Noos

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by Noos 5y ago
the problem is having too many people and too few interesting and creative jobs. Everything will become writing in the end; there won't be enough people to pay people to be creative, and increasingly winner takes all will be the norm.
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by Noos 5y ago
they dont hire full time though, and hours can vary dramatically per week. if you get 12 hours one week and 32 the next, that $15 an hour doesn't help that much. The big problem is we dont do full time work in most retail positions any
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by Noos 5y ago
I'd be less skeptical if these werent introduced at the same time rampant speculation on valueless currencies or tokens became profitable. It's kind of obvious the real impetus is to capture the need of investors to get constantly
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by Noos 5y ago
Eh, it works with video games though. A few companies like Limited Run games release physical copies of digital games banking on artificial scarcity to drive sales, and that scarcity really drives up prices on the secondhand market. This is
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by Noos 5y ago
Not really, because the value of non-scare digital goods can be effectively zero. Look at public domain content for example; you can go to amazon and buy collections of 100 classic novels for two bucks, and that is just if you want the conv
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by Noos 5y ago
The game assets only have value in the game world, which is run by a centralized authority though. There's really no point in transferring assets outside of the game at all, except to break the rules that authority has in place. Its mu
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by Noos 5y ago
The problem is the difference between a collector's market and a speculators market. A collector assigns value because you can read it or because of legitimate rarity at the time or other personal issues. A speculator just hitches on t
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by Noos 5y ago
The irony in this is that the imaging for subaru outbacks is "the car of choice for gays and lesbians." It's not just pickups that have associations with them.
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by Noos 5y ago
But who would they sell things to? I mean, if we're just down to the capital class, there simply will not be enough of them to buy from each other to sustain an economy. Those payroll and hr people also happen to buy people's prod
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by Noos 5y ago
Really you aren't. My mother has knee issues, yet can still use a car fine. A bicycle would be ridiculous. You are not riding bicycles 60+ unless you are very healthy, and electric wont change that. This is just people who think their
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by Noos 5y ago
I feel like people haven't actually done those things here, they just say it as a matter of faith. It's miserable trying to bicycle in slush, or in near freezing temperatures. Bicycling any length of time in the rain also is miser
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by Noos 5y ago
the problem though is what happens if he gets sick or needs to move on, or the passion fades? Now you need to hire someone who may not be motivated in the same way, and if compensation is low for the duties entailed, you won't get what
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by Noos 5y ago
What would really solve this is if guys had to do it. I mean, imagine if you had to service other guys for your pay, no matter how ugly they were, no matter how little you liked them, and often with little power to stop them. I say with oth
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by Noos 5y ago
its not proving negatives; blockchain needs to prove why on earth it's better than what already exists in the publishing space. I don't see why a smart contract in this specific instance is better than using the traditional legal
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by Noos 5y ago
and those games quickly stop being fun if you can't secure a win. This is why pure rogue games have given way to roguelikes designed to have meta progression to make it easier to eventually win, or see yourself making progress. And yes
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by Noos 5y ago
Its one thing to deal with rare losses, but a lot of competitive gamers seem really unhappy trying to deal with constant loss and feelings of powerlessness or low status. Its not something you can be average in any more. I worry those kind
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by Noos 5y ago
Yeah, this is you being idiosyncratic. If you look at most people in these situations, they do not get in a flow state from being pummeled, nor do the pummelers restrain themselves to have a fun match. In example 1, the player often DCs or
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by Noos 5y ago
It has little to do with casuals imo, the ultra hard stuff drives out the midcore over time too. World firsters will beat in 2 weeks what many players would struggle with over a whole expansion, and you literally can not make difficult cont
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by Noos 5y ago
...no, nowhere as much as you think. If you think so, go out and try to find it. In the USA, most people only do sport in high school, and after those that do are usually on some kind of professional track. There are a few exceptions, like
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by Noos 5y ago
That's not an inconsequential amount to learn, especially teaching someone how stocks work in terms of buying or valuing them, or how to evaluate a business working or not working. I think it gets pushed up into college level courses,
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by Noos 5y ago
the old programs mostly told you how to balance a checkbook. I can't imagine what a program would be like now, where they need to invest in stocks, manage a 401 k, consistently put a fraction of all earnings into something, and underst
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by Noos 5y ago
no one plays a game to lose all the time, because eventually it stops being fun. If you enjoy a game, but every time you play it you get your ass handed to you, eventually you stop. And eventually over time the game ends up having only the
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by Noos 5y ago
People don't seem to mind when it comes to sports. When was the last time you played baseball or football? People don't also seem to care that average people sing songs, make movies, write books, etc. Why, when we have an endless
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by Noos 5y ago
It really doesn't feel wonderful in fighting games. A superior player can easily trap you in a corner and take your life down to half or more with a single combo string. It's like playing chess against someone entirely more skille
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by Noos 5y ago
No, despair often comes anyways. Those high achievers simply don't just achieve; in the process, they often define what "average" means in something. You see it in multiplayer videogames for example. The further, faster playe
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by Noos 5y ago
Oh come on, Europe has been just as permitting of violence as the USA. It's not like Italian giallo and zombie flicks don't exist, or french horror torture porn like Martyrs. Spain had quite the horror film industry with plenty of
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by Noos 6y ago
I grew up being bullied by people because I was different. I was a mess honestly, a weird, smelly kid who was a bit of an eyesore. These are people who were nice to each other, and people who would have been seen as caring, loving and kind
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by Noos 6y ago
Except that without the supernatural part, it was a wandering, homeless religious teacher who got himself killed at an early age teaching things which got his followers killed too, and end up being pointless. "Blessed are the meek; for
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by Noos 6y ago
Everyone is crazy in their own way. There is no rationality strong enough to remove the crazy from people, and smart people over time have formed their own craziness not bound by religion or mysticism. This site for example is pooh-poohing
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by Noos 6y ago
if you've ever talked to non-fundamentalists, usually they just regurgitate whatever the contemporary secular morality of the moment is with a mild religious gloss, and they suffer in membership much worse than the fundamentalists beca

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