Noos

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by Noos 7y ago
if we are in this by fall, it will be moot because people will run out of money to pay for their internet. Not many people can stay out of work for 4+ months.
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by Noos 7y ago
Pretty much half the retail that doesn't sell food is closed where I live. The local mall is entirely closed, and many businesses that are open are reducing hours or doing "curbside service" meaning a lot of the staff is prob
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by Noos 7y ago
Well yeah, more or less cripple the economy by forcing large amounts of people out of work for extended periods, as well as shutting down many businesses would reduce those things. I doubt really anyone here would like the long term cost of
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by Noos 7y ago
Actually its more valuable to consume something. There's way too many creators chasing too few fan dollars. It's to the point where we have so many creative works people are dumping them for fractions of pennies via subscription p
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by Noos 7y ago
The problem is that failing now empowers Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Steam. There are no small chains that can seize the opportunity to fill the void. We're going to end up with defacto monopolies I think; maybe only Walmart for people to ge
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by Noos 7y ago
I didn't intend to say it was good or bad. My point is more that technology won't eliminate the kind of thing the OP suffered, because you can simply just hang around the area in a police car or ask the neighbors. It may make it m
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by Noos 7y ago
I wonder if the problem is a ripple effect. If you close schools, a lot of parents will have to stay out of work. This means more closings, and overworked remaining staff.
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by Noos 7y ago
Even before all of this tech, if you looked suspicious you would get stopped or worse. A story was when I moved to a different state, I went out walking in my new area. Exploring the suburbs. I had brought a book with me, and it was startin
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by Noos 7y ago
Why pay programmers at all? Your labor should be free too, and I'm sure we can make some awesome business models if you get paid five bucks an hour or less. You can go make money getting people to support you on patreon.
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by Noos 7y ago
But we already have the idea of piercing the corporate veil though. I'm not sure needing to change the structure of limited liability matters as much as formalizing and unifying that concept.
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by Noos 7y ago
we have this here in the USA too. UPS has what's called "access points" where things can be delivered, or are dropped off if they can't get you. Some packages are signature required, so if no signing, it gets sent there.
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by Noos 7y ago
I'm really skeptical of studies like this. There's a lot of motivated reasoning in proving the medical benefits of recreational drugs to aid in legalization; medical marijuana was one such example. And usually in threads like this
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by Noos 7y ago
I noticed this in the study paper too: "Participants who reported use of cannabis or dronabinol were instructed not to use for at least 24 h before sessions." I wonder why there isn't any number of how many people used cannab
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by Noos 7y ago
A greater point might be not to put too much stock in what "many articles" say. I'm sure "many articles" talking about homelessness would result in a lot more skepticism about the subject from you. If you just liste
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by Noos 7y ago
Because the autonomous car is a systematic issue that could affect every single car on the road using that manufacturer's software, and the "driver" of the car has no way to stop or mitigate the risk, or cause risk. He puts h
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by Noos 7y ago
Because the deaths will be network level effects that a person would be helpless to mitigate through behavior. There's no sense of being a careful or responsible driver with a self-driving car; its all whether or not the algorithm or s
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by Noos 7y ago
You may have a bike now, but there will be times when you or others visiting may need to use cars there. If you have a delivery made, yes they will back out of your driveway. If people visit you in a car or taxi (do you think they will all
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by Noos 7y ago
Horses are more stable a riding platform and much more visible. Point is that trying to retrofit bikes in a city is much more similar to making horses work in a city; both simply do not work particularly well in any form of mixed traffic.
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by Noos 7y ago
no one will use it to ride to school or work for 3+ months out of the year. This is the Northeast, with constant rainfall and low winter temperatures; short of wearing heated gear, much of the year will be miserable to ride that bike on any
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by Noos 7y ago
why stop at bicycles? lets make cities safe for horses too, while we are at it. Thats what bicycles are closer too when it comes to planning for traffic.
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by Noos 7y ago
The problem though is that a lot of goods sold are essentially optional and may not be able to withstand the price increase. Like I said upthread, this would act as a fitness check on businesses and weed out a lot of employers. These would
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by Noos 7y ago
yeah, it would actually decrease the number of employees if employee cost is significant enough to not be absorbed by raising the price. It might also decrease it by forcing a robustness check on existing businesses. A lot of them manage bu
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by Noos 7y ago
No, you can pretty much make successful things without that. The Da Vinci Code sold 80 million copies, for example. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series sold 160 million copies over 11 books: James Patterson's Maximum Ride books sold 30 mil
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by Noos 7y ago
It's probably location. The busier gas stations are on well-traveled roads or close to highway exits and on ramps; the ones that aren't do less business. Location gets ignored a lot, but it matters so much.
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by Noos 7y ago
There always will be some need for physical retail, though. The pattern seems to be: 1. Many Speciality retailers 2. Single speciality retailer 3. single speciality retailer with limited stock 4. general retailer or substitute With each ste
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by Noos 7y ago
Not really. You still have the same issues normal bikes have; all ebikes do is give power assist and more or less fill the same niche a gas or electric moped does, for the same price as a gas or electric moped. You still have no real cargo
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by Noos 7y ago
...if anything they would benefit more by making marijuana and other drugs legal and cheap, in order to suppress dissent. Surprised no one ever looks at it that way; people sitting around smoking a bowl are not likely to do much political p
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by Noos 7y ago
One of my old jobs was the next town over, fifteen minutes by highway. It was impossible to bicycle. If I were to work in the industrial park in my city it would take an hour or so. We have a lot of distribution centers and factories on the
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by Noos 7y ago
No, it isn't the only way for many men to do so. The issue is that they don't want to put in the time or effort to be the kind of man that can, and they have radically unrealistic expectation of sex itself. No, you cannot bang a s
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by Noos 7y ago
these are teens, it will always be a black market product for them, though. Even if you regulate it, no one should be selling it to teens period. There is no solution to this.

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