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The difference is she was a mayor of an American city. She was an elected official in direct contact with CCP officials, and while the examples provided are more or less trivial, I…

The Orwellian nightmare is nigh

I can relate! Someone who is very dear to me suggested we go to a one-day pottery class and the idea had never entered my mind. I actually ended up loving it. We're both introverts…

The idiom is, "Do as I say, not as I do." Yet here you are trying to convince folks why this doesn't lead to poor morals, low self-awareness, and a lack of trust in doctors. We are…

I'm not sure why you are drawing a parallel to a good doctor that smokes. I never said "Doctor Mike" is a bad doctor. I have no idea if he is a good or bad doctor. Further, an ad h…

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> physics is what you study if you couldn't do engineering This reminded me of something from my alma mater. At my (Canadian) university, there was a running joke that engineering …

Every time I tried taking a motorbike taxi, they charged me probably three times more than a local to just travel maybe 1km, not to mention Bangkok has one of the deadliest roads i…

"Learn how to avoid peak traffic hours." Most people living in Bangkok cannot do this. Also, a very high percent of the time, the Icon Siam area is extremely congested (even on wee…

Am I the only one who sees "content boxes"/divs with content displayed in different widths as poor design? At least in the example given, I would think you would want the image and…

Is it possible to label/tag these submissions as containing content that is AI-generated? I think the HN community would appreciate that

This is a great point. When I was studying philosophy in university, an extremely common roadblock to moving the discussion forward was that people (professor and students) were ph…

I tried living off my music for 10 years when I was young. I was on the verge of homelessness at the end. The existential dread was good for my art, but not my mental health. I was…

For context, you can refer to section 2.1 here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/protagoras/#AllThinMeasMa... Sure, it doesn't take long to explain the gist of Protagoras' Truth,…

> Stop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solut…

I'm interested to know what city is at the other end of the spectrum. From my own travels, one city I would submit as a candidate would be Bangkok. In fact, I control-F'd Bangkok a…

Social media needs to be destroyed, not enhanced, empowered or encouraged. Don't give Meta PMs ideas. Ceci est un post de protestation.

I'm Canadian and every single Canadian with a computer science degree I know either has moved to the US or is actively trying to. We are essentially trading in highly skilled devel…

Canada is doing this wrong. What will happen in practice is someone who lives in the US with an H-1B will move to Canada to get that "easy" job, all the while applying for jobs in …

Here is an idea: forums are easy to build. What if people got back into them and just hosted them on their domain and then there was a webring attached to all forums like sites wer…