The Queen's Gambit

I wanna share a popular tv show with you, which can be a good choice to acquire new vocabulary. No need to say that the story is quite attractive.

It's suitable for English learning cuz those lines are causal overall so I don't have a problem understanding the story. After watching it with subs, I'll collect useful expressions based on the episode's transcripts.

Finally, nytimes starts to report about her. She has been crusading alone for a long time, now she has got attention. But is it too late?

He died as he lived: wearing makeup and lying in front of all of us

How hilarious He is.

I am envious that a president could be humiliated on TV like this in the US.

From heaven to hell, Alibaba not just fucked up its biggest IPO ever in history, but also messed up with the world's largest and fiercest government. So pity, Alibaba. Is it still worth working as 996?

Zoom is great, revolutionary, the game-changer in the pandemic driven software industry. The only flaw is that it's censored in China. Actually Zoom has even disabled free calls in China. In so many countries Zoom works so perfectly except in China. China has been the Achilles' Heel of Zoom, which is ironic because it's projected to be a Chinese software, at least some are saying that.

A lot of places are out of electricity right now, people are suffering. Is it the backfire of the ban of Australian coal? Or is it just the regularity of power capacity? Idk.

A list of summary info:

Domestic coal industry price is soaring, while the global industry is declining. Some Australian coal cargo ships are floating on the sea. Some places in Zhejiang and Hunan are shot of power, some kind of usage curbs are imposed. There are even places out of Nature Gas. Govt says it's a regularity of electricity quota limitation, plus a tighter control of environment protection.

It's like the Murphy's law saying: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. So when the Trump administration blames Pfizer that the delay of the distribution of the vaccine next week is "manufacturing hiccups", Pfizer defends themselves that their manufacturing is fine, it's just the vaccine is sitting in the warehouse and has nowhere to go.

Oh really? An Educational Doctor is not a Doctor?

I saw this in the morning, and thought Kungfu might be real, not just in the movie like this:

There are moles inside the party. There are moles inside a lot of companies working for the party. Interesting. When the party doesn't care about the privacy of its citizens, the citizens I guess don't care its either.

First saw it on Twitter:

That's nice. Any good documentary of Biden and Harris's life recommendations?

Sorry, poor guy.
Is it too late to say thank you to those foreign journalists working in China? Nowadays to know China, you'd better read their articles rather than the state media's. That is the way.

Once upon a time, there is a lonely Chinese girl in the US, interested in the US politics, pursued her american dream by campaigning in all different kind of political events, no matter a fundraising party or a governor election. Where there is politician, there is her activity. She even fell in love with a few ambitious men, helped them build up their career. Until a secret Chinese government agent reached her...

Just another fantasy story.

This is interesting. State-sponsored hackers, red team, stolen security tools, all those combined could be a great movie.

That's nice. Why not the US first?

I wonder what's the true repercussion to those sanctioned officials, and how much power does the US really have over HK affairs.

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So I thought I have found a bug of Firefox, which treats sessionStorage differently than Google. I found on Firefox that when the page was directed to another url, the sessionStorage was freed immediately. At first I thought it was a bug of Firefox. To get around of it, I use localStorage instead, and send the author a pull request. But the original author reminded me that he hadn't found such problem on Firefox. Than it occurred to me that it might be my problem. So I looked into my code again, did find the problem. It turns out I am using sessionStorage inside an iframe, when change the url of the top window, then on Firefox the storage is freed immediately as the session is lost.

I wrote an article introducing about the history and future of Dictionariez.