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I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…
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Many US states are larger than many European countries.
Okay but how do you agree in which Springsteen, Wisconsin to meet? How do you tell your favorite navigation software where you're going to be departing from? How is this disambiguated if not by country and state combined?
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Okay but how do you agree in which Springsteen, Wisconsin to meet? How do you tell your favorite navigation software where you're going to be departing from? How is this disambiguated if not by country and state combined?
I assume by zip code.
Hong Kong is not recognised :/
We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell.
Does anyone know if such service is available?
It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?
I'm not sure Twitter/X is an identity as much as it is a "place where I looked for this person first" or "place which I know this person uses".
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It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states. There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. M…
Plenty of European countries have conflicting city/town/village names as well. If they grow to large they are sometimes specified by adding more locality to their name. Denmark has three cities names Nykøbing, typically specified as Nykøbing Mors, Nykøbing Sjælland or Nykøbing Falser. Small places are just allowed to conflict as long as they aren't in the same postcode.
There's no way I'd join something like this without the official stamp.
I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…
I would love to see a messaging system on HN. There are so many great people here; but most don't put an email link in their profile. I think adding very simple messaging (just enough to exchange contact info) would be a very positive force in the world.