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Let's say you're only allowed to write one more book for the rest of your life, what topic would you write about?

when the seconds count the police are only minutes away

My heart really goes out to those of you who went through long battles. Today would have been father’s birthday, sadly he passed away last year aged 61. I often anguished over how …

That seems like a strange line to draw, surely plenty of disabilities are genetic, implying bad genetics no?

I would like to see it your way but all of this so-called decoupling from China seems very half-arsed and appears to me to be nothing more than a show for the electorate. None of i…

Another +1 for AMD from me, only reason I haven't bought one yet was I was hoping to get an AMD chip for my next laptop.

>Because Asian countries were basing their advice on science Actually for the most part this isn't true, our government was also telling us to wear masks but because of our previou…

Maybe, just maybe you're the one of the opposite cliffs edge. But no, you'd never consider that.

Very true, it goes a long way to explaining the current state of news and politics.

Sure, it's not like the current lines of conflict haven't existed for hundreds of years or anything. This reductionist mentality is really starting wear thin.

Love this story, funnily enough it was the first story I ever read on HN on my first day of work as a junior developer.

Judging by some of the posts on HN in recent China related threads it seems we may have the attention of the infamous 50 cent armies.

Let's just ban people who think differently from education, that will surely be a great boon to the country... It doesn't matter if they grow out of it or not, who are you to decid…

A similar vein of thought but much much broader. It Allows for the collection of content data by local law enforcement as opposed to the NSL "By law, NSLs can request only non-cont…

For anyone not sure of the difference between this and most countries where companies have to comply with police requests, the big difference is that HK police no longer requires a…

You don't need to compromise a site they visit regularly, there are plenty of other ways to get someone to visit a malicious page, phishing email or even a link on HackerNews for e…

They are hardly related. Will you be removing my master's degree next?

I believe sleep to be one of the most underrated and underutilized health strategies, I know so many who diet and do all sorts but then are proud of the fact they only sleep 6 hour…

For two things to be equal is surely an impossibility, they would be one.

How long until you have to shutdown because it starts getting offensive like Tay?

It surprises me that they don't require both of you to have each others phone numbers in your contacts lists before giving away identifiable information.

I don't know of any directly related to it's encryption but multiple protest organizers were identified and arrested by the Hong Kong Police Force through Telegram, I'm not 100% su…