Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad
by yompers888 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:48PM
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It's like you're dangling a pinata and yanking it away at the last second. If you want to talk about your particular backwoods place, name it with greater specificity. If you want us to focus on labor force participation rates vice unemployment stats, offering those up would be similarly wise.
For the record, my Appalachia town also had good schools, though we had more than our fair share of meth and poverty as well.
Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad
by douche on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:27AM
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>For the record, my Appalachia town also had good schools, though we had more than our fair share of meth and poverty as well.
Good on you. We had the poverty, although weed was the favorite cash crop, rather than meth. Growing some plants out in the woods is easier to hide than a lab that might blow up and catch the double-wide on fire...
Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad
by macintux on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:57AM
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This discussion reminds me of http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?midwest
Unemployment numbers are mostly bullshit, to boot. Depending on which set of them you are using, that can have huge discrepancies with the actual labor force numbers percentages, since after so many months of a hopeless situation, people drop off the unemployment rolls and into the masses of the long-term unemployed.