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by forensic 15y ago
How can you say that businesses are rehiring when unemployment is the highest since the great depression? Previously, jobs were being shed and productivity was rising. Now, jobs are still being shed and productivity is declining.
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by forensic 15y ago
Technology enriches technologists and capitalists, but it actually impoverishes the uneducated masses because they no longer have jobs and cannot afford higher education. The missing link in your story is that the secretaries and phone oper
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by forensic 15y ago
What if their country has no respect for human life? What if, instead of our liberal economic policies lifting Chinese people out of poverty, our liberal economic policies are allowing Chinese people to pull us down to poverty? Everyone ass
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by forensic 15y ago
Money is a weight on the side of the big guy whether the competition is Quake or Court. Money can always buy you an advantage in a duel, just like it buys you better lawyers.
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by forensic 15y ago
If you want to speak "honestly" . . . everything you just said was pulled out of your ass. Cold showers may influence metabolic rate but their most pronounced effect is that they make you want to avoid taking a shower, resulting in stinky,
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by forensic 15y ago
Anti-caffeine bloggers are so annoying. There is nothing wrong with caffeine, it pretty much drives the modern world. Caffeine is a highly successful and safe nootropic and I'm convinced that people who tell you to stop it are the same peop
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by forensic 15y ago
If health is your true concern, then lookinto making yourself a healthier office. Check out spolsky's offices for instance -- much healthier than typical
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by forensic 15y ago
You missed this part: "One of her co-accused, Alexander Elliot-Joahill, is from a deprived area of south-east London" Also, anecdotes aren't data.
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by forensic 15y ago
A lack of mental health is exacerbated by the cuts to social services. If mental health services were provided to the lower classes AT ALL we would not have these issues. As it is the majority of the underclass suffers from multiple mental
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by forensic 15y ago
Bread and circuses didn't work for the Roman Empire either you know. Phones are not equivalent to: - medical care - education - housing - sufficient wealth to have children - healthy food - self-respect
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by forensic 15y ago
How do you know this? I sure hope you aren't unquestioningly swallowing what the state run media tells you. Have you talked to any rioters? Have you entered their homes and seen how they lived? Maybe if you got to know them you would think
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by forensic 15y ago
You write too well to be part of the underclass. The underclass is uneducated, mentally ill, has limited access to social services. The real underclass doesn't come to Hacker News; the real underclass typs lik dis- u no- txt speak
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by forensic 15y ago
>People wanted new trainers and TVs That's a resource distribution issue intimately related to the economy. If that isn't politics, nothing is. Almost all riots are related to resource distribution issues, especially when an impoverishe
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by forensic 15y ago
Except he isn't defying grammar. It's correct to use loose that way.
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Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance(alternet.org)
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by forensic 15y ago
And those are just the groups who actually achieved it. Many more thought about it or tried it. The OP said he "can't even believe that anyone could think of [mass murder]." Think! Lack of imagination, lack of historical awareness, or jus
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by forensic 15y ago
Those numbers are a drop in the bucket and generally are not targeted at increasing the size of the middle class. Remember that the lower class is literate. Conspicuously absent: - lowering cost of higher education - lowering cost of mental
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by forensic 15y ago
You're not thinking this through. Rome had to avoid rioting because Rome didn't have tear gas. China does not have to avoid rioting. They are comfortable with using tanks to kill thousands of unarmed protestors. The circumstances have chang
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by forensic 15y ago
The unemployed people are uneducated and unable to make space ships. The educated and skilled people will be busy working on military tech, farmville, and face recognition software. You know, technologies aimed at pacifying the masses.
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by forensic 15y ago
The precedent has already been set in the biggest country in the world. The Tiananmen square massacre was committed by the current Chinese government. Do you think they've grown a conscience in the last 20 years? Or does killing over a thou
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by forensic 15y ago
Education is expensive and hard. If the people at the top don't reach down with a helping hand, few from the bottom will be able to stand. Is this the world we want to live in? Social Darwinism?
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by forensic 15y ago
Actions speak louder than words. Billionaires stand by while the miserable and hopeless suffer. Billionaires fund FOX News to indoctrinate the middle class and push them toward self-destruction. Which billionaires are funding universal libe
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by forensic 15y ago
It's unrealistic because the people with the money are not going to give it away unless you force them. In the industrial revolution the wealthy had a motivation to educate the masses: get better workers and fill the military. What now thou
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by forensic 15y ago
This is the classic view, but things have changed. Robots do not just make better workers, they are also better warriors. How many Chinese peasants does it take to kill a single UAV? How many protestors can modern riot police crowd control
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by forensic 15y ago
This debate isn't about jobs. The question is this: will the powerful still value human life when robots are better than manual workers? Wealth keeps concentrating in the hands of a small minority. Unskilled workers increasingly look like n
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by forensic 15y ago
My grades could not be any higher and I think grades are incredibly lame. I wish I went to Rice. I will unschool my children. I never told my teachers this because I wouldn't want them to lower my marks. An important component of getting hi
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by forensic 15y ago
Using this logic, nothing new will ever happen because if something could happen it would have already happened.
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by forensic 15y ago
A good lawyer could convince a jury that requiring real names amounts to a "whites only" or a "men only" rule, which would be illegal.
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by forensic 15y ago
Discrimination is illegal. Companies can't just do whatever they want. They are bound by laws and ethics. If these policies are found to discriminate against rape survivors (for example) they could very well be ruled illegal. Don't confuse
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by forensic 15y ago
Programmers who get acquired are being acquired (i.e. paid) mostly by people in the financial industry. IPOs are largely driven by large investment houses which are managed by people in the financial industry. The financial industry itself

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