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It is my understanding that the protests originally started over HK residents frustrated that they would never ever be able to afford decent housing inside of HK, and they blamed a couple of central figures in HK (who are not Chinese residents).

The protests seem to have become much more than that.

The final form of the protests don't address the frustration of HK residents over living costs.

stop polluting HN with comments like this

"our economy has weathered this better than anywhere in the world, and we will likely come out of this crisis even stronger, with even more global power, than we went in" - I can't read your entire paywalled off article, but I think the US' response of basically ignoring the plight of unemployed workers and only nominally trying to save small businesses ... vs the European model of giving aid to employers and cover a fraction of employees salary as long as they don't lay off workers, is obviously going to give the European countries a head start on recovery.

Unless you're a Creative Destruction disciple. There's been a lot of destruction!

Perhaps the current FBI is pure and 100 percent professional now, but the FBI of the 50s/60s/70s would totally do this, and much worse.

it would be funny if Cuba finds a successful treatment protocol first.

"We're not interfering with other countries' covid response" - the US continues to freeze Iran out of the SWIFT system, which means Iran can't buy just about everything.

Iranians will die because of this policy.

I've researched the Uighar thing heavily.

It always bugs me though that the United States has more prisoners than China, despite having a vastly smaller population.

COVID-19 affects the entire world. Shouldn't all COVID-19 basically be done on a globally viewable wiki? It's going to take the cooperation of all countries to get through it. I don't understand why the US should hoard any COVID-19 data it has, besides extremely non altruistic ones.

Any paper put out by an extremely ideological think tank is going to present statistics in the most biased way possible, to try to prove their point.

National Affairs dot com is published by the extreme right wing think tank The Claremont Institute, started by the man who came up with Barry Goldwater's line "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."

Divestment pushed South Africa to abolish apartheid.

I don't know any activists who feel or behave in the way the activists in your comment do.

Probably not. I find Sanders' support of the military industrial entertainment complex troubling.

From my own experience, this is not true!

When most people talk about "Mass transit" I think they mean trains... subways... buses...

I hope!

He'll just nominate Elliot Abrams to replace him.

It should be Opt-In.

Not Opt-Out.

Jonathan Franzen is not an expert in the possible effects of climate change.

He's an expert at writing novels in which everyone sounds like they have a Creative Writing MFA from Swarthmore.

This is silly.

no.

because its not true anymore?

look in this story for "expense report"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...

"I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money"

This is incorrect.

Currently the US scans and saves an image of the front and back of every single piece of postal mail.

I listen to several podcasts.

I learned from this article that Spotify bought Gimlet Media for 200 million.

That's about it.

Good character letters sometimes backfire. The judge in the Ross Ulbricht case said that she sentenced him so harshly partly because she got many letters attesting to his good character, so she decided she needed to set a very public example.

Neuralink has a CEO, board, other employees. It functions with or without him.

Ross Perot advocated for and greatly influenced the eventual passing of draconian drug laws in Texas.

http://www.issues2000.org/Celeb/Ross_Perot_Drugs.htm

I hope they leave my favorite YouTube channel alone

The Lockpicking Lawyer

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

I think the old Jack Welch quote is more revelevant

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/01/19/welcome-home

“IDEALLY”, said Jack Welch in 1998, when he was chief executive of General Electric, “you’d have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy.” Reality followed vision for Mr Welch, who was a pioneer of offshoring, setting up one of the first offshore service centres in Gurgaon on the outskirts of Delhi.

NYT has a dollar per week online plan, you can afford it.