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by hiram112 11y ago
You're right that old people have always held power. The difference now is that 'old' people are not the 45 year olds of previous generations. Instead, wealth is disproportionately concentrated in the hands of much older - 60
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by hiram112 11y ago
Exactly. I was concentrating on backend the last few years and didn't have much frontend tasks. I recently switched to a new project that was developed by a generally younger team, and it's way more complex. Instead a JSP / A
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by hiram112 11y ago
It seems like home prices are pretty high historically in a lot of places, not just a few. They've bubbled up again not only in SF, but also in most every single area with job growth - SoCal, the whole I95 megalopolis, Denver, SE Flori
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by hiram112 11y ago
I think a lot of the Boomers are going to get their comeuppance. At my age, my parents were on their third house. Most of my cohorts rent, and as I'm in a city where housing is now higher than before the crash, I wouldn't buy a ho
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by hiram112 11y ago
SJWs like to imagine that massive immigration of non-educated foreigners creates jobs and raises wages cause they believed the studies pumped out by the Heritage Foundation and Chamber of Commerce. Anyone who points out the actual economics
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by hiram112 11y ago
First of all, I'm not so much interested in raw salary as I am with net worth. If Sociologist Jane at 45 years old makes $50K, and pays $10K in loans each year, is she better off than Plumber Joe who makes $35K a year, owns his house,
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by hiram112 11y ago
I agree with the sentiment 100%, however there is reasonably only so many producers our society needs. We could give the non-producers a basic income. If it's disparate, you end up with class warfare. If there is not a large disparity,
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by hiram112 11y ago
I've heard this claim being made for as long as I've been alive, and I'd agree that it was probably true 10, 20 years ago. Since college prices have risen so fast, while wages have gone down, there's a good argument for
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by hiram112 11y ago
In my mid 30's and that's the common theme in my very highly educated city. The average home has been re-pumped up to over $500K, high property taxes, etc. Unless you're in the top 10% of wage earners, you'll need two in
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by hiram112 11y ago
There's a lot that can be done to lower the amount we spend on the elderly. Something like 50% of health care costs are spent on a small minority of the population in their last year or two of life. Anecdotally, my grandmother who work
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by hiram112 11y ago
Thanks for the info! I'll take a look.
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by hiram112 11y ago
Rape, along with paedophilia and drunken driving, has turned into the latest refer madness. Is it a problem? Yes, of course, just like child pornography, DUIs, etc. are known societal taboos for good reason. But because absolutely no one ca
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by hiram112 11y ago
The majority of boomers don't actually have much liquid wealth. Most of it is in the form of homes, which, I agree, will not be worth much at all.
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by hiram112 11y ago
Would you blame those that didn't vote in the one-candidate elections held in the Soviet Union? How bout the recent Venezuelan 'elections '? Now ask yourself just how much more honest are the national elections in the US are
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by hiram112 11y ago
Not sure what your point is. About 60% of the federal budget is Social Security and Medicare. Besides defense (a large chunk of which is VA and pensions), the other big ticket item is SSDI which lso goes to the older at a very high rate. So
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by hiram112 11y ago
>Here is a relevant blog post: http://thingist.com/t/item/21434/ Compared to the typical opinion pieces these days, what a breath of fresh air!
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by hiram112 11y ago
>We all have worked with 'a technical manager' who isn't really technical. When you need to purchase a tool, you need to convince your manager and this page is as good as I have seen. All commercial software development to
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by hiram112 11y ago
I avoided AV software for most of my life. Though, when I worked as a student admin, I would always install AV for the majority of my users. Most users (especially older) simply could never learn not to download that cool new 'freeware
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by hiram112 11y ago
The Stasi was East Germany's post WWII security apparatus. You're confusing it with the Gestapo. I understand and agree with what you were probably trying to say ;)
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by hiram112 11y ago
I don't think most arguments against surveillance are necessarily implying that it is the reason that dictators rise, but instead it is one of many tools used to allow it to happen. Furthermore, the fact that billions of people are vol
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by hiram112 11y ago
Android the OS isn't where the value lies. It is the Android ecosystem - the applications, drivers, and hardware. Google has essentially taken over the ecosystem via their Google Play API. I know this first hand as my beloved Blackberr
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by hiram112 11y ago
Yahoo has delivered some great tech APIs and products. YUI, Pipes, Grids, a lot of the big data projects now at Apache, etc. I have such respect for the dev teams that put out these products. Similar to a lot of companies with great enginee
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by hiram112 11y ago
What's the point of comparing the total number of college graduates with H1Bs? The H1B is massively used in one industry while college graduates in aggregate comprise nearly all employment positions. In Silicon Valley, I'm hearing
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by hiram112 11y ago
And yes, that set of responsibilities means that this would be more than a full-time job. You should know that going in. If you're more inclined to a strict 40 hour week, you'd probably better off declining this offer. Exactly.
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by hiram112 11y ago
Agreed. It's not that millennials are different in any way (preferring high rises vs the McMansions of the Boomer generation), but instead the millennials are putting off children until much later and just don't have many school a
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by hiram112 11y ago
I think the reason for this is that most millennials are still in their 20's and family formation has been delayed by the economic problems by 5 - 10 years. Thus, less 30 year olds have school-aged children versus their parent's g
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by hiram112 11y ago
The government will eventually realize that the defaulted loans, together with penalties and fees, can never be paid back - no different than the typical house flippers of 2008 who leveraged themselves to the hilt with multiple properties.
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by hiram112 11y ago
...the real story is one of outrageous wealth extraction from the young to the old without a hint of remorse or self-reflection. Bingo. More than half of your taxes are directly transferred to retirees. Those debt payments on your school
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by hiram112 11y ago
I agree. Just because the price of eggs and computers aren't going up doesn't mean inflation is flat. The Fed's printing machine has massively (re)inflated almost all major assets including housing, education, and non-dispo
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by hiram112 11y ago
If you are asking honestly, it is because women, statistically, will only date men of similar educational attainment. So the result is that if you are a guy without college, you'd avoid an area with a higher ratio of educated women, wh

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