Noos

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by Noos 9y ago
I love this book, but it made me hate everyone :) One of the takeaways I got from it was that every single upper class activity is designed to be incredibly expensive and time consuming, just because only the wealthy can maintain those form
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by Noos 9y ago
C.S.Lewis probably has the best claim, and I thought they were referring to him at the first.
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by Noos 9y ago
oh FFS, compare that to the cultural revolution, which ended in 1976. the whataboutism here is annoying; while we were debating and agonizing over the impact of the vietnam war, China was busy imprisoning, torturing, and relocating its own
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by Noos 9y ago
Considering this means a lot of low quality sitcoms and endless comic book television series (until the next fad is made manifest), its hardly a value proposition.
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by Noos 9y ago
You don't need any of this. I paid $70 for Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES in the 1990s. The average AAA PS4 game is 59.99 in 2018. Games are one of the few things that not only have not matched inflation, they've gone down despite th
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by Noos 9y ago
sadly we'll probably just see mini networks where people will buy obscure repair videos in the same way they buy ebooks to sell as part of a brand, for virtually nothing, and then monetize though other people's content, huffpo sty
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't think anyone got rich assuming that viewers demand high quality content.
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by Noos 9y ago
Disney could tell you about all the competitors whose works have all languished in the public domain and have been forgotten where they survived. I don't see people making new Tom Swift movies, falling in love with The Shadow, or a ma
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by Noos 9y ago
You exchange freezing for warming, as if walking in 100 degree temperatures works any more than 0 degrees.
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by Noos 9y ago
You can drive a car a lot longer than you can walk. I could do a 30 minute walk as a younger person, but now it's something I could only do as a special thing, not every day to a job. Society will not be able to redesign for this; if a
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by Noos 9y ago
I have walked in that temperature. Its only something the young and very healthy can do, and the wind cuts like a knife. I wouldn't bike in that weather due to wind chill and the slushy nature of most roads, as well as the fact its ver
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by Noos 9y ago
The reason for it I feel is that the laws are designed to ensure pedestrians use crosswalks and use them responsibility, to promote safety. Its easier and safer for pedestrians to cross the roads at certain spots, with their own unique sign
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by Noos 9y ago
That's called "being wealthy." Being wealthy enables you to escape a lot of the problems that not having a car involves, because you can just throw money at the problem to overcome it. A lot of people are not wealthy and cann
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by Noos 9y ago
Problem is material in the public domain quickly becomes worthless. We already have many things, like the Fleischer Superman cartoons, for example. You just end up with cheap people bundling hundreds of public domain stuff with no real cura
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by Noos 9y ago
Can HN please stop it with this "not owning a car is virtuous" shtick? I went most of my younger life not having a car, only learning to drive at age 28. I lived in a new england suburb close enough to go to my work and shopping s
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by Noos 9y ago
They said the same for Second Life, though.
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by Noos 9y ago
Well, it would help if assistance isn't conditional on nor about spreading the holy gospel of Portlandia to the savages in the lower provinces. A little less cheekily, how much of what you want to do is actually helping their real need
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by Noos 9y ago
its only bad for knowledge workers in boutique cities. It's actually dirt cheap to own housing in many areas otherwise. It costs 500k just to get a condo in flushing, ny, where a 3 bedroom house in many CT areas is 100k. The issue is w
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by Noos 9y ago
Caring work like this is vastly underpaid and very critical to people's well being. Maybe if someone could lobby for a specific tax credit for people formally working in caregiving for the elderly and disabled to make up for the lower
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by Noos 9y ago
Yes, I think VRchat is becoming one of those, with very high emphasis on the weird. Do you know the way, my bruddas?
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by Noos 9y ago
What irks me is how people on the one hand believe that you can't trust companies like Google or Facebook over moderate things, and say "we need federated, decentralized alternatives," and yet when it comes to government (apa
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by Noos 9y ago
I can't understand why that is even in the parent article. Amir is incredibly open about how much what he did was down to luck, and how much he sacrificed just to roll the dice once. He lists all the things he did that gave him a shot,
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by Noos 9y ago
Amazing how Facebook is the new Dungeons and Dragons, corrupting people's minds through (now scientific) invisible demons.
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by Noos 9y ago
Isn't the problem trying to force social science into a mathematical/axiomatical model in the first place, when it really is historical and descriptive?
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by Noos 9y ago
This is so first world problems that it hurts.
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by Noos 9y ago
They didn't grow up with games at all. They would have been in their late teens and twenties just as the first games came out. Keep in mind gaming as a genre is still really young I don't think the pros would be very good. If anyt
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by Noos 9y ago
It's not the same. Yes, the internet has led to some nasty, new behaviors. But its one thing to have your kid's minecraft server invaded by trolls, it's another to find out your kid was physically beaten up by neighbor kids d
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't think anyone really collected that data to compare. I know most of those happened to me, when I was unsupervised, and others I knew. It would make a good project for an academic to collate the data through interviews.
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me that a village culture would do even that. I couldn't say, though. I just am suspicious when I see outlier stats on something which is fairly universal in human nature.
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by Noos 9y ago
What's annoying is that as someone who did have a rather free-range childhood, people don't get that there actually were good reasons for people to be helicopter. You let the kids go off and play with others for hours alone, right

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