8 (八 ba) is considered a lucky number in Mandarin due to its pronunciation being similar to "fortune" (发 fa). So you get lots of things priced with 8 (also for telephone numbers, plate numbers, etc.)

The bricks and wall thickness are designed to absorb heat and release them in the evening though. Not sure if it can work the other way around.

SCIENCE 99

Ah, yes, I always love it when the train does Tokyo drift.

oolong means "black loong" or black dragons, referring to the tea leaves' color change during fermentation.

From the owners' (shareholders') point of view, managers are on their side to extract values from workers. Of course there are more nuances in real life, but that's a more plausible explanation than any of the meritocracy ones.

The Chinese Great Firewall (GFW) has already been using machine learning to detect "illegal" traffics. The arms race is moving towards the Cyberpunk world where AIs are battling against an AI firewall.

Colleague asks to do Environmental activism

Don't know what that means, but sure why not

mfw blowing up oil pipes

I love that the shark can take down whole modern digital infrastructure, but it can't stop C developers from writing dynamic arrays.

u/Dangerous-Pizza7054 from the article,

Seems like the user tracking "special promotion" overrides the premium. They don't even say whether it's expected or not. But my take away is that paying for premium may or may not show you ads, but you are definitely tracked and harvested for data. (Maybe even more so, since, well, you are more valuable to them.)

Let me simplify it: proceeds to print the same expression

And "No" stands for "Nicely Observed".

https://xkcd.com/2337/

Anon's mom performed a git merge.

We are, in fact, the gate.

Be the top player of the world and you too can enjoy a trial period of free health care.

So consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That's the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.

privacy policy

look inside

sells your data

Deprecation warnings should contain suggestions for alternatives.

Also, teenagers are poorer, so any gift would carry more weight.