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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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 as a form of punishme
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
What’s your opinion on recovering alcoholics?
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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.
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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 subreddits also have a ten
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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 without air conditioning
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
FWIW, the richest man in Japan is the son of Korean immigrants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
> 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 bedroom. I would pr
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
pg has been inactive on HN for almost four years...
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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 sites?
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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 anti-natalists (hence no space f
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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. Like, we al
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
LHR can’t get any busier without a third runway, which is increasingly unlikely to be built.
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
> 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 congestion. > I also love
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
> 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
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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: https://www.t
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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%, according to Wikipedia. I
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
> Is this site so far left there are no conservatives? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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.
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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, imagine how much pol
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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.
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
https://heyfromthefuture.com/age/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902561
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
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. While obese people are j
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
Is there any reliable source to back up the claim that sugar is more addictive than alcohol? I am suspicious about this claim because there are plenty of people and families ruined directly as a result of alcoholism. I don’t think sugar add
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
Maybe it’s time for a plugin that does this (or maybe it already exists?): You press the backslash key, enter the name of the symbol, then press enter, and the symbol will show up in your buffer. Something like: \lambda -> λ \Lambda -&gt
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
I have seen the 'without AC Texas is not habitable' (or a weaker version 'large cities cannot exist in Texas without AC') sentiment, which is somehow related to what you are talking about, many times on this website. It
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by llamathrowaway 7y ago
> That's a big "might" that is conditioned on having a seat and space in which to do these things, none if which is a given. In the past plenty of people read newspapers while standing on trains. Nowadays we have smartphon

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