nemo44x

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811.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Who on earth thinks there’s any probability to the place you want to work, the friends you want to talk to, and the doctor you trust being within walking distance to your home, among all the other things? It sounds like an unbelievably narc
812.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Certainly looks like a downwards trend though. California is now the worst tipping state. If money continues to get tighter it will become more and more normal to justify a smaller tip. I think you can justify 10% now.
813.
by nemo44x 3y ago
California is the worst state for tipping as of today. [1] Once it’s fully phased in I’ll change my tipping percentage to 10% from the typical 20%. I expect most people will rationalize this since menu prices will rise. [1] https:/&#x
814.
by nemo44x 3y ago
I hope so. I’ll probably tip much less (maybe 10%) when there when it’s in full effect. Which is probably too bad for waitstaff. They pulled in much more than minimum wage in most cases and most it wasn’t taxed. I had a friend that cleared
815.
by nemo44x 3y ago
What does the USA get out of it? The USA is the #1 producer of oil and the commodity is traded in her currency globally. This makes the USA energy independent and keeps demand for dollars extremely high. The EU on the other hand has virtual
816.
by nemo44x 3y ago
> Convincing people to change is really hard! It’s hard when you’re trying to trick them. But show someone a genuinely better product and you don’t need to convince them of anything.
817.
by nemo44x 3y ago
> But instead you can reframe the argument. Why would someone argue with you about what they like? You’re assuming that they are dumb and that you are smart. That’s a bad way to approach persuading people.
818.
by nemo44x 3y ago
So a government that violently suppresses dissent and only wealthy people can emit CO2? Yeah, sounds great! I don’t think eco-fascism is going to get broad support…
819.
by nemo44x 3y ago
The same people that as of today [1] waived 26 Federal laws so they can begin building a border wall after dismantling and selling for pennies on the dollar the previous one that was being built. It’s funny how something considered racist i
820.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Asking people to have less, experience less, and do less isn’t an argument that can ever win. The winning argument is to show how you can consume more energy for less money by using sustainable technology. Cramped trains will rarely win pol
821.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Isn’t this very common among all resellers? For example if you own a hotel and want other websites to sell your availability they will only list you if you don’t list the same availability for less money. They do this in part because people
822.
by nemo44x 3y ago
It sounds like Weird Al trying to be Michael Jackson trying to be Weird Al.
823.
by nemo44x 3y ago
It's funny because when I'm doing the same thing over and over it feels like time never ends and it takes forever.
824.
by nemo44x 3y ago
I think you described manners rather than morals.
825.
by nemo44x 3y ago
About 70% of convicts in prison are there for violent offenses and should be there. The remaining 30% is mainly drug and property crimes. Now it’s important to understand what is meant when people reference incarceration numbers. A lot of t
826.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Yeah the self licking icecream cone is a classic at this point and correctly identifies one of the problems with new government (or any organization) programs/agencies/projects. Without explicit end goals and objectives that when
827.
by nemo44x 3y ago
It’s worth looking into Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca, both from the Italian school of elitism. The overruling theme being a well connected, organized minority will always rule over a disorganized and disinterested majority. Machiavelli
828.
by nemo44x 3y ago
I think it’s because of supply and demand in addition to value. A manual laborer, even a very skilled one, is limited by their own output on how much value they can create. A software engineer creates outputs that can generate many multiple
829.
by nemo44x 3y ago
It’s called the iron law of oligarchy.[1] All democratic organizations decay into oligarchies - a minority group of elites that are in control. So the question becomes who gets to join that elite and how do people get cycled out of it. When
830.
by nemo44x 3y ago
I don’t agree because horses are extremely limited in function compared to humans. There is a very small set of things horses are useful for and you’re right, we’ve mechanized most of them.
831.
by nemo44x 3y ago
In our modern economy everyone that wants a job has one. Unemployment is extremely low and has been.
832.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Yeah it’s all very stupid. We got rid of it all and are grateful to have dimmer switches on the walls. The occasional smart socket is nice but home lighting is a solved problem that phones don’t make better.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
New businesses will form. Why wouldn't they? We have a ton of businesses that even 50 years ago no one would imagine. We can continue up the pyramid to more and more things that wouldn’t be possible or practical today. Your mistake is
834.
by nemo44x 3y ago
> It's strange to me that people want to be able to "do what the nerds can", but don't want to put any of the effort forth. People, generally speaking, want outcomes. They don’t care how it’s done or what is used to g
835.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Exactly this. As certain types of jobs go away it frees us to do new ones. When we had an agrarian society there weren’t many massage parlors around even though they probably could have used them. Additionally as programming languages and t
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by nemo44x 3y ago
There will be more companies making things and providing things than there are today because there’s more labor available. We can do the things that aren’t of higher necessity today.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
[1] https://www.aclu.org/documents/bill-rights-brief-history
838.
by nemo44x 3y ago
Great, precedence! Let’s keep it up by defining rights as things that government is limited by. Not empowered by.
839.
by nemo44x 3y ago
I’m talking about the “Bill of Rights” which is a description of government limitations. It was a completely novel concept in terms of rule. And now we talk more about what you’re entitled to for existing. You aren’t owed shit regardless of
840.
by nemo44x 3y ago
If it’s of high quality then maybe. But I think those people will look back on previous people as doing what was necessary to thrive. Or more likely - lab grown meat will be inferior but natural animal meat will be highly regulated for some

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