Noos

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by Noos 7y ago
Why not work a second job instead of playing video games? This is pretty much what you are saying. That sort of stuff is as much work as a anything, even if done in an amateur level.
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You're welcome. I stumbled on it while browsing and it's a fascinating story.
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Stealing isn't gathering because we have a philosophical framework behind the concept of property. This is on top of the physical act. If this guy got shot stealing from people, we wouldn't just call it killing; because we have a
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Tom Neale wrote "An Island to Oneself" in which he lived on a remote island multiple times in his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale The government still checked up on him on occasion and he had to
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The issue is that the web-driven model of free content is unsustainable to the point these junk ads leading to junk sites are attractive to finance. The big issue is that the economics of journalistic and creative content aren't sustai
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You can't really "distribute labor" in the sense you mean, as if people were units you allocate regardless of their own will. At best you can offer incentives to take up caring positions, but there are barriers. Nursing and h
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i think that if the legalized substance has strong sanctions and limits, it can work. Like smoking is legal, but disapproved, heavily taxed, and limited in public. If the sanctions don't or can't exist, legalization won't wo
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I'm not sure they have been banned, but there used to be candy cigarettes, and Big League Chew is bubblegum that is patterned after chewing tobacco. Haven't seen either in a long time.
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This is the medical marijuana issue, where the harm reduction is being overshadowed by the recreational use. The thing is, cigarettes were heavily frowned upon, so new users weren't really doing them. Vaping isn't, and it seems to
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There were other toy retailers, though. Kay-bee Toys comes to mind. Toys in general were hammered by the rise of discount retailers like Wal-Mart and Online
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There are senior care services that exist to help seniors with those issues. Also many live with children or in communities. Plus, it's a lot easier to drive to a walmart than it is to walk to the subway and use it, if you are older. T
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If you want a good example of what people mean, here's a comparison of the trailer of atlas, the new game from the Ark developers, and actual launch gameplay. https://youtu.be/yzDTdBsW1GU Atlas was so bad that they act
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Said journalists and publishers try and whip up moralistic mobs in service of their goals, though. Then when it doesn't go their way, the shock and outrage happen. Everyone is happy when puritanism is what they like...HN's endless
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So how many women do you know that are diesel mechanics? A lot of the surplus in college graduates is due to women entering and graduating with four year degrees or more. They simply can't or won't repurpose to those trades. When
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You don't know the opposite though. The kids that fail are barely educated; they may have fourth grade level math. They end up indoctrinated totally by their parents worldview or unable to function with others. They have no real way to
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Yeah they are nice; they've been trained to be. A lot of their issues though only pop up later in life, like in college. Things like struggling with deadlines, since now teach isn't mom who needs to go shopping and will let you tu
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by Noos 7y ago
Homeschooling has very few actual requirements, and they vary from state by state. Here is a map of them: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/homeschool The majority of the states don't even require the paren
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You're complaining about an authoritarian public school system, but are replacing it with an even more authoritarian solution. Homeschooling keeps the child under the parent's eye 24-7 and completely captive to their worldview and
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The problem is it would just force people out of the market. Like in the USA the average car is getting up to the 25-35k range and is not something people can change to easily. You're asking someone working for Wal-mart wages (which te
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You're asking low income workers to suddenly front the bill for an entirely new vehicle. This isn't going to happen. What will happen is the same thing that did to people with the affordable care act in the united states: it becom
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The real motive is your latter point, to capture evergreen money through government spending. Trying to find opportunities to be the vendor of choice in new ways.
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This is like saying because Daz 3D exists, we don't need pixar any more. If you've ever seen or tried to do just what you did, you soon realize that the tools alone won't help; to make good quality art you still need to maste
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The rational case is that it's absurdly expensive to make artistic content in term of people's time, as well as the cost in things like location, filming, and support. This isn't saying there isn't unneccessary costs...p
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If by "vibrant art community" you mean "an endless firehose of low-grade porn and fetish junk based on existing properties," maybe.
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Well yeah, if you work an unpaid job on top of your paid job, you won't have time to feel lonely. Not sure you'd like to deal with crazy Steve who rants at you while you feed him whatever day old bread you managed to beg from the
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They can't be maintained or improved. People will be forced to accept a lower standard of life as they are switched to less environmentally impacting methods, and will be punitively taxed to cover for the things that it's simply i
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...you are arguing we should sacrifice lives for fun. Not something particularly necessary, like how many here argue for self-driving cars in that way, but our kids are impoverished because gosh darn it, playgrounds aren't fun any more
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No, it isn't. We can all survive with a little less happiness. If our playgrounds are a little more boring, we can all deal. (though if anything they are a lot nicer than the ones I grew up with) Happiness is a good that can come from
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There's a huge difference between going to church every Sunday, and talking about church on Reddit. Internet ties are transient, anonymous, and adversarial. The idea of the meetup came into being precisely because these ties were so w
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Bicycling in general is terrible, though. I say this as someone who did bicycle and walk as primary transport for a lot of their life. Bicycling is a lot of fun in good weather and on a gentle route, but really sucks otherwise, and that&#x2

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