For the average HKer - absolutely. Most of my HK native friends and colleagues who could immigrated to London, SG, NYC as a result.
For a business - it depends on how dependent they are on ExChina capital markets or customers.
If you were a company that was primarily and overwhelmingly operating within China, after the changes there was no incentive not to shift most of your operational and executive staff to Shanghai.
If you weren't one of those, then shifting to Singapore makes sense.
The issue for Singapore is Indian companies have started making the same decisions as those China First companies, so Singapore has lost it's comparative advantage within Asia, as Western FDI remains prominent but is increasingly either routed directly or (in India's case) through challengers like the UAE or London.
IK. Jane Street - like other Western financial institutions - has been de-risking out of China for a couple years now.
That's why I wrote the comment below:
"If you were a company that was primarily and overwhelmingly operating within China, after the changes there was no incentive not to shift most of your operational and executive staff to Shanghai.
If you weren't one of those, then shifting to Singapore makes sense."
Jane Street isn't dependent on Chinese markets. It primarily operates in Western markets with speculative bets in Asian markets excluding China such as SGX and NSE+BSE in India (albeit with a massive regulatory target on their back).
China has done infringed on it's agreement with the HK people, but not all capital in Greater China is Western and is increasingly Chinese originated.
Nevertheless, I don't like the new name either, oh well...
I like this comment though:
Imagine you make a free software project and it runs into trademark issues because people have more money than you to register in more classes than your project.
And then even though your project existed first, they still come after you anyway.
And from that an even more expensive rebranding from this as well.
I wish there was more info. Who sent the C&D? Did that entity seem likely to have enough money to actually sue, and did they seem immune to the negative press if they did sue? Is that company in an unrelated-enough industry that they could just call it "Revoltchat" or something and be safe? Did they at least show it to a lawyer? Why didn't they publish the C&D?
I'm not a lawyer, but this kind of thing happens enough that I've asked GPT to explain it to me, and I think most people roll over at the first legal demand, no matter how outrageous.
Calling it "stoat" seems like a form of self-destructive protest.
Argh. If there's no stoat emoji, petition the Unicode Consortium for one, don't just use a beaver. It's not even the right family; the badger emoji would be closer.
It is if it's something they couldn't do on their own before.
It's a magical moment when someone is able to AI code a solution to a problem that they couldn't fix on their own before.
It doesn't matter whether there are other people who could have fixed this without AI tools, what matters is they were able to get it fixed, and they didn't have to just accept it was broken until someone else fixed it.
Right!? It's like me all the sudden being able to fix my car's engine. I mean, sure, there are mechanics, and it surely isn't rocket science, but I couldn't do it before and now I can!!! A miracle!
Cue the folks saying "well you could DIE!!!" Not if I don't fix brakes, etc ...
It was an easy fix for someone who already knows how WiFi drivers work and functions provided to them by Linux kernel. I am not one of these people though. I could have fixed it myself, but it would take a week just to get accustomed to the necessary tools.
Try Codex. It's better (subjectively, but objectively they are in the same ballpark), and its $20 plan is way more generous. I can use gpt-5.2 on high (prefer overall smarter models to -codex coding ones) almost nonstop, sometimes a few in parallel before I hit any limits (if ever).
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