threeganzi

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Didn’t it collapse because they walked in unison, causing resonance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I skimmed the article and not sure I understand the problem. Turkey has some additional glyphs variant of i. So what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Does Unicode define case pair relationships of glyphs? My understanding was that it doesn’t and in that case it doesn’t matter.l, right. But I’m sure I’m wrong :)

Not sure I understand what you want these fonts to be able to do. Isn’t that already possible regardless of approach?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah it seems to be the case as China didn’t respect the deal it made with UK to leave Hong Kong autonomous. If 3.5% of China did that it would most likely be a blood bath, be it a violent or non-violent protest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think we’re all aware. And Hong Kong isn’t (wasn’t) China in terms of governance(“one country, two systems”). China broke the deal it made with UK, which said Hong Kong would be autonomous until 2048, after which it would be incorporated into China.

But you’re right, not much to do when China claims authority and no one defends its right to free speech, democracy and autonomy.

Edit: added some need nuance on the “one country, two systems”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Hong Kong was supposed to be free to control itself until 2048, democracy and free speech etc. China the decided that Hong Kong was starting to getting a little too free and started to tell the sitting president to shut the protests down.

China eventually took back control and instituted a national security law that could be used for pretty much anything after the crackdown didn’t quell the unrest.

I was actively following it live as it unfolded. It was very sad to see how much young people fought for basic freedoms and still lost it.

I remember being torn between my general non-violence stance and also understanding the protestors reciprocating the police violence.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Tell that to Hong Kong demonstrators on June 16, 2019, estimated by organizers at 2 million people marching. Hong Kong had a population of 7.5 million at the time.

Sure there was violence both before and after that protest, but mostly caused by violent crackdown by police.

But did it fail because there was violence or was violence a sign of stronger opposition? Causation vs correlation and all that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, didn’t know that. Thank you for educating me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I think you’re thinking of tear gas rounds. Trying to bounce rubber bullets sounds less predictable. But yeah, don’t shoot this close, especially not at a peaceful citizen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It applies to smaller cities as well as fat as you I’m aware, not just mega cities.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I think it’s established fact that you can’t reduce congestions by adding more lanes and roads. Not because of bad road design but because the amount of cars will fill up those new lanes. So saying ‘cars cause congestions’ is pointing at the fact that regardless of how many roads or lanes we have the will be filled. Hence roads aren’t the problem, but cars are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then I don’t think you’ve met people. Because I have met people and they do care.

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