LarryDarrell

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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Income inequality doesn't bother me as much as inherited wealth.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
What gets me is the job holders in the upper 20% who actively support a system that benefits the non-working (or don't need to work) top 1%. I make a pretty high wage compared to a cashier at a store, but my interests align with them a
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
To add to your grain of salt, I've had quite a number of quotes (I'm a consultant) in the last 3 months that have gone nowhere. These are for firms that I've worked with for years that are all of a sudden very tightfisted abo
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
I bike commuted 20 miles round trip in West Michigan for a time. I stopped because I was tired of getting coal-rolled and having fast food soda cups thrown at me from cars. Bike commuting is great if you don't live near rednecks.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Companies are awful at culling bullshit jobs when the economy is good. That's why they never hire back as many as they laid off during recessions.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Given what I know about my conservative relatives, the electorate is probably ecstatic that they were able to stick it those commie teacher unions.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Having lived poor places across the US for the last 15 years, I have come up with two root causes for the violence I have seen. 1. Drug prohibition related. 2. Keeping it Real going wrong. The Drug War and inter-generational poverty are two
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Oh man, I miss Marco's.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
I feel like there should be a Ubuntu based CDE distro out there. I spent so much time in front of CDE that I can't help but feel nostalgic for it.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
"Do people in lower socio-economic class really concern themselves if something they had enjoyed is being enjoyed by a larger audience?" Yes. And they are getting pissed.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
It the spoiled kid "look at me"-ness that has made gentrification more annoying in the last decade. I have William Shatner singing " Common People" in my head now.
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Loads pretty fast.
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How talented kids from low-income families become America’s “Lost Einsteins”(salon.com)
2 points by LarryDarrell 9y ago|0 comments
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Desperate people are to blame for being desperate?
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
I quit FB in 2009, so I'm ignorant of what it has been like since then. I thought I would be forever labeled a crank for not participating. I have noticed with some happiness the creeping realization among people that FB might not be a
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The Peasants of Code(thebaffler.com)
17 points by LarryDarrell 9y ago|4 comments
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Walton, Devos, Koch, Mars... seems like I popped out of the wrong vagina. I get feeling a little bitter, but then I think, well, it would be immoral to tax their wealth at a higher rate than anyone else. Free market and all. Property rights
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Capitalism blood-lust.
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He at least showed us that waving a smartphone in the face of regulators and the public was the next best thing to a Jedi mind trick. waves smartphone "Uber is not a taxi service." -"Uber isn't a taxi service" wa
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by LarryDarrell 9y ago
Find a small town in New Mexico and discover you love painting landscapes. Or go engage in some nice poverty tourism in Africa or South America. India, if there is a spiritual-but-not-religious side of you. Maybe take your talents to a smal