I was trying to do the exact same thing without git and coding (so that people could just view the bookmarks, maybe react to them as a voting mechanism). Ironically I ended up coding a solution for that - https://www.axomark.xyz .
The previous version was a free service without the need to sign up - just create a bookmark collection page with an optional password, then anyone with the password can use it right away. The link to the collection could be totally anonymous because the app tracked nothing at all. But I got 0 users, apart from myself. So I rewrote it from scratch to make the collections more organizable. The sharing is still anonymous because there's no way for another user to know who created them. There has to be a way, however to track your own bookmarks, so I guess it's not truly "anonymous" as in "impossible to track" (the database contains the bookmark owner). But it seemed this time around people are more interested. I guess there has to be a balance.
Given the incubation period is > 14 days, and more than just a few of the patients don't show symptoms at all, you'd be spreading the virus before you know it without a face mask.
While the world now praises the Chinese government's response (they shouldn't) to the Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, please remember why it spread at first. Also, I doubt if the situation is actually controlled in China. Have we ever known how China counted the patients? In more than one case, the new infections in a city exceeds that of its province.
I couldn’t find any evidence in the link about new cases in a city exceeding that for a province. Do you have any source for that? Or any other evidence that numbers may be misleading in China? Given their past record it does seem likely, but I suspect their social distancing measures have been at least partly successful.
[2] Official amendment of the numbers in Hubei Province. The day before, the newly confirmed cases reported in the Hubei Province was 349, while that of Wuhan city was 615 (Wuhan is a city in Hubei).
Well said. I don't get why people are so optimistic and keep trusting the WHO, given they have downplayed the situation multiple times, and that China was doing a brilliant job to contain the Wuhan Corona Virus.
Look at the spread of the corona virus in South Korea and Italy now. Then look at Hong Kong and Taiwan, whose people don't trust China for even a bit.
The first thing China did was to detain whistle blowers. One of them died from this virus. What they did was to conceal the outbreak, not tackling it.
Perhaps a more important concern is that to get this, you have to allow the police who have been committing all sorts of crimes to get a 2.6 billion hkd budget to buy even more weapons against civilians. This is nothing but a scam.
Great idea, hope that will lead to more practical usage of deep learning. Any plans of building one for datasets as well? Something like Kaggle's collection, but used in research papers.
The whole movement started with the proposal of an extradition bill by the government which allows anyone in Hong Kong deemed guilty by the Chinese government (note: HK is not China yet) to be extradited to China for trial, even foreigners. Needless to say, people protested because the Chinese judicial system is a total joke (if you don't agree with this, I'm not going to argue with you, but the whole comment would be meaningless).
People protested peacefully at first, but the government didn't give in and sent the police and triads to beat up citizens instead. Many things happened since then, mainly involving police brutality, misconduct, and collusion with triads and the Communist regime (like allegedly deploying Chinese police and the People's Liberation Army disguised as HK police). Therefore, now it has become a protest for 5 demands, namely:
1. Complete withdrawal of the said bill (now it has been "promised" by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, but given the track record of her people will only believe it when they see it)
2. Revoke the riot definition of the protests
3. Release and cancel all the charges on people arrested for this movement
4. An independent commission to investigate police brutality and misconduct
5. True universal suffrage on both the CE and the legislative council
> an extradition bill by the government which allows anyone in Hong Kong deemed guilty by the Chinese government (note: HK is not China yet) to be extradited to China for trial, even foreigners.
AFAIK, China is just one of the countries that was included in the bill. Hong Kong has become "fugitives' paradise" because it is unable to legally send criminals to the original country for trial.
> Chinese judicial system is a total joke
Don't disagree with you :-)
> the government didn't give in and sent the police and triads to beat up citizens instead
Fake news here. The government sent police to control riots. The people that got beaten up were criminals. Some media called them protesters. Bloomberg called them demonstrators. The ones in the front are criminals. They wear masks for the same reason that bank robbers wear masks. It is illegal to carry guns in Hong Kong so an umbrella is not a bad weapon. When these criminals charged forward, the police had no option but to control the situation using force.
> police brutality, misconduct, and collusion with triads and the Communist regime
Just compare to any Western country. If the same kind of violence were to happen in the US, someone would have been killed by the police. I'm not sure about collusion with triad. As for collusion with the communist party, we have to remember that Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of China. The Hong Kong government must work with China for any activity that may deem to be anti-government or challenge One-Country-Two-Systems. Collusion is the wrong choice of word here.
As for the 5 demands:
1. The extradition bill has been officially withdrawn.
2. This is impossible -- maybe it was possible in June but it's too late now given the violence.
3. This is impossible. It is also unreasonable because it would be a total dis-justice without going through the formal legal system.
4. There is already a system that citizen can make complaints against specific police behavior. It is also the wrong time to start any independent commission because the events are still unrolling.
5. It will take a long time to discuss again what made the "umbrella revolution" few years ago. The government seems open for discussions but if these so-called pro-democratic people cannot give in and resort to violent behavior then a "deal" can never been reached.
These recent events proved that some people in Hong Kong are indeed anti-government and their sole purpose is to tear down the One-Country-Two-Systems concept and make Hong Kong an independent country. By bad-mouthing the government and police, they are painting a picture that there is no other way but to separate itself from China. It includes certain media that is known to be biased -- Apple Daily News, The Stand News, and sometimes Radio Television Hong Kong (ironically, a government sponsored entity). They produce fake news by taking events out of context and fool everyone. IMO, these media and certain reporters are very unprofessional.
Regarding police brutality, I don't think it's fair to dismiss this as "fake news". Amnesty international, for example, have investigated and found plenty of problematic behaviour by the police: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/hong-kong-arb...
I don't agree that protestors are trying to tear down 1c2s. The issue seems to be that they dont trust China to stick to the agreement. Obviously if China won't honour their promises on 1c2s, independence becomes the only long-term solution.
Interesting. Your view, except for that towards Chinese judicial system, aligns perfectly with Carrie Lam. Literally everything she said about the movement is found here.
I'm providing views from the movement's supporters' side, and it's nice to have the ruler's side for others' reference as well.
The previous version was a free service without the need to sign up - just create a bookmark collection page with an optional password, then anyone with the password can use it right away. The link to the collection could be totally anonymous because the app tracked nothing at all. But I got 0 users, apart from myself. So I rewrote it from scratch to make the collections more organizable. The sharing is still anonymous because there's no way for another user to know who created them. There has to be a way, however to track your own bookmarks, so I guess it's not truly "anonymous" as in "impossible to track" (the database contains the bookmark owner). But it seemed this time around people are more interested. I guess there has to be a balance.