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joyfulmantis

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About joyfulmantis

I am a self-made programmer, previously a Chinese teacher. I am a native speaker of English, am comfortable in Chinese, and am intermediate in Turkish. I am interested in Programming, Linguistics and Education.

I graduated from Tianjin Foreign Studies University in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Language. My thesis title was: Research on the effect of tone drills on Chinese learner’s tone differentiation ability

github:http://github.com/joyfulmantis website: http://joyfulmantis.github.io

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    Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Mostly Haskell and Flutter, but also experience in Scala, Java, and Python Résumé/CV: available upon request Github…

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    This is a fork of iamadev's extension on github https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome . Is there a specific reason why that's not mentioned and what is different/bet…

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    Yes it is, no matter how good you think your values are the end never justifies the means

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    Here I would disagree, freedom of speech is an ideal, and the constitutional amendment was based on that ideal. Universal platforms for speech are somewhat of a new concept, but th…

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    In response to the first point most countries retain the right to prosecute their citizens for crimes committed overseas even if it wasn't a crime where it was committed. For the a…

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    It is very hard to objectively judge laws specifically and political systems in general. The only way to do so is to look at their outcome, but with the large amount of variables, …

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    As an american you don't have the right while in mainland china to criticize the CCP. While there is no simple way to apply sovereignty to the internet, the decision to follow the …

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    So are you saying that companies operating in New Zealand shouldn't follow New Zealand law to ban the Christchurch shooter's manifesto?

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    Free speech is a concept even the west is struggling with -- Twitter hiding Donald Trump's tweets for example, or New Zealand banning the terrorists manifesto. If even the bastion …

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    The idea that your country knows best and that your countries companies can feel free to ignore other countries laws while operating in them is -- imperialism.

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    If you read the zoom blog post they admit they made mistakes as they did not have the ability to block meetings by region. They have absolutely no desire to enforce chinese laws gl…

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    These were accounts that were holding meetings with large amount of mainland chinese users. Whatsmore they admitted the blocking was a mistake caused by their inability to prevent …

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    Following the local laws of countries where a company operates in is a fundamental condition necessary for globalization. The idea that the americans know best and don't need to fo…

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    the offical blog post is at: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/11/improving-our-poli... Was it wrong to suspend accounts outside of mainland china? Ultimately yes, but as they…

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    They are asking $50 for something that there are other open source solutions for. It would be interesting to find out how much of the original source code is the developers and how…