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JamesG124··on Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?
.docx is plain text xml though (You can even save explicitly as .xml which has all the images in base64).

Is track changes not good enough?

JamesG124··on Coronavirus Came from Bats, Can Infect Cats, Ferrets, WHO Says
On Jan 15 in fact Wuhan government publicly said they identified a possible case of h2h from husband to wife

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/china-virus-spre...

JamesG124··on We Chat, They Watch
Twitter too. Every Twitter account I registered locked me out and asked for phone number after an hour or so
JamesG124··on Zoom corrects usage numbers: says it has 300M daily meeting participants
What is the implication you are trying to cancel with "I don't want to imply too much here"?
JamesG124··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
A recent example confirming this point

https://nextshark.com/ucsc-phd-student-racist-rant/

The department and UCSC are effectively standing behind a PhD student who advocates for genocide.

The targets are not quite the same demographics, but the reason both are tolerated is the same

JamesG124··on Nicomachean Ethics
Anyone rememer how that New Yorker piece describes HN as a place full of performative erudition?
JamesG124··on List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
the space they occupy can be conceptualised as a city
JamesG124··on 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
I think a good rule of thumb is that if the official number is n, the true number is something in the neighborhood of n to the nth power
JamesG124··on China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners outside Great Firewall
> most of Asia continues to call it Wuhan Virus

Do you have a source for this?

JamesG124··on China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
May be of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881922

JamesG124··on [dead]
If anything latest AP scoop [1] definitively refutes such theories as it shows internal memo as late as Jan 14 spoke of h2h as something "evidence suggests" is "possible"

[1] https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9?utm_camp...

[2] https://twitter.com/lagginator/status/1250360193935802368?s=...

JamesG124··on China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
1. I'm well aware of that. Is that the only new evidence that's come to light since the piece I linked to though? Would have expected something more solid than unnamed sources from inside national security (see: big hack)

2. I'll grant that that's possibility in the exact same sense in which I grant the centralized cover-up theory to be a possibility, and in which I grant both the lab creation and the lab accident origin theories to be possibilities. But I'm not interested in possibilities. What I'm interested in is positive evidence supportive of this or that theory.

JamesG124··on China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
There's little evidence to support the cover-up charge

https://old.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/fnvvh8/some_th...

JamesG124··on China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
It's bizarre to me that comments like this one are being downvoted instead of being engaged with