negativez

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by negativez 2y ago
I'm only casually into LOTR, but I immediately recognized her name from my beloved copy of the Dragonlance Atlas. Quite fun to read how she basically invented the field of professional fantasy cartography.
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by negativez 2y ago
> When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow? That's the... subtitle? Thesis statement? It's the first line after the title at any rate. I stopped reading as soon as the first paragraph
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by negativez 3y ago
Plus, only a small fraction of Animal Crossing players, even lifelong series fans, will still be playing the game daily even one year later. In the real world, we need jobs done ~forever, regardless of how novel and fun they are. Game desig
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by negativez 5y ago
That's true - but taxes *always* disincentivize the thing being taxed. If investment in a company is less profitable under taxation than it otherwise would be, there will be less investment in that company, no exceptions. Now the size
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by negativez 5y ago
I don't think one has to takes sides on the manager vs Apple conflict to ask a much more important question: "Why is this newsworthy to The Verge and Hacker News?" At any given moment, several thousand people around the world
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by negativez 7y ago
I know this is about SF but Seattle seems to have essentially the same issues with their liberal response to homelessness. This local news piece was both heartbreaking and infuriating to watch. The interview with an proud, unrepentant crimi
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by negativez 7y ago
Anyone who's parked a car often in dense areas knows the distance between legal and illegal parking is as small as the width of the bumper you stuck into the fire lane. GPS just can't help with that.
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by negativez 7y ago
Nope, only the scooter companies.
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by negativez 7y ago
> and they are now upset with another business model that found /their gap is actually well-covered by existing towing law/ FTFY
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by negativez 7y ago
They can't because their business is fundamentally built on the "leave anywhere" promise to their customers, who are the ones that actually leave the scooters illegally. There's just no customer-acceptable way of disince
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by negativez 7y ago
Replace "steal" with "call a registered tow company" and you can do exactly that - have someone remove an improperly-placed item from your property. Cities solved the problem of improperly-parked cars by creating the ent
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by negativez 7y ago
On a related note: I live in a city where trash collection rates are tied to how big of a trashcan you have. Along with recycling and compost collection programs, this is intended to deter people from overusing the landfill. BUT, as a resul
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by negativez 7y ago
The primary impetus for the TSA was that people were afraid and it made them feel safer. The TSA actually accomplishes virtually nothing to prevent hijacking compared with the addition of armored cockpit doors and cockpit approach monitorin
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by negativez 7y ago
There are two obvious possible solutions to this from the city: (1) tiny print on the parking signs that says you consent to be chalked, creating an explicit contract (2) sell the rights to manage the city's parking to a private entity
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by negativez 8y ago
Completely agree - HBO's app is as good as any of them. I'll add that Netflix is the only video app I've used that mismanages the chromecast control ui. Basically every other time I cast Netflix the app loses track of the cas
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by negativez 8y ago
It's worth noting that $45bn of funding in the Bay Area probably only goes as far as $15bn would in Austin. Companies are indirectly paying their employees' housing costs after all. I'd like to see numbers by per-company and
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by negativez 8y ago
No one is talking about the phone as a physical device. The "phone" is the multibillion-dollar industry dedicated to indiscriminately making every human spend every possible second of their day 'engaging' with media out
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by negativez 8y ago
Talk to an emigrant from a former soviet country to find out what permanently living in adverse social conditions does to a culture. Sure, (most) people survive it.
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by negativez 8y ago
It's easy to forget that BBSes were not at all populated by a representative sample of all people. The communities you experienced were the norm there but are a vanishingly small part of the modern internet. If you were raised now you
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by negativez 8y ago
You need about 8 figures generating passive income by most estimates.
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by negativez 8y ago
You're assuming that there is a platonic ideal 'you' that the living person you are should be compared against. Ask yourself if you believe that statement. It doesn't make any sense to me. If we can generously interpret
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by negativez 8y ago
It's more that they are collectively overpaid. As house prices rise the %-based commission causes new agents to flood the market, lowering the number of houses sold per agent. Agents then spend a lot of time acquiring clients in compet
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by negativez 8y ago
Everyone wants to go everywhere - because people live Everywhere and have jobs Everywhere and their friends live Everywhere and there are stores Everywhere. No one is entitled to anything - you added that word apropos of nothing in my post.
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by negativez 8y ago
Houses don't get left abandoned in places with jobs. Knowledge workers are the only ones that can do remote work and thus are the ideal people to take those houses.
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by negativez 8y ago
(This is all kind of beside the point that NY's transit problems are mostly due to localized cost absurdity, but...) I don't disagree that it's hard to quantify the exact economic value, but you can't use a free market t
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by negativez 8y ago
Since this a crazy hard problem that won't be solved in a comments section, how about playing with a completely silly idea instead: > Outlaw rental housing - force everyone to own their residence The people we're most intereste
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by negativez 8y ago
I had one success simply not signing a non-compete I was handed on orientation day. I returned the packet of docs without that one and never heard a thing about it.
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by negativez 8y ago
The word you're all looking for is 'exploitation'. Advertisers and their clients are trying to exploit children for their personal gain. Please don't abuse words like 'abuse' and 'aggression' by explo
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by negativez 8y ago
Here's a counter-idea for this game: You wake in in 1993 with no memories except perfect insider knowledge of how Amazon was built down to the finest details. You have a full year of lead time to drink Jeff Bezos' milkshake. Do yo
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by negativez 8y ago
These laws should also force any business using them to visibly post the wage they're paying the employees in question. If the argument is we need to pay charity to these employees then people should see it as such. Guilting custom

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