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I was obviously not writing about poverty but about our impact on the planet and the environment...

11B from 7B is a 60% increase... But that's the usual sterile nitpicking. Do you want to argue about decimal points or address the actual point? The important point is that this is…

This is one of the major cause of the destruction of the environment we're seeing globally. All forecasts predict another 60% (!!) increase in global population before it stabilise…

I fully expect China to take over the Congo now.

> Politically, the timing of the crisis works quite well for the nationalist Tsai, Err... Tsai is not in the 'nationalist' camp (KMT), she is from the DPP (Pan-Green coalition). Th…

Why would the UN have a stance on this? It's been hugely magnified the media, but it is no more than a government bringing a bill forward and people demonstrating against it. This …

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.” ― Confucius

> But why limit it to 2^ and 10^ and not say literal^literal should always produce a warning? You're suggesting that using the C language as specified and intended should produce a…

It's not for you or the compiler to decide that 2^32 makes no sense. It is using ^ exactly as intended and is neither misleading nor ambiguous. Stating that 32^2 should not trigger…

When people are used to this they can't easily tell what is satire anymore. I remember a few years back China Daily (or was it the People's Daily) quoted The Onion because the 'jou…

How do you do that? The preprocessor does macro expansion, the compiler compiles the result. The compiler does not see FLAG_BIT1 ^ FLAG_BIT3, it only sees the result, e.g. 2^32. Th…

'If' expects a condition so finding an assignment may be a red flag even if an assignment has a return value in the spec, which makes the construct valid. On the other hand ^ expec…

> It's a warning not an error. Many build environments are set to treat all warnings as errors. The point is that 2^32 is a perfectly compliant C expression that is neither mislead…

I don't think it would not be simple or a good idea to warn because these are perfectly valid expressions and it would lead to a flood of warnings if compilers started to display "…

The point of many of these cycle lanes is not to be useful to cyclists but to be useful to the council's PR.

Your comment suggests that there is a correct opinion and an incorrect opinion. This is as totalitarian as the "other side". This issue of extradition is far from being black and w…

The US government is not interested in the long term. The horizon is the 2020 election.

It is a rethoric and disingenuous argument to call for a referendum. See Crimea. The problem is states competing against each other and they know that HK is a way to create trouble…

How would you proceed to "annex" your own territory? HK is not Crimea (mentioned by someone else), it is Chinese but enjoys a high degree of autonomy until 2047.

Cancel the protests, you're 100 years too late... Or are you?

> What makes HK so special that they must have an extradition treaty with China? Apart from being a Chinese territory?

What I wrote is not an allegation. It is a fact as there is currently no extradition from HK to Macau/mainland China/Taiwan. The whole bill was brought forward because of a HK resi…

The real bottom line here: As long as you can make it back to HK then you are above the law in Macau/mainland China/Taiwan. That should be mentioned more often.

Forced opium trade, war, forcibly seizing foreign territory do seem like mistakes. HK's retrocession to China was the right thing to do. Unfortunately it seems that it is very hard…

How a comment is received tells you a lot about the audience... Case in point: Your replies to my comments. It's a shame, really.