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They've recently launched a Clubhouse clone and monetisation features

Eventually you get shadowbanned from flagging. I also fat finger and my flags aren't counted anymore.

Are we talking about travel or right to work? The latter tends to be beneficial to both countries as it prevents brain drain without the country having to impose exit bans / quotas.

Should have at least listed the Special Administrative Regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau which have their own passports and currencies. I'm not going to vote for China since I am not allowed to enter 95% of it without a visa.

If you see something you feel goes against the community guidelines simply flag it rather than adding oil to the fire and publicly reporting it.

The office address in that link is just a virtual office.

I would say it's less important for our leaders to be at the coalface and coding / learning to code than for them to know what's possible.

During the last industrial revolution, the leaders who we all hear about weren't directly involved in building the machines which automated processes. Rather, they were experts at leveraging skills of people who could do it.

I'd say that ignoring the whales, PHP and MySQL (especially WordPress) are the opposite of the long tail.

I don't think it's specifically targeting anyone, it's just oversimplifying issues. e.g. a place may look really good on average salary but terrible in terms of GINI (inequality). Neither should be taken in isolation

Lax visa requirements

MTR Corporation is 75% owned by the Hong Kong government and receives subsidies in the form of land leases granted below market value and a monopoly on rail infrastructure. I really appreciate the MTR, and am also a part of the 25%, but it's not really a truly private company.

Infamous is probably the correct word, its infamy just hasn't been translated.

Better than other abuse prone services, such as Hetzner or OVH, which require you to take a selfie holding your national ID card.

The language and behaviour is consistent with the cant generally spoken by the crypto community. It's a similar idea to /r/wsb/ and does the job of identifying insiders while keeping outsiders out.

Who appoints the notaries?

GP is probably referring to KF94, the Korean standard. Their form factor is somewhere between a surgical mask or an industrial / medical N95. They are quite popular, here in HK, with people who want to protect their makeup.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/KF94-Protective-Individually-Packaged...

It's not specific to one Chinese Language or even just Chinese.

It's easier if you create some value added service like "premium support" or an Active Directory integration plugin then charge for that.

Amazon stock represents ownership of a company and gold has both utility and intric beauty. They are demonstrably valuable

The mentioned examples don't have reasonable alternatives in many scenarios.

Forking a repo is highly disruptive to the community and any users of the software, especially if the original repo is just abandoned with no notice

The pilots haven't been identified so we don't know about their cultural background

You also have to run a datacentre or server room with the on-prem version

It's easy to pick stocks in a bull market

That's the theory but in practice very few companies bother because it's expensive, complicated and most workloads or customers can tolerate less than 100% uptime.

Tech debt is a thing for any non-trivial product. The more tech debt, the slower it is to create working increments of a product and the more risky changes are.

I have experienced products of which the development has ground to a halt due to the system having such complex interconnections that every change required everyone in every meeting to assess the impact of a change. The root cause was constantly churning out MVPs with no thought of architecture and no overall management of the product or teams. I was the architect hired to clean up the mess.

That is your assumption

I accepted it because it's more convenient than dismissing the popup every time I want to send someone a message.

There are still choices between finding ways to work within the system and making the best of the situation or completely giving up and resigning to the fact that nothing will ever get better.

There is a very real difference between constructive criticism and simply complaining. In most cases, complaining and shutting people down without suggesting any possible alternative or improvement just makes the situation even less unpleasant for everyone.