naravara

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by naravara 7y ago
Supply chain/production complexity. It's more expensive for them to make the option customizable than it is to ship it for everyone. If there was an appreciable market for consumer-level camera-less machines the math to justify it
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by naravara 7y ago
>Hugs are also beneficial and cause documented positive chemical changes in our bodies. No imaginary mystical forces or increased "vibrations" needed. It's just a different theoretical framework for describing an observed
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by naravara 7y ago
There's probably a whole body of unexplored potential in therapeutic systems that rely on varying types of placebo or psychosomatic effects. Modern medicine has a very strong naturalistic underpinning to it, which biases it towards pha
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by naravara 7y ago
If everyone's in debt up to their eyeballs, nobody gets to feel "rich" since we're all stretched to our limits.
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by naravara 7y ago
That doesn't sound like "too much Social Democracy" so much as a badly designed law that had a weird edge case.
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by naravara 7y ago
There's probably several ways around this. One could just be making everything interactable in a "drag it around" sense, but only some things actually able to interact with other objects or able to be placed in a bin for late
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by naravara 7y ago
When I first got an iPad I was almost certain this was going to herald a great resurgence of point-and-click style adventure games. I still don't really understand why it didn't. Unwillingness to pay for software I suppose? The in
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by naravara 7y ago
I'm not sure who is taking selfies with an iPad, and videoconferencing has lots of quality concerns from compression and bandwidth issues that make camera quality kind of irrelevant. If anything, I think videoconferencing really needs
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by naravara 7y ago
There is the adage about freedom ending at the point my fist meets your face. In this case, I guess it's more about where my face meets your windshield.
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by naravara 7y ago
The problem is that we have way more tall profile vehicles out there than we do cargo being carried. It's not really a necessity, lots of people are just buying these things because they like the aesthetic moreso than having any practi
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by naravara 7y ago
They already found another Bob to take Bob Iger's place. https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/bob-chapek-named-chief-exec...
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by naravara 7y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I suspect this was also the thinking the prevented them from pursuing a merger with Netflix. They seem to target their big acquisitions towards things where their own "Apple-ish" culture and philosophy
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by naravara 7y ago
This is just the word of one analyst without any inside knowledge of neither Apple nor Disney. They're just mentioning them because those two brands draw eyeballs. If this was actually Apple's content strategy, you would imagine t
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by naravara 7y ago
>Health care yes, housing, no. It's possible to build more housing to meet demand, or for people to move to balance supply/demand vs. prevailing wages. Or to have a smaller home or more room mates. Why do you think healthcare i
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by naravara 7y ago
>If you are guaranteed income, you aren't bound to specific regions or locations. Not disputing this, but there are some caveats that would need to be true for this hypothesis to hold. The main one being that people's reluctanc
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by naravara 7y ago
Warhammer 40k's Eldar are like this as well. They end up forking into factions with some giving themselves over into complete violent, orgiastic depravity and the other becomes extremely austere, self-denying ascetics.
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by naravara 7y ago
I think you’re taking the term “purify” too literally. These are just filters meant to reduce the concentrations of dust and other particulates. Nobody is expecting to create like, a microprocessor clean room with these.
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by naravara 7y ago
No they're class signifiers. In this context I think only Ransom counts as the "bad guy."
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by naravara 7y ago
This did come out right around when Knives Out 2 was formally announced. Maybe Rian Johnson is playing a meta-long con. There was a lot of attentiveness to phones as class signifiers throughout the movie though. The maid's phone has a
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by naravara 7y ago
US mostly has a Property Tax for state or local governments, which is different from a Land Value Tax. The property tax is levied based on the value of your property, which includes all improvements made to the property. A land value tax is
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by naravara 7y ago
>to mimic the US's successful formula The American formula allows foreign agents to conduct elaborate, micro-targeted psyops campaigns to manipulate our elections; enables a dramatic resurgence in previously fading extremist ideolog
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by naravara 7y ago
Reddit was an alternative Digg for them to flee to. I’m not sure what an alternative reddit is. What’s more, the scale of Reddit today blows Digg, in its heyday, completely out of the water. So any transition would take much longer. There’s
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by naravara 7y ago
That's pretty neat. It seems like it would be a perfect response to trolling, in particular, since a big part of that is the emotional high they get from getting a rise out of people. Slowing down that process would be sure to dull the
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by naravara 7y ago
>Calibrate your chosen virtues to produce good outcomes. The more experience you have, the more closely you can understand which virtues result in which ends. Utilitarians do like rule and virtue versions of the philosophy, but it also k
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by naravara 7y ago
>Then that describes all regulation and "top down" is a meaningless standard. Yes. Regulation from a central source of authority is what a top-down model is. I'm not sure what your contention is here.
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by naravara 7y ago
>Is the alternative to bank robbing a top-down central-managed solution? No, we simply penalize the behavior. Penalizing the behavior sounds like a top-down solution to me. Government decides it's bad, then government sends the poli
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by naravara 7y ago
Some people will argue the issue there is time-horizons. If Boeing was worried about profitability indefinitely into the future, these sorts of repetitional disasters would factor in. But if everyone is looking quarter-to-quarter or year-to
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by naravara 7y ago
5 minutes of having a mid-summer sun beating down on you, after you've possibly walked for up to 15 minutes to even get to the stop, can feel like a lot. Especially if you don't know with any confidence that the next bus is coming
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by naravara 7y ago
>People don't use buses because they're seen as for they poor. They're seen that way because you'd have to be desperate to use them. You'd have to be desperate because they don't get anywhere or, if they do,
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by naravara 7y ago
How's the situation with having to wait for buses? Are the stops shady or covered? Do they give you indicators for when you can expect the next bus or if there are delays? In my experience those are pretty big indicators of how pleasan

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