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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:59AM (#11815479)
You sound like some kind of redneck with that "go back to your country" bullshit. Someone is making very good points and that's the best thing you can say.
That's not the point, most people have the impression that the trending news is automated and generated by some sort of algorithm. It's highly misleading. The trends should really be called "Facebook's Top Picks" instead.
Re:Is the U.S. Ready for Post-Middle-Class Politics? on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @05:24PM (#11584692)
Are you crazy or in denial? Are you not aware of the many publications released about how we are no longer even close to the prosperity of the 1940s-1970s as regular Americans?
Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:16PM (#11553209)
Also because, suicide is forbidden in the majority of religious. God doesn't like it.
Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:07PM (#11553158)
Were you not able to make the connection that he wasn't talking about income inequality causing suicides? He was talking about people having less money than before, financial problems, stagnating wages.
Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @08:42PM (#11349668)
Hey since you love authority, you realize that NPM decided to change the ownership of the kik module without asking his permission right? Life isn't black and white.
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:59PM (#11300627)
I realize you're skeptical too, but I'm saying I wouldn't even go as far as to call it a revolution. Call it a trend if you'd like, that's giving it too much credit.
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:42PM (#11300518)
Revolution? Drinking the kool aid much? My team has it. We've had it for a month or two now. There has only been a handful of posts and most of them are "TGIF" posts.
Re:Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:21PM (#11130532)
Capitalism is only troublesome for our dear CEO when it directly affects him. Let's forget the labor laws/licenses many startups avoid by classifying themselves outside of traditional industries. Let's not forget about the older non technology savvy immigrants that typically could make a living with taxis that have now been put out of a job since they may not know how some app works. "Innovation" works both ways.
Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:55PM (#11083589)
I agree a lot with you. Time will tell and we can just hope to carve out the best for ourselves in this big cold world.
Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:28PM (#11082945)
Yes, they include PhDs, DDS, Architecture, Mech Engineering. Their rejected list is guys that don't have much all the way to degrees in mining engineering. Software engineering tends to be what they "settle" for or are ok with. One, because software engineers make decent enough money and if they discounted them, they'd be throwing away a huge and competent group of men.
Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:08PM (#11082305)
Males generally dont marry up?

Couple things come to mind. Throughout my time, I've seen that women have their fair share of not wanting to marry down either. You want to say generalizations generalizations. Sure, but I think the age old stereotypes do have a hint of truth to them and the Bloomberg page here also states, "High-earning women (doctors, lawyers) tend to pair up with their economic equals, while middle- and lower-tier women often marry up."

You say problem in quotation marks and I don't know why that is? If people are not finding their partners, that's a huge problem.

Here's the anecdotal: My sister and her friends are all pretty educated women. Unfortunately, their standards have really gone up since receiving said education. I'm not saying this to bash, it's simply my observation. These days, they're all still single and reaching/past 30 and no man can scratch their itch. The whole thing is problematic.

Re:Why are Americans so angry? on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:40PM (#11067077)
The guy who wrote that is just full of archaic anecdotal neoliberal propaganda nonsense.
Re:Why are Americans so angry? on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:34PM (#11067038)
"especially foreigners"

You realize most foreigners come here for the American dream, right? I don't know about you but look around. Many Americans, including myself, don't believe in that made up non-sense.

It was a period in world history where everything lined up. In the 50s to 70s, there was enough population but not too much, great economic expansion, and opportunity to be found.

As a generation that grew up with 9/11, two wars, an economic crash unseen in decades, unemployment, and now college debt, don't tell me that I'm not optimistic because that's the only thing I'm running on these days. The dream is dead (never probably existed), but doesn't mean we need to flush all our hopes into the toilet either.