This is assuming the story is real, not just some marketing campaign: 1. Therapy requires mutual trust to work. Administrating therapy at this point, after turning the child into an adversary by taking away electronics…
If you are in or plan to visit London please pay a visit to this exhibition of his works: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/taki... While all us techies have probably spent a lot of time studying…
What’s your opinion on recovering alcoholics?
They don’t have to deal with someone who are incapable of seeing people beyond their well-reasoned sobriety. I, for one, consider it a win.
I enjoy a good beer as much as the next guy, but I am still bothered by how alcohol is ingrained in our culture. Binge drinking seems to be regarded as an important part of social life, for example. Some UK-themed…
I looked it up and it seems that in England and Wales any place that serves alcohol must provide free drinking water, otherwise it doesn’t. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39881236 Explanation of alcohol licensing on the…
Weather forecast says London is going to be 38 degrees tomorrow, with a humidity of over 60%. Railway companies are telling me not to travel tomorrow because the heat is likely to disrupt train services. Tube lines…
FWIW, the richest man in Japan is the son of Korean immigrants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
82% of the people in Singapore live in public housing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore Public housing is only 'temporary' if we as a society choose to believe so. There is nothing that makes…
> If they built decent residential areas where families could live, DINKs and other childless folks would move there first I am not sure. If I want to live without a child, I would probably not spend money on a second…
While I understand the privacy/tracking problems, why would password breach be a problem, if you are already using a password manager which would supposedly make it easy for you to use different passwords on different…
I would not call it creative these days, because I don’t find those hipster beards, soul-crushingly loud factory-feeling restaurants and bars, and new shinny unaffordable residential developments designed by…
I don’t know why you’re downvoted. In the UK toilet means the room, not just the thing you sit on. It’s a perfectly fine clarification to make. (I cringe every time someone uses the euphemism 'bathroom' to mean toilet.…
LHR can’t get any busier without a third runway, which is increasingly unlikely to be built.
> that small traffic jams form near traffic lights The fact that a traffic jam of bicycles is perceived as exceptional really tells how we have moved past the acceptance phase of the cancer that is automobile…
> There is also a GET request to https://news.ycombinator.com/collapse?id=1234567 to save the state of the collapsed/expanded comment if the user is logged in, but it's an async request so it doesn't have an impact. Is…
On a train the motors may also be right under your feet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_unit And it’s still not annoying, at all. It’s very quiet, and I personally find the sound of electric motors much more…
In UK it’s not uncommon to see price tags that say something like '50p per litre' (for bottled water) or '50p per 100 sheet' (for toilet paper). You can see the prices per unit on their websites:…
While we are at it, let’s pay some attention to the overfishing of other species: for example, the cod fishery in northwest Atlantic collapsed in the last century, and stock of bluefin tuna has fallen by over 70%,…
> Is this site so far left there are no conservatives? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
You should be thankful towards China then. Who knows how many more people would have been born if they did not enforce their one child policy or whatever.
Leaving them on the streets or in a state of perpetual craving and poverty is expensive, too. The studies others cited says crime rates plummeted. Imagine how much damage local people and businesses might have suffered,…
It’s not > If you <do bad things> It’s actually: > If you are convicted of <doing bad things> You have made many very emotionally charged posts in this thread. Take a rest.
https://heyfromthefuture.com/age/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902561
Is obesity a sign of sugar addiction? I don’t think so. People addicted to substances like alcohol and heroin will go out of their way to obtain these substances breaking laws and ruining others’ lives if necessary.…
This is assuming the story is real, not just some marketing campaign: 1. Therapy requires mutual trust to work. Administrating therapy at this point, after turning the child into an adversary by taking away electronics…
If you are in or plan to visit London please pay a visit to this exhibition of his works: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/taki... While all us techies have probably spent a lot of time studying…
What’s your opinion on recovering alcoholics?
They don’t have to deal with someone who are incapable of seeing people beyond their well-reasoned sobriety. I, for one, consider it a win.
I enjoy a good beer as much as the next guy, but I am still bothered by how alcohol is ingrained in our culture. Binge drinking seems to be regarded as an important part of social life, for example. Some UK-themed…
I looked it up and it seems that in England and Wales any place that serves alcohol must provide free drinking water, otherwise it doesn’t. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39881236 Explanation of alcohol licensing on the…
Weather forecast says London is going to be 38 degrees tomorrow, with a humidity of over 60%. Railway companies are telling me not to travel tomorrow because the heat is likely to disrupt train services. Tube lines…
FWIW, the richest man in Japan is the son of Korean immigrants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
82% of the people in Singapore live in public housing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore Public housing is only 'temporary' if we as a society choose to believe so. There is nothing that makes…
> If they built decent residential areas where families could live, DINKs and other childless folks would move there first I am not sure. If I want to live without a child, I would probably not spend money on a second…
While I understand the privacy/tracking problems, why would password breach be a problem, if you are already using a password manager which would supposedly make it easy for you to use different passwords on different…
I would not call it creative these days, because I don’t find those hipster beards, soul-crushingly loud factory-feeling restaurants and bars, and new shinny unaffordable residential developments designed by…
I don’t know why you’re downvoted. In the UK toilet means the room, not just the thing you sit on. It’s a perfectly fine clarification to make. (I cringe every time someone uses the euphemism 'bathroom' to mean toilet.…
LHR can’t get any busier without a third runway, which is increasingly unlikely to be built.
> that small traffic jams form near traffic lights The fact that a traffic jam of bicycles is perceived as exceptional really tells how we have moved past the acceptance phase of the cancer that is automobile…
> There is also a GET request to https://news.ycombinator.com/collapse?id=1234567 to save the state of the collapsed/expanded comment if the user is logged in, but it's an async request so it doesn't have an impact. Is…
On a train the motors may also be right under your feet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_unit And it’s still not annoying, at all. It’s very quiet, and I personally find the sound of electric motors much more…
In UK it’s not uncommon to see price tags that say something like '50p per litre' (for bottled water) or '50p per 100 sheet' (for toilet paper). You can see the prices per unit on their websites:…
While we are at it, let’s pay some attention to the overfishing of other species: for example, the cod fishery in northwest Atlantic collapsed in the last century, and stock of bluefin tuna has fallen by over 70%,…
> Is this site so far left there are no conservatives? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
You should be thankful towards China then. Who knows how many more people would have been born if they did not enforce their one child policy or whatever.
Leaving them on the streets or in a state of perpetual craving and poverty is expensive, too. The studies others cited says crime rates plummeted. Imagine how much damage local people and businesses might have suffered,…
It’s not > If you <do bad things> It’s actually: > If you are convicted of <doing bad things> You have made many very emotionally charged posts in this thread. Take a rest.
https://heyfromthefuture.com/age/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902561
Is obesity a sign of sugar addiction? I don’t think so. People addicted to substances like alcohol and heroin will go out of their way to obtain these substances breaking laws and ruining others’ lives if necessary.…