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by yalurker 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks 'household income' is a terrible measure for this? Isn't a single person making 60k/year living a more affluent lifestyle than a married couple at 75k? Isn't it a huge confounding variable that they are using a
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by yalurker 16y ago
I'd suspect it's less to do with cognitive dissonance, and more intentional lying to meet social norms or out of fear of future problems. Anything controversial, highly personal, or with stigmas attached will get biased results from self-re
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by yalurker 16y ago
There was an article posted here a while ago that talked about this "scene vs p2p" dynamic, but presupposed the audience knew what "the scene" was. I'm still confused as to what it refers, is "the scene" just private file sharing / piracy?
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by yalurker 16y ago
"Common sense will always trump "science" in our understanding of areas such as this and will allow us to sense intuitively what we really don't need people in white lab coats to tell us." Wow, there is so much wrong with this sentence I ca
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by yalurker 16y ago
I would think the exact opposite of this. Gold, from my perspective, is at absolute peak hype. You have Glen Beck and a thousand infomercials selling gold to the most absolute novice of investors at this point. Everybody and their mom ha
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by yalurker 16y ago
It looks like we interpreted the author differently. I took the "more degrees" coupled with a graduation age of 21 to mean the son had a Bachelor's and the father had only a high school diploma. I was looking at it as college vs no college
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by yalurker 16y ago
Sigh, another blogger trotting out the tired, false cliche that college is useless. From the article: "Were you smarter at 21 post college than your Dad was at 21? And whatever the difference, was it worth the $50k-$200k he paid to get yo
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by yalurker 16y ago
And why the heck would a kid in band go to Harvard? He should be getting in a van and going on tour. And why would a kid in the chess club go to Yale? He should be playing chess. And why would a kid on the baseball team... The typical o
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by yalurker 16y ago
You've missed the point. The "fairly obvious point" would be that ALL whites are disadvantaged by providing a certain quota or advantage to non-white applicants, but that's not the point here. The significance of the recent research is tha
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by yalurker 16y ago
I'd question you even need to qualify your statement about perception of the police as "poor or ethnic minority communities". My social circle is mostly educated, upper-middle class white males. Most still see police as oppressors, many ha
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by yalurker 16y ago
I think you misunderstand the parent post, HOAs are actually a perfect supporting example. Even the most tyrannical HOA rule isn't actually that bad, because you can just move a few blocks away to a less-strick HOA or a house with no HOA a
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by yalurker 16y ago
That hypothesis is stated in both the article and the source material. However, even if financial considerations are a part of it, they can't explain the full extent of the discrimination though - that 4H & Future Farmers of America co
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by yalurker 16y ago
Your analogy is not valid. You're ignoring reality, and the posts above which explain it. You are imagining that the women hooking up with these men are so naive/gullible/stupid that they went home with a guy they just met in a bar, expec
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by yalurker 16y ago
And with this law passing, the death of the family farm is complete. Now instead of the midwest being full of family farms passed from father to son, we'll only have corporate farms, since the typical family can't come up with the cash to
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by yalurker 16y ago
Keep in mind, ties are sometimes strategic. Many games this world cup have seen teams playing very conservative/defensive because they were intentionally hoping for a tie. Side-note, the Champions League and Europa League (where the top te
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by yalurker 16y ago
I have to think you're taking too negative a view of the intelligence of average. There is nothing subtle about this parody. I could be wrong, but I'd be shocked that any competent person who had seen the chrome advertisements wouldn't rec
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by yalurker 16y ago
My read of the article makes this sound more like a natural failure than a regulatory one. The anti-venoms are very expensive to make and very rarely needed. I see no reason that these drugs should get a pass on FDA testing that other drug
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by yalurker 16y ago
My first thought reading the article: Could something like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation step in to make life-saving but unprofitable drugs available? This seems like a very legitimate problem that might be worthy of attention fr
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by yalurker 16y ago
Is there a FIRST Robotics or FIRST tech challenge team at his school or in his area? ( http://usfirst.org/ ) Programming robots is a great way to pull in kids (for FRC, they can use C/C++, LabVIEW or Java, FTC is LabVIEW or C I think). I'
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by yalurker 16y ago
Cost of living varies widely across the US. HFT jobs most likely take place in Manhattan where 150k is the same quality of life as maybe 80k in a place like Austin. As others have suggested, the location is as important as the salary. Che
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by yalurker 16y ago
I actually like that counter-point articles are posted and that new themes occur each week with multiple articles. It can certainly get excessive (as Reddit is prone to do) but a handful of articles from varying view points on a topic is a
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by yalurker 16y ago
Which may sound shocking, even offensive at first. However, the correlation between vocabulary and socio-economic class is a very concrete result of many other studies, such that it is a reasonable thing to leave implicit in this case.
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by yalurker 16y ago
Seriously Ars Technica? That was one of the worst articles I have ever read. The mental gymnastics required to equate network neutrality to mandating "search neutrality" for a search engine made me question the validity of anything in the
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by yalurker 16y ago
Don't put off college. Go now, while you will get the most out of the experience. Even in the hypothetical situation where you learned nothing that you couldn't have taught yourself, that piece of paper will be incredibly important to you
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by yalurker 16y ago
Many sites allow editing, often a post is editable for a couple minutes or until someone has responded. Some forums allow editing even after that. I see nothing unusual about commenting conventions on Hacker News.
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by yalurker 17y ago
Mostly, it sounds like you've just had bad experiences in the past, or you live in a place that makes life harder. I live in the US, make an average salary for a software engineer, and live an incredibly comfortable life. I'm not going to
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by yalurker 17y ago
Exactly! If the wife in the story wanted to know why her husband didn't talk about any of the various men's problems on their fishing trip, she could have just asked the rhetorical question "how would talking about the problem while fishin
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by yalurker 17y ago
From the article: "Over the past 10 years, 60 percent of American adults made more than $100,000 in at least one or two of those years, and 40 percent had incomes that high for at least three." Am I the only one shocked by that statistic?
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by yalurker 17y ago
For what it's worth, there are many mutual fund -> hedge fund relationships similar to what you have described. Average investors can't invest directly in a hedge fund, but they can buy into a mutual fund which has major holdings in on
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by yalurker 17y ago
Am I the only one who found the most troubling item in the article that the middle school is handing out 3 day suspensions for "even a minor social network offense". How is that even allowed? If I were a parent with a child at that school

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