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Do people eat that?

This is something I'd really love to give a go, but since transitioning I'm just not so sure about safety. I travelled South East Asia on a shoestring budget before I came out and had a few scrapes that turned out fine, but I'm not sure they would have gone as well if I was just a lone woman at the time, especially if I got clocked!

In my experience the places that sound scary are usually less scary on the ground once you get there, but the stakes are pretty high... I'm still travelling occasionally, but mainly to safer places. I hope to build my confidence back up!

Thanks for sharing! :-)

In case any passers by don't know about an extra factor that makes Cambodia even worse: lots of the country floods annually. This means that you can clear an area of landmines, but then when the floods come it can wash in landmines from other areas into the areas you thought were clear. It's very sad :-(

As someone who lives in Bristol I'd always say over for London, up for Birmingham, over for Cardiff and down for Exeter.

That's not entirely true. Twitter doesn't show you all tweets in chronological order, it has some kind of sorting algorithm like Facebook. If you follow enough people popular tweets and tweeters definitely drown out less popular ones

I felt quite sad to read the fate of the top of that list

Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company which was the world's oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.

I like how the big quotes that separate up the paragraph aren't repeated elsewhere in the text like many similar sites seem to do!

Hello! Sorry I'm a bit confused by your reply, do you mean if it ONLY decreases short term ones and not long term?

Unless you have state run health care, in which case a law enforcing seat belt wearing (I assume that's what you meant?) could save everyone money.

Hello :-) Could I just ask what ICO stands for? Thanks

One possible argument: You can't get "mutually assured destruction" from vulnerabilities. With guns you can say if you invade here I'll shoot you, if you were to bomb me, I'd bomb you back. But with vulnerabilities you can't even say you have them as that would help the other party find them. You can't say unleash a cyber attack on me and I'll do the same back in the same way. It seems rather than being both an offence AND defence like guns, they are an offence at the expense of your defence.

Does anyone know where Olympus Mons is? Ever since I was a child I've been fascinated by the idea of the tallest mountain in the solar system!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons

I read the current title, "Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (2015)" as slideshow instead of sideshow!

I cannot stand people who complain when they live in a first world country. I find it so insulting for the entirety of the third world out there.

Don't forget that there are still people living in terrible poverty, people imprisoned unjustly and slaves in every "first world" country. Equally there are people who are extremely wealthy and people above the law in every "third world" country :-)

No it wasn't! :-)

Michael is a common boy's first name for my generation where I'm from. There was two in my primary school class, two in my secondary school year and I was once in a band with two at the same time!

Another point: I used to be ungoogleable as I shared my full name with a fairly well known celebrity. I am now at the top of Google's results if I google my new name. Not quite sure what to make of that...

Slightly uncommon perspective: As a trans woman I recently had to pick a new first name.

I think my previous first name was well chosen by my parents. It was a name that was more common in the generation before me. That meant everyone knew the name, I didn't get asked how to spell it and no one looked confused when I said it, but also I was always the only Y in the room. I have literally never met another Y my age in my life.

I didn't actually spend a very long time picking a new name. I wanted one that fitted a few pretty precise criteria and there wasn't many left to choose from. It has however ended up that my new name is quite common for women my age. Last weekend I was at a party and there were 3 other Ys out of 20 people.

I've thought about the change from a well known but rare name, to a well known and common name quite a lot. I have noticed that often trans people go one of two ways; pick a super common name because they want to fit in with their peers as much as possible, or they choose a really super unique name as as way of expressing themselves.

Being called my new name is still relatively new to me (coming up to one year full time, three part time). I still am alerted a lot more by people saying my old name than my new one. I wonder if this will ever change as the only time I hear my old name now is when talking about my past, which means that label is still exclusively for me. Whereas I hear my new name being used to refer to loads of different people all the time.

Lots of my friends have said they find it odd to think what name they would pick if they were to pick one of the opposite gender.

Interesting anyway :-)

NRE - New Relationship Energy (?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_relationship_energy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect

I'm a complete noob in this area, but that doesn't mean that temperature has reached it's limit does it? The black hole can carry on getting more dense and hotter.

Although I completely agree with you, I took it as a challenge to come up with something that follows the above rules and is still devious. Here is my 1 min of effort attempt: https://ibb.co/giqgDv

There's quite a lot of SF games including the newest one, SFV, on Steam too!

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_614_615_street-f...

Sorry for changing from the original title "Someone Created a Pokémon Red and Blue 'Virus', and it's Wild" but I thought that was misleading

Sorry for off topic, but those slightly rotated pictures and captions almost made me feel dizzy

Anecdote: I used to sleep about 8 hours a day, but then had a long period of anxiety and depression that caused me to average about 4 hours sleep a day. This lasted for about 9 months, maybe more. During this time my brain was on constant overdrive, thinking about everything all the time, for most of that time I didn't notice any loss in alertness or clarity. I was particularly anxious about my friends and was out seeing different friends about 13 nights a fortnight. I was probably getting drunk about 3 nights a week. When I get depressed I don't really eat much, and I lost about 17% of my body weight. It was terrible, but in all this time I never got ill at all, not even a mild cold or cough. I missed the whole of winter 2015/2016 cold season, and I've got ill at least twice a year in winter for as long as I can remember. I am even ill now!

I was speculating the other day with a friend as to why this might be. I suggested that because I wasn't looking after my house I was pretty much sleeping in mould and I have heard anecdotally that that can have antibiotics that may have had an affect. He suggested that in extreme stress your body is less likely to overreact to a mild infection, and so maybe any infections may have much less obvious symptoms.

I'm pretty much better now and am attempting to sleep 7h30 a day, but it really does feel like a waste of time.

I listen to all of my music on Spotify. Even though both the Windows and Android apps are pretty terrible, they work well enough, the search works and it has 99% of everything out there. I pay £10 per month but would happily pay double if they put the price up.

I've never been content with any video streaming service, I even have Amazon Prime for delivery reasons and that includes videos, but I don't use it. I just Google for something and stream it illegally. The few that I've tried just have such limited selections I find it frustrating. I also find the "you might like" suggestions almost always terrible. Also Amazon Prime Video's search is so abysmal it's always easier to steal than work out if you already can legally watch it.

I'll happily pay £10+ per month when someone makes the Spotify of video, but unfortunately at the moment Google + illegal is better.

I've made an app that fairly regulates this!

http://playlistful.com/about

Sorry, slightly unrelated to the discussion, but it could be used for open offices :-)

Part of the inspiration was when I was taking it in turns I'd have to sit through loads of abrasive pop music and then when a beautiful death metal song came on everyone would complain and skip it.

The current HN title "I Didn't Get Hired to Google" makes it sound like someone quitting a job because it turned out their job was just googling things. Perhaps it should be "I Didn't Get Hired By Google".

PS or even better "I didn't get hired by Google".

Interesting how in the diagram at the top that all of the female words are either less than or equal on the queen axis to male counterparts.

I guess your point would have been made without mentioning the gender of the average teacher. Can come across like two points at once when phrased like that

As a relatively heavy FB user, I use the like button as a "I've read this" button for my friend's comments and statuses, and not at all otherwise.