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It feels like you missed the point of his post or you're just responding in bad faith.

Still here. Always loved this tidbit of history. As a kid who was obsessed with WWII, I would hunt for them in old photos and videos.

> Taiwan has 20 million people. Mainland china has 1.4 billion people. I believe the "self-determination" part is already settled. What does population have to do with self determi…

Yes and no. This is changing as people become more prosperous and can afford old age homes. Multi-generational homes are still common, but less so than they were a decade or two de…

How are cryptocurrencies any worse or more shady than banks, investment firms or any other business involved in finance?

I had started working on something similar to this, but without the Google Drive component. I wanted something where I could right click and "snag" a file, link or document and hav…

As someone who tried react + redux and then recently moved to svelte because the way things were done just made sense, how does mobx compare?

The introductory video were linked to the curriculum the department was following and so I put things in the same order to match what was being done. When I normally teach it I ski…

Below is a 51 video tutorial series on Python that I made for my students about 4-5 years ago. It was a flipped classroom thing I did and I took it really slow in discussing the co…

I teach the IB and IGCSE curricula and have used repl.it quite a bit in the last few years. What sort of materials are you looking for? Coverage of Python, Java, and C++ at the mid…

Wechat is in no way a competitor to Messenger or WhatsApp.

Have you tried questioning this? Do you really enjoy those things to the exclusion of other activities? I've found that while I think I enjoy them, they leave me feeling unsatisfie…

I don't think of a leather bound guy being pulled out of a trunk when people say those names.

Hard to determine if a certain practice is harmless or not.

That statement is taken way out of context. The full quote is below. >The best teachers don’t just keep teaching. Instead, they use their pedagogy as protest: They disrupt teaching…

I think they meant a business that is destined to die. Could be wrong though.

Assuming you're in America, most areas are not dense enough to accommodate mixed use zoning unless they start building up. The other half is getting priced out like your grandma.

R2R, or Roach 2 Roach would be more apt. Jokes aside, this tech later applied to other animals, say that pesky 2 legged kind could make for a rather interesting future.

The idea of watching ads in order to get an education seems like the start of some dystopia nightmare. Seeing kids in school buses emblazoned with McDonalds ads is bad enough. Can …

One can be critical of China and the US at the same time. Difference being is only in one of those two countries can you open to do both. I find these 'but the US' responses to be …

China has only recently been able to reverse or halt the brain drain it was having for decades. As far as talent coming from the US, you will need to provide actual data to back th…

Most of those people in HK who are fine with it already have deep connections with the Mainland and want to maintain those. They are a small fraction of the population. It's also f…

Your view on this and your username are linked I assume?

I'm going to agree this a solution, but I think we should probably tick through the first thousand or two more reasonable ones before we get to mass murder.