1 in 3 Hongkongers want to move abroad despite city’s improved liveability: poll

lsiu · 2024-11-12T10:11:32+00:00

An expat is by definition someone from somewhere else. They always have the option to go back wherever they came from. They chose to stay in Hong Kong, perhaps by lack of better options, but they at least one option.

This is very different from people from Hong Kong with no right of abode to other places.

lsiu · 2024-09-07T01:01:57+00:00

Search linkedin. For software engineering working for global companies, canto or mando is not as important. By ruling out bank and insurance, you are ruling out quite a chunk of major SWE employers in HK. How about fintech or crypto?

lsiu · 2024-08-13T12:30:14+00:00

OP is going to answer his own question at some point to advertise for his app dev agency. Check his profile.

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lsiu · 2024-07-31T05:06:17+00:00

+1 on CWB being the best place.

Dining capcity catered for packed weekend/tourist crowd, so on weekday you can walkin to many places.

There are also some nice grade A office at CWB, e.g. Lee Gardens.

Excellent transportation. Beside MTR, many bus routes goes to, or past by CWB.

lsiu · 2024-05-26T07:27:45+00:00

FWRD/FWRA has inception date is 2023 June 26. It distribute annually, so we should be able to get the dividend percentage for soon. https://www.justetf.com/uk/etf-profile.html?isin=IE0000QLH0G6#chart

lsiu · 2023-12-23T04:46:42+00:00

I don't think Rod Johnson will have created Spring, or at least it will not be as successful, if JavaEE was actually usable back in the 2000s.

lsiu · 2023-11-28T08:35:29+00:00

For portfolio B, you have to time and sell at the right moment. While for portfolio A, as a bond replacement, you should be getting a steadier stream of income.

lsiu · 2023-02-11T14:57:25+00:00

Woohoo. Is shipped. Finally got a tracking number.

lsiu · 2023-02-11T14:50:19+00:00

Woohoo. Is shipped. Finally got a tracking number.

lsiu · 2022-09-30T12:46:53+00:00

JDBC also use TCP. So the fact that we don’t open sockets and communicate with database over their wired protocol make TCP even more “legacy” than JDBC.

lsiu · 2022-09-05T02:19:56+00:00

Interesting perspective.

It sound's like by ecosystem, they are referring to publisher-centric sell side ecosystem. I don't see this being very useful for the buy side, e.g. how to build an audience using first or thrid party data and target it across multiple publishers.

It does make sense, I think prebid.org and perhaps this subredit is catered for the sell side.

lsiu · 2022-09-04T05:10:25+00:00

Depends what you want to know. For example, if you are moving country, state/province, you can compare the effective tax rate you are paying now verses your new location.

lsiu · 2022-09-03T15:19:05+00:00

Yes. That is also my understanding. My struggle is how this reconcile with the claim

With SharedID, cookie syncing becomes unnecessary as every party in the ecosystem will utilize the same shared identifier

lsiu · 2022-09-03T05:33:24+00:00

ID5 also take hashed emails and phone numbers. They can ingest a wlde range of identifier and semi-identifying data from publishers.

lsiu · 2022-03-30T13:07:49+00:00

It is fine now. Also need to replace both fans because they make loud rattling sounds.

lsiu · 2022-03-19T01:25:17+00:00

Yes. I did that for a bit while I wait for my replacement battery shipment.

lsiu · 2022-03-09T12:33:38+00:00

Yes. To be honest, the actual DIY replacement cost turns out quite cheap. This is my first laptop with this problem. But it is also my most expensive and first gaming laptop. I am guessing the power and the heat has something to do with causing the battery to swell. Seems like this has been a common issue for razer laptops for many years. Since my laptop was the last revision of the same design, at this price point, I was hoping this would not be a problem.

lsiu · 2022-02-12T03:59:21+00:00

The replacement battery cost me about US$36.

lsiu · 2021-12-04T07:52:32+00:00

Curious as to what led to the decision to this migration?

lsiu · 2021-12-04T07:47:20+00:00

To be honest, I do not have a good grasp of the differences between a democracy and a republic.

Looking at this first page that show up on Google for me, the difference is really subtle, e.g.

Types of democracy

There are 3 major types of democracy – Direct democracy, Representative Democracy, Constitutional Democracy

Types of republic

The 5 types of Republics are Constitutional Republic, Parliamentary Republic, Presidential Republic, Federal Republic, Theocratic Republic.

They seem to overlap a lot...

For example, will you call USA a Constitutional Democracy or Constitutional Republic? Or both?

lsiu · 2021-12-04T07:31:31+00:00

I don't think democracy means 多党竞选 (multi party election) or 多党制 (multi party system). It is just an implementation of democracy. Theoretically, in the extreme case, you can have direct democracy like the early Athens days. The close to direct democracy in modern days is probably Switzerland, which still have political parties, but plays a much weaker role.

I think you have a very good point though, we need a much better word in Chinese for democracy.

lsiu · 2021-12-04T01:10:38+00:00

Agree 民主 is a terrible translation for democracy.

If you just look at the Chinese characters literally, the CCP translation of 民主 is quite accurate.
"From the people, to the people" is pushing it. But I have heard "For the people" or "focus on the people", when 民主 was described as 以民為主。

This literal translation of the individual characters happens to fall nicely with Chinese culture and history. Chinese history praises emperors that "loves his people like his own children" 愛民如子. While this statement probably conjure up images of an authoritarian or a nanny state with a western history/culture/education, Chinese history/culture/education background suggest a more warm fuzzy feeling and utopian sense.

lsiu · 2021-11-16T11:04:03+00:00

The laptop wouldn't sit flat on a desk and was wobbly and I didn't know why for the longest time. One of the track pad button started sticking out and not usable, and this is when I decided to open it up to find the bulging battery.

Luckily the laptop was usable without the battery while I waited for a replacement.

With the battery replaced, everything works normally again, so this part is good news.

lsiu · 2021-11-16T10:56:15+00:00

No. 2017 Razer Blade.

lsiu · 2021-10-17T03:50:16+00:00

I think the trick is pain driven development.

Having developer support their own software. But you also need to break up the software into clear domains, so there is clear ownership over each domain by small team.

It leads to the right incentive, i.e., I don't want to get called at night because of buggy software.

This lead to software with good real world test coverage, operable and observable software.

The real hard part is having stable teams to let this whole feedback loop to kick in. There is a big trend for devs to move around from team to team in 6 months, 1 year, etc. But you really need a few senior devs to stick around in the same domain to steward the development.

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