Noos

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by Noos 9y ago
If I were to speculate, I think, no, there's still plenty of crime, but like a lot of Japanese culture, it's dealt with informally by the group. To actually go to the police is an admission your local culture or group can't h
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by Noos 9y ago
it's not that temp jobs are bad. It's more that they really aren't designed to be someone's sole source of income. The issue is the lack of real jobs created by the internet/tech boom; we need more retail chains and
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by Noos 9y ago
There is a glass ceiling because due to the potential of sexual relationships and misconduct, workplace relations between men and women must be formal. The type of informality men use with other men in the workplace isn't particularly
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by Noos 9y ago
well, yeah, if you train people from childhood to never show their emotions, put the group's desires above their own, and accept working 12 hours per day, 6 days a week, you might have some decent customer service yes. If you are ok wi
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by Noos 9y ago
The wealth of experience scrubbing bathroom floors, I guess. Most of the work this article tells about, and blue collar work in general, is not self-actualizing nor really will make use of a wealth of experience as opposed to a strong back.
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by Noos 9y ago
HN users are just as vulnerable to branding as anything else; it's just different values. Linux in particular is a massive triumph of branding; it's success is based much more on the intangible benefits of open source and that par
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by Noos 9y ago
That just means branding will become even more important to differentiate you from your competitors. It's not like this is new; grocery goods have been functionally the same among categories for decades now. You can buy unknown brands
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by Noos 9y ago
Those brands never had wide availability to start with, and are straddling the line between commodity and bespoke goods. Nike really is a mass maker of commodity shoes; they have a slightly better brand cachet, but the audience for sneaker
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by Noos 9y ago
This isn't a new era of retail. The article mentions that instead of widespread availability, retailers will sell direct to customer and only in a few stores. However, we have had this already with multiple brands; Bose is probably the
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by Noos 9y ago
To be fair, this happened because games themselves couldn't raise their prices with the times. They've actually decreased in price from the SNES days; Final Fantasy 3 cost $80, for one. meanwhile the cost of everything has increas
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by Noos 9y ago
Poor people would hit their limits very fast. Many F2P games make elements that would involve repeated infusions of items that cost $30-$100 a pop over time. A lot of those games have no real upper limit to the power or time savings you can
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by Noos 9y ago
Ramin Shokrizade does some wonderful analysis and criticism of F2P models here. https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/RaminShokrizade/91404... One thing he mentioned is that what those whales do is "buy
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by Noos 9y ago
Her books are not that good; she's much closer to Dan Brown in terms of her success than people would think. The right product at the right time, quality is not paramount. Same as the Hunger Games, or Twilight, or Goosebumps. If it wer
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by Noos 9y ago
His point is that in general, the patronage model doesn't really help the majority of creatives, and doesn't really work to create a small business model of creative work. It's just a few people making a modest living, and a
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't think his point is limited to SF. It seems to be a thing where if you criticize any sufficiently popular view, you get the hammer down much harder than before. The only things that can be criticized are unpopular things, becaus
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't think you've read many Utopian novels if you think they give a vision to aim at. Many are just criticizing modern society by use of a fantastic one; Butlers Erewhon is a utopia where you can be jailed for being sick, and f
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by Noos 9y ago
http://mashable.com/2009/12/31/crystal-palace-space-station-... Project entropia is a notorious MMO that ran on real money, more or less. Your bullets literally cost real money. $330k for a space station in i
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by Noos 9y ago
...you can just buy it from Apple or google's sites, best buy, newegg, etc. Amazon is not a monopoly by any means necessary.
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by Noos 9y ago
Probably because it would be a massive cost, on the level of a nationwide program to eliminate homelessness. And the portugal model doesn't seem to really wean people off drugs, unlike homelessness, so it's just endless money bein
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by Noos 9y ago
I'm not sure. I was arguing that if it's feasible, they probably would be doing it by now. My guess is either the UCC or walmart's contract with Disney prevents the breaking apart or reselling of bundled services.
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by Noos 9y ago
They aren't selling a code for the download, though. They are selling you physical movie that comes with code to enjoy a digital copy. It's a bundled service, and I'm not sure first sale allows resellers to strip that and sel
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by Noos 9y ago
And I doubt Coates ever thinks that it would just line the pockets of the corrupt, either. He's a very naive thinker.
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by Noos 9y ago
"That won't do nothing but make Cadillac the number-one dealership in the country" Cedric the Entertainer, Barbershop (2002). I'd also point out the effects of allowing casinos for Native American tribes, too. Money does
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by Noos 9y ago
I'd probably be very wary at that point of going into the hospital any more than I have to, especially for experimental treatments. I'm surprised everyone is so sanguine about things like that; you're enduring invasive surger
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by Noos 9y ago
There's this odd tendency to glorify being powerless or under the thumb of others on this site. If you don't own your appliances, you are at the mercy of someone else. If the microwave in the shared kitchen is busted, you need to
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by Noos 9y ago
The point of the conventions is sort of a mutual aid that encourages nations to abide by rules of war. It is not a right in any real sense, nor does it mean one side must always act ethically to the other side which ignores and flouts it. E
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by Noos 9y ago
We already have this, without self-driving cars. http://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/mc-sands-bethlehem... Some Asian patrons of casinos almost live on the bus, in between stays to sell the various free
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by Noos 9y ago
Friday the 13th: The Game and Dead by Daylight maybe? Left 4 Dead. Oh..one great example is Bomberman, although some games have dead Bombers fling bombs from the side.
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't think they are the same thing. "We will" is a stronger statement in intent than "We are going." "We will elect Trump!" versus "We are going to elect Trump!" may refer to the same election
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by Noos 9y ago
Why do people pay articles like this any mind? It's just yet another moral panic over a technology that wound up not doing what the elite wanted. You could replace the subject with television or video games and the article wouldn'

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