Ancorehraq

Your sense of holiness will surely be a comfort while you are watching your family vomit blood, courtesy of repatriating volunteers.

Demonstrably untrue. The people affected are persistently, spectacularly unsuccessful. It's unclear why more investment into helping with Ebola would work where previous intervention in other crises has failed.

Oh, it's a religious belief. I'm curious to know why you and the poster above think you can forcefully bring your faith to the Chinese. Is China not a sovereign country? Does the strength of your conviction override geopolitics?

> Somethings are better than others, not discriminating based on gender, where the gender doesn't matter for the job, is strictly better than discriminating based on gender.

Prove it.

> Seriously if this happened in the US you would be up in arms, the Chinese should not be allowed to be different.

Should not be allowed by whom? Last I checked, China wasn't a US state. Are you going to pick up a rifle and go conquer it?

Does anybody else find this squabbling kind of embarrassing?

It's quite clear that California has no political, fiscal or operational capability to finish (or even begin!) this project.

Given this premise, how would you evaluate the discourse surrounding it?

Ok, http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/occupations.aspx

Doesn't feel like anything at all.

I don't think that helps understand the problem at all. Are truck drivers a protected class?

Can you provide some evidence regarding intelligence of truck drivers?

Not being very smart accounts for some of those reasons. Do you feel there is a significant category of people who are intelligent enough to be nuclear physicists, but decided to drive trucks instead?

Perhaps the situation isn't grave. After all, despite EFF's best efforts, NSA is no more than a casual meme among all the Facebook people.

Interestingly enough, that's an opinion shared by a small group of people with similar likes and dislikes. The rest of humanity isn't on the same team as you.

Can you recall any instances of out-group violence committed by your tribe?

I don't believe you. Top engineers are in a completely different bargaining category than regular, and especially junior engineers.

A junior engineer adopting "Steve Jobs is keeping me down" as his personal narrative probably has problems other than the games Silicon Valley billionaires play with each other.

This story is a monthly fixture on HN.

Not sure why everybody and their mom is mad about something that affected a handful of top engineers five years ago. Slow news day?

Speaking of depressed wives and valium,

"Over the past two decades, the use of antidepressants has skyrocketed. One in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication; among women in their 40s and 50s, the figure is one in four."

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/a-glut-of-antidepre...

Too late: http://www.tableforsix.com/

Of course, you defined "putting value on the future" and "caring about liberty" as latching onto a pet cause :)

Do you think you could squeze some more status posturing out of your choice of software products?

So, a long term /three/ way relationship, then? The employee, the employer, and the state.