. I was just outside my home, not at a protest. And now I can't even put on respirators

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