This post is created to prevent me from flooding the community with more of my low-quality showerthoughts. This post violates community rule 2. Explanation will be added when I finished writing them. Most of the following statements are lame or untrue.

  1. There seems to be no physical media transfer system that nicely demonstrate circuit-switching.

    Bus lane exists and can be seen as a kind of TDM.

  2. The letter J is used much more frequently in 6502 assembly.

    Unfortunately, jumps are unconditional. Branching is used much more frequently.

  3. Arguments against porn and sex toys can also be used to oppose huggable stuffed toys.

    Personally, I feel that banning porns is absurd, but an (questionable) argument against porn goes as follows:

    People improve themselves to get married to have sex with their partners. Porns and sex toys enable people to fulfill their sexual desire without self-improvement. Since people are lazy, those that are not good enough to get married will stop improving themselves. Therefore, we need to ban porn.

    ——A professor at my local collage

    By the same a similar “logic”, plushies should be banned, too.

  4. Contempt (insult?) of cops should be legal.

    Personal opinion. (It’s illegal in Taiwan)

  5. Market dulls one’s sense of morality.

    In my view, market abstract all the horrible deeds that big companies have done into a single number — stock prices. The stockholder might not know that.

  6. Punishments against corporations should be especially severe.

  7. Chinese is good at making names short, but terrible at making names extremely short.

    Example: Transmission Control Protocol vs. 傳輸控制協議 vs. TCP; Requests for Comments vs. 請求意見稿 vs. RFC

It’s 15:10 here. I want to sleep.

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    8 hours ago

    1 - huh?

    2 - huh?

    3 - wild. What’s that like, thinking that the only reason to marry is to fuck? Is your professor okay?

    4 - where are you that it’s not? Afaik, in most places considered “developed” you can dislike police as much as you please. There may be consequences if you resist their actions but that’s a different issue.

    5 - I don’t know if I agree that it’s “market” (because if your neighbour has chickens and you have a cow and you trade your milk for their eggs that’s a market) but the complexity of modern production and global trade. There’s just no way anyone can really understand all the processes so there is necessarily a level of abstraction that alienates you from what is happening at the other end.

    6 - duh.

    7 - sure lol

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        7 hours ago

        I can read at most a few characters here and there on that page so that doesn’t help ^^; What exactly is illegal in Taiwan regarding the police? They can’t read your thoughts so how would they decide whether you have contempt for the police unless you actively antagonise them?

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            7 hours ago

            Ah, if you INSULT a police officer, that’s what’s punishable. That’s actively antagonising them, not just not liking them.

            Mind you, I don’t think insulting a police officer should hold any more severe punishment than insulting anyone else. So yeah, that’s bullshit.

            I’m in Germany, there’s a common myth that “Beamtenbeleidigung”, insulting an official, is a criminal offence. It’s not - if you insult anyone, regardless of their job, they can sue. Police are just more likely to actually go through with that because they have a reputation to uphold.