Reads more like the investment tanked and he's hoping for a recovery.
Shorting sounds nice though, long term.
Social credit doesn't exist.
It was a proposal that was piloted in 4 cities, and then scraped.
One thing that does exist is that if you are taken to court for certain antisocial behaviors (including not paying debts) is that you can be sentenced to certain hardships, i.e. banned from domestic flights or high speed trains (commuters take 10 times as long, if not more, on long distance travels), your application for a passport can be denied, you can be barred from home ownership etc. etc. for a number of years.
Those hardships were proposed as outcomes of bad social credit scores, vs. preferential treatment for enrolling kids in good schools, better interest rates on loans and deposited, eligibility to pre-book domestic trains on high intensity days (on Chinese New Year, trains are frequently booked out).
The benefits have been completely discarded, and the hardships were taken over into the penal code.
Source: Used to live in China during the pilot phase (foreigners were exempted though), I speak Chinese, my wife is Chinese, and I still visit frequently.
I guess it depends on the app, but I just checked and both Skype and Teams show me the capture card as input source, and the preview picture looks fine. So I'm pretty sure it works in an actual call, though I haven't tried it yet.
Both apps heavily compress the video signal though, even if you set the quality to 1080p, so I doubt it makes a huge difference compared to a regular webcam.
Is it that time of the year again? Those claims are popping up whenever the governing party needs to distract from some internal issues. Been a steady occurrence for the last 20 years at the very least.
I don't understand why anyone needs a software to achieve this in the first place? I've hooked the camera's HDMI out to some cheap random USB-C HDMI capture card, and use OBS to record the stream. Easy, uncompressed, no restrictions to whichever settings their software lets you access.
Why not? I do very frequently, though recently hotels are becoming the better deals again.
Flying internationally with some broken bulbs in my luggage is a shit way to save money though, but that's the community we're in anyway.
Series start with a concept for 2-3 seasons at most, nowadays often just one. If it's successful, writers need to come up with an extension fast, since nobody wants to wait for the next one for 5 years. Sometimes they are greenlit halfway through the screening of S1 and they want to start filming half a year later, so there's not enough time for due process with proofreaders, test audiences etc. as you do with movies, where sequels often come several years later.
Crying is a physical reaction to mental stimulation. Doesn't matter whether the stimulation is positive (happiness, fun, success...) or negative (trauma, sadness, failure...).
Crying also exhausts your body, so in a way it can influence your mood by wearing/tiring you out; but it's not a 'cure' in itself.
Bypassing copy protection has always been the number one reason, it was never emulation per se.
I genuinely don't know, I have set my browser to download pdfs by default and only open them with Sumatra. There might be a scripting layer active in the browser as well though, quite possible.
Don't forget sporting goods and kitchen supplies. Heck, you can get a bunch of decent knives in IKEA, better put furniture outlets on a watchlist.
For a video call, I'm not sure that really matters a whole lot, but I guess that depends on the use case.