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China does something evil.

The U.S. does it too (without giving any evidence).

It's OK China doing it now.

Yeah, agreed. While I think it's a trashy tabloid, it's also less biased comparing to other media in Taiwan. Since other news sources are also becoming sensationalist and gossipy if not already, I ended up read Apple Daily more often. Not an optimal situation unfortunately.

I've been enjoying BBC's podcast on this subject. Darknet Diaries also has an excellent podcast episode on it. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/72/

I believe most tutoring is forced by parents not voluntarily by the pupils. Having higher and better academic achievements is ingrained in the culture, this is important. The banning would only create black markets for tutoring which can be easily done.

It looks like the online tutoring giants would be affected the most. Since the CCP is having crackdowns on online tech companies, I wonder if the banning could also be part of the crackdown.

I am no expert, but I think one major reason was Trump. He was a supporter of the lab leak theory. Like many others, I was quick to dismiss anything Trump said, and I am not even American. Everything Trump said sounds like a conspiracy.

I also finds China's strong denying and uncooperativeness of finding out the virus origin is strange. People would not blame any country if the outbreak came from a natural origin, their reaction makes me think something is going on there.

By totally doesn't look naughty at all is spewing white matter onto human faces, no, not naughty at all.

Yep, I think we are talking about the same episode where star fleet officers do naughty things.

I just watched a classic Star Trek episode.

I'll try not to give any spoilers for those that have not watched it.

Bunch of human were infected by some kind of plant, they became super healthy but content. The episode deemed the infected ones unproductive, but I think that's some life worth living.

I upvoted, but I really wanted to down vote you.

> But in context: > > - Australia has similar laws. > > - Snowden releases showed the US don’t even ask, they just take it. > > So it’s not like there is a huge amount of difference around the world.

I am not familiar with Australia privacy law, could you give me a rough idea what is look like?

Snowdon case made the US government look bad, please don't use the same reason to make the Chinese Communist Party look good or OK.

It's kind weird when something bad happens, everyone just points at the US and says they do that too! The CCP did something bad, Somehow it's OK because the US government did something bad.

If you are an US national and living in the US, you can complain and bitch about your government all you want and not worrying about your safety, hence you can talk about the Snowdon case or berate the president, and things might change. Would you dare doing that in Chinese soil even if your are not Chinese.

I am seeing this all the time. America is doing this too, why just blame China.

Yes, governments around the world have one thing in common, they are full of ASSHOLES. Actually, in general people are assholes. Bad things tend to happen.

You can have CNN and Fox broadcast different views somethings extreme, and many other media outlets expressing views somewhere between them. Try that in China, you would think twice if you are not even trying to PRAISE the government.

You cannot compare a demacracy to a authoritarian/dictatorship. They certainly always have something in common, the difference is level of oppression. The authoritarian are always on the extreme side, that's why they are called authoritarians.

Comparing demaracies to authoritarian is giving execuses to keep the oppressions going.

It's nice and necessary that you can criticize your government even in public. Don't give dictators execuses when your government pisses you off.

> most citizens would rather have whatever it takes to have no riots

Isn't it a brilliant tactic deployed by the regime, making people think that freedom of speech equals riot on the street. Like the USA is burning in hell with all the black live matters protest and the capitol protest/riot?

Every time this came up, I always insisted that it should be called booby tea. Because that's exact what Boba means, large breasts. That's a slang term meaning king of wave, because large breasts move in wave motion.

The pearl tea name came later, due to the vulgarness of it's predecessor I guess.

Now, you can enjoy more next time you suck on those sweet bouncy topioca.

This reminds me of this Japan only very technically impressive IBM palmtop PC110 from 1995. It's still amazing to see it in action (with side talking phone and fax!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-v6kyEDCNo

Your guess is pretty on the point. TSMC has been jokingly hailed as "The protector of the country" by the Taiwanese media. The chips have military significance for the USA, as it has been trying to avoid China made electronics in all (or most?) equipments.

I'm no expert on creating a CA. The changelog recently has an episode on Let's Encrypt. It covered a lot about how Let's Encrypt got started. Quiet an amazing job, I think you should listen to it or at least read the transcript.

https://changelog.com/podcast/389

Although I've been avoiding multiple exists, I don't think the the patten is that bad, just more of personal taste. However, I think it's import to let the readers of the function know what the function mainly do first, insead of the edge cases.

In functional thinking, it's actually very helpful to think of the edge cases and get them out of the way first. When put in coding, I like to think it's more helpful to let the readers know the purpose of the function first, they could dig deeper later if they choose to.

Well, he built the system, Emacs is the front end. It's just an awkward front end for most of the people, but with proper training, anyone can pick it up, it's not like ask them to maintain the system.

For new formulas, yeah, It's hard to input new formulas, even in spreadsheet. The system is somehow complex, you probably need a UI for new formulas too, even if it's in spreadsheet.

I used to love Opera until they made the major revision. Funny I just installed Vivaldi browser yesterday, writing this comment on it. Vivaldi is more Opera than Opera, it's no accident the founder is also one of the founders and former CEO of Opera.

I was wondering about the AEB when the Uber accident happened. It should’ve been equipped with AEB but it still hit a pedestrian. Did they just pull out the whole software and replace it with their own navigation logic?

This is how China "blocking" web site from most of the world other than China. When many sites are blocked out right, many more are accessible but painfully slow. On the other hand, if you go to any major Chinese site, it would be lightning fast. By doing this, those foreign sites are rendered almost useless.

here is her ted talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_e...

Well, if you have home robotics, what stops you from hiring a self driving service to fetch the laptop for you.

ICANN

Thanks, we are considering using mono to move away from windows platform. Won't be using .net tech in the long term. Would be nice to run our existing programs (linq to entity) with just little modifications though.

Do you use Entity Framework with LINQ? How does that work out for you?

or you could collaborate your presentation using 3d. that also would be easy to track under github.

Opera is now based on Chromium. I know it's open source, but to be on the safe side, I would avoid opera too.