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> What China really wants is Hong Kong’s reputation.

That is exactly the case.

HKEX bought Londom Commodities Exchange a couple of years ago.

Hong Kong reddit has the top coverage of HK.

Absolutely.

Developing countries tend to have extremely low cost of public transport. Yet cost of living, such as quality free cost heathcare for terminal or chronic medical needs, such as heart disease or cancer or diabetes are non-existant or minimal to the point there's an ideal but no implementation of the policy. And private medical insurance capped at a $CURRENCY limit, should that be exceeded then lights out on insurance, no 'promise to care' in those private insurance contracts.

I certainly notice the correlation.

Cash is faster.

It is anonymous. It is private. It feels good.

It does not depend on an internet connection which is really important for low-probability high-impact events.

It does not depend on 3rd parties.

This was a remarkably detailed and honestly confusing post from Tencent, until I noticed the Chase logo at the top, and it was not by Tencent. (The WeChat team in Tencent there is very small, close, integrated).

Pretty major name clash here, WeChat pay aka WePay, perhaps WeChat Pay, and well, another WePay.

For those not familiar, WeChat, somewhat a WhatsApp+/Facebood Messenger of China, probably earlier mover however riding from QQ, transact billions of yuan in payments every day and together with AliPay is promoting a cashless society (which I think is wrong, I like cash).

caijing and ft are the top resources for china insight. aljazeera was until their main jounalist was driven out. cnn might not output much but have had the same guy in beijing for 30+ years. dare i say it, reddit's chinacirclejerk also.

Wealthy part of the richest country in the world cannot home it's citizens because NIMBY property prices?

Have a good relationship with your MD/GM and ask them.

Aren't a lot of brown eyed people also born with blue eyes, changing a few weeks later?

Blocked in China too.

Buy a solar water heater. I live in a climate that varies between -20 and 35 degrees, and this solar water heater has worked consistently for 10 years over these temperature ranges. It is, essentially, some glass pipes attached to a tank at the top with a 260 litre capacity, capacities vary, all neighbours have them, and a meter to press a button to auto- fill up when needed. This will be a huge cut in your electricity bill. For cost and context, including installation, mine cost about $200.

And, well, for tips, a washing line. There is no need to tumble-dry anything, a piece of rope, some pegs, and wind and relative humidity do a pretty good job themselves.

Ah, thanks, quite a nice name, perhaps, thanks for your child comment to the Wikipedia article for some background.

Translated as..

> a metaphor for the "primordial world, primeval chaos" in Chinese creation myths.

> "Mists-of-Chaos", "Vast Obscurity", "Big Concealment", "Vital Principle", "Natural Energy" and "Big Goose Dummy"

I can't quite escape the pun, however. And puns are pretty prevalent in Chinese. Someone will have OKed it.

Hongmeng?

'Hong' as in 'red'

and

'Meng' as in 'dream'

?

That's quite a name!

Beijing also detained the head of Interpol who has not been seen since (a Chinese citizen). Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-chinese-head...

Hmmm.. ok.. I could and should write something on this a lot longer.

The government facilitate corruption. The government is a hegemony.

Aside from that broad shot, 10 years ago you enter the aforementioned square freely, not only after going through a 'police' security check, bags x-rayed, IDs checked.

Could be, I don't know. 50,000 is a village in these contexts! I'd really like to explore India, it is, also, vast.

I pinged recapture.net and got a 50ms response time. Baidu would give a 20ms response time. That's on WiFi. That leads me to think the server responding to these pings is in certainly in mainland China, I think in Alibaba's IP range, but probably not a CDN. Interesting, thanks.

You're correct, quite a lot of things are not accessible in the most populous country in the world.

However, federated things are accessible. The big names Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/Google are blocked, and the services below them. However it is a blacklist of blocked not a whitelist of accessible. Putting google analytics traction in a header of a federated blog, meaning it's actually not federated, is indeed a stupid pain. China internet is restricted, but it is only restricted 'enough' for the current power.

Edit: And that seems good enough for now. Wechat 'moments' and use of Tiktok, from my observation of friends or even taking the train, are on a steep decline. Wechat's future seems mainly as a commercial P2Passist or very simple blog platform. Both dropped the ball and mobile payments will not disappear but the tide has turned (NFC, anyone? this was an already solved problem. The only real challenger bank China has is China Merchants Bank but they're after merchants, the clue in the name. For customer service and being one to perhaps pull a rabbit out of the hat, China Construction Bank. I have no idea how BEA didn't grab mobile payments.

The photos or voice still needs to come from from somewhere. The somewhere is google.com. The .com is blocked.

reCAPTCHA does not work in China mainland (it does in HK, but that's different for now). But translate.google.cn (note the .cn) works fine. Similar visual recaptchs used on Chinese services tend to focus on Chinese characters on a low resolution picture background. Training for street names? I don't know

Resolving to google.com does not resolve (gmail does, a bit, IMAP but only every few hours or days, depending on connection sans VPN).

Fanta too. As in Coco-cola Fanta.

reCAPTCHA also just doesn't work in the most populous country in the world. translate.google.cn does, but Google's reCAPTCHA does not. This is a big pain point. Thanks for the link to turingtest, I will certainly test it.

Not only a profit center, but an outsourced pollution center.

F500 CEOs outsource pollution to China.

Terrifying indeed. No comment other than for others to please read this.

Like bees?

It depends on the bus!

In my local city in China, for example:

The BRT stops every 2km or so, and runs on dedicated lanes.

The tram stops every 1km or so, no variation downtown or out of town.

The 5 buses and 6* buses tend to be long distance within a metropolitan area and stop every 2-500m at pickup and destination, but can run 30km only stopping a couple of times at key pick-up/drop-off locations.

Regularly numbered buses 1 though 70+ will stop every 500 meters or so, usually at each block.

There's an app, PandaBus, that shows all of the routes and stops for every stop in most Chinese cities, and has live GPS of buses for several cities. I don't know where they get the data, I'm sure you can just ask them.

In Hong Kong, numbering is a bit different and related to the city layout - basically HK is very dense in Central (Island) and Kowloon (peninsula) but due to coastal and mountainous topography very vast in the New Territories with 'new towns' being small urban pockets in the NT countryside.

Take the, IIRC, 73. The 73 route runs from Tai Po to Kowloon. The 73X does this with lots of pick-ups in Tai Po, then expressway to Kowloon with a single stop in Shatin, that's about 80km. The 73K does the same route but doesn't take the expressway and stops at every conceivable point, expending the journey time by an hour or two. HK people please correct me as it's a long time since I was in HK.

And HK also has the Toyota mini buses that have a single pickup point, drive like maniacs for 30-80km picking up speed downhill and losing momentum uphill, then drop off where you ask the driver. Good exciting ride, keep your eyes open!

I don't know about Russia or Japan. For China, there are clusters around key universities and their satellites, and spin-offs from those satellites either directly/partially owned or from alumni.

But it's haphazard. Most universities are incapable or unwilling of even running an email service and all emails go through QQ. That's not 'QQ for Domains' but just personal QQ numbers.

Your comment is not controversial, it is incorrect.