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The PRC didn't exactly cooperate when the UK wanted to introduce democratic measures in HK well before the handover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Hong...…

China has a lot of vague laws and a history of making up accusations to fit the occasion, with no way for HK judges to examine evidence, and trial with presumption of guilt. This e…

But people elect the parliament and the parliament electthe PM, so it's OK, there's a chain of accountability to the populace. In HK, the parliament has only 70 seats of the 1200-m…

whataboutist wumao

No, Hong Kong should lead the way.

When I started learning Mandarin (my fourth language) I became totally unable to speak French (my third language) as the Mandarin words would pop up first in my mind. I think by no…

Swedish has "nja" (blend of Swedish ja and nej).

That is not what he said.

That's an awesome article! Thanks for sharing.

Actually those are very bad examples. In practice, compilers will produce warnings in all of those examples. Better examples (of actually useful things) would be things like design…

FWIW, the Unsafe class is generally much faster than DirectByteBuffer

This does not do away the distinction between attributes and content -- that attributes are flat strings while content can be nested.

You can call it a style if that makes a difference. I think there are reasons behind that style, and I think the too minimal standard library is the main reason. The lack of a good…

It's a problem. Until people have standardized on which 'better standard library' to use, programs will keep building from these too low level building blocks.

The ocaml standard library is minimal to a fault. It's just enough to implement the compiler itself. For higher level operations like starts_with, you use libraries. The Batteries …

No syntactic sugar needed. In most lisp pattern matching libraries there are higher level matchers such as "list" etc. Just as the first element of a list is a function or special …

Just keep your supply of rolls in the bathroom?

What's the software analogy of a factory? Making copies is simple in software so you must have something else in mind?

Horizontal space isn't.

(47 choose 39) * 0.5 ^ 39 * 0.5^8 = 0.0000022, so that'd be about 1 in 500000 of all who traded for this long.

Side remark: Please don't use equality and inequality like that. How can a noun and an adjective possibly be equal? They aren't even the same word class. Just use english "is" and …

The constant factor is huge compared to a straight pointer.

Forth has it right: One data stack and one return stack. Though you could argue that using unsafe languages is the real problem I suppose.

You are both correct. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution

Suffer can mean "tolerate" sometimes.