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I finish my current role on Friday, and start a new one next Monday.

The difference is pretty much 20%.

On why I took it:

* The money is better

* It has more potential for fulfillment

* The money is enough to offset the risk that it won't suit me


> Millions of people living in ... Hong Kong... who are well on their way towards western level of development

Hong Kong is a developed country.

It has a public housing system, a public healthcare system, and amazing transport.

It has massive issues with income equality, and particular poverty in old age.

However, it doesn't belong in a comparison beside cities in China.


> public housing system, a public healthcare system

These are the sign of a developed country?


They're secondary points relating to quality of life and social security that distinguish Hong Kong from China.


Well in most Asian cultures taking care of your relatives and elderly is primarily done by the family. Offloading this duty to the state is not a sign of development but a sign of different culture. There are well regarded measures of human development, like the HDI.

"The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the GNI (PPP) per capita is higher. It was developed by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq, with help from Gustav Ranis of Yale University and Lord Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics, and was further used to measure a country's development by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)'s Human Development Report Office"

According to Wikipedia China has a HDI of 0.752 which is considered high, 86th position on the list of countries. Hong Kong also has high HDI, 0.933, very high, 7th position.

This comparison is much better than trying to come up with an arbitrary measure.


My primary point was that Hong Kong is not directly comparable to cities in China.

I also readily say "Hong Kong is not China".

Although, as time goes on, the truth of that statement is eroded.


I need to learn the tooling around anki.

I was trying to edit the full hsk1-6 flashcard set to just show hsk5.

But I didn't manage to find the right tools.

Tried to manually change the file (it's a sqlite dB inside a zip file) but the db is not structured in a way I managed get my head round.

Should try again.


The default tooling isn't great. Tools like CrowdAnki [0] and Anki Deck Manager [1] make it possible to manage decks in plain text. It's also helpful for collaborative deck development. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find many examples of decks managed this way online, but there is a relatively high quality geography deck worth looking at [2].

[0] https://github.com/Stvad/CrowdAnki

[1] https://github.com/OnkelTem/anki-dm

[2] https://github.com/axelboc/anki-ultimate-geography


I think that's what "Tools > Create filtered deck" is for. Assuming the cards are appropriately tagged, "tag:hsk5" should be enough.

For more complex operations Anki doesn't support directly, I usually just export as text instead of dealing with the database directly.


> I was trying to edit the full hsk1-6 flashcard set to just show hsk5.

> But I didn't manage to find the right tools.

This is by far the worst part of those decks (which I am also using). You are literally encouraged to just browse the cards and delete the levels that you're not using. It's really not user friendly.


I'm surprised about this.

I get that there can be circulating cells, but the probability of them successfully metastasising in the early stages is very low.

Normally it's only later stage cancers that end up spreading.

I guess it's down to the immunosuppression making metastasis more viable.


I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the probability or rate (or expected time) of metastasizing varies a lot depending on the type of the tumor. (I looked into this a bit when I was diagnosed; it was more or less likely to metastasize within a somewhat short time, depending on the exact type of the tumor.)

I'm sure the immunosuppressants needed after a transplant would increase the risk in any case.


If it wasn't a surprising situation, it wouldn't have been in a medical journal.

However its possibility isn't crazy. Per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC22534/ it seems that cancer cells can be detected in the blood before the cancer itself is detectable by traditional means. Therefore an undiscovered cancer could well have left circulating cells in multiple organs.


There already is a YouTube Kids that has a similar set of features.

https://www.youtube.com/yt/kids/


This tool claims to have those features, but does not. The article covers this.

It’s actually kind of worse, because it lulls parents into thinking it’s safe. And it’s even harder to police since adults never use it and the UI is different than the YouTube parents expect.


Yes. We found our two year old had found some pretty...strange YouTube Kids videos on her iPad, so we nuked YT Kids and only gave them PBS/Sesame Street.


And the "weird" videos from the article seem to still exist there too, the way I understand the article (I haven't checked myself, it was disturbing experience the last time).


I've tried it, and found it to be worthless.


"non-negligible" doesn't sound very precise.

You mean "non-empty but finite"?

"There exists a member of the Committee that is not active"


In the context of measure theory, a "non-negligible" set is a set with measure greater than zero.


A couple of months ago they were still using beermats pushing for a harder Brexit.


Having lived in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan I take a pragmatic view to whether I should be offended by peoples use of the term foreigner.

The Cantonese "gweilo" (lit. "monster/ghost person") and Taiwanese "adoga" (lit. "big nose") are more clearly offensive in literal meaning.

Both are extremely casual, and in most cases no ill will is intended.

But for each I've encountered situations where it wasn't so pleasant.

Notably once in a remote guangdong town, some people stopped on a motorbike, pointed at me and said "Gweilo" before riding off laughing.

Equally at a good friends wedding, his mum kept referring to me as "adoga" in the 3rd person.

"Adoga comes from England" rather than using my name, which she'd known for the past 3 or so years.

In China, I can't think of a specific situation where I was offended by the use of "laowai".


"Hello monster/ghost person." Yes, that's me?


This made me think of a wonderful article titled "While Teaching in Japan, it Took an Enemy to Make Me Feel at Home" [0] which was on the HN front page at the end of 2017. [1]

That article is about the friendship/enemyship between a teacher and a child student, formed by the student’s teasing hostility toward the author as a foreigner.

[0] https://catapult.co/stories/on-campus-yuka-my-enemy-friendsh...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15992603

EDIT: grammar, clarity, readability.


"When I told a group of kids my eyes were naturally blue (they thought I wore colored contacts), they backed away and whispered, “Scary.” The first time I went to the grocery store, my appearance alone caused a small child to burst into tears."


"big nose is from England, he's my son's good friend"


in which case you'll need to add a comment to remember what it says:

    print("\u4f60\u597d\uff0c\u4e16\u754c\uff01") # "你好,世界!"


That makes the source file not-ascii again.


Sure. That's my joke.

You'd obfuscate the content, but to be practical you'd still have to know what it said.

Hence my comment.


I believe conduit is going to support HTTP1.1 by the time it's done.

The http2 and grpc focus was just to get the alpha release out there.


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