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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.

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.

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?

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/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son

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.

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.

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

(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?)

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.

Is this a correct place to use 'GET'?

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.

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.

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

Who knows how many more people would have been born if they did not enforce their one child policy or whatever.

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.

> 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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902561

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.

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.

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.

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.