Noos

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by Noos 10y ago
From what I understand, Chinese love the pay-to-win model of microtransactions. They don't mind at all if you can spend your way to the top, whereas western gamers tend to flee that type of game fast. I don't mean the usual "
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by Noos 10y ago
It depends on the business. A lot of businesses create things that do take away from other people. Amazon destroyed the local bookstore, for one. In a sense, wealth is spread through redundancy and waste, and the more efficient people get t
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by Noos 10y ago
I don't think he will. You can't work your way down from that, you have to design the product with the end market in mind. My bet is that electric cars simply are impossible to make at a $20k price point approaching anywhere near
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by Noos 10y ago
To be fair though, Tesla cars are an expensive luxury brand and have no real revolutionary potential at the moment. The revolution is to make affordable electric cars and the infrastructure to build them, and there are serious doubts about
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by Noos 10y ago
I'm curious at about how much freedom the Kenyans have after they accept it.If it's an experiment, there will be data collected. Having someone record every purchase you make and giving you constant interviews or more for ten year
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by Noos 10y ago
Gore is a problem, yeesh. The whole "americans love violence" is overrated. The love of violence is a worldwide thing. Not like John Woo, Dario Argento, or Takashi Miike are american.
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by Noos 10y ago
Um, plenty of violence is deemed inappropriate. I doubt much of USA broadcast TV even comes close to a hard R rating. I'd also point out that Italy in particular has had little problem with making hyper-violent content like giallo movi
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by Noos 10y ago
The problem is that this is all actually very murky, and at some point someone is going to sue an AirBnB host for discriminating. There's a lot of people saying stuff here, but ultimately liability will be judged and assessed by a cour
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by Noos 10y ago
You do realize that the skilled trades are physically demanding, and usually by the 40s or 50s as a tradesman you are either in management or counting the years till union retirement, or you're probably on disability from the injuries
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by Noos 10y ago
This life really isn't sustainable as he gets older, and he's very vulnerable to risk, accident, or loss. Oh, it seems romantic as hell, but the first time the flu hits you, you suddenly realize you've chosen to stick yoursel
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by Noos 10y ago
i've gone through multiple ones myself, the e-ink screen is the big failure point.
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by Noos 10y ago
The reason for DRM is to make casual piracy harder. Piracy will always exist, but if it goes beyond a certain point, it can disrupt and destroy the value of a created work. Creative work as it is is already devalued to the point where you a
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by Noos 10y ago
Problem is Monticello red brick and neoclassical style is what a lot of public buildings in the 1960s and 1970s seemed to ape. Many US people might like the former because the latter reminds them a bit too much of a courthouse, the DMV, or
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by Noos 10y ago
I don't think they are psuedoscience, but it might be that architecture is an unusual case. With other art forms, yes they use these rules, but there's also things like line, texture, color, and other rules that disguise or soften
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by Noos 10y ago
Some people love suburbia. You don't have to worry about mugging, loud neighbors, the blight of most urban architecture, piss-stained subways, the ability to own space as opposed to rent it, and more. Being able to have woods in your b
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by Noos 10y ago
of course, because those are adult cartoons filled with adult references a cultured person would get, and more or less robbed the 1940s for comedy. It's more about how dynamic 1940s culture was compared to our own, I think. If you go a
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by Noos 10y ago
I don't think it was. It lasted a while, but that had to do with it being the first syndicated afternoon Disney animated cartoon. (Gummi Bears was a saturday morning one first.) It lasted a bit because of that, but around the same time
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by Noos 10y ago
It would probably descend into corruption. Rhode Island's governance is horrible, and I doubt publics works projects will solve that.
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by Noos 10y ago
very few people drop out to become monks, and to be blunt that is dangerous too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia Kathleen Norris wrote a book titled with the same name, and one of the things you notice about monas
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by Noos 10y ago
It's not unambiguous. If enough grannies decide to pirate goods (edit), the effect is the same, or if anything worse because they are distributed and impossible to stop, where as repurposers can be at least targeted. If you own a physi
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by Noos 10y ago
The wealthy studios are least hit, to be blunt. Generally the more wealthy the content creator, the better they adapt. James Patterson doesn't suffer from piracy as much as the B or C list author who can't get signed or make back
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by Noos 10y ago
Copyright infringement is to artists as H1-B Visa abuse is to programmers. Both make it harder to earn a living and depress wages/destroy jobs in their respective fields. Both tend to hit the individual or little guy harder than the bi
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by Noos 10y ago
Is the point saying "we wont be cowed" or is it to actually make muslims think about violence? Because "we won't be cowed" really does nothing to change anything, and might make things worse if they say this in a wa
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by Noos 10y ago
Essentially killing anonymity on the web is not worth any of these. Facebook alone provides a huge data trove of people's real names linked to posts that this machine could parse. Anyone with any form of professional presence on the we
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by Noos 10y ago
The point is more that the message of the satire is lost in the means of the satire. The satirists shows Mohammed weeping over deaths committed in his name without realizing that depicting him such is a blasphemous thing in the eyes of the
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by Noos 10y ago
They are arbitrary, and reflect the biases of those in power. This is because effective satire demand widespread dissemination, and those in charge of the means of dissemination are the very rich. Also, increasingly those who are in charge
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by Noos 10y ago
I'm not sure these traits exist outside of mathematics as much as posited. I would think this happens mostly because mathematics is such an abstract realm that it is possible for mathematicians to cultivate that sort of detached mindse
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by Noos 10y ago
because only a tiny amount of the workforce does the kind of hands-off knowledge work than can be done remotely, and without the need for significant employee control.
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by Noos 10y ago
Its not so much the vinyl comparison, as it is there is a a lot of content that never made it to DVD, let alone blu-ray. It took decades for the Osamu Tezuka Unico films to get a release on DVD, and some movies may never see one. The cult a
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by Noos 10y ago
Disney doing this is a net good, as it funds more projects. There are plenty of public domain animated shorts and characters, but once out of copyright no one seems to have any desire or incentive to protect or make new works from them as o

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