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Another article says his net worth is 100m, so that would mean he might have 1.2b in debt but 1.3b in assets.

I'm not sure that suggests he's a scammer on the surface.

The breathing hole and the eating hole are separated

BYD is selling where I live now in Southeast Asia. And I've also been to China many times and been inside BYD vehicles.

While they are economically built, the quality seems pretty good considering the price point. They're being used as taxis all over Shenzhen and many other cities where I'm sure they're racking up hundreds of millions of kilometers of fleet mileage, potentially giving them a lot of data to work with.

Honestly I think the Chinese are going to be very strong contenders against American built electric vehicles, which is going to ruffle a lot of feathers.

It's definitely strange how the pandemic kind of created a time warp for everyone. It's like we just lost 2-3 years into oblivion.

I think you're right. We're going to see some expected names, some unexpected names, and some randoms.

The unexpected names are already working on how they'll publicly say they weren't involved like that and without any further evidence it'll all just fade.

We'll say yeah, we kinda expected that guy to be an Epstein island tourist. But hey, there are still-sitting politicians who we know this kind of thing about and their positions are unaffected.

Possibly to run those strangely shaped outdoor billboard signs

From my most recent memory, advertisers can still enable the option to allow comments. It was an interesting idea, and I too appreciate it when advertisers went in there to communicate about valid questions and concerns with their product.

My suspicion is that the big advertisers are using marketing agencies who don't have the time or budget to go and moderate inauthentic conversations in those comment threads however.

If an advertiser figured out how to orchestrate that swarm of comments getting behind a recommendation that all seem very natural it would be difficult to tell that it's an ad and not just organic feedback.

I share your worry as well that it may already be happening.

No it does, I think it's limited to only community and geo

I don't know if reddit ads provide a good roas. We tried a few campaigns and gave up because it was so far off what we see on other platforms. The community is super anti-advertising, the targeting is really limited by community and geo.

People go to reddit to veg out, not to shop. I think the only times I've made purchases based on things I've seen are when there's a discussion and numerous people make a recommendation for the same thing, or maybe a few cases when the op is showcasing something they had a personal part in creating.

My company has an office in China and I've been there many many times.

Chinese people are like all other people - same needs, same hopes and dreams, same fears, same drivers. In the city where our office is located, they are extremely hard working and want to ensure a better future for their family. Just like most American cities.

Their city is very high tech, moreso than many American cities because they skipped a lot of legacy technology.

They don't necessarily subscribe to the same moral/value system as Americans, for example they often see copying each other's ideas as a compliment whereas Americans see it as stealing. Kind of like - if it's possible to copy, then it's fair game - so don't make it possible if you don't want it copied. Perhaps that drives a different kind of innovation.

Obviously there are many more cultural differences. But as a people, we are all essentially working with the same needs.

All that being said I don't appreciate the great firewall when I'mthere, the censorship, and the fear they have about discussing banned topics. I don't appreciate the high-tech security cameras at every corner, or all the tracking of activities. The younger generations tolerate this for now because they are wealthier than their parents and told to cooperate, but that may not hold long term.

Not sure why the downvotes on OP, it's a reasoned opinion and worthy of discussion.

I think you're saying that if you have too many political parties then the whole system gets watered down so much that nothing happens and the direction of the country can change at any time because there's no unified agenda. Isn't there a system to elect a leader who'd set the agenda and coordinate?

My bike is made from an element that has been shaped by man into a more useful... shape.

I have an 11 year old boy and this Christmas we had the talk about the reality of Santa Claus. He'd suspected for years. The last 7 Christmas seasons or so were filled with excitedly tearing into gifts with glee which, admittedly has been a joy and privilege to watch and be part of.

This year I talked with him about how the concept of Santa is just a way adults can give gifts without any expectations in return, because the real joy is watching others experience that glee. So I worked with him in early December to carefully watch the people around him for things that might bring them joy to receive. On Christmas morning he was so excited to see others open his gifts!

Now I'm cognizant that there may be fewer years ahead of us than behind us with him still in the house.

Your Christmas seasons will never quite be the same again, but mostly in good ways.

Rage quit

Man, we should make computers upgradable or something.

ESH

The only way the current strategy of both sides changes is if a major factor changes, otherwise this cold standoff is the most stable place for both sides on the matter.

It could be that an election in Taiwan is won by a very pro-China party - a similar thing led to rapid changes in Hong Kong. Or an American leader changes tactics dramatically because theres no longer an incentive to support Taiwan.

Taiwan needs to be careful to guard against either situation happening.

Differing from many superpowers that came before the US, the US has a reputation of following through on what it says it will do long term, and the vast geopolitical diplomatic reach of the Americans means that for now, China would experience too high an economic cost to try and change this balance unilaterally.

Every time the article's bits are replicated to another cloud server, and the old one is decommissioned, does it become a new article?

Amazingly, a new sucker is born every day. It will never happen.