matthewrudy

I finish my current role on Friday, and start a new one next Monday.

The difference is pretty much 20%.

On why I took it:

* The money is better

* It has more potential for fulfillment

* The money is enough to offset the risk that it won't suit me

My primary point was that Hong Kong is not directly comparable to cities in China.

I also readily say "Hong Kong is not China".

Although, as time goes on, the truth of that statement is eroded.

They're secondary points relating to quality of life and social security that distinguish Hong Kong from China.

> Millions of people living in ... Hong Kong... who are well on their way towards western level of development

Hong Kong is a developed country.

It has a public housing system, a public healthcare system, and amazing transport.

It has massive issues with income equality, and particular poverty in old age.

However, it doesn't belong in a comparison beside cities in China.

I need to learn the tooling around anki.

I was trying to edit the full hsk1-6 flashcard set to just show hsk5.

But I didn't manage to find the right tools.

Tried to manually change the file (it's a sqlite dB inside a zip file) but the db is not structured in a way I managed get my head round.

Should try again.

I'm surprised about this.

I get that there can be circulating cells, but the probability of them successfully metastasising in the early stages is very low.

Normally it's only later stage cancers that end up spreading.

I guess it's down to the immunosuppression making metastasis more viable.

"non-negligible" doesn't sound very precise.

You mean "non-empty but finite"?

"There exists a member of the Committee that is not active"

A couple of months ago they were still using beermats pushing for a harder Brexit.

"big nose is from England, he's my son's good friend"

Sure. That's my joke.

You'd obfuscate the content, but to be practical you'd still have to know what it said.

Hence my comment.

Having lived in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan I take a pragmatic view to whether I should be offended by peoples use of the term foreigner.

The Cantonese "gweilo" (lit. "monster/ghost person") and Taiwanese "adoga" (lit. "big nose") are more clearly offensive in literal meaning.

Both are extremely casual, and in most cases no ill will is intended.

But for each I've encountered situations where it wasn't so pleasant.

Notably once in a remote guangdong town, some people stopped on a motorbike, pointed at me and said "Gweilo" before riding off laughing.

Equally at a good friends wedding, his mum kept referring to me as "adoga" in the 3rd person.

"Adoga comes from England" rather than using my name, which she'd known for the past 3 or so years.

In China, I can't think of a specific situation where I was offended by the use of "laowai".

in which case you'll need to add a comment to remember what it says:

    print("\u4f60\u597d\uff0c\u4e16\u754c\uff01") # "你好，世界！"

I believe conduit is going to support HTTP1.1 by the time it's done.

The http2 and grpc focus was just to get the alpha release out there.

A friend of mine writes and edits ICO whitepapers. He's very skilled and gets paid pretty well for those skills.