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After their acquisition by DigitalOcean in 2022, the biggest question anyone probably had was whether they would continue supporting now-competitors on the platform. We now have th…

Why do people go for pottery classes, watch tv, ride bicycles, run, read books, or otherwise do anything other than work? I don't mean to be antagonistic but I find your question t…

Sell both properties and realise (perhaps pre-maturely) the capital gains?

As someone who is subbed to TAT, your newsletter has provided me with quite a few interesting reads, especially when some of the articles are years old, yet still relevant. Keep up…

I'm from Singapore, and would fight you on your claim that Starbucks killed the local coffee culture. We have our own coffee culture, historically in the hawker centres, and it's m…

Sadly, the stranglehold UCI has on organised cycling around the globe is not going to go away anytime soon, pandemic or not. The rise of "gravel" riding and races is proof that we …

I'm curious; are you studying Cantonese or Taishanese or some other variant? Asking simply because Cantonese is pretty mutually intelligible with Mandarin; I'm a native Mandarin an…

As someone who's monitoring the situation over in Germany because I have family there, Germany is definitely not doing "something right". There is a lack of direction in handling t…

I agree, especially with the uneasy feeling that it wouldn't last much longer; the challenge of the first 50 years of Singapore was economical, and the heavy-handedness of the gove…

To quote what I replied to another user: If you disagree, try telling the police that they have no right to infringe on your personal freedom when they stop you for drink-driving. …

I cannot answer for most of the population, but I can hazard a guess — they do not care to think that far. We have our bread and ciruses, and that makes us complacent that our gove…

It is deliberately reductive because I was hoping not to get into a debate about personal freedoms. If you disagree, try telling the police that they have no right to infringe on y…

I'm Singaporean, and completely not surprised to see this appear on HN. As with many places, the situation in my country is a bit more nuanced than a simple "the ruling party has r…

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