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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
But only if you get incredibly lucky. Even in the Bay Area where many an employee became a millionaire the chance of that being you is still a single digit percentage.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
I know you mean well and want to save the world from trolls, but this is not a hypothetical. I have a friend who is in this exact situation (previous administration, don't get your hopes up for another story for your bandwagon). Th
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
So you'd create extra incentive for having anchor babies in the US? At least the people doing this now have to wait until their anchors become adults and can petition for them.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Summary: some rich dudes flew into the middle of an active military exercise. They thought money made them immortal. They thought wrong.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
The funniest thing about that is that the cities where these proudly smug people live have the most actual crap on their streets.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
But not all science is actually producing anything of value. Most universities aren't Harvard. A lot of labs do very obvious, very incremental work. They jump on the bandwagon du jour for grant writing and figure out a way to get th
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
You get a choice of not one but two horrible candidates! In a dictatorship you'd only have one. Be happy!
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
In fact, on modern cars many times these panels are replaced. If you get a big enough dent in a door, a good body shop will offer to replace the outer skin instead of filling with bondo. They cut the weld on the inside of the door all the
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Hey, you can do a real-world test to see if I'm right or you are right. Go to a football match (soccer for Americans), find a group of hooligans and tell them their team sucks. If you are right and it's just petty entertainment
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
That's right, they do not deserve loyalty. All of these things hijack our loyalty to people in the name of some higher-order goal. Sports team and TV show loyalty is there to get us to consume more. Loyalty to a country gets us to b
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Remember kids: when Russia evacuates kids from a war zone it created - that's a war crime, and we put out an international warrant for their president's arrest. When the USA does it - it's a humanitarian operation.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
It doesn't pay enough. The jobs in the industry pay less than software while being more challenging technically. The tooling is expensive and it's not easy for amateurs to get into the field. But mostly it doesn't pay enou
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
And let me guess, you can quit any time you decide? Try not to play for 30 days and report back with your findings. I think you are underestimating the amount of time you spend on this filler activity.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
OK, let's all celebrate King Bezos shutting down Venice to celebrate his union with his plastic appliance. The suffering of his serfs is necessary to enable this show of excess.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
I think we'll eventually realize that this line of thought is the same as tobacco company apologetics. Napping isn't A/B tested for maximum addictiveness.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
There's always someone to quote some dry statistic that refutes the lived experience of... pretty much anyone. I wonder, what's the deal with people like this? Is the point to convince yourselves it's not that bad? Yes, ind
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
And that's a good thing? Sure, these games ease anxiety. So do opiates. Every minute spent playing addictive drivel like Candy Crush is a minute spent not exercising, learning, or bonding with fellow humans.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
Like I said, it requires nothing more than picking up a broom. There are many places that are quite poor, and yet instead of graffiti you'll see a little old grandma planting flowers in front of her shack. And we should be supporting
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
I don't understand the romanization of slums. It's not about poverty. Cleaning up after oneself doesn't require a lot of money, but it does require a certain sense of pride. Oakland would not be any less diverse if it didn
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
Who'd want to miss out on joining the next Zizians!
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
It lasted just over 70 years. The current proposals - if implemented - would implode in less than a decade.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
> I don't think capital has any special attachment to real estate specifically It's one of the few things that are real (ba-dum-tss). And given that demand for housing is inelastic, it'll absolutely absorb any extra money
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
It's not a monoculture, but there aren't many places on a typical tourist's itinerary that aren't also 3-5x the price of a European, Asian, South American, or Caribbean destination. It doesn't make US tourism bad,
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
It also happens to be ridiculously overpriced for what you get as a tourist, and in tough economic times satisfying one's curiosity about the US may not be as high on the list. But yes, there is also the political climate.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
He is talking about something totally different from the article, but somehow comforting to the average (sorry, median) HN reader.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
Well, the banks would strongly disagree. Try talking to someone who tried selling tech to a bank.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
Yeah, and you can get the same evidence firsthand. Experiencing a banking app literally anywhere but North America ought to do it. What does it have to do with Social Security? It's the same kind of culture that worships lack of chan
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
State schools are not the kinds of colleges the author had in mind. The exclusive liberal arts schools with names you haven't heard and that produce a disproportionate number of government officials are.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
It's less about COBOL and more about the culture that disallows any changes. Because everything is highly regulated and any change must have extensive testing, it's almost impossible to change anything about the original COBOL.
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by riehwvfbk 2y ago
What is meditation anyway? Is it like what the author did, but where you fail to shut up your mind and then feel bad about not being one of the enlightened ones?

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