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Re:Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office? on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:29AM (#23245611)
.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?

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...

Re:We Chat, They Watch on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:45AM (#23112382)
Twitter too. Every Twitter account I registered locked me out and asked for phone number after an hour or so
What is the implication you are trying to cancel with "I don't want to imply too much here"?
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

Re:Nicomachean Ethics on Friday April 24, 2020 @05:19AM (#22966124)
Anyone rememer how that New Yorker piece describes HN as a place full of performative erudition?
Re:List of oldest continuously inhabited cities on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:03AM (#22946288)
the space they occupy can be conceptualised as a city
Re:1989 Tiananmen Square Protests on Monday April 20, 2020 @07:24PM (#22930014)
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
> most of Asia continues to call it Wuhan Virus

Do you have a source for this?

Re:Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World? on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:09PM (#22882423)
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=...

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.

There's little evidence to support the cover-up charge

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

It's bizarre to me that comments like this one are being downvoted instead of being engaged with