llamathrowaway

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 an adversary by taking away electronics as a form of punishment, would make the child think that the therapy sessions are no more than another form of punishment. Nothing useful can come out of the therapy if the child perceives the therapist as an enemy.

2. It frightens me how people turns everything that is supposed to be a part of human life into a medical condition, and treat 'therapy' as the deus ex machina that could solve all inconveniences in our social life.

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 probably spent a lot of time studying (electro)magnetism, seeing seemly heavy objects suspended in mid-air is still a magical experience.

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 life, for example. Some UK-themed subreddits also have a tendency to celebrate sometimes irresponsible drinking, without considering the consequences.

Another pet peeve of mine is how many people use 'buy you a beer' or similar expressions to mean 'meet you up'. You are aware that not everyone drinks, no?

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

Explanation of alcohol licensing on the government website. Search for the word water.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/alcohol-licensing

There is also a campaign about providing free drinking water for refilling bottles:

https://refill.org.uk/

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 disrupt train services. Tube lines without air conditioning are going to be dangerously hot. I don’t know how this city is going to function tomorrow. Maybe it’s something we need to adapt 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 believe so. There is nothing that makes public housing inherently 'temporary' or undesirable.

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 probably not spend money on a second bedroom. I would prefer the space below my building to be a gym rather than a daycare. I will care more about good bars than good schools and parks.

Families are and are permanently expensive in post-industrial society

There is also a chicken and egg problem: the fact that new developments target childless people is one of the reasons raising a child is expensive. It might actually be one of the biggest reason in London considering how much people are spending on housing.

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 use different passwords on different sites?

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 residential developments designed by anti-natalists (hence no space for families) creative at all.

It should be purple on the map if the data is more recent.

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 the euphemism 'bathroom' to mean toilet. Like, we all know you are not going to take a bath in a pub after two pints right?)

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 the cancer that is automobile congestion.

I also love the fact that in most parts you could still take your car.

This is an excellent rebuttal to the opinion 'but what happens when I need to move furnitures/go camping/<do some other activities that really requires a car>': these activities are not a part of people’s daily routine. If people stop unnecessary driving such as sending their children to schools ten minutes of walk away in an SUV, then it actually makes it easier for everyone else who does need to drive.

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 request so it doesn't have an impact.

Is this a correct place to use 'GET'?

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 the sound of electric motors much more tolerable than anything involving combustion.

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 their websites:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=bottled%2...

Not sure if this is required by regulations or it’s just the supermarkets being customer-friendly though.

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 bluefin tuna has fallen by over 70%, according to Wikipedia.

I am not suggesting that whaling is not harmful to the environment. But for me overfishing of tuna etc is much more dangerous because of its scale and economic impact. We need to find a way to fish sustainably, before the ocean ecosystem is damaged beyond repair and we lost our fisheries forever.

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 people and businesses might have suffered, imagine how much police efforts might have been spent, and emergency room visits that might have occurred, if those people were not given treatment.

My guess is that since we already have studies where people are given heroin as a form of rehabilitation, there should also be some studies about the cost of such programs. Wish someone could share some of them.

It’s not

If you <do bad things>

It’s actually:

If you are convicted of <doing bad things>

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

Is obesity a sign of sugar addiction? I don’t think so. People addicted to substances like alcohol and heroin will go out of their way to obtain these substances breaking laws and ruining others’ lives if necessary. While obese people are just... obese, not crazy nor dangerous. Their mind don’t get wired by sugar to put sugar in front of decency and laws.

Not to mention sugar is not the only cause of obesity anyway. Sedentary lifestyle, hormones, gut bacteria, and the portion sizes in the US are all likely causes.

Is there any reliable source to back up the claim that sugar is more addictive than alcohol?

I am suspicious about this claim because there are plenty of people and families ruined directly as a result of alcoholism. I don’t think sugar addiction is causing nearly as much trouble as alcoholism, despite being a more widely consumed and easily available substance.

Maybe it’s time for a plugin that does this (or maybe it already exists?):

You press the backslash key, enter the name of the symbol, then press enter, and the symbol will show up in your buffer.

Something like:

\lambda -> λ

\Lambda -> Λ

\\ -> \

et cetra.

I have seen the 'without AC Texas is not habitable' (or a weaker version 'large cities cannot exist in Texas without AC') sentiment, which is somehow related to what you are talking about, many times on this website. It absolutely boggles my mind. The climate of some of the most densely populated places in Asia are similar to Texas. Those places are densely populated before AC became a thing, and even now there are plenty of people who cannot afford AC.

That's a big "might" that is conditioned on having a seat and space in which to do these things, none if which is a given.

In the past plenty of people read newspapers while standing on trains. Nowadays we have smartphones and podcasts. It’s even easier.

I have almost been run over by assholes on bikes more than I have almost been run over by assholes in cars.

Looks like an argument for better cycling infrastructure. Cars don’t really go wild in cities because they have dedicated road which are not shared with larger, more dangerous vehicles driven by people who are actively trying to cause problems to car drivers. If we have the same level of infrastructure for bicycles then maybe cyclists will stop competing with pedestrians for space.

Cycling infrastructure can be cheaper than normal roads because bicycles are lighter than cars. It will also need less maintenance for the same reason. It also takes less space to store bikes than cars.