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At this point, I am fairly sure you're baiting me...or, that's just me reading the worst in this interaction. Not sure. I'll ask the moderators to restore my post for the record. I…

I didn't take my reply down because I didn't mean it, or because I thought it was wrong. I took it down because I felt that I didn't know enough about your life. I was finding mult…

Okay, sorry for being presumptuous.

Hello hestipod. I have been in your situation, and I have had certain privileges you do not have which helped me. So, I do not want to tell you: "just do XYZ and you'll be better".…

Its not stereotyping, but coming up with Bayesian estimates of conditional probabilities. According to the data they collected, P(person is female | person is a shooter) is just ve…

> I’m curious how relatively content-free entertainment works into your calculus. It's an issue I struggle with. My problematic relatively content-free entertainment is video games…

Personal anecdote: was going through a tough time in my life (early 20s), and was hating my major in school, dealing with a failed relationship, feeling like my peers outclassed me…

I'm not from the US (Canada), so it sometimes confuses me when people talk about the cost of college. Doesn't the US have public universities? Are they super expensive too?

Source?

Can we just eradicate all foreign comers in the last 200 years from Australia? Perhaps one of the worst losses in Australia has been the near extermination of the native human popu…

I do not understand why this thread is so against this legislation. Issues with e-cigarettes: 1) they bypass laws regarding cigarette advertising: compare e-cig packaging with ciga…

This comment raises a relevant question for me: where is my downvote button? I have been using HN for a while, but can only see an upvote button? In the past, facing unproductive c…

Food. Medicine. Shelter. Thankfully, these are generally well-regulated in Canada. I am having a hard time thinking of other products which I would pay double for: * clothes: I alr…

Some ideas: * multi-storey farms, with "JIT" food production: lots of our food production is wasted, what if we streamlined it, by locating food production centers closer to popula…

> Once it becomes common enough the government closes the loophole and the creatives go back to finding the next scheme. Creatives? Do you mean criminals. I do believe it is necess…

Canadian here, and I'd like to say: uh, no, thanks. Canada has a very different culture than the US. Examples: * compare types of crimes, and rates of crimes in major Canadian citi…

Donald Trump's presidency is weird because the "mainstream media" (a term used by many, regardless of their political spectrum) began to be treated as "real news" simply because Do…

Tom Holland is a historian? heh

> If you have specific suggestions about how to be more responsible than we have, please offer them and stop with the melodrama. HTTP and TCP/IP do not provoke "child like" wonder …

Is it even a useful indication of that? Perhaps it's a more useful indication of how certain groups want a particular demographic (e.g. Trump supporters) to think?

The US actually has a bit of the opposite culture, in the old 'burbs. The neighbours come along to meet/greet the new family, usually with some treats.

How about his neighbours come meet him, and make friends with him?

Hi Doreen, As someone who has careened on the edge of homelessness, due to mental illness, but thankfully not yet fallen into it straight out: thank you for your replies and posts …

When I used to play MotherLoad, the world was still a bright place, full of possibility. I was on track to finish from a prestigious high school, accepted into a prestigious univer…

Interestingly, an Iraqi immigrant was responsible for setting up Norway's wealth management system: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab... I always think a…