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It's sad that RSS is fading away. It simplified ingestion a lot. At the end of the day it focuses on content and a feed provides a quick overview of all the new content that has been published. I don't really understand why people are not into it anymore. Blogs and news sites don't even need to provide HTML pages loaded with JS and CSS when they provide RSS. Why would I bother loading so much stuff when I can get the data straight away without the bloat

I have been living in Shanghai for few years now. Alipay and Wechat are really a big thing. It is far from the vision of mobile payment people have in Europe for example, where it is more of solution for small payments.

People are using Alipay and Wechat pay for everything, being online shopping, restaurants, supermarkets, train tickets, electricity, water, even some tax declaration. So it is not just a replacement to cash and bank cards, it is starting to go beyond that.

I go for months without having any cash or bank cards on me. Unfortunately everything falls apart when my phone runs out of battery.