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9y ago
Those trade offs are unsustainable. They are something the very young do without thought of what life will be in that situation five or ten years down the road. or even in the moment. His entire "what happens if the van breaks" se
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9y ago
My point was the moment something relatively minor that happens to us all, happens to a van dweller, it becomes a major crisis. The things we take for granted, like being able to go to the bathroom when we want, or live without fear of poli
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9y ago
Imagine what will happen if you get the flu. You're suddenly stuck in a tiny living space, on a street where you know no one, and can't leave the van for fear of discovery, at 3 in the morning. You're going to spend the night
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9y ago
You then have to pay to park in campgrounds, and those fees are a huge added expense. Vans are absolutely horrid as houses, but they can hide themselves among normal vehicles to stealth camp on streets and same their owners money.
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9y ago
I'm sure they'll have fun realizing the target market of bus travel in America isn't what it is in Germany, and that they are trying to be a department store in a dollar store world.
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9y ago
but if you want the sim city experience, you want a AAA game. It's just not profitable to make that kind of game for $10. So you're never going to get it. If you only want to pay $10 for a mobile game tops, you will get what that
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9y ago
Mercy is as skilless as Reinhardt or Winston though. Winston's gameplay is absurdly simple; find a healer or squishy, jump in, chase them around, and then jump out before you die. Reinhardt is just keeping a shield up, and knowing when
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9y ago
The entire genre started with Cow Clicker by Ian Bogost, which was a parody of Facebook games at the time and their lack of interactivity. The problem was though that the parody worked as an actual game for many people, and became the thing
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9y ago
I wish the elites would stop constantly blaming magical powers that somehow manipulate the poor, deluded masses and instead possibly consider that people don't trust the elites because they are divorced from the masses and populate ide
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9y ago
I think people like to blame companies for what are actually serious flaws in the models of businesses they run altogether. Even if Amazon was broken up, you'd still see the Chinese fake syndrome because that's more about how peer
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9y ago
Whenever anyone talks about business ideas, there's always some person that says "Oh, well I will pay so much for it!" and when you implement...they don't pay. That's probably been the downfall of many a web service
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9y ago
this is assuming an overdose death is worse societally than having said user alive, unemployable, and addicted to opium or an opium substitute for the rest of their lives. I don't mean this morally...life is precious and should be save
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9y ago
It sounds like we are seeing work become sport, with all the positives and negatives sport has. Maybe seeing it as ageism isn't helpful. Ageism doesn't exist in sport because the abilities you need can and do decline with age. I w
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9y ago
Women in general wash out of the military at much higher rates than men, mostly due to the fact their bodies are less able to deal with the serious physical stress of training. Women also really aren't going to have as many long term o
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9y ago
There aren't enough rich people who need services to give people jobs. Martin Ford's "The Lights in the Tunnel" makes this point.
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9y ago
It's annoying when this is discussed, because people assume all there are only three skilled trades; plumber, electrician, or machinist of some kind. Machine Drafting, for example, was absolutely decimated by the rise of cad/cam,
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9y ago
plus everyone who serviced those stores has just lost a market. All that HR software you sale, all the consultants, all the property owners, all the insurance people, the janitorial and other support staff...
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9y ago
Do you drive? Because motion sickness prevents a large amount of people from watching movies or doing work in a car, even if you could make a decent enough workspace. The start and stop mode of car traffic is much different from an airplane
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9y ago
you need to watch the film. It's nowhere near as grim as synopsis's sound. The gang parts are so goofy as to be hilarious, with the least realistic gang this side of west Side Story.
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9y ago
Jackie isn't even that good. it's annoying because no one really seriously watches enough kung fu films to realize he isn't. For example, Beardy (Leung Kar Yan) oozes charisma just by breathing, and does fights like these: h
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9y ago
Hwang Jang-Lee is probably better, and has had more of an impact. In Jackie's older films, he plays many of the villains, and he is the one behind the iconic Silver Fox villains like pai mei that Tarantino lifted for Kill Bill. https:
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9y ago
It's not magic at all. I don't think people realize that it looks so impressive because it's undercranked; it's shot more slowly so the action is sped up. They are't moving that fast in real life at all. Camera tric
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9y ago
Try opening a landscaping business. You'll see why this fails.
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Paper doesn't break. The price on paper doesn't suddenly disappear because the internet is down or someone's program glitched, which is especially important for unit priced items which have strict laws about accuracy in prici
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9y ago
Keep in mind this requires a smartphone. Some seniors don't have them. They may not even have dumb cell phones. Some don't use computers at all. Some are using the old CRT TV they bought ten years ago because it still works fine.
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9y ago
Because it easily becomes "let's prohibit any small minority group the people in power find distasteful or unpopular." The net hates/hated Scientologists, for example, but I'm sure you could find others. Jehovah
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9y ago
They are trying to increase the productivity of the stock crew when the store is closed, enabling them to shed a couple of relatively expensive overnight stockers per store. These robots won't be operated during business hours, but tak
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9y ago
It doesn't surprise me. Video Games tend to rely on stressors to provide eustress and a pleasurable experience. This is okay with single player games, but multiplayer games wind up adding a ridiculous amount of additional stressors tha
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9y ago
These articles are such exquisite forms of class warfare that it approaches the sublime. 1. Upper class people seek to differentiate themselves from lower class people by status markers (like reading the guardian) 2. In the past, food was s
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9y ago
Imagine if you as a programmer suddenly woke up at age 30 to find programming as a career was dead due to AI. The government is willing to invest time and money...into you retraining as a professional juggler, in the hope you would start yo
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