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iirc, the clients use the certs but ignore them. but to the censor they see the certs are well known, so allow them thru

I tried to do FP with Python a few years ago.. It taught me to just stay canonical, otherwise it's frustrating (maybe my expectations were too high!). You can't come close to Haske…

Rust is another language which gives us the kitchen sink, allows anyone to do anything when they are in a bind. - quoting Jon Carmack - whatever the compiler allows in, will eventu…

I suppose, I expect more from NYT

Interesting how American citizens / informants are seduced and reckless, whereas Chinese sources act out of worries about corruption. E7ther biases, or possibly about to change sha…

Many would argue that not switching to pinyin was a huge error. Chinese literacy isn't necessarily that great... E.g. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-literacy-rate-in-China-so-h..…

Actually - the legend goes - that Mao wanted to ditch Chinese characters in favour of Pinyin, until Stalin said every great civilisation needs its own writing system. Chinese writi…

Cool!