Most of the west support the corrupted politicians over the straight ones on Africa, just because a corrupted one is willing to give you advantages on his land over a straight one. So change isn't easy on Africa.
It is often said that the West picked Mobutu over Lumumba because the lattest was seen as a threat to mining interests.
Yet Mobutu nationalized the mines, then nationalized and redistributed most foreign assets.
And yet he was still supporter by the West.
The explanation: Mobutu played his cards right. The West was worried about Communism, he declared himself as strongly anti-communist and that was enough.
I saw a documentary once about two ghost cities, the documentary was 6 years old and those cites were almost with 0 resident, I saw on comment Chinese people saying that those cities are full now. It's just China being two steps forward.
This is exactly why the Baidu study is important. China is so big and data quality so poor that you can create your own version of ghost city narrative ("big crash" or "people moving in no worries" etc.) by selecting 10 cities. Even looking at things at a gross level ("cement/steel consumed") can only hint at the massive over-investment in property. Even the govt. is probably not sure.
I think I saw the same documentary. They are only ghost cities for so long. Then the government "seeds" the city by moving some public sector offices there (which in China could mean 100,000+ workers). That alone is enough to kick start the city into life.
The thing is that not like those cities are cheap to get an apartment in... China is more like still having a resident problem than a first world problem of ghost cities.
Aren't the "ghost cities" really investment properties for wealthier Chinese living in the cities? I seem to remember reading that there's a lack of diverse investment opportunities, so many invest in condos that they'll never use/inhabit.
Maybe this is the precursor to the next step of "seeding"?
Partly, but it is primarily to bring those living in rural areas into an urban context as a mechanism for modernizing the economy.
Right now, under the hukou system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system), you can't just move anywhere you want. What ends up happening is those living in rural areas illegally move to cities like Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen for work, but can't get their children educated or get healthcare. This is a way to prevent mass migration to the first-tier cities.
Most Chinese are fairly nationalistic. They're not going to complain about this to a foreign documentarian, especially if there's political reprisal for criticizing the one-party regime that runs everything.
This is why stuff like this is important. We get a view behind the propaganda veil. The narrative of "See, we planned ahead all is good," is questionable especially considering their recent stock market and economic woes.
I don't know why everyone keep implying that Theranos is on a bad position. The company really worth its valuation... they aren't doing something exceptional on the tech world but they are just fine financially. It's a known company on a with a big market and you won't ever struggle with a business model (traditional one) on that type of tech companies.
At $9B, Theranos has the same valuation as Quest Diagnostics. One of these two companies is the largest medical diagnostics company in the USA, probably the world, with revenues of $1.9B in the last quarter. The other offers tests in less than 50 drug stores in two states, and just had all but one of its proprietary tests disqualified by the FDA.
The problem is that there is little proof that they are doing fine financially because they are not public therefore not obligated to share information.
If you have some proof they are doing fine financially then please share it.
Japanese people's culture is "If it's working like that, keep it like that".
I once had to make a Japanese website for a cars wholesale company that ship cars for different countries on the world and they used to do a lot of work manually on their old website wanted to update it because they lost contact with the old developer (used to HTML the website).
He was like no-no for everything that will cost money (themes, plugins...), I didn't felt comfortable dealing with him since he said no for a $50 translation plugin and he wanted translation on his website (he will get transitioned text himself somehow, don't like this step step things...) and I'm sure I will charge him more than $50 to write a translation plugin (since I won't put it on an online store).
The same on Morocco and politicians say so people who got money by corruption will not get them out, since here it's legally to not justify where you got your money from. So no need for money laundry.
The real reasons is just because it's not healthy for a developed economy who can't compete with the world to not monitor the ins and outs... Also we don't have a real currency but our is called Dirham and it's basically 40% USD and 60% EURO, They adjust it by time to time and change those values depends on how EU or US doing so if one of those currency crushed hard ours don't (It was 20% USD, and 80% EURO so relax my US fellas you're doing fine :P). And if you got caught trying to speak even like DH10 ($1) out of Morocco it's a serious crime (while you can take it in another currency, that's why you find Dirham only on Morocco).
Years ago I got my first credit card that world internationally (I tried 4 banks, it was just released, and they had too much technical issue AKA it's not working at all only one of them worked for me...) and it's capped at $1000 a year... you my think is nothing but it's like a dream for me... being able to get a couple of domains and servers is the dream.
You don't need it, you can do it legally on any bank or exchange office. Since getting money out is the illegal thing and not using another currency inside Morocco.
If you're a politician or with a bit of power you can get money out of Morocco easily. Even when politicians caught doing that (no foreign nationality but owning stuff outside of Morocco) newspaper write about them and they respond with stuff like I really needed that since I have to send my son to study there... TL;DR: law don't apply on them...
I think what he's asking is if there is some unofficial way to get money out.
If someone who is very affluent wishes to visit Paris or New York for two weeks, how would he or she go about taking enough money to rent a room in a luxury hotel?
One of the ways that there's also is money exchange, like someone who want to send money to Morocco and he is outside of Morocco.
Or you can just walk into a Spanish/Moroccan city (there's 2 on, on Africa... governed by Spain but both countries claim its their own) and deposit the money to a bank or something.
It's not like they are making it impossible for you, it's just impossible to do with on the way you are comfort with...
This situation is pretty much exactly how I can see cryptocurrencies continuing to exist, at least as a niche money movement option to dodge currency controls.
It's fine for some to own nothing in order to have bigger economy on the whole world? Who are we competing with Mars? What a billionaire need more than billion for anything?
You comment just funny since it's the perfect billionaire's first world problem.
The majority of citizens in a democracy are fooled into thinking they have any influence in their government's decisions:
"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial
independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no
independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of
Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism."
The US Constitution has been designed to minimise the effect of majority rule. It often takes a hyper majority to get populist laws enacted. The resistance is the strongest in the Senate.
Lots of countries to pick from if you don't like how yours is governed. Vote with your feet if you want to leave, or with your time if you want to stay and change the system. I vote with my time and (more so) my dollars.
> The point is that we should all be deciding what we all need.
Gently, there. There's a big difference in practical outcome between "we've all decided that we need fairer rules" and "we've all decided that we need your stuff".
That's part of why the US isn't actually a democracy. There is wisdom in limiting people's ability to "decide what we all need".
It can work on passwords too by the way, maybe it can give you an idea of the order based on the query order, and remember... this work only if the data got already loaded or the attribute got changed by JavaScript and not by manually typing...
Edit: Tested that but it load the last bg only (make sense), so you need to use animation for that to load them one after one.
It wasn't a wrong form, it was right back then, If he signed as a shareholder it may spread a bad message too. It's only a better clickbait title of an article.
