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For the good of the world, I hope you are right. I admit I did get a bit too passioniate in the earlier post.

I respectfully disagree that waning respect for America in this context illustrates what you say it does. Chinese culture is fundamentally opposed to American culture, and those th…

Maybe it's a good thing. Moving away from seeing America as an economic goldrush where everyone can come and "get theirs", and more toward a place where people actually live in. Th…

Too Good To Go[0] is an app/service which connects its users to shops and restaurants in Europe who are happy to sell any unsold food they have at a heavily discounted price rather…

It would be slightly harder. What I'm looking out for here is voice distortion and the unnatural flow of speech, and it's present in every Faux recording. It's just unnatural compa…

It was easy to figure out which are the fakes, but I am very impressed and spooked at the idea of this technology improving, then getting into the wrong hands.

That's exactly what I mean though, your conclusion that Asians are better off than other minorities just because you saw a bunch of Asians in your elite college (who were most like…

Also Asian myself. There has never really been a place for us on either side of the political spectrum. The left does not treat us as they do with other minorities, so they don't c…

We'll have nonviolent prison cities separate from the violent ones. :)

Good thing in Japan, even if one or two people litter, there's at least 100 other fine people who will be there to pick up after you happily without even thinking about it. Man I'd…

What if we had prison cities where prisoners can live "freely" and have their own economies and stuff? Let's see how they like trying to live normal lives with other people who hav…

Incentive for who though? For the homeless and very poor, who probably will not even be the ones purchasing those bottles(at least at the same rate as those in higher economic clas…

A small deposit is no incentive. Now if it were a significant amount like $.50-$1.00 per bottle you recycle, then you'd have people literally racing to get those bottles. Then just…

How do we convince other cultures to adapt to the new culture though? Any such efforts would be drowned out by cries of racism and cultural erasure or whatever they're calling it n…

"And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown." I believe this mindset amongst thoughtful consumers like yourself only do harm. Like with other trendy foods that get popu…

We have laws to punish bad behavior after it happens , while they have a culture that reinforces good behavior from the start. Nowadays, it seems like trying to enforce good/proper…

In South Korea, when you order from certain places for certain types of food, they come in actual containers/tupperwares that you just leave outside your door and someone from the …

>"Why wouldn’t we want to know the citizenship of the people living in the country? " I think he told us that answer already. His politics benefits from noncitizens being counted i…

>Yet I know for a fact that if you dropped them in Southside Chicago, where my family is from, they would suddenly know better than to behave like this. They wouldn't toss their ga…

Considering that most people on HN are self-starters who had to learn things on their own whether by necessity or just because they preferred it that way, it may not be so obvious …

Tipping is horrible and incentivizes the worker to prioritize people who tip/ are likely to tip and underperform for people who do not/or are likely not to. You can see this play o…

That's what happens when you have a culture that so heavily looks down on people who work these kinds of jobs. Failures who couldn't make it in school work at Mcdonalds they say, a…

Why would anyone become a white male in today's political climate? If anything, the concern would be white males turning themselves into minorities to get racial benefits. :-)

I see no reason why they would assemble anything in California, with its high cost of living and higher minimum wage, when they could just design and assemble everything in their o…