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  • The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes

    The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes

  • Third Place

    I guess that’s one thing that I do miss in Singapore: informal places that are affordable (almost everything here costs money) and that are not shopping malls (exactly what he mentions in the video). Sure, there are bars, but they are usually expensive and atas, and not the place people go for an informal chitchat…

  • Free speech

    Free speech

    I specifically disagree with his stance on free speech, because I think that it depends on your interpretation of what free speech means. If you allow the most intolerant voices to be as loud as they want to, you’re going to shut down voices of different opinions as well. So allowing free speech by just…

  • On the Beating of Children

    On the Beating of Children

    […] The story illustrates the level of violence we accept amongst children in otherwise non-violent societies, but it gets even worse: differing speeds of development lead to huge differences in size and strength, meaning bullying is often like getting picked on by a Shaq-like giant. […] Yes, in the developed world “corporal punishment” (literally “bodily…

  • The Big [CENSORED] Theory

    The Big [CENSORED] Theory

    Really, really good analysis by The Pudding. When these shows resurfaced, they were full of these weird jumps, signaling that scenes were removed during censorship because someone somewhere thought it would be inappropriate or illegal to stream such content. […] 77 of the first 100 episodes had at least one edit, amounting to 206 removed…

  • Suburbian cities: a ponzi scheme?

  • Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?

  • Facebook content moderation

    Facebook content moderation

    On Monday, an AP reporter tested how the company would respond to a similar post on Facebook, writing: “If you send me your address, I will mail you abortion pills.” The post was removed within one minute. The Facebook account was immediately put on a “warning” status for the post, which Facebook said violated its…

  • The opposite of coherent

    The opposite of coherent

    […] Carrying an extra passport In ways that are hard to explain, working for a bigger tech company is like carrying an extra passport. Everyone else has to commute to work. You get driven in an air-conditioned private bus with dedicated wifi. Work visa failed to renew? No worries, do an intra-company transfer to one…