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Give management a button for "increase engagement" and they will push that button eventually, no matter the long-term implications.

This doesn't make much sense. Sorry.

What about young children? You have a handwavy method to get a toddler to wear silicone earplugs for 8 hours a night?

Judging by your post history, you seem to be more interested in stirring up shit than actually contributing to the discussion. This bizarre defence of noisemaking jackasses fits with that.

The game is points-based, "genius rank" means something like 80% of the possible points have been found.

https://i.imgur.com/dw244XL.png

You can't actually complete the game without paying. I think it's a pretty dark pattern - get the player invested, then block their progress.

How do loans help when desirable properties are selling for 10-15% above asking price in cash?

well, that's gross

No... please don't put words in my mouth. Social class is somewhat related to color in SEA, but not to that extent.

Why don't you tell us?

Americans have managed to drag vaccines into their culture wars.

It's one thing to say that vaccines cause autism, or make your sperm into zombie sperm. Stupid, but fundamentally something I can understand.

"Wolk [sic] folk" I cannot.

My experience in SEA in general and Bali specifically (as a Malaysian), prices are not simply a matter of speaking the language. Vendors often charge based literally on your social class/status.

Australia absolutely does have laws on the books for alimony, aka spousal maintenance.

Who said the notice period should be an entire decade? Or even five years?

For now, and I think for the next several years at least, if you can afford to purchase and drive a headset which comfortably replaces multiple monitors, you likely already have the space and resources to use multiple monitors already. I spared no expense on a fully kitted-out home office and didn't spend anywhere near $100k USD.

Ramen (and Japanese-style breads, among other dishes) were popularized during and after the American occupation, in which American wheat flooded the Japanese market in unprecedented quantities.

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

It may be that 1984 was inspired in part by real-life events. But to say anything is "straight out of 1984" is absurd on the face of it. 1984 is not a documentary, it is one non-linguist's politically-charged fictional novel. Newspeak never existed.

for a travel time of 35 years, you'd not get very long at Proxima Centauri, because you'd still be doing 0.12c when you arrived

What science in particular is not getting done now, due to the replacement of the term race in scientific papers? Be specific. You seem deeply passionate about this issue, so I'm sure you have plenty of examples.

If "hey it probably won't kill them" is your standard for medical treatments, you shouldn't be commenting about medical treatments.

Ivermectin is prescribed (not proscribed) mostly for treating parasitic infection. Using it at therapeutic doses for Covid is dangerous.

This is an interesting take. What "very useful research" is being blocked by which IRBs?

FWIW, the author of the essay at the link you provided seems deeply ignorant of why IRBs exist. "Mere resident doctors weren’t allowed to do studies on their own. They would probably screw up and start building concentration camps or something. " really?

I have contracted with several midsize B2B outfits who hit low-to-mid 6 figure USD billing per month for AWS. Surely the biggest players are spending millions per month. At that point, you'd expect Amazon to be much more accommodating if a billing error or exploit were to occur.

The claim that Singapore, a signatory of the 1971 Five Power Defence Agreement (along with Malaysia, UK, Australia and New Zealand) was "surrounded by hostile states" is absurd on its face. I can't really take the rest of this article seriously.

if you are getting your medical information from a substack page, I don't think anything anyone here will convince you otherwise...

pointing out elsewhere in the thread that when the CDC fucked up, they ultimately admitted it and changed recommendations, does not support your argument.

You can't know whether your symptoms might have eased without any treatment at all...

In a large teaching hospital where I did some consulting work, a plurality of people at the hospital site were visitors (followed by staff, then patients). It is not surprising that hospitals feel empty when you remove most of the people in them.

There are already several implementations of this great idea.

You think that policy decisions should be made based on your understanding of Econ 101?

Ironically, this stance (that lack of conflict equates to lack of soul) may only be possible after one has become accustomed to a peaceful and stable life.

Nearly every jurisdiction on earth has rules about who can marry whom. Especially when it comes to immigration. My best friend's fiance had to return to her home country from their shared second for 8 months while she applied for another visa to allow them to legally change her status when she married.

I feel like it's really strange that HN commenters hate on Singapore for having standards for immigrants. To the point of lying and saying that Work Permit holders aren't allowed to marry citizens in order to drum up outrage, and only backtracking when called out on it.

Don't worry, it's not actually true.

Work pass holders can absolutely marry Singaporeans. It just takes an extra step. I know you're trying to portray Singapore in the worst possible light, but false claims are not necessary to do so.