Experiments find higher social class more likely to have inflated sense of skill

Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by twic on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:37AM (#19968243)

debatem1 uses Arch, btw.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by debatem1 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:16PM (#19971606)

Pardon? I'm not clear on why I'm being downvoted, and I don't use arch, and I don't see why that would be relevant.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by twic on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @01:03PM (#19983147)

Arch Linux is popular with users who will endure some discomfort and manual work to get a powerful and satisfying experience. I thought it would be funny to baselessly assert a connection.

Gentoo would have been an even better analogy.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by debatem1 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:15PM (#19986643)

Welllll I did run Gentoo some years ago, so... not that baseless :). But you really don't have to work hard to get a quite nice (but not world-beating) car for $20k.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by honkycat on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @04:29AM (#19979099)

You are being downvoted because nice != fast so it comes off as a bit off topic.

My original comment was pointing out the disparity between a nice car and a nice laptop. Even a 20k car is at least 5x the cost of a top of the line laptop.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by debatem1 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:12PM (#19986620)

Ok. Your claim was a few hundred thousand dollar difference; I suppose we could quibble about what constitutes a nice car, but >$100,000 buys you a Z-06 or a Jaguar XJ. It's quite the exaggeration, unless your tastes run very extreme. To which I say: the only nice computer is a Cray :).

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