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by danssig 15y ago
So their just asking people. You know that it's been demonstrated that people will even lie about their personal lives when they believe they are completely anonymous right?
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by danssig 15y ago
They weren't denying them sleepovers. He was denying letting other kids come to their house . I'm sure they would be happy to have their kids go to other people's house. They just can't let it get out that their kids have poor parents.
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by danssig 15y ago
What on earth are you talking about? This sounds like projection to me because I didn't read anything like that in there. It sounds to me like this person grew up poor and knows what it means. This stupid idea that poor = lazy/bad is so e
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by danssig 15y ago
Wow, the "survival of the fittest" argument, and on hacker news of all places. The entire point of civilization is to escape "survival of the fittest". Do you know what we call people who still live by those rules? Uncivilized.
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by danssig 15y ago
The OP was obviously making a "wake up and think about what you're saying post". What did you contribute exactly?
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by danssig 15y ago
>Not to pick on this too much, but elitism is a good thing. When calls someone/something out for being an elitist/elitism they are actually calling out a false sense of superiority. So no, it's not a compliment or a good thing. It p
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by danssig 15y ago
I don't think it's really false, just misleading. You very well may land a great job because you were in college. But is so it will because of who you met, not what you learned.
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by danssig 15y ago
In response to your edit: > We can't say that, categorically, all scientists working outside of their realm of expertise produce bullshit, but it notably has happened. Perhaps it has, but Einstein supporting socialism isn't an example o
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by danssig 15y ago
I just showed one article and obviously didn't dig too deeply in it. I've been hearing complaints about BLS as long as I've known about BLS and my quick google search was a page of blog posts/articles complaining about it. >how does Tr
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by danssig 15y ago
>I'd like a calm discussion, if possible. You're both implying that poor people are lazy and confusing economics for a hard science. The latter is annoying but the former is offensive. >You aren't disagreeing that if an individual
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by danssig 15y ago
Of course I do: based on everything I've seen in my life and the people I actually know. Not based on some report that never seems to agree with actual "in the field" data.
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by danssig 15y ago
People have been complaining about the horrible innacuracy of BLS statistics for quite a while now [1]. I wouldn't expect someone arguing open mindedly (as opposed to someone who already knows what he wants to say and only needs the report
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by danssig 15y ago
The people who work the hardest (e.g. single mother, people with 2 and 3 jobs) are not getting ahead as fast people who don't work as hard. Your confidence in these statistics strikes me as incredibly naive and self-serving. For example,
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by danssig 15y ago
Keep your tea party political nonsense off hacker news. Go somewhere like reddit if you want to spew ignorance.
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by danssig 15y ago
I'm forced to assume you haven't seen much of the world if you think working hard has some correlation to financial success. There are many, many factors that determine success/failure and they all overshadow hard work by a large margin (t
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by danssig 15y ago
>Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government (and related rich democratic countries) when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive? I think a very large chunk of the world
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by danssig 15y ago
You have to do that in any case. Some prefer the ideology of "status quo at all costs".
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by danssig 15y ago
Why did Boston Tea Partiests? I'm sure there were plenty of cowards like yourself complaining about upsetting the King.
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by danssig 15y ago
What would you suggest then? There is no way to hurt the powerful without effecting the powerless. Should nothing ever be done then? If we followed that line of "reason" we'd still be the property of Kings.
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by danssig 15y ago
You must be a troll. What the fuck good is taking the issue to your local congress person going to do? The majority of voters wanted the public option and made this know and what happened? The US government is owned by the rich corporati
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by danssig 15y ago
We already are. It's called "the war on terror".
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by danssig 15y ago
Then how do we know it's even true?
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by danssig 15y ago
A fox news link? Surely there must be something more credible somewhere.
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by danssig 15y ago
Move where? Everyone else taxes at 98%.
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by danssig 15y ago
Good catch, who was this person? The post has been deleted now.
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by danssig 15y ago
They're not suing competitors. They're suing people who are profiting from Apple research without compensating them. You think it's good that one company spends billions on research and everyone else just steals it and undercuts them? Do
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by danssig 15y ago
>Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys Which is sensible IMO. I worked at Walmart in IT at the time that they scored quite highly on one of those things. I couldn't name a single person who loved or even liked
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by danssig 15y ago
You're assuming "working your tail off" has something to do with becoming rich. I've seen little evidence to that effect and a great deal that contradicts is. No one worked harder then the miners and few died poorer.
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by danssig 15y ago
why, that's almost as hypocritical as stopping enemy soldiers from shooting at you by... shooting at them!
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by danssig 15y ago
Well if my idea comes to fruition the automatic car service would only need parking for "overflow" cars when not in use. Some percentage of the system would always be in use so the cars would only not be in use when they were being repaire

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