5 ms·
ITT Software Engineers who think that US Steel is the only US steel manufacturer because of the name. Nucor is bigger and better. You guys always want to prop u
by renewiltord 3y ago
ITT Software Engineers who think that US Steel is the only US steel manufacturer because of the name. Nucor is bigger and better. You guys always want to prop up failing companies when we have better alternatives right here.
Christ, we'd have an annual bailout for IBM's laptops to keep them from selling to Lenovo. I can just imagine: "All tech companies must buy Thinkpads. The government will give $20b to IBM to continue laptops" to the thunderous sound of HN cheering.
Bunch of closet communists here.
- Tsarbomb 3y agoThe government giving money to corporations without ownership is communism now? I think you may be thinking about nationalism and some other things adjacent to that...
- MattGaiser 3y agoA lot of it is simply that people don’t update their knowledge from when they initially learned it. I still have relatives claiming that poor countries such as the Philippines, Thailand, and Egypt, and India are having 6+ kids per family.
- avar 3y agoWell, your relatives are probably right depending on how a "family" is defined. Are we talking about children per household, do multi-generational families count? Then they're definitely more right than not. Or are you all fumbling your way towards discussing the "birth rate", which is how it's usually discussed. That may or may not be the same as "kids per family".
- MattGaiser 3y agoNo, it is all about the birthrate. Those countries are poor as "they are having more children than they can feed, yet alone afford to educate."
- shiroiushi 3y agoA lot of the people here are almost old enough to remember WWII...