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by Noos 6y ago
If by great you mean "great for malware makers" I guess so. HN has a big problem of pushing for changes hat benefit highly tech-literate people but in reality the majority of the market needs signed apps so they don't downloa
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by Noos 6y ago
except that a lot of business isn't in an office. You will never make a meat packing plant, distribution center, mushroom farm, or many other types of work fit in a walkable city. A lot of this is really knowledge worker privilege for
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by Noos 6y ago
I don't really get the sense of this from the movie. The movie is straight up Gnosticism in a cyberpunk form, in the sense it appeared in during history. Kind of an offshoot of Christianity. You even get the main villain being the demi
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by Noos 6y ago
cool, let's stop paying programmers then. You can write and maintain software for free. Because you'd do it without pay right? I mean, why are authors the ones who don't have to get paid?
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Stoicism hasn't been popular since Victorian times. I think SV types and rationalists kind of revived it, since it was moral austerity without any real religious background. To an extent they do the same with meditation; it's some
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by Noos 6y ago
No, it is more of a euphemism for "sobering up." Existed for quite awhile, usually used for drunks though. Has minor connotations of being an oddball health nut-people extolling the benefits of being immersed into chilly water.
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by Noos 6y ago
This isn't always the case. If you are an introvert, work often is your main contact with other people. Work at home would be like working third shift for me, no "sunlight" of contact with other people. It'd be way too e
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by Noos 6y ago
No sympathy. Cancel culture was all fine and good when it was used on people the progressive left didn't like, but when now it's applied to themselves? OMG its gone too far! I hope they enjoy the world they made.
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There's something darkly funny about people so embarrassed to have a cleaning person in their house, that they create a solution that would put most cleaning people out of a job. The knowledge workers automate jobs away, leading pundit
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by Noos 6y ago
about as worthwhile as Harvard is, to be blunt. It's really all about chasing what your target audience thinks is cool, isn't it? Some of us could really mock the kind of people our elites are, and find them just as distasteful as
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by Noos 6y ago
he doesn't really have any right to make fun of others, though. Smart people forget that they require a tremendous amount of resources and support to make best use of their intelligence. A director may be a brilliant movie maker, but h
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by Noos 6y ago
I'm guessing they mean cognitive abilities in general. Taking a music lesson won't make the kid any smarter than if he didn't take it. He'll just interact with music up to the level of his general intelligence, and if he
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by Noos 6y ago
That's not teaching a computer to walk, that's building a walking machine. Subtle difference, but it's easy to prove; no matter how well you build a Boston dynamics robot, it will never like walking in the same way your TV wi
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by Noos 6y ago
Voting with your wallet doesn't work, because the amount of online racing games for the xbox specifically and even videogames in general is very small. Sports games increasingly are becoming a near monopoly as licensing becomes very ex
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by Noos 6y ago
they didn't "work with"-the federalist removed the ability to comment it looks like.
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The federalist isn't, it's articles are closer to national review but maybe more populist. It was a shock to see it was mentioned; it's not something like Unz or anything.
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The way they use it in english is more like "everything has a priority." Or "everything has a color."
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The thing is, basketball is no such thing either. There's nothing really stopping anyone from playing or enjoying a game, and as kids back in the day we used to play for fun on schoolyard courts. The problem is cultural; we as a cultu
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by Noos 6y ago
Japan also has a 99% conviction rate in their criminal justice system. I wouldn't trust their statistics uncritically. It's often more a matter of what isn't being said.
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by Noos 6y ago
You are forgetting Matthew 18, 19-20: "Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.&qu
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by Noos 6y ago
Because employers aren't always expert at maximizing swindling, thank God.
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I think you can see this in something like commission art. If you wanted to draw commission artwork for a book cover or what have you, you now compete with almost everyone in the world; there are plenty of russian or south american artists
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by Noos 6y ago
I think the real issue is probably the store hires all of one or two people to deliver food, who make really low wages and have to do a lot of orders. You guys are expecting concierge level service from minimum wage people. Grocery stores c
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by Noos 6y ago
It's hard to take advice from someone who says "in a couple of months i became this" at the start of the blog, and who ends it with actually telling us it was 6 months.
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If viewers would actually pay for content they like, this wouldn't be an issue. The problems are that tech companies are 1. dumping product well under cost while 2. training customers not to pay anything. At some point, people need to
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How on earth would any author make money from you paying $4 a month? Why don't we pay all computer programmers $10 an hour, that's pretty much the price equivalent of paying what you ask.
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What the author wants isn't a book club. He wants a secular Bible study. Most people don't treat reading like that, though.
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by Noos 6y ago
If it helps, think of social interaction like sunshine. If you could only be safe by never ever going out into the sun, at all, for a year or more, could you do it? Social interaction is like this, it warms people up, makes them healthier,
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by Noos 6y ago
If you are in need why on earth are you couchsurfing and traveling at all? If you cant afford $15 for the site what happens when you get sick or any emergency whatsoever forces you to shell out money?
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by Noos 6y ago
because economic aid on this scale is unsustainable anyways, if the current shutdown continues. The government can't just keep on printing money.

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