Sichuan peppercorn adds a whole other dimension to fried rice. No other spices needed, just some soy sauce and garlic…
@matigo Ha. Macrumors used to have a good IRC channel; it's been quite dead for a few years though. There is a beauty to that simplicity.
@matigo Hadn't thought of that, but yes, exactly.
To me, calling for censoring the development of certain kinds of features (e.g. those that make a service addictive) is akin to restricting free speech because it's effectively censoring code. And it's funny how so many people in the west seem to argue, normally, that people should embrace their own agency, but then play the helpless victim when it comes to Big Tech.
Here's a controversial thought:
It is not a problem that products like social networks and games are becoming increasingly addictive. This is simply a Darwinist "survival of the most adaptable" scenario: those who resist addiction to the dopamine may see more success than those who don't, and this automatically reduces the competition pool at any given level.
@matigo Pretty much. It looks like they'll hire just about anyone who's graduated secondary school and, despite English being one of the de facto languages, there really isn't much of a requirement for English proficiency.
@matigo HKD 1.2 billion in overtime [scmp.com] last year. That's about USD 150 million across 30,000 people.
Undeserved, in my opinion, because prior to this Hong Kong has been such a boring and calm city that most cops being paid a full salary to do little more than harass teenagers (or generally "scruffy looking people" — and there does seem to be gender bias here, based on my observations) by random stopping and searching, and issuing fines for jay-walking — they'd been overpaid for years, with traditionally only 2–3 protests per year.
Also consider:
- In HK, even carrying a multitool with a knife in public, without some sort of reason, can get you in trouble. All police carry guns on duty, and since last year have been allowed to carry pepper spray [scmp.com] and batons [scmp.com] off-duty(!)
- In the UK, possession of potential-weapons is much more common and not so strictly controlled (and stops-and-searches aren't as common anyway), but most police don't seem to carry lethal weapons.
@matigo Blue skies, 26ºC temperatures, and police dotted around the streets randomly stopping and searching people in the fear that they may try to express their opinion later in the afternoon. October has arrived.
@matigo Yes, it sounds like I may have been sufficiently aggressive in my emails reprimanding my superior(-in-title) for inaction — in which I regularly copy his superiors(-in-title-and-reality) — to warrant a thirst for revenge.