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961.
by lazide 9mo ago
That could be said about hover cars too.
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by lazide 9mo ago
The issue is the number of people who ‘surprise’ you with out of control behaviors that are a huge issue with room mates. And getting out of living situation with someone like that can be extremely difficult. People can seem perfectly fine,
963.
by lazide 9mo ago
Yup. It can be pretty brutal living it too. But most places are, frankly, in their own ways. Still way easier than India, for example, where the answer is often either the same or ‘try to scam your way around the problem’ if you can’t.
964.
by lazide 9mo ago
It certainly pads a lot of people’s wallets! Like anything, it’s about what trade offs, when, by whom, etc.
965.
by lazide 9mo ago
It’s just a lot of overhead (in every way) if you’re just trying to store some rows and columns.
966.
by lazide 9mo ago
What way of making it better supported wouldn’t require custom semantics that people would forget and then select the wrong thing.
967.
by lazide 9mo ago
Also smaller. The ‘waste’ also counts towards GDP, as long as the money keeps moving. Lots of people have built homes and families off it. What really slows an economy down is when money stops moving.
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by lazide 9mo ago
You just pay. All the problems are known and have workarounds, it just involves money. That’s my point. It doesn’t have to be nice or clean or smooth, if there is a known solution which someone can just throw money at, at scale. The harder
969.
by lazide 9mo ago
My point is rather than almost anything can be made smooth if you have enough $$ pointed at making it so. One of the biggest issues with small economies is that they don’t have the capital spent to make it easy to do things yet; which is fr
970.
by lazide 9mo ago
Each of those places (besides Delaware, kinda) has economies larger than a large chunk of the EU.
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by lazide 9mo ago
Says no one who has ever had to actually deal with people like this? How would your mental health be if you listened to someone like Trump for even half your day? No matter how much one meditates, they will still die if set on fire with g
972.
by lazide 9mo ago
So many goal posts being changed constantly?
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by lazide 9mo ago
Huh? What does your statements have to do with what I’m saying? I’m just pointing out changing it out at 5 years is likely cheaper than at 3 years.
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by lazide 9mo ago
If someone stubs their toe, some rage; some anger, etc, might be appropriate. Maybe rational, maybe not. Maybe even yelling at someone nearby. If they go outside and kick a unrelated puppy to get ‘even’? That is when people start to worry.
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by lazide 9mo ago
Then you’re dealing with a lot of labor to do the switches (and arrange sales of used equipment), plus capital float costs while you do it. It can make sense at a certain scale, but it’s a non trivial amount of cost and effort for potential
976.
by lazide 9mo ago
Uh, says no one who has been in the industry awhile?
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by lazide 9mo ago
Not necessarily if you count capital costs vs operating costs/margins. Replacing cars every 3 years vs a couple % in efficiency is not an obvious trade off. Especially if you can do it in 5 years instead of 3.
978.
by lazide 10mo ago
Hey, it isn’t always the case - but sometimes you really are being sabotaged, and not recognizing the possibility just screws you more.
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by lazide 10mo ago
One pattern I’ve noticed, however, is that if you’re really good at doing this - and the situations being created are artificial - you might run into a situation where someone cuts or poisons your oxygen mask first. I would have said ‘no wa
980.
by lazide 10mo ago
Some people have a habit of creating situations that are…. Not so easy to get out of. My favorite one essentially boiled down to ‘die die die, or I’ll kill you’. Which, clearly, I struggled to find a useful compromise on.
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by lazide 10mo ago
Be careful you don’t end up with people who have constant emotional problems that need fixing - or that you’re 100% sure that you’ll never need to say ‘no’. Speaking from experience. Some people really don’t like ‘no’, especially when the
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by lazide 10mo ago
Pro tip - that usually just makes people angrier haha. (Source: twice divorced, and was - per the court - always right, but it didn’t help me one bit). The challenge is, some people (most) get stuck on some emotional thing, and will drain y
983.
by lazide 10mo ago
The opposite question - why so insistent that people wouldn’t seek it out, when behavior pretty strongly shows it? Why are you so insistent that people don’t do what they clearly seem to do? Why is that hypothesis so unbelievable? Is it the
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by lazide 10mo ago
Don’t tell TSA that.
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by lazide 10mo ago
Yes, that is what I am replying too. That applies to everything .
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by lazide 10mo ago
The issue right now is that the only things you can do to protect yourself from certain kinds of predators is literally what will get you blown up on social media when taken out of context.
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by lazide 10mo ago
The reason they feel that way (more) is because of those videos. Just like most people who watch Alex Jones probably didn’t start by believing all the crazy things. We can chicken/egg about it all day, but at some point if people didn’
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by lazide 10mo ago
It also fails when someone receives the product, and then returns it (bonus points if it was ‘not what I ordered/fraud’) with the contents replaced with something bogus, if Amazon puts it back in stock. I know they do sometimes put it
989.
by lazide 10mo ago
If people are bored, they’ll definitely seek out things that make them less bored. It’s hard to be less bored than when you’re angry.
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by lazide 10mo ago
And if you seek out (and push ‘give me more’ buttons on) cat kicking videos? At some point, I think it’s important to recognize the difference between revealed preferences and stated preferences. Social media seems adept at exposing reveal

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