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by J-dawg 8y ago
Exactly. I expect a lot of people will decide to move to a cheaper part of the EU where their meagre pension will go further. Hey wait a minute...
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by J-dawg 8y ago
The UK has a problem with housing supply, which will take time to fix. But what needs to happen urgently (and could happen virtually overnight if politicians wanted it to) is that renting needs to be made slightly less awful. Renting a home
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by J-dawg 8y ago
The article isn't talking about disparity between rents and mortgages. It's saying the total amount being paid in rent is approaching the total amount paid in mortgage payments. I'm not sure what that proves other than far mo
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by J-dawg 8y ago
More than that, you might find yourself with child who lacks a sense of self-esteem and self-agency and struggles with these things even into adulthood.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
That's a fascinating idea. Since reading PG's essay I've thought I was quite good at spotting submarining, but that wouldn't have occurred to me. Promoting a negative opinion seems risky though. After all, isn't the
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by J-dawg 8y ago
How does a plane end up being overweight? And how did the weight get reduced on later models?
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Am I right that sex offender registers are public in the US? And they sometimes include people convicted of very minor crimes? Yep, definitely a Black Mirror episode in the making.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Thanks for posting this, I must have read it at the time because it feels very familiar! Particularly the thread started by this comment from ChicagoBoy11 [0]. I've often wondered what a world without borders would really be like. As C
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Great story! Thanks for sharing.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I don’t think this is correct. A hijab is a scarf around the head that doesn’t cover the face. I’m sure I’ve seen women in France wearing them. The Wikipedia article suggests it’s a straightforward ban on covering the face, not as you descr
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Or to take the idea further, can you wear a cross necklace and a halloween mask? Or a hijab and a welding mask? One item is signalling your religion, the other is covering your face. Neither item is covering your face in a way that signals
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by J-dawg 8y ago
> Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold Along with a corresponding explosion in legislation to prevent you from covering your face in public. It already exists in France
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by J-dawg 8y ago
That is indeed powerful, and goes to show how completely broken the housing situation in the UK is. It also goes to show how the advice from people like Mr. Money Mustache [0] actually works in the US. Even without large salary increases, t
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by J-dawg 8y ago
That would be amazing (but also incredibly creepy). It would also probably end up finding a lot of people who actually are related and don't know it (adopted children etc)
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Interesting, thanks! I assumed Wakie was the one (from the name) but was confused when I couldn't find any mention of the wake-up feature. I guess it's one of those ideas that seems fun but has way too much potential for creepines
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I'm sure I remember a mobile app that would connect you with a random user at the appointed time, chat-roulette style (although I think this was voice only, no video). A bit of Googling has found several chat apps (e.g. Holla, Wakie) b
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I'm aware of the same thing in the UK. I don't know whether something has happened over the years or if it's always been that way. So many people seem content in their assumption that the state is essentially benevolent and w
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Thanks for this. So was my comment flagged? And does this count as an abuse of flagging?
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by J-dawg 8y ago
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I think this "intolerance of intolerance" is becoming terrifying. I personally find "people who hate people with a different skin colour" and "people who hate women" to be repulsive. I'd prefer not to wo
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Incel was a label that these people gave to themselves, simply meaning "involuntarily celibate". Sure these communities are incredibly toxic, but I don't think it's fair to say that every member of them has all of the be
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Agh, that's scary. What is she expecting them to do about it? Is she asking them to fire people for being sexually unattractive?
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by J-dawg 8y ago
> Flagging as no good discussion can come from this ..in your opinion. Why do you feel the need to silence that discussion? I get that HN is a forum with its own rules and as such there is no automatic "right" to free speech,
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Why do posts like this get flagged so often? This relates directly to a tech company, and is about the intersection of tech & societal trends which many people here are interested in. It seems like perfectly valid HN content. Do flagged
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> but also by quickly running their facial recognition stuff before the GDPR goes into effect. Could someone explain what this means? Is Facebook’s facial recognition illegal under GDPR?
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by J-dawg 9y ago
This is a fantastic comment. I've met several people who treat my tendency to value critical thought as if it's nothing more than a quirky personality trait, and acting based on emotions and feelings is just as valid. It's in
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> The best way around this is to have education I agree completely, but would education really fix the 20% gender pay gap myth? I find it very difficult to believe that most of the people who continually reinforce this myth actually b
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by J-dawg 9y ago
So it's making exactly the same mistake as studies that compare the average salary of all working-age women with the average salary of all working-age men, and then declare a "gender pay gap" of 20% (or whatever).
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I have now requested to delete the profile and entered the 14 day waiting period so I'm not really minded to reactivate it just to investigate this, sorry! Thanks again for getting in touch.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Thanks. I'm not the greatest fan of your employer/product but it's great that you are responsive to stuff like this. Out of curiosity, is the inability to log in with recovery codes also a bug? The help page I linked to expla

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