Noos

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by Noos 6y ago
if that happens, I fully expect everyone here to about face on legalization just as fast as they about faced on the joys of urban living when corona hit. They probably would make the marketing they did with vapes look like a college project
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by Noos 6y ago
...you really want to be on call 24 hours a day? Because that is what you are asking for. The shifts are good for you, because they limit the times when work can command your presence and force businesses to hire multiple people to staff th
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by Noos 6y ago
We already have something I think, the National vaccine Injury Compensation program https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html Essentially the government runs the trial.
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by Noos 6y ago
No, if I'm reading the quote correctly: "To date, more than 17,000 people have taken their own lives this year in Japan. October self-inflicted deaths were up 600 year on year, with female suicides, about a third of the total, sur
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by Noos 6y ago
The problem is we are talking about something that is orthogonal to the effect. An example is more like getting prescribed anti-depressants for back pain. I hear it helps with the pain, but you are getting personality alteration as a side e
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by Noos 6y ago
Nah, this site has as bad groupthink as Reddit. It's more useful to keep tabs on what the STEM knowledge class believes than it is for useful discussion. Try arguing in favor of copyright, or that everyone here uses social media as a s
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by Noos 6y ago
Seldon was a magic prophet dressed up in scientist garb, rolling the chicken bones/making a Theory that his secret society of scientist/magicians carried out to save the roman empire/universe. Foundation was popular not becau
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by Noos 6y ago
Qanon is just todays Dominionists. The democrats tried to push the same dangerous "other" group back when palin/mccain were running. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/dominioni.
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by Noos 6y ago
I think noise adds safety though. This is why things like electric mobility scooters or forklifts/platform vehicles often have a (sometimes piercing) noise when backing up. True silent vehicles going thirty miles or up might be more da
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by Noos 6y ago
I'd say infantile more than anything. It looks like a fisher-price preschool toy. Or like one of the little tikes children's pedal cars. Kind of fitting in a cynical sense, I guess.
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by Noos 6y ago
These things are nowhere near as good as you think, and HN fetishizes them a bit too much. Trying to cycle or scoot on slush filled roads or in 90 degree plus temperatures is a tedious chore; being unable to simply go out and bring home a
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by Noos 6y ago
I don't like discussing this, because smart people completely turn their brains off when it comes to discussing it. Somehow homeschooling creates Lake Wobegone, a place where every child manages to be above average. The reality is more
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by Noos 6y ago
...is it even proven that "social media is poisoning our country?" To be blunt, the only time I noticed people complaining about it was when Trump got elected. Barack Obama if I remember was actually praised for his usage of socia
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by Noos 6y ago
Tom Neale spent much of his life living on a tiny island in the Cook Islands. His book, "An Island to One's Self" is a great read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale
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by Noos 6y ago
Both of them are free, though. The former one only got this push due to streamers suddenly playing it together. These are kind of "meme of the moment" games more than anything, in the same way VR Chat was a bit ago, or Five Nights
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by Noos 6y ago
It still is, though. I mean, a part of the reason why indie titles work there is that Nintendo is refusing to offer a AAA gamepass, is using underpowered hardware and is charging a price premium for it. They very much are resisting trends a
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by Noos 6y ago
I dislike this kind of analysis, because it really rests on an unsupported point: "The encrappification of America dates back centuries. While there were, undoubtedly, once village blacksmiths who forged brittle nails, farm women who a
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by Noos 6y ago
As a service worker, here's the thing: the power dynamic is asymmetric. If you ask about my family, I can't treat you like i do a stranger who asks me. That is, it's none of your business. I have to keep in mind that my goal
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by Noos 6y ago
Well, that's the side effect of having the increased convenience and often dirt cheap prices the kindle ebook ecosystem gives. If you don't like it do what some of us do and just buy physical media.
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by Noos 6y ago
It's a preoccupation because EA is mostly a rationalist thing, and Elizier Yudlowsky has had tremendous influence on that movement by being involved with Less Wrong. His views on AI have kind of become a mainstream position among them.
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by Noos 6y ago
> I think the idea of psychodelic-assisted reeducation is a promising and humane strategy if we want to avoid total social collapse in the West over the next 3 decades ..when your idea to fix things as well as your dialogue is way too cl
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by Noos 6y ago
I want people who think this is good to do a mental experiment. Forget that this particular drug is LSD. I want you to imagine you are reading an article about a previously unknown drug made by a new company that is touted to have great eff
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by Noos 6y ago
If you were a miner, that tool that helps you dig faster would put you out of a job, because now they only need half the miners to do the same amount of work. If you were an artist, a lot of the point is the material things, or the process.
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by Noos 6y ago
Um, they have moved on from chess. The problem is you are only looking at the highly skilled people. Go look at everyone else, and you'll see chess is pretty much an expert's sport now. Casuals are more or less gone from modern li
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by Noos 6y ago
You have this already. It's called "using checks and money orders." The problem is that people want the convenience credit cards use, and don't want to wait for the check to clear to get their stuff.
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by Noos 6y ago
It's amazing how much the author lacks self-reflection. If there was no misunderstanding, would he have even bothered to read or even know about the paper at all? The bad use of the paper was probably his primary driver of engagement.
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by Noos 6y ago
No, the problem is that what is defined as top tier keeps rising, and raises the bar just to be average. You also now have to compete with a huge cohort of people due to the net now. Going with the videogame focus, if you ever play competit
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by Noos 6y ago
The problem is that marriage is really a necessary evil for Christianity, and a required one if you wish to engage in sex at all. It won't exist in heaven (jesus said we shall be as the angels there), and Paul outright says that its be
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by Noos 6y ago
If you design relying on others to constantly do the right thing, you eventually find they will get tired of it and not do so. No one has to constantly help your disabled friend, and some may resent it.
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by Noos 6y ago
Not really, the whole point of "cycling" is conspicuous consumption and virtue signaling. The high price is what shows that you aren't some pleb riding a bicycle shaped object out of necessity. It's also health conscious

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