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He only enforces his "rule" when Americans are the target

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…

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 gra…

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 t…

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 fl…

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…

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 pers…

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 m…

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?

This is a very dangerous logic because it implies we should be fine with China stealing our intellectual property. The view should be qualified in some way so it doesn't have that …

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 Eng…

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…

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 b…

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 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 confe…