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New $2 Scheme set to come into effect from September 2026, "with authorities blaming stored-value card company Octopus for the delay" according to SCMP. My question is; if the scheme doesn't start for 18 months, why was it announced in the 2025-26 budget?

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In translation I try to turn it into a sentence instead of a single term to split: - ethnicity - nationality - migration history Trying to reduce a person in San Francisco whose hereditary line runs to Taishan but whose family has been in the United States for 175 years to 1-3 words is nonsense.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

lol lmao Whether or not you believe this is a goal worth pursuing, at this level of investment (US$128,000,000) it's wasteful. It's in the gap of "too much for frugal exploration" and "too little to push the frontiers of knowledge." 10x or 1/10x and it's a bet on the future shape of the industry.

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In optimizing short-term revenue it's plausible that the government did this exactly right: transferred the land and risk to the market before the bottom fell out. Unclear what the calculus is on long-term revenue.

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Tourism accounts for approximately 2.6% of Hong Kong’s GDP. Visitor count is down year-over-year, and spending is way down year-over-year.

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Poland out here deciding that if it’s to become the eastern flank of Europe that it will be armed to the teeth. I wonder how their nuclear weapons program is progressing.

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The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.

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Donald Trump has become the Linda Yaccarino of federal govt

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Somehow Regina Ip’s New People’s Party is still around after a 0 in 2019 but the party who took 91 seats in that election isn’t. 🤷‍♂️

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Shameful.

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My kids are seated in car seats any time they’re in a passenger car, including taxis. Leading causes of death for children in my passport country are firearms and vehicles. We basically always take MTR but somehow we’ve been in one wreck already.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Four for four. No notes.

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Assuming I have infinite carbon neutral energy (fission, fusion) what’s the process we would use to turn air capture CO2 into something suitable for storage? e.g. is there a “turn this air into graphite” reaction that is simply energy-prohibitive?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s do this to ICE.

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Skeets you can hear:

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Allied countries in Europe out here doing the poem: voting against putting boots on the ground to protect their friends.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Sure feels like a bunch of white males getting themselves DEI jobs on the qualified versus unqualified axis.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If I’m Elon I’m not sure I would want to be on Budanov’s naughty list.

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Azure DevOps, with the ability to create extensions that modify the entire experience of authoring and collaborating on code, is a very capable code management environment. I've spent the last few days authoring an extension to improve the experience for a common user workflow and it's great.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The oligarchy class, as a consequence of their wealth, views themselves as transcending national borders. Concerns of the state are beneath them.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The “total savings” for destroying our government is less than the amount we should be taxing Elon.

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The speed of backpedaling on implementing a straightforward set of rules is remarkable. I strongly suspect that this will never be implemented.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Trump could be the president who finally defeated the biggest geopolitical adversary of the last 80 years, instead this administration seems insistent on becoming the ones who managed to lose the Cold War 35 years after it was won.

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Horseshoe theory, mapped.

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1/ 🧵The HKJA has cancelled its annual fundraising dinner after the Regal Hongkong Hotel axed its booking, citing “water leakage causing unstable power supply.” hongkongfp.com/2025/02/14/h...

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