Noos

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by Noos 9y ago
A problem is that if the bicycle goes above 20mph, it is a scooter and would fall under motorcycling laws. That means licensing and insurance. Generally under 20 miles or so it is considered a moped and is treated differently. Also no offen
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by Noos 9y ago
People who believe this view people as things that can be replaced when they become less efficient than other things, and the idea that we all go into oblivion (nice euphemism, please use die off or go extinct instead.) because some crappy
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by Noos 9y ago
You're okay with corporations having extremely intrusive tools to track your behavior and control it through price for their own benefit?
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by Noos 9y ago
This is like trying to replicate the positive experience of a baseball fan by removing baseball from the equation and having people watch hopscotch in giant stadiums. The religious experience is a lot more than ethics, morals, and general l
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by Noos 9y ago
feminists have totally discredited nice guy though, turning it into a passive-aggressive hanger on who hopes to get rewarded with sex from being nice.
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by Noos 9y ago
Steve Martin's movie "The Jerk" is the older usage, and it's dated to 1979.
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by Noos 9y ago
the problem is that players will use those bots against other players, just like they do in online chess. The burden of reporting them will be too much for online play probably. It's the ultimate cheat.
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by Noos 9y ago
The free market has done nothing about Ticketmaster, for one. The market can't do anything about rent seeking if the rent seeker is big enough to squash rivals.
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by Noos 9y ago
Because we view marriage as special and the sex act as affirming love? Your mother cares for you as a child because she loves you..if you found out instead your mother solely cared for you to receive a paycheck, wouldn't that cheapen i
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by Noos 9y ago
I think that it would increase it, because contrary to what people seem to think here, prostitution is very low on people's ideal career choices. Increasing demand is going to increase the need labor, and I don't think anyone here
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by Noos 9y ago
The books were junk, honestly. They were the same kind of doorstop novels as Wizard's Last Rule and the Wheel of Time, just with more nastiness, and they are showing the same flaws as those books. Do a standard epic fantasy, bloat it i
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by Noos 9y ago
the end goal in this is a class of priest-like experts to decide, obviously. I'm surprised no one realizes the tyranny of being forced to justify your right to procreate at all, let alone unguided by scientific experts with their own c
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by Noos 9y ago
"But I prefer here to stick to a strictly logical line of distinction, and insist that whereas in all previous persecutions the violence was used to end our indecision, the whole point here is that the violence is used to end the indec
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by Noos 9y ago
This assumes that mass genentic engineering will be 100% successful in designing supermen, when it could very well doom a generation of Chinese children to higher risks of autism, infertility, or unseen consequences. The idea we can control
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by Noos 9y ago
Because there will be times when you don't want to say "awesome, thanks," and now you have to strip the email clean, and be sure to catch it. And who knows what other quirks the AI might mirror, like poor grammar, misspelling
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by Noos 9y ago
...because of computers, it's very, very easy to literally track anyone throughout their day...every location, every activity, every thought they have posted idly, what they like to watch, what they read, etc. I'm sure if the stat
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by Noos 9y ago
i think one forgotten issue is the part-time economy. I know in retail just as the work shifted to part time on demand hours, women's participation increased because it's easier for women to work part time than men.
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by Noos 9y ago
or it could be these careers speak more to women's aspirations than others. If an important goal for a woman is to have a family and children, working at higher paid jobs that require tremendous hours and travel are not going to be att
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't think the modest raise in IQ would be worth a society that considers children as products they can alter to specification. Bill McKibben in Enough wrote eloquently about the existential dread that could happen if we somehow man
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by Noos 9y ago
You give it to your kids instead of a cell phone, mostly.
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by Noos 9y ago
Reading reviews of it on Glassdoor makes it sound horrid. Part time contractors who have to work in "blocks" and who seem to have it mostly automated/appified with little human guidance. No wonder in the end they don't c
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by Noos 9y ago
I really doubt this, I think this is a bunch of young, healthy enthusiasts doing something that being young and healthy can counter. I really doubt any form of wind chill at those temperatures will be pleasant, nor will slipping and sliding
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by Noos 9y ago
European-style authoritarianism seems extremely popular for some reason.
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by Noos 9y ago
If Santa Claus showed up at your doorstep and took you on a ride in his sleigh, you'd stop being an atheist. You no longer become an atheist when your experiences or reason casts doubt on it, same as no longer being religious. For some
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by Noos 9y ago
But you can have the best social setting, and mental illness will still happen and still affect you dealing with things. Depression makes it just as hard to get out of bed on nice days as foul ones.
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by Noos 9y ago
I don't know why they are, they are increasingly becoming the equivalent to a free net cafe. It's a ridiculously underpaid profession, partly because computers cost so much to maintain and service for them.
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by Noos 9y ago
The EU will have fun then with much more expensive consumer goods, and businesses keeping flagship lines of products out of them for sale. More likely this is just another tax increase worded as "consumer protection." No business
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by Noos 9y ago
Problem is it sounds like he was trying to rely on association to the Trader Joe's brand to make money, kind of a shadow franchise. That opens up the problem of brand dilution, and even the most ethical companies have to be ruthless ab
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by Noos 9y ago
Any job that would pay less than minimum is worthless. You're better off taking that time and putting it into learning something, anything, than to work 8 hours a day for less than $40 in wages. You're essentially asking lower cla
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by Noos 9y ago
There's a lot to operating a physical establishment that machines can't do without reducing the experience. Something as simple as cleaning the tables will not be automated. You need people to provide service in a restaurant, whic

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