katakuchi

"when someone tries to identify you using an unaltered image of you [...] they will fail."

I wonder how this holds up when someone takes a photo of that 'protected image'. I can imagine that if these miniscule pixel-scaled changes aren't visible to the naked eye, my crappy 6 megapixel camera will overlook it as well. If I then proceed to feed that image into my image recognition algorithm, is it still protected?

I'm not quite sure if I should answer to your reply, as it seems you've wrote it in quite an angry spur of the moment. Did you perhaps take the time to read my whole post? Or was the last alinea enough to make you drop your panties and throw insults and swears around?

The spokesmen of protesters are demanding the extradition law to be upheaved indefinitely and Carrie Lam to be dismissed, one of which has happened already. Four months back there was absolutely no traction for any massive protest like this, not to mention the flares of violence. Even though this law has been in the making for years and published in March of this year. Can you think of any other legitimate reason the overall population is demonstrating so fervently other than dissatisfaction about the way their current government is running their city into the ground?

You speak of moving onto the mainland as a solution to purchasing power but I don't think you have any idea what it means to uproot your existence in a city which you consider your home. Especially when you're living from paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford the housing anymore. It's not as stupid to the majority of the inhabitants working in the service sector in Hong Kong and the fact that you see this as an 'accusation' to protest instead of a right to demonstrate is quite telling.

Will someone please tell me what the purpose is of this article being published? Is it to criticize the Chinese government for producing Fake News? Is it to blame Twitter for it's lack of activism to stand for the free folk of Hong Kong? I'm guessing there's more than one side of this story..

Media will always be used as a tool to combat other media in order to sway public opinion. Why are we not constantly talking about Tibet anymore or police brutality and #BlackLivesMatter in the US? There seems to be a different motive, and for the average reader that consumes media, it becomes increasingly harder to form a coherent self-thought opinion by themselves and reach out of this echo chamber.

It seems like every article I read about HongKong in -Europe & the US- is amped up on anti-Chinese sentiment whilst a large part of the people that demonstrate are doing so because of dissatisfaction on living conditions and purchasing power. They live in a city with wild inequality, and they could also care less about economic disruption and incurred costs by the aviation/hospitality sector. It seems to me they're just "pissed and want things to change". Fueled by the international media-attention. However blatantly simplistic that might sound.

Doesn't this happen with all major cities after an increase of wealth, living standard and industrialization? People sit in their living rooms with all of their (unnecesarilly) bought stuff watching Netflix instead of investing time, money and effort in neighbourhood commerce, families and local communities. We become much more individualistic when we see money can get us all our immediate needs.

I often wonder about the use of herbal medicine instead of our artificial pharmaceutical cousins to combat inflammation. It just seems so arbitrary, counter-productive and ironic to fill your body with more toxins to counter the inflammation achieved by overconsumption of primarily 'bad food' in the first place.

We've had these blind simulations done as well, where we have the sudden realization we're subjected to our other senses - this reliance creates an extra effort to enhance these senses as we're using them more intensely then otherwise. Also the lack of information coming from sight means you'd have brainpower to allocate elsewhere.

Short-term it felt more like noticing other smaller nuances in hearing, feeling and smelling. I guess like learning to distinguish words in a new foreign language after weeks/months of being in that foreign country.

“We are working on other epithelial organs as well to find out (whether) similar competition may underlie long-term tissue maintenance as well as organ aging,” she said." Wonder if this will be benificial to live-expectancy in the long run.

Interesting. I wonder if an architect/civil engineer could explain what the implications would be of the application of this technology in the field of construction?

Valiant effort, I don't understand why the community is responding so toxic. Rather than assuming that growth will lead to this social network becoming the next corrupted Facebook, why don't we focus on the unique aspects that make this open-sourced network worthwhile to begin with?

Security - Privacy - Customisability - Compatibility with status quo. We can all agree that we lost faith in the monstrosity that Facebook has become, it doesn't mean that we can't place faith in other technology to produce a different outcome.