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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 a…

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 …

What’s your opinion on recovering alcoholics?

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.

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 …

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 E…

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 …

FWIW, the richest man in Japan is the son of Korean immigrants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son

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 b…

> 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…

pg has been inactive on HN for almost four years...

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…

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 residenti…

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 th…

LHR can’t get any busier without a third runway, which is increasingly unlikely to be built.

> 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 t…

> 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 re…

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 t…

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 …

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 blu…

> Is this site so far left there are no conservatives? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

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.

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 peo…

It’s not > If you It’s actually: > If you are convicted of You have made many very emotionally charged posts in this thread. Take a rest.

https://heyfromthefuture.com/age/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902561