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Correct... NY needs much more apartments/citizens. Supply/demand.

It's wrong to exclude people from your twitter feed -- you have to be inclusive. Just like you don't get to pick your neighbor (you have to accept anyone that moves in next door). Well same online! Don't exclude others, but rather be inclusive.

Women have it very good... it's men that are oppressed.

A book on this subject:

The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends

Different groups have different goals though. e.g. smart chess opponents.

Nuance: Many women choose not to breast feed (e.g. wanting to go back to work or for reasons of convenience, etc).

As family structure in Western countries weakens -- generational knowledge/support etc about these topics isn't passed on.

It would be interesting to compare formula use in more traditional countries vs the western ones.

... of what?

Is this the plot to a dystopian novel?

Just wait for the brain chips.

I come to HN because I want to be surprised and because I know we're all experiencing the same content.

That's great for you... many people don't share your view though. Why do you want to force them to share your views. Why not let people interact with HN how they want to? If you're not interested in debugging C compilers why should you be forced to read those posts?

HN works, imo, because we're all sharing the space together.

This is an illusion. At least 80% of people here skip 80% of the posts.

He is one of those "the rule is the rule; repeat mantra" type of people. If libraries didn't have the Dewey tagging system he would be saying the same thing about them. Thanks for the lobster link.

Simplicity would be having tags to categories the posts. Just like a library has the Dewey Decimal Classification system -- if it were not for that it would be just a chaotic heap of books.

What if someone missed 3 months worth of posts and they want to catch up quickly... is that still a "small set of posts easy to scroll through"?

Who talks about taking choice away? You are saying it shouldn't be implemented are you not?

The availability or non-availability of tagging on any platform has nothing to do with the quality or usefulness of the content.

It does if there is an ocean of info and you miss posts.

tagging is mostly useless because there needs to be a canonical dictionary of tags to choose from

Wrong. Tagging is simply solved on many existing platforms and is extremely useful.

Tags are hardly rocket science -- simple rules/standards could be setup. Why do you want to take the choice away from people to use tagging? Someone like me reads a lot (on other sites) and I skip 95% of the content here. Why should I have to scroll through posts about: C++ compilers, etc when I know I'm not going to read it?

The tagging approach wouldn't effect you -- you could simply not use it.

Follow news/current events more closely (not just from MSM sources)

No. When we're 100% trans human robots -- that's when science will really start to advance!

This type of thing is only possible in an environment where there is roughly homogeneous values. When values diverge extremely on basic issues -- only 1 side will trust the tech owners not to shadow ban, astro turf, fake polls etc.

If you like this kind of topic Luke Smith's work might interest you... https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz

Talks a lot about RSS, simple/minimalist websites, decentralization, fediverse, linux etc.

This article was a great constructive criticism.

I am not sure what "participate in modern life" means for you...

Probably things like needing a (google/apple) smartphone for mandated vaccine passports / coming digital ID's, digital currency etc.

Individual migration is a very temporary solution. When the bank you just migrated to becomes a bit bigger -- it's the next target. Or some new law like digital ID's / one world currency make the migration irrelevant.

Would have been interesting to start with the ice ages and the thawing out of the ice ages.