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It would be easy enough to show that becoming a poet didn't make someone happy. But if they became a poet, and then became happy? Surely its pretty obvious that the connection woul…

How about a 1 mile (square) zone, rather than 1 mile away from you? So you just cut everything up into mile-square slices, and you can talk with everyone in your slice... Concept i…

All laws are, in effect, a form of imposing the views of some onto others. Tolerence is a word that is held in such esteem as to be almost untouchable in our generation. I understa…

I wasn't aware of that. Such broadly defined terms are a worry, I would agree. I live in China so I have an idea of how a government might use such tools for its own ends while pre…

"Bad parenting is the real problem ... not rely on filters of dubious effectiveness." I'm not sure how this is an argument against the filter? We agree that "parents need to superv…

I've never heard of Doxing (and I read HN) while "Human Flesh Search" is a commonly understood term amoung young people in China. That said, China effectively has a single, unified…

It's not too bad. That works out at about 12.5 RMB / hour, more than someone would make working a night shift at KFC here in Guizhou (I expect in Shen Zhen it would be a little hig…

Right. It would be nice to have a 'just let me see the results' link

I have a friend who took an English teaching job in China to pay off his (admittedly not as big as yours but nonetheless substantial) student debt. He's recently out of college and…

(Sincere question) why would someone use Fuel over, say, Codeigniter?

Other directors are big enthusiasts. The makers of RED have been pretty upfront about some of the drawbacks of the RED ONE from the beginning. Everyone was pretty much using a beta…

I'm surprised this is from the government. It comes across as very spammy - like an affiliate marketing site. The copy reads like a content farm and most of the links are basically…

Nice! It would be great if these could be made available as sets of @font-face kits too.. Using @font-face is a really useful way of embedding icons.

I think that many of the same people offended by the Quick Bar would be the same people that are willing to (and often do) pay for a client. What reasons could Twitter have for bei…

Being "on the ground" I can attest to the accuracy of this story. I saw some real squabbling going on today over dwindling salt supplies. Motivations seem mixed; some rumours say s…

Yeah they actually did a census last year that was supposed to be the first to include these "unofficials". But yes, this does mean that lots of women have never received an educat…

As someone who lives in China, I can vouch for some of the ideas expressed here. They have a phrase that basically says you need a car and a house before you're considered eligible…