BelenusMordred

> No, it’s actually illegal in the US

You are misunderstanding what the GP comment said. The reality is that landlords/employers can and do discriminate based on race, religion, age, etc all the time. They simply just can't say it out loud, that's the illegal part.

I find that Asian people tend to be pretty open about this stuff, whereas in the west it's taboo. Don't think that anyone would be foolish enough to try arguing that there's no silent discrimination occurring in the US.

> it was designed to be an 'banking/commercial haven'

Singapore was a trading port from it's first conception when the Sultan of Johor sold the basically uninhabited swamp island to the British. When they were amicably booted out of Malaysia the country was one of the poorest on Earth, they had no natural resources, rampant poverty and unemployment, no military and infrastructure was in a terrible state. They somehow managed to completely turn that around in half a century, if you look at other new nations formed since then not a single one has managed to even come close to their success despite having vastly superior natural advantages. The Balkan states in particular come to mind, they also had a chance to start anew with a clean slate in the 90's and 30 years on they are a collective basketcase of nations whose younger population is abandoning in droves.

40% of all shipping traffic on Earth passes through their waters, the Port of Singapore is the worlds 2nd busiest by tonnage handled. People associate the country with finance while ignoring the sheer volume of cargo that moves through there.

> Like a more complicated version of having 'Oil Wealth'.

Find this comparison very hard to grok. Any country on Earth could copypaste Singaporean banking and corporate laws today if they wanted to, there's nothing stopping them. Now those same countries can't magically have the oil reserves of the Saudis or Venezuela.

> What makes Singpore 'rich' is the foundation established by the UK as having 'rule of law' and 'peace and order'.

By that metric all former colonies should be thriving?

Don't really understand the cries for their server code to be constantly updated or even open sourced, you can't ever verify that's what they are running anyway.

Maybe there's some sort of cryptographic attestation out there which could fulfil such purposes but quite sure it's not that practical.

> naked

She's not wearing a top, for many on Earth that's not considered naked, this is hardly a "Russian" thing, most of Europe has no such prudish hang ups. America on the other hand considers it on par with extreme violence being shown on tv. Just a cultural issue I guess.

Price controls are successful until they aren't. The US can subsidise an egregious amount of bad policies for a very long time I suspect, from agriculture to health, it's not really going to hurt as there are other parts of the diverse economy that can pay.

An better example would be Venezuela, with the largest oil reserves on Earth, they subsidised energy costs to an extreme extent and it was one of the things that drove them into the ground.

People seem to dislike my comment above, yet no one seems to be arguing for petrol to cost ten cents a litre. Why not subsidise fuel if doing such things has such a successful history in the United States?

Baseband chips and sim cards aren't infrastructure, but you still can't compete because getting permission to run one on modern networks is financially well out of reach for most. This is why open source inspectable firmware simply doesn't exist for these things.

All we currently have is leaked 2G and 3G source code for people to build their own off, most notable would be omsocombb

> You really need to see these results to appreciate them.

Seems more like the quality of the queries rather than the results. Many of the complaints I see about google and friends is related to them dumbing down search for the global common denominator.

This is such a bizarre comment given the history of price controls and their horrendous outcomes.

I think many on this site really don't understand how prevalent drugs are in Australian society.

As an Aussie that number doesn't seem big at all and is probably an underestimation.

It is completely tangential to my comment. Please take off your political blinkers and debate the issue reasonably.

To painfully ask yet again, does the ROC make claim to what we in the west call mainland China?

Is it really that hard to say yes or no?

Are you Taiwanese and/or live in Taiwan?