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RavlaAlvar

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RavlaAlvar··on Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange
I am often frustrated how CCP infiltration is not on the political radar of most Western society.

We in HK witness on first hand the determination and capability of CCP to slowly gobble up our society. If CCP would be allowed to sliently infiltrate Western society and political sphere, in 20yrs........

RavlaAlvar··on Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange
Random HKer flying by. Dear Brits, please don't let China buy up your country.

To those who thought this has nothing to do with China political agenda, please check the background of current CEO and president. Also, note that HK gov appoint half of the board member.

RavlaAlvar··on China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter
Why should they? Chinese money is just too juicy to give up... until they realize what kind of influence CCP have on their country, it will be too late by then anyway.
RavlaAlvar··on Hong Kong ISP Association’s Statement on Selective Blocking of Internet Services
There has been, in recent days, major government insiders openly say they is a possibility for the government to declare emergency situation in which its power include block any communication channel.
RavlaAlvar··on Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
Question: why should Chinese government be allowed to spread propaganda on Western media freely while vice versa is not .
RavlaAlvar··on Who Owns Huawei?
Also, see Alibaba
RavlaAlvar··on China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth
I am not saying Deng's approach is bad. I am just trying say that we shouldn't forget that a huge truck of China GDP comes from the exploitation of the workers.

Now that the level of inequality has reached the moon, I am curious to see what they will do next. Especially in the age automation and increasing trade war tender, manufacturing WILL leave China. Many in the US blame the rise Trump on the lost blue collar jobs. Imagine the same situation in China, but with majority of population being blue collar worker.

Let's also not forget about corruption in China. It is true that elimination of porvery is an important goal set by the central state. But how the local official achieve their target KPI is abhorrent, e.g. forcing low income family out of the city, manipulate the definition of poverty etc.

RavlaAlvar··on China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth
Also, we shouldn't forget that since the economic reform of 1978, China has adopted the policy of intentionally escalating wealth inequality.

Please do not forget billions of worker/farmer in China still live in a third world condition, so that the upper 10% can live their bourgeois life.

RavlaAlvar··on China’s liberalization and structural reform drives growth
Just in recent years China has decided to tighten its grip on private corporation, it's clearly i the government doesn't have any Desire for structural Reform and further economic liberalization.
RavlaAlvar··on Trump's Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students at Elite Schools
Chinese student and liberal art subject??
RavlaAlvar··on Trump's Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students at Elite Schools
I think people has to recognise there are two class of student; children from bourgeois class that mainly come to US just for their Bachelor, most of them don’t stay in the US afterward; Postgraduate student from the newly formed middle class in China that, if given chance, mostly won’t return to China.
RavlaAlvar··on Global recession fears grow as factory activity shrinks
A country that still heavily relies on paper document, still using fax machine, and its most popular internet forum has not changed its design since inception.

Yes, I would say the innovation in Japan has died out since the bubble.

RavlaAlvar··on Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
Wouldn’t YouTube re-encode the video and mess up with the data?
RavlaAlvar··on Random Forests for Complete Beginners
I am probably one of the junior DS you are referring to. But, I genuinely want to know the reason of using anything other than gradient boost tree to do classification on structured data.
RavlaAlvar··on Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
How hard would it be for a non-eu citizen to get a working visa in Sweden?
RavlaAlvar··on Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
Do life dependent code like those in NASA use these type of method to validate their system?
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