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by jazzyk 10y ago
You call the above high-level, vague (and mostly obvious) predictions - "a precise vision"?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I hope that one day you will find someone who will take your breath away and make you simply enjoy interacting with another human being.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>you try to demonstrate your reproductive value to a potential mate Gosh, you are quite the romantic, aren't you... ;-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Nothing crude about it. My kids usually had more fun with the boxes that the toys came in than the actual toys!
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The context here is "first date". There are far more important things to think about on first date such as "Do I like this guy?", not how expensive his car is.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I made it a point to use public transportation and not drive a car when dating my (now) wife, at least for the first several dates. I wanted to make sure she liked me for what I am, not my possessions (owning a car at my age was quite ra
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Today’s Tech Oligarchs Are Worse Than the Robber Barons(thedailybeast.com)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
No, you really should grow a pair :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Did not want to repeat myself. :-) Every source is biased. It is up to the reader to understand the biases, read from differently-biased sources and then make up his/her minds.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
You can't win - if you enjoy watching a sport with females participating in it, you are a "creep". If you watch men's diving you are "obviously gay". Please, please do hug your nieces (and nephews).
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Let's not rewrite history here: Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. Hungary and Poland annexed small parts of ethnically mixed areas to their respective countries
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman You'll excuse me wanting a slightly better source.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
There are trustworthy reporters, the challenge is to find trustworthy reporters who will be heard by the masses . As much as I like The Intercept, for example, they do not have the same reach as the WSJ or the NYT.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
True, but most plumbers are self-employed, most programmers are not...
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by jazzyk 10y ago
There are ~1800 police officers (out of 3185 listed in the DB) in MA alone who make > $100K [1]. Not too shabby either. Also, to make $300K at Google you have to be a genius, to make $200K as a State Trooper, no college degree is requir
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Being a policeman can be a tough, dangerous job. But I don't think they are underpaid, at least not in Massachusetts - Police Trooper, 1st class can make $130K-$180K. They also get generous pensions (state employees).
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The ones I talked to were not interested in taking on projects further than a 10-15 mins drive. Please note that plumbers also add markups on the products they install (water heaters, etc) and charge higher rates for weekend/after hou
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>I would argue that plumbers, sewage workers and farmers should be paid higher than programmers. Self-employed plumbers are paid higher than programmers. Every plumber I reached out to quoted $130/hr and they are all booked for w
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by jazzyk 10y ago
1. These are all small, homogenous, quiet countries 2. The UN index is really more of a "quality of life" index, with very strange/subjective criteria. For example, if you sort by the "Freedom to make life choices&quot
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Not to take anything away from Norway (it is a nice country), but impressions based on a short vacation stay are not really comparable to living there - working, renting/buying, social interactions, etc. Also, Norway is one of these
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I agree and I also hope that sex will stop being separated from love/affection/intimacy and treated as a purely physiological act/transaction. This "pragmatic" approach may be an Anglo-saxon thing, though, I think t
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Your sarcasm detector failed. Is that you, Sheldon Cooper? :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
That was exactly my point - they are adjusted for 2% inflation, not the actual 5% inflation.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
A lot of people pay way too much for cable, like $150/ month... Cut the wire, go OTA, if you must (free), and Netflix ($10/month)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, it is different - the economy is in the dumpster. Official reports herald 1-2% GDP growth rate, but if you realize the inflation is more like 5-6% rather than the official 2% , the economy has, in reality been contracting .
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by jazzyk 10y ago
That will teach them :-)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Showing total GDP, without accounting for population is disingenuous. Don't you think that GDP per capita would be a better indicator, perhaps? http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=20...
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Oh, really? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/16/chinas-debt...
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Or are forced to set up joint ventures with Chinese companies as a condition of entering the Chinese market. After a few years, once the technology transfer/know-how has been transferred, the joint venture is dissolved.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
No one is claiming that they are "lawless mini-Afghanistans" in Sweden, as you stated. (from the article I linked to: "To the best of my knowledge, there are no Shariah patrols in Sweden.") But there is enough evidence

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