I'm sorry your family experienced that but that is not the norm, to be frank.

...Literal embodiment of Satan? What? You do realize they don't follow Christianity right? Nonsense. Overblown exaggeration.

It’s a figure of speech. Possibly poking at the fact the CCP is scared enough to be tearing down mosques/churches all over?

That's not even true anymore, I recently bought a ticket for 1100. They don't cost 5k to 10k.

My end shows $4-9k economy, $10-12k premium.

On what time frame? I bought one for around February. Maybe if you are buying same day it's that expensive?

2 weeks out. That’s arguably a reasonable timeframe in the business world (at least, pre Xi-mageddon).

It's not a legitimate consideration though.

I gave you two specific, recent examples of Canadians who were in China and arrested in response to Meng Whanzhou being held for extradition to the US. While she was living in a mansion they were in jail with 24 hour lighting, daily questioning for hours, and being denied to consulate officials. I'm not against China or making a political statement about their domestic policies, but I'm not oblivious to foreigners having no rights there or recourse which is certainly not the case here. As a Canadian the other frustration is this was really a US-China spat and Canada was immaterial.

A work colleague checked their phone when a protest happened a block away and was then interrogated on the weekend for 10 hours by state police.

This is average schmuk stuff in China.

People aren't going to KubeCon China because of being harassed by minders. This is not an isolated case. It is pervasive and it is chilling.

It's not pervasive. Incredible claims require evidence, which you have none. If anecdotal evidence is enough, dozens of people I know go to China with zero issues regularly. Many people we know live there with zero issues. There's 1.4 billion people, logistically what got are saying is not feasible for a country that size. It's nonsense.

Western travelers would fit more within the 10% or so of China with total wealth in the $100-$1,000k range.

These are the people with the means to challenge the power structure, and they are watched more closely.

If someone in this wealth range holds up a blank piece of paper, they may end up in jail.

Holding up a blank piece of paper is a completely different scenario and topic! We are talking about normal, everyday travel for business and recreation. If you go there and do something taboo, something that's clearly intended to cause trouble, then what do you expect?

With any foreign country you should understand their cultural norms and laws. Your own ignorance is a valid consideration for travel, not being arrested as a political prisoner. You won't get in any trouble as a tourist or business person 99% of the time.

> You won't get in any trouble as a tourist or business person 99% of the time.

So there is 1% chance; and why would I take even 1% chance of getting into troubled country?

You're right; the risk of abduction is vanishingly small, even if many people are terrified of the power of the Chinese government. I'll replace "legitimate" with "common" in my comment.

Common consideration would be more accurate, I agree. That said, I think it's a very silly consideration regardless of how frequently it's considered.

No reason at all?

Flash was a creative tool locked behind a paywall, like most creative apps. Apple products are entire ecosystems locked behind a pay wall, where publishing to that ecosystem is highly regulated and heavy with fees.

You're right, they aren't similar. If Adobe had its own ecosystem that forced developers to pay money per published flash app, per flash sale, then it would be a little more similar.

Define "typical".

If that's the point, then they are completely unqualified to be commenting.

Or Beijing, since they apparently have fully replicated it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04353

I don't know why so many institutions and scientists are so quick to call it nothing. It feels like hubris to me, the scientists in Korea spent many years on it, if it were so easy to dismiss I don't think that would have continued their research... right?

> The superconducting-like behavior in LK-99 most likely originates from a magnitude reduction in resistivity caused by the first-order structural phase transition of Cu2S

The preprint you are citing is explicitly dismisses the sharp transition seen as being non-superconducting.

Nah, I know. But it still looks like a similar material, no?

Even if it looks unlikely to be superconducting, I still think people should remain level headed about it. They spent a lot of time and effort on it.

Wasn't the original paper's sample a result from a broken vacuum tube? Correct me if I'm misremembering.