作者：Bruce
日期：2020年6月20日

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1. The architect Christopher Alexander on how to design a room that people love:
   Light on two sides of every room. When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. This pattern, perhaps more than any other single pattern, determines the success or failure of a room. The arrangement of daylight in a room, and the presence of windows on two sides, is fundamental. If you build a room with light on one side only, you can be almost certain that you are wasting your money. People will stay out of that room if they can possibly avoid it... The importance of this pattern lies partly in the social atmosphere it creates in the room. Rooms lit on two sides, with natural light, create less glare around people and objects; this lets us see things more intricately; and most important, it allows us to read in detail the minute expressions that flash across people's faces, the motion of their hands ... and thereby understand, more clearly, the meaning they are after. The light on two sides allows people to understand each other.
   Source: A Pattern Language

2. 不可能的协商
   A：B错了，我们同意友好协商来解决这个问题。
   B：A错了，我们同意友好协商来解决这个问题。
   体面人的困境
   （在电视或任何公开场合上）
   A：太阳是方的，地球是平的，我觉得……
   B：快别说了，你说的都是错的。
   A：你能不能不要打断我，让我说完，你再说话。
   B：在你公开发表错误观点的时候，打断你是很必要的。
   A：你这个没礼貌的人。

3. 邮箱服务 HEY 的 iOS 客户端因为没有使用苹果内购而遭到下架，引发了 HEY 团队的反击以及各路人士的讨论。目前，使用苹果内购要被苹果收取30%的「渠道费」，而如果使用苹果内购是一种强制而不是选择的话，这是否合理呢？
   有论者提出，Hey与苹果应用商店之间的纠纷是马克思笔下资本与劳工之间冲突，在21世纪的新表现。只不过，在这个案例里，平台代替了工厂，控制了生产与流通的方式。
   另外，Walt Mossberg 提到的这个小故事也挺有意思：there’s a history to this. Before the App Store, carriers controlled which apps would make it onto phones, and often took most of the revenue - 50%, 70%, more. I was there when Steve Jobs announced Apple would take only 30% and a room full of developers cheered.

4. In September 1946, Albert Einstein called racism America’s “worst disease.” Earlier that year, he told students and faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the oldest Black college in the Western world, that racial segregation was “not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people, adding, “I will not remain silent about it.” When Albert Einstein moved to America, he was disappointed to see how black people were being treated. Even in his new hometown of Princeton, he observed separation of the white and black societies. Einstein thought of segregation as “unacceptable.” Albert Einstein rarely accepted honorary doctorates but he did so for Lincoln University, a small historically black college in Pennsylvania in 1946. He also gave a lecture before a small group of students who are seen with him in the photo.

5. 按照国际法惯例，某国在别国设立的大使馆所在的物理空间属于该国领土；未来是不是也要算上虚拟空间呢？（比如，借用wecheck平台发布的七国声明，是否具有审查豁免权呢？）

6. 因为人们在说话的时候，会带动空气震动，导致房间里的灯泡随之发生微小的震动。通过捕捉这些微小的灯光变化，研究人员可以复原房间里的对话。 （结合之前提到的，用手机里的陀螺仪来监听的技术，越来越多曾经无用的微信息现在正在被利用，我们甚至不知道这些信息可能蕴含什么内容。）