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That's too cynical. The truth is usually pleasant.

I don't see how that's relevant. The mere fact that some people deny that 911 happened doesn't mean 911 didn't happen.

Are you kidding me? I can't fathom how your last sentence could even conceivably be true.

But is that really as hypocritical as you seem to suggest? After all we are, for lack of a better phrase, the good guys. It's not unprincipled to give the good guys more benefit of the doubt.

Chinese here. How do you guys reconcile your own torrenting, usage of sci-hub etc with the tendency to portray us as monsters for "theft of American intellectual property"?

I'm granting that we did (and on a large enough scale) for the sake of argument.

Is the idea that it's okay to steal so long as it's stealing from the rich and powerful (netflix, disney, record labels whatever)? If so, do you see how that argument might be something we can also appeal to?

(I would add "genuinely curious", but I feel it's become a device not for canceling for but for indicating sarcasm, so I won't do it)

Honestly, the censored stuff is crap anyways. Reading the censored stuff is what leads people to devote their lives to "politics", "activism", and "social justice", and away from the really good stuff such as math, science, and philosophy, which the Chinese government never blocked. Any time spent on the activism stuff is time you are not spending on genuinely meaningful and personally fulfilling pursuits. In a sense, political activity is like playing video games and doing drugs, except more dangerous because you don't tend to feel as guilty for spending a lot of time on it. I think it's a good thing that drugs are generally banned, but there are also such things as "drugs of the mind" such as video games and political agitations and I don't see why reasons for banning the former shouldn't generalize to at least some of the latter

I mean, it was a rhetorical question, which by definition is a question asked not to elicit an answer but to make a point.

That's just the art of writing headlines. How else do they generate online conversation except by stating it in a obviously flawed way provoking people like you to point out the flaw and people with a penchant for "charity" to come to their defense, and so on and so forth?

Why are we still falling for this crap?

English needed spaces because the graphemes are of variable length, so without spacing there is no telling in any quick way where one meaning unit ends and another begins. The idea that Chinese "needs" spacing is a little like a UTF-16 advocate saying "what UTF-32 really needs is surrogate pairs". No, spacing is not some kind of high tech invention by English, it's a necessity that follows from the its special design (also think the use of null characters to terminate strings)

Did you try to click on it? I had the same button last year when I cancelled. When I clicked, it took me to a page where I'm asked to call them?

It's also very hard to cancel even by calling. When I cancelled my subscription last year, it wasted twenty minutes of my time even though I was firm throughout. The retaining person at one point even insulted me when I didn't catch something he said and said excuse me could you say that again - his response was to start doing an exaggerated accent of what he assumes to be my race (based on the name).

You mean "at most"? I've noticed an interesting tendency to mix up "at least" and "at most" even though they are opposite in meaning. I've even heard people say at best when they mean at worst

Not if the work is like that of a security guard or janitor. You can skip a night every once in a while and no one will notice

But couldn't the tracker become self-aware and realize it's living inside a similulation?

That's true, but I think the full name usually has, just as the full names of Beijing Shanghai Tianjin etc contain 市 even though the short names doesn't.

And the short names of England, France, America, Germany, Korea, Thai, and China itself contain 国. This seems to suggest that there was a naming convention initially being followed.

Better examples than country names for illustrating this difference between Chinese and English include disease names (mentioned above), fish names, bird names, tree names, flower names, mountain names, river names …

Chinese in many respects is a more explicit language. Variables are generally required to "wear their types on their names". All the disease names contain the word disease (imagine if we must speak of "rabies disease" and "AIDS disease" as opposed to "rabies" and "AIDS"). Country names in general contain the word country, so you can tell from the name that France (lawful country) is a country whereas Chicago is not - something left implicit in English. (There are exceptions of course)

Would this advice apply to JavaScript (ES6)? Can anyone speak from experience?

Journalists should stick to what they are trained, paid, and most qualified to do: reporting. Just like actors should stick to acting.

> Generally I just see it as a big warning sign that the quoter is more interested in winning than learning or getting to the truth of the matter and thus is best ignored.

But,to be fully honest, isn't it what this kind of conversation is about, ultimately speaking? There is a reason it happens mostly in low-stake contexts: dinner tables, casual conversation, comments section. Places where "bullshit pass" is implicitly granted to all participants. If we are not allowed to pick and choose and distort other's meanings then where's the fun and drama in all of this?

Agree with the last sentence. All the different data structures for example. Where do they come from? Presumably because in doing some practical tasks we realize it would be a lot more efficient if we organize data that way. To acquire proficiency with those concepts by seeing a genuine need for them in the task at hand imo follows a much more logical order of introduction.

More info here: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/

> In fact, the earliest HTML document on the WWW at the moment dates from 13th November - a couple of weeks before the conference - as evidenced a HTTP HEAD request, which returns "Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Nov 1990 15:17:00 GMT". The page is still functional in most modern Web browsers, and even contains a functional HyperLink!

> ripped apart

I see what you did there

I think this is a little unfair. Tiger parenting is never designed to make the child into some kind of Issac Newton figure. Tiger parents want their children to become financially successful - lawyers, doctors, etc. High-skill workers. The fundamental difference between these professions and say the sciences is that you don't have to come up with anything NEW to be successful. As a thought experiment, you can find a prominent lawyer or doctor and just work towards turning yourself into a literal COPY of that person and if you can really succeed in doing so, you will have made it. By contrast, trying to turn yourself into a literal copy of a living scientist is useless in itself, because there is no guarantee that you will be lucky enough to discover anything new.

Also, let's not forget that sometimes the reason "there is not a clearly delineated pathway to achievement" could well be because the existence of such a thing would disrupt existing social hierarchies.

I couldn't be more thankful that they finally had an effective paywall. Increasingly their content falls in the "guilty pleasure reading" territory for me - entertaining, addictive but not ultimately nourishing. (Now if only Reddit would go subscription only!) I also doubt the sincerity of much of the writing and wonder about the extent to which it's shaped by considerations along the lines of "let's deliberately state this point just a little less defensibly to make it more likely that the readers get worked up enough to respond".

Emojis make your code a little more like math formulas. In math formulas you use single letters. This makes the syntax easy to parse, but has the drawback that the letters are mostly meaningless and so not very suggestive. Names in programming language tend to be words. This makes it easier to remember what they are supposed to stand for but also make the syntax hard to parse and other occurrences hard to spot

Emojis combine the best of both worlds. Like the letters used in math they are easy to parse and it's really easy to find other occurrences of the same var when the name is an apple . But like the more verbose names in programming languages they can carry meaning. Eg I use the dango emoji for arrays and the monitor emoji for window instances.

For me the biggest argument in favor of atom is that because it's based on chromium it displays emojis properly, in colors. As someone who makes use of emojis extensively as variable and function names, this is very important.

Nuke us, dominate us with your big white cock.

Nuke China.

You must be Chinese spy! Get him!

> The US is subject to endless bashing, scrutiny, paranoia, unfair reporting, you name it. If the US does a thing, it's evil or wrong policy

I'm Chinese, and I just want to say in my experience this isn't true of Chinese media coverage of the US.

For the most part the US (and other western countries) are covered in positive, admiring terms. "This is how American educate their kids. We should emulate that" "How to make XXX-food the American way" "i was shocked how clean US cities are as" "ten most beautiful US destinations" etc etc.

American media and politicians often use the phrase "the Chinese" (also think: "the Russians"; you don't often hear "the British" "the French"). Chuck Schumer says just the other day something to the effect that we must be united in our "fight against the Chinese". It's hard for a Chinese person to read that kind of language without ... feeling a bit disheartened inside. Say what you will about Chinese media, when there is anything critical about the US the target is never "the Americans".

When you use language like "the Xs" you are speaking in tribal-war terms. Good for selling newspapers maybe. But we all know what tribalism can easily snowball into ...

It was frankly a surprise for me to find out just how much hostility there exists on the other side. I'm not necessarily talking about hostility in the sense of outright lying/fabrication in stories about China. A newspaper can choose to print all the true negative stories about blacks that come its way, and skip half of the true negative stories about whites, and still be able to claim they haven't printed a single false article about blacks. Doesn't mean it's not biased against black people. The hostility often resides at the level of what's implied rather than what's said.