They are until they aren't. Or you add latency into the mix. I've seen far too many N+1 problems, quadratic loops and full table scans to believe that computers are fast enough such that understanding data structures and algorithms is unnecessary.
They are still usually made in China, possibly by the same factory who makes the Walmart ones. The difference is usually in the compromises that were made to achieve the target margin.
The volunteers are usually half day corporate team building events. The company pays a fee and the staff provide "voluntary service", photos are then taken and shared on social media.
Isn't Cloud Formation more like Terraform? k8s pretty much abstracts the whole cloud platform and makes it deployable anywhere (theoretically). Although practically there's usually lock-in to some managed services.
In many large Asian cities the average person has little space to store food and often no cooking appliances and minimal fridge space, this is especially true of younger people who are stuck in the rent trap and spending US$1k+/month on a shoebox. This is becoming increasingly true as people start to rely on takeout food delivery which is quite convenient when you work 12 hours per day.
There is an easy excuse: time. Most people have better things to do than fiddle around with setting up a blog. The setting up process provides minimal value to most people.
I don't know if that is the answer either. I live in a society where kids are duty bound to provide care for their parents and grandparents as they age. The result is many single people pushing into their thirties who never got to live their own life. When their parents pass they risk living a life devoid of meaning and with nobody to look after themselves.
According to a follow-up article by the same news outlet this tweet is the correct explanation. I'm not going to make judgement because I don't have enough information to decide either way
Death and calamity has been the theme of the whole of history. We're still generally in a much better situation than 100 years ago, even better than 200 and so on.
The Digital Yuan is a digital currency but not a cryptocurrency. It works similarly to a bank account except instead of having an account with the bank, you have one directly with the government, although currently all e-RMB accounts are attached to traditional bank accounts.
I think IKEA in Hong Kong has a completely different business model from most of the world since their stores are located in prime shopping malls and shopping districts instead of out-of-town which is more common elsewhere. It's quite common for people to just visit the bistro to grab a snack and teenage couples tend to hang out on the sofas after school which I think is quite unique to the HK branches. In general the experience is very localised, for example, the showrooms tend to focus on how efficiently you can furnish your 250 square foot shoebox and there is a bigger focus on ancillaries because most people don't have cars.
Depends where you live. I live in HK and the speed is usually pretty bad unless I use a VPN / reverse proxy on a service which uses higher quality bandwidth.