I have also seen this in public housing in Hong Kong. Government built housing for families in the 70s. Children move out. The remaining residents turn grey. The residents in the housing complex are aging along with the buildings.
"MANILA - A shutdown of Boracay Island could lead to job losses for 36,000 people and P56 billion in lost revenue, stakeholders said Thursday, as they appealed for a partial, instead of a full closure.
Around P56 billion in tourism revenue will be lost if the island is closed for 9 months, based on the island's revenue during the first 9 months of 2017, data showed. This is equivalent to roughly 20 percent of the country's total tourism receipts."
How did this shutdown came about? It sounds to me it is a top down decision to shutdown basically the entire island and all its economic activities for six months. I wonder how many people gone bankrupt due to this.
What exactly is the environmental rehabilitation being done? Why does it necessitate a shutdown? Would the return of tourists eventually undo all the "rehabilitation"?
One of the most memorable ride was a trip from Vietnam to Kunming in the 90s. I hope this old line is still running. The train travels along a canyon. The view is incomparably stunning.
China rail have pretty bad hygiene at that time. The passengers freely throw their trash on the floor and out of the window. The attendants swiped the floor every few hours. Every time they pushed a mountain of peanut husk away. There was a peasant family on board with a baby. The baby needed to relief. So the parents held him up to have him shit on the floor. The attendant saw it and really lost it. She scolded the hell out of the family.
It truly horrifies me when I learned there are groups who celebrate mass murder by posting video to Internet. They go out of their way to mutate their posting in order to evade Internet service's detecting. Who are these people? I never know this dark side of humanity exist and it horrifies me.
Not really. I get a lot of spam from recruiters. I also get feeler from people I have worked with before. Last time I look for work, I got multiple job offers after one week. San Francisco's tech job market is hot.
Do you teleconference your friends and family regularly? My guess is not. But it is always possible a new video app will comes up next year and gain wide adoption.
Today some number of people use Skype to video chat with friends and family regularly. So yes, Skype is also a social network.
If people's understanding of social network is something similar Facebook, then this understanding is too confined. The key is to observe how people adopt the technology. My extended family are geographically dispersed. They have since formed a group using WeChat. Now they are sharing stuff in the group daily. I get to know them more than ever. This is absolutely functioning as a social network.
It is very much a social network. That's the place I go to for group chat, catching up with friends and share irrelevant stuff. It wasn't branded as such. But it is entirely social.
The article is just not doing a very good job of identifying social networks. Whatsapp is BIG. There are also many non-US base social network, like WeChat, that was not on their radar screen.
EDIT: I should explain myself more.
For my mom, her social network is a paper address book and her phone. That's the technology she use to get in touch with her friends.
Whatapps has the necessary technology and feature. What makes it a "social network" in this context is the adoption. If a large number of your peers are using it as a main way to get in touch, it is their "social network". You may not think of it as such because it looks different than Facebook. But this will become more apparent if you are aware how much penetration it has in some communities.
I'm really scratching my head. Does it mean load the item to the truck, find a buyer, then delivery to him without dropping it in a warehouse?
I don't think this is going to work. What makes you think there will be an eager buyer? Used furniture is not a very liquid market. Sellers typically ask for more than buyers is willing to pay. It takes time to find a match. Some items will not find a buyer after a long time or never. That's why we need a warehouse.
I carefully measured everything in my household. Nothing come close to a space heater. Most small electronics use negligible amount of power. We should not need to pay any attention to them.
There are probably a separate category of problematic electronics that really sucks power. I was offended to find my set-top box suck 18W. I am doubly offended by your array of Tivo boxes. For 40W, my laptop will be doing computation intensive task with the fan running loudly. My mac mini consume only 11W when idle. A big huge TV would use power. I only have a 32" TV and I use it only a few hours a day at most anyway.
Totally heating dominate energy use. I'm rather disturb to hear people pay much attention to so call "phantom power" from idle electronics and adapters. Adapters plugged in the socket do not consume measurable power. Wifi router uses about a few watts. The worst offender is a set-top box that uses 18W irrespective of power on or off. It is piece of crap anyway so I unplugged it. All the electronics in the house probably use less power in a day compare to running a 1500W heater for 15 minutes.
I've gone through a bunch reviews in the Google play store. 100% of them rated 5* for his inspiration effort. 0% rated it 5* because the app is useful. In fact many commenters say outright they have no intention to use the app and they only buy it for support.
This is not to be critical of Leo. By publishing the app and making the the promotion website and video he is ahead of even many professional developers. I'm more annoyed by the tech hype and the media narrative. The idea is any kid can write a mobile app and solve some of the world biggest problem just like that. Together they create some myth that disappoints if you really look into the detail.