Noos

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by Noos 5y ago
And there are very few actual electrics on the road. I don't think it will be sustainable at all at scale. The time to charge simply is too long for any form of quick charging to exist widespread, and quick charging won't really w
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by Noos 5y ago
Not really sure, we have our needs met for now, but most people having EVS would be a huge constraint drain on the power. I honestly feel what will happen instead is just that cars become too expensive to drive period, with only a relativel
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by Noos 5y ago
..yeah, that's why we are all talking about Mastodon and Diaspora right now, because there was a massive hole they rushed in to fill. Funny how even on HN people have completely forgotten about the former; I haven't seen it on the
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by Noos 5y ago
They were moving out before those rent increases. The problem is the kind of boutique retail people seem to want in cities isn't profitable; even the older midsized or speciality chains got edged out by national ones. This is kind of l
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by Noos 5y ago
I don't think facebook is going to lose much sleep over that site going; it looks painfully low-rent, and when your grand "to hell with facebook" post gets all of 45 comments in 12 days, I'd worry less about moral postur
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by Noos 5y ago
I dislike these kind of books, since they are designed to overcomplicate things by appealing to the mids and upper-mids needs to follow authority, defer to expertise, and use checklists and systems to try and remove any unpleasantness from
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by Noos 5y ago
One weird trick for techies nonsense. "I just showed up everyday and built this company, so can you!" All of what, 500 words of content, too.
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by Noos 5y ago
Have you grown up like this? I have. It's a lot more alienating than you think. In my case it was a religious upbringing with little outside cultural influences, and it does make it hard to interact and socialize with others. You don&#
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by Noos 5y ago
This is ridiculous: >>But these factors are not sufficient to explain the trend. The chains’ owners have done little to maintain order in the stores, which tend to be thinly staffed and exist in a state of physical disarray. This is v
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by Noos 5y ago
...what did they even lose by this? What's the point of right wing watch when more or less the entire news culture constantly puts focus on right wing conspiracies to debunk them, to the point of probably giving them more visibility th
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by Noos 5y ago
It wasn't Amazon's fault; Toy stores had been declining well before it, with companies like KB toys going defunct in 2009. In general what was happening was that it was much harder for retail speciality stores and small chains to
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by Noos 5y ago
...sure, like Carob was a foregone conclusion to replace chocolate: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/how-c... As someone who actually had to eat Tiger's Milk bars as a kid, good luck at
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by Noos 5y ago
> I think we also see some of this in Christian stuff. I feel like Christians like Isaiah 11:6's "the lion will lie down with the lamb" (yes, I know that technically that's not quite the animals in the text, but it is
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by Noos 5y ago
It's not partisan in the sense of right or left, the "starving kids in china" was pretty much the same thing on the right. Jellyby was definitely a moral conservative, and victorianism is surprisingly bi-partian. Usually its
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by Noos 5y ago
Why people take SF authors seriously about the future is beyond me. It's just people wishing for things. Part of the reason I stopped reading it is that it was so apparent that people used "the future" as a synonym for "
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by Noos 5y ago
It's always fun with these kinds of posts, because people never think what their total progressive future will be like. No cars, no pets, eating bugs for protein, taxed to shit to provide a social safety net, forced to clump up in citi
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by Noos 5y ago
It won't be accepted. If anything it probably will be treated like veganism, which is mostly moral grandstanding. People who consume boutique products to show their virtue. A lot of us simply don't lose sleep over the suffering of
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by Noos 5y ago
The article sort of conflates two different models. Dollar Tree is actual "everything in the store is a dollar" while Dollar General and Family General are mostly small retail stores that sell things at a variety of prices. They r
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by Noos 5y ago
except that the reason why the whole Basic Income thing started was due to automation's possible effect on the job market. As I understood it, it's more about a future where there simply aren't enough jobs on the low end to w
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by Noos 5y ago
That doesn't change the principle though; the actual workers need to do 40 hours or even more; it just means there are less of them. And really, people need to be wary with automation. What people don't realize is that relying on
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by Noos 5y ago
I don't think it's true though. A lot of jobs you simply can't reduce the hours no matter how advanced you are without corresponding loss in service. There's also serious staffing issues in many blue collar jobs which si
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by Noos 5y ago
yeah, well he gave money to him rather. My mistake. About the same difference imo, contributions are limited to the point that at best you can say its a vote +1.
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by Noos 5y ago
Reading about Trump on this, he seems to flipflop more than be hateful or anything; in one breath he supports same sex marriage, in another he restricts certain federal aspects like gender dysphoric individuals being allowed in the military
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by Noos 5y ago
Nah, the echo chambers are tightening into dominant and submissive; it seems like people are because they are reacting to patently extreme behavior, but in reality modern culture is very much a leftist dominant narrative with a submissive c
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by Noos 5y ago
Not really. Like a recent cancel attempt was Scott Cawthon, creator of the game series Five Nights at Freddy's. His crime? Voting for trump. No really, that's it. His games weren't political, and while he was open about who h
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by Noos 5y ago
and someone can successfully complete high end raids in world of warcraft despite being a paraplegic. Doesn't mean everyone should be able to do so or its too easy to raid. Don't view outliers and your own experience as standard;
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by Noos 5y ago
Yeah, one of my fears is we simply have too many people and too few jobs in this kind of economy. The lower birth rates are a gaia consciousness response to overpopulation in this respect
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by Noos 5y ago
not really, there's only so many tradesmen an area can support, and only union members get any real standard of living. Plus, there's the whole "destroying your body" thing; it's not computer scientists behind the o
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by Noos 5y ago
it doesn't work this way. My experiences/watching is that the men at 40 live with their parents or relatives, take care of them some, and stay single for the rest of their lives in a pretty low standard of living. Essentially thos
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by Noos 5y ago
Not everyone can do "something." A lot of jobs aren't meaningful or even necessary, and given the increased tendency to require 4 year degrees on top of internships, connections, and more for many jobs makes it harder to obta

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