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This is inaccurate. Computer is “计算机” （computing machine），while “电脑” mostly refers to PC, even though they are sometimes used interchangeably the latter is distinctively narrower t…

Because the API also needs some separation. The same reason you would want your services isolated in VMs instead of all running in one bare metal.

In comparison, I remember spending much less time finding "where is foo implemented" in Rust than in C++, and also found Rust std to be much more readable than C's when I wasn't fa…

You do realize that neither South Korea nor China has ever dumped any nuclear POLLUTED (directly in contact with core) water into the ocean? I do not know where you come from, but …

It is more reasonable to hypothesize that domestication cause this naturally, and livestock is only exempt because they are artificially selected the other way.

I don't know about India but that's probably not true in China. China was close to industrial revolution twice, once in the Song dynasty, once in the Ming dynasty (oil and natural …

Fireworks. There was another product from Macromedia that was not Flash, the Macromedia Fireworks. Never thought it would go into oblivion so fast, given I always felt it's of a fa…

It's called "the captcha" in China

To be fair, the article does mention it. “You could think of it as preference for risk,” Simester says. “People who are more willing to take a risk on an unusual product are more w…

This stems from unfamiliarity with Chinese economy. China being a late comer to a lot of technologies means that a large portion of their research & patents are in relatively more …