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by jazzyk 11y ago
"journalist's highest calling is reporting on corruption and corporate shenanigans" I agree, but that ship has sailed a while ago :-( Traditional, corrupt and/or click-baity journalism is slowly being replaced by guerill
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You forgot your signature: Mark Zuckerberg :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
It is probably out of frustration, because whatever language you use to argue something which is not supported by the mass media is rejected by most people as being 'fringe' or 'kooky' (Ron Paul being a well-known examp
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by jazzyk 11y ago
"The problem lies entirely at the feet of the media." No, not entirely. You assume scientists are objective and have no agenda. A lot of research is "sponsored" by corporate interests. The first paragraph one should read
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I assume you meant 14, not $14. Anyway, it is false. S&P 500 P/E ratio was (until last week) around 19. The more accurate Shiller P/E was closer to 27. Way above the historical median. http://www.bloomberg.com&#x2F
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Perhaps, just perhaps... they should be spending money on additional stations to NOT have lines in the first place? You know, fight the cause rather than the symptom :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
If per person, it would need to top out at some level. Assuming your household consists of 5 kids, your spouse and you. 7 people x $12K/person = $84K. That would be 2x the average family income in the US today!
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Judging by the quality of some of the code I had a chance to look at (not the DB), the software was probably a bloated mess :-) That said, continuous development seems to work for open source projects, though typically each module has an ow
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I respectfully disagree, software is very different. Typically, developer's output is (unfortunately) measured by the lines of code written. More often than not, it should be measured by how _few_ lines were written to achieve the desi
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I vehemently disagree with the sub-thread parent above (rsp1984), but it should not be down-voted. There are many people out there who represent this point of view. Let's not have an echo chamber here.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
"I continue to be amazed at the number of people who don't get the whole "after 40-50 hours, you're less productive" thing." Yes, it is a stubborn remnant of the industrial era, where the more time was spent pr
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Retirement is mainly appealing to those who have other interests outside of work or want to do good/interesting things which don't necessarily produce income.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Except that she worked for herself, she loved what she did and did not really have much of a life outside of the spotlight. Can't compare her to some poor schmuck slaving away for Amazon (or some such), who most likely is NOT enjoying
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Sure - it takes two to tango. My friend from the story above definitely does not suffer fools gladly :-) But there is quite a bit of politics/plain stupidity in (bigger) corporations. Should reasonable people just keep quiet and suffe
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by jazzyk 11y ago
My developer friend had to work with a program/product manager from hell. They hated each other's guts from the minute they met. He was tasked by the CTO with implementing new software and kept asking her for definitive requiremen
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Flat structures work great for smaller organizations, but don't scale up with size. That said, a bigger organization could still be structured like a federation of relatively independent businesses/departments, with clearly define
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You missed one word - "politely". One can be polite and still convey the intended message :-) She obviously got it, hence the revenge.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Gradually chiselled away? Where??? In my suburb of Boston, both Verizon Fios and Comcast have been available for a few years now. Neither one has lowered its prices one cent. The only positive change was a relatively minor increase in downs
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by jazzyk 11y ago
And please add saving like crazy for retirement, because for people under 40, there will not be any Social Security money left. And, if you have children, start saving for college (at $250K/child for private college and $120K/chi
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Unless, of course they are looking for the words "male", "escort", "date" in e-mails from a (most likely Republican) Senator, married with kids :-) Joking aside, you realize what you just have said is naive?
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Of course it is not sustainable and will end in tears. Governments around the world have been (re)-inflating asset prices by keeping interest rates artificially low (far below even the official inflation rates, never mind the real ones). Th
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by jazzyk 11y ago
Spot on. I would like to add that the name "labor market" is a misnomer. It is not a market. On the one hand you have rich capital providers who DO NOT HAVE to invest money - they can live off their capital without doing anything
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You must not be from around here :-) The cost of the most significant expenses in family budgets: housing, healthcare and education has been rising far, far above (10-15%) the official rate of inflation (2-3%) for years now. These cost incr
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by jazzyk 11y ago
As for doctors, yes, stagnated to some extent (albeit at a nice level :-)). But the reasons are entirely different - the cause is the growing, cancerous (and greedy) layer of bureaucracy on top of actual producers (doctors). But that's
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by jazzyk 11y ago
This is all about finding a convenient law to exert political power, not legal comparability. From The Guardian: "The US government is conducting an active, long-term criminal investigation into WikiLeaks, a federal judge has confirmed
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by jazzyk 11y ago
A few years ago, I would have said it was pure paranoia/conspiracy theory to suspect Sweden would extradite Assange. However, look at what happened to Snowden, stuck at the Moscow airport, because no country in the world (bar Ecuador a
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by jazzyk 11y ago
You will be subsidizing a few rich industrialist families instead, among them the Rothschilds, who increased their stake from 21% to 26%. Thought you might want want to know :-)
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by jazzyk 11y ago
I would not put the NYT in the same league as The Economist. The NYT used to be a quality publication, but recently has been going down hill, fast (recent fiasco with quickly edited extremely one-sided article on Ellen Pao's verdict,
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by jazzyk 11y ago
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I have no words that could do this movie justice. Should be required watching in high-schools. EVERY YEAR.
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by jazzyk 11y ago
To be young, IMO, is to question the status quo, be politically active (protest in the streets, if need be), come up with intellectually disruptive ideas, try new things, etc. The current generation is mostly politically apathetic, obsessin

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