Not an expert on the financial market, but this article may be worthwhile to consider, 'Actually, Most Americans Can Come Up With $400 in an Emergency' [1]
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-03/actual...
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[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-03/actual...
It first states, "...using bilateral security arrangements struck with countries in Europe and Africa to gain a widespread presence internationally..." which seems to suggest the hosts countries are fully (or at minimum somewhat) aware.
Then, they go on to say "Safeguard Defenders stumbled on the police networks while trying to assess the scale of China’s efforts to persuade some of its people to return to China..."
Fair enough, but what exactly are those people accused of? If they're being accused of fraud or other illegal activities, are those really people we want in our countries.
I'm American. I'm much more well versed in American issues and this is the first story that popped into my mind which I can bring up as a parallel.
> Second, you really want us to believe China's attempts at getting at its critics is the same as the US trying to get at a terror suspect?
As I clarified, as I couldn't read the full article, I am admitting I don't know - it would be great if the article had clarified down the way on what exactly their position is and someone had quoted it.
> If you want to criticize the US go ahead in the appropriate thread, there's plenty to criticize.
I love American thank you very much.
> Last December, Ms Wu spotted a fundraising appeal to benefit the Proud Boys - a far-right group designated by the Canadian government as a terrorist "neo-fascist organisation"
Perhaps Americans would take the first step and switch from imperial to metric, then we can discuss and tell everyone what to do.
Just like the debate about, "is it engineering"; by calling oneself as opposed to 'programmer', it conveys more prestige.
As a SWE, he sees himself in the driver seat of the company and doesn't want to be associated with being 'back-end', 'a cost-center', etc.
They don't...first offense you basically get off with a warning. Recent headlines was a case of Australian school girls shoplifting [1]. Although they're foreigners, same goes for locals.
[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/6-austra...
You only see police occasionally doing their patrols, so it can be argued there is less of a police presence than say NY. There is no need, there are cameras everywhere and its a small Island, you can't run anywhere.
With respect to the parent's comment on subway deaths: > Singapore has entirely solved the root problem in a non-carceral way by investing in infrastructure.
There are barriers that only open when the train has arrived, so there quite literally cannot be deaths from people pushing others onto the tracks. I presume that is what he means by infrastructure.
[1] https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/investments/our-advantage/our-per...
I have a friend who enjoys online multi-player games, but she often faces quite a bit of unfriendly remarks when she speaks (CS:GO, I believe it's been an ongoing problem in the community). I'm thinking perhaps an audio program that can alter her voice from female to male would let her game in peace - would anyone on HN have any suggestions/recommendations?
That is an obvious statement, but the analogy breaks down a bit as in Singapore, whether you live in a GCB or in HDB (social housing), everything is relatively close by regardless. Hence, there isn't really much of a trade-off at all - living in a GCB just affords more space and privacy (at an exponentially inflated cost).
> The People's Bank of China (PBOC) is looking to close the widening digital divide and has warned merchants that they must accept cash or face disciplinary action,...
[1] https://www.pymnts.com/cash/2020/china-issues-edict-warning-...
Ironically, every once in a while an article or post about something like the Dunning-Kruger effect comes up, everyone is suddenly fully aware of how this applies to them.
And yet ironically in the article,
> She echoed a number of women I spoke with who think authentic customers are the ones getting played. “These days, the reps just tend to be better made,” a Hamptons-based chief strategy officer tells me. “They last longer. There’s more attention to detail. You can tell that things have been done by hand.”
> The BBC misrepresented my views this morning, and I admit I'm stunned. [...] I spent three years doing field research on that myth and wrote an Oxford University Press book debunking it. [1]
[1] http://www.chinaafricarealstory.com/2021/12/bbc-misrepresent...
If that argument holds (which I'm not saying it doesn't), then how much more responsible are we who have democracy and tell everyone else how great it is we have a say in how our government operates. Surely, we then hold even more of the blame on issues such as the WMD fiasco. Ironically, ask any one of us about these issues and suddenly its, we have no control over the government, and other endless excuses.
Well it would appear in Singapore, you were effectively fined anyways, just in a roundabout way, so I'm not sure how then that translates into less coercive.
> To help convince parents that fewer were better, the government legalized abortion and encouraged voluntary sterilization. Hospital fees went up as a woman had more babies, working mothers were allowed only two paid maternity leaves and a family’s third, fourth and subsequent children were given a lower priority in the choice of and admission to schools. [1]
[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-21-mn-8983-s...
If I'm not allowed to have 2, was it less coercive because there was a way around it or something?
> It certainly did work though, it's very unusual to meet Singaporeans with more than 2 kids today.
I'd guess the lack of space and longer working hours would be more of a contributor.
Are you really that self centered that you think that people around the globe care.
Or do you mean Samsumg normalizing surveillance.
[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
> copying some of the data into a new Excel file without making any mistakes (and that includes Excel not reformating your data to something else, like a dd-mm-yyyy to mm-dd-yyyy or making a date out of your Gene names
In your typical office environment, your regular analyst will run into issues where the date formatting is different between files, and there are one-off errors or issues here and there. In Excel, they are able to scan through and adjust as necessary. If you're asking them to figure out how to write the code to re-map and fix random issues in the data, that will be much more complicated to learn.