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Of course it's about money! However the problem is because the situation in HK is not as straight forward as people think. I would recommend everyone watch this video before making any judgements or comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPYuGYLesx0

SCMP has been for the past few months been very supportive of the "protests", so I am not even sure why they put this video up in the first place. As we can see, these guys are not the "peaceful protesters" people would like you to believe, but more rioters or even terrorists (yeah, they threatened a 70 yr old lady). So I would say at this stage expressing support for these guys in HK are like supporting the Sandy Hook conspiracies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s... which I would imagine a similar response from the NBA.

I am gonna have to call BS on this report. Everyone knows that google including gmail is blocked in China, so why would they try to get a hold of their google oauth? Additionally, I just went onto one of the mentioned websites at random, turkistantimes.com and guess what, the site is hosted in the America, in Houston!

So either that Xinjiang province is not behind the great firewall, or that Xinjiang has far greater internet freedom than the rest of China, so which one is which? You can't really have both in this case.

I used to really dislike django ORMs since I had a background in SQL and thought that ORMs are really constraining and not as flexible as just writing SQLs. However, recently I have come into the realisation that not everyone who programs knows SQL (woah, what a revelation right?), and the django ORM is a really nice tool to fill that gap for them with something they are more familiar with (ie python objects).

Why is the UK legal system relevant here? Well, it's really not, but I am just comparing it to a legal system that I am familiar with, which is a bit of a joke as well; I am happy to hear how the legal system works where you are from if you are willing to tell. Additionally, the Chinese legal system uses civil law, which is based on the Roman system that is used throughout Europe, I mean if I had a spin of it in the UK, can make it look like a horrible system, even though it works.

As for what's easier, let's look at it this way. For me to kidnap someone, I can just find where they are staying, break into said place and then take them away; if I am super careful, I will do it when there is no one around. For me to create a legal extradition route, then I would need to look into your history, financial dealings etc, find out somewhere that looks dodgy, and try to use that as evidence; sometimes I cannot even use that as evidence given it may not even be committed in China. Remember, Al Capone was sentenced not due to the other crimes he committed (due to lack of evidence) but rather due to his tax evasions, so proving something legally when you haven't done it is very hard. If given that you can just go around "kidnapping and disappearing people" as you have stated, why would you want to bother create the legal route right?

Neither I nor any of my family have been tried in China (I am guessing you haven't either), so I cannot comment on the legal system, but in reality, the legal system in the UK is not perfect either. There was a really good book released 2018 about how the legal system is broken here, if you are interested, it's a really good read:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Barrister-Stories-Law-Broken...

Onto the topic of the extradition bill though, it specifically excludes extraditing politial dissidents, so it would not streamline the process. What I hear some people say that China will just make some excuses in other areas, which then I don't see the point, since kidnapping and disappearing people would surely be easier right, and since they can already do that, then why would they need the bill? But you know what the bill does allow HK to do, is to extradite a baby murderer to face charges of the crime he commited.

"Trapped by the white shirted locals", so then not by hired thugs? If locals would somehow trap "peaceful protesters" to beat them up, then man, HK must be a violent place!

I've been to both places, and I am fully aware that the system in Hong Kong is very different to that of the mainland, to the point where in certain aspects I see Hong Kong as a separate country (although things could have changed in the past few years, so I am not so certain).

From what I've seen though, I don't think China really wants to fully integrate Hong Kong (probably not even in 2047) as it doesn't make to much sense to do so, but would rather create an offshore haven like what Jersey is to the UK. But here lies the problem, while Jersey is seen as really well off due to the number of high networth bank accounts kept there, there is a real sense of poverty in Jersey and I think that's the issue HK is facing right now. If that is the case, calling for democracy is not going to solve their problems, so instead of rioting, maybe they should have sat down to work out a better solution.

Hired thugs? I assume you mean in Yuen Long right? Here is my question, do you know where Yuen Long is? It's quite far out of the city of Hong Kong (I mean the name has far in it). So the story goes that the "protesters" went there to do what exactly, and then got beaten up right? So why were they so far out in the first place? Since it's quite far out of the city center, do you really think someone can quickly pay thugs to create a coordinated attack against these rioters when it was sort of a spur-of-the-moment type of thing?

Personally, I am more convinced that the "protesters" are the agitators of all of these, you are more than welcome to show me otherwise.

As for violent police, the UK deals with protests are even worse, but I've not seen escalation to this sort of level.

I have lived in the UK for over 20 years since I was 8, and I have to say I don't understand the Hong Kong riots.

For starters, does any of you even know how it all started? The extradition bill? To do what? To extradite a Hong Kong teen that killed his pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan so he can be prosecuted there, at the request of Taiwan! I don't ever see that mentioned anywhere.

Let me say, this video absolutely riled me (even more so than the ones I’ve seen of the rioters getting violent):

https://videos-a.jwpsrv.com/content/conversions/KWwwg9Oc/vid...

Sure, these guys are “peaceful” as in they didn’t hurt anyone, but watch and observe their actions:

1. The guys postures are incredibly aggressive for starters, for me, I would not call that peaceful at all.

2. Once someone took action to stop them, they held their hands up to make it look like they didn’t do anything wrong

3. They have friends specifically to capture the moment when they look like they were provoked

Now taking all of these points into consideration, this is an intentional provocation to have someone take action against them and make themselves look like the good guys. Here is my question to you all, what would you have done in those situations? Forcefully make them stop? Then that makes you the bad guy, and could potentially have you beaten up (let’s look at the number of thugs they have behind them). Call the police? Then the police will look like the bad guys, which is probably their intention anyways. So personally, I do not buy the “protests” being peaceful at all, maybe it was at the start, but there are a lot more violence from these “protesters” that are not being reported.

Scrolling through the twitter message, there is a link to this quora article, makes an enlightening read:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-specific-examples-of-medi...

Oh, it's even worse than that, they even have "Macau-Macao". Not only did they not know that Macau is a part of China, but they could not even spell "Macao" properly!

From this, I would not even say it's due to stupidity, but more incompetence. If you are in a business and not know about one of your biggest markets, then you are doing something very very wrong!

Unfortunately there are quite a few problems in the report: 1. it measures productivity by GDP, which itself is not a great measure 2. it compares Greece vs Germany, and fails to mention that they rely on completely different industries; Greek - agriculture, Germany - manufacturing

But what we are talking about here specifically is the software development industry, where quantity does not always mean quality. So herein lies the problem that potentially a lot of our beliefs that "more hours worked means diminished return" could just be based on bad data analysis.

Look, I completely understand what you are saying, because it's something I believe as well. However, what I am trying to find out more is whether this belief is correct or not and whether anyone has done any actual studies.

So a 40 hour work week does not mean 40 productive hours. Let's say that you are only truly productive at a flat rate of 40% of your work time, then 40 hour work week means 16 productive hours per week, whereas 996, 72 hours a week means 28.8 productive hours per week.

Now my question is, is the assumption of productive hour ratio real or does it start high and end low? And if my assumption of the flat productive ratio is true, then does it actually yield any good results?

The working hours is one thing. What I am most curious about is does more hours being put in mean more/better work output; ie does the 996 work culture actually means a higher output, even if by a slight margin?

Personally my opinion is that coding is not like the assembly line where more hours mean more things that's produced, but more lines of code can mean absolutely nothing (sometimes can even be a negative). However, looking at the recent progress in China, I am wondering what percentage of that is attributed to the 996 working culture, or is it to do with something else?

For starters, did I condone any of them being justified? Me making a statement about Gauntanamo Bay does not automatically imply I am defending the re-education camps in China.

So, here is a very basic lesson in maths: If a => b is true, it does not necessarily mean b => a is true.

Besides, does America not also have one of the highest incarceration rates in the worlds? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

I mean China has a lot of catching up with America (just order by per 100,000): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Learnt from the best:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

There was a similar report in qz https://qz.com/1562014/chinas-tech-giants-are-firing-people-... with links (mostly in Chinese) about layoffs in the Chinese tech sector.

The way I am reading it, what the article is getting at is specifically tech unicorns are in trouble, either that they are not making the money they require or getting the investments they once had. Doesn't exactly mean a 'tech doom', but I would say these are worrying signs.

Monopoly is good - except Google.

- Peter Thiel

Unfortunately their humans are not much better either, where I've found that they have a "I don't give a sh*t" attitude. The best way I've found to get through to Google is to go directly to the person who is responsible for the product, in which case they will just log a ticket and hope for the best.

I've stopped using Google and moved to DDG not because of privacy, but because the results on Google just seem the same everytime even when I use different wording, making it feel like Google has been becoming a "recommendation engine" rather than a "search engine".