NeoBasilisk

Yes, maturing technologies seem to have longer life cycles. It's the same thing that happened with PCs. Compare the life cycle of a PC made in 1990 compared to one made in 2015.

>People are free to work 15-18 hours a week, but they don't.

Not if you live in the US and want health insurance.

I can't remember the last time I went to bed before midnight. I think it was in 2012.

It's a pretty well-documented phenomenon in the west.

Yep, people in the "upper-middle class" delude themselves into thinking they are in some special transition zone between the serfs and the aristocrats. A grasshopper is much larger than an ant, but neither are worthy of notice next to a bear.

Well there are 7 billion of us, which is an absolutely absurd number for an animal of our size

not sure if satire

Do you really not understand how per capita income is not a meaningful statistic in a situation where income inequality is extremely high?

Can you explain the benefit in other situations?

Preventing MitM attacks is the only thing I can think of.

What does it mean to fix a site that does not accept/process POST requests?

Yeah, the fact that Scott Pruitt was the head of the EPA for over a year was a sick joke.

I'm absolutely shocked.

The Y2K issue did actually require a significant amount of patching for some systems, and they absolutely would have failed if not for that patching.

Complying with government regulation is not really in the same class of issues.

And yet thousands of soldiers were still sent to their deaths

I think that relative to the other issues that occurred with other former Yugoslav republics, a naming dispute was easily ignored at the time.

Restricting the use of antibiotics in farm animals needs to happen ASAP.

Difficulty levels have been a thing for over 20 years.

It is ok for net neutrality to be someone's number 1 issue as long as they recognize that they are likely viewing issues from a position of tremendous privilege.

great article

Compared to someone born in 1950 or 2020, you have a whole lot in common.

If you're still saying that in 4 years, then I'll believe you.

I believe it is in reference to the US government's (or possibly some states') policies concerning abortions.

I think the purpose of the article was perfectly clear. Arguing against those in the upper middle class that place an inordinate amount of focus on their personal virtues as the reason for their success.

"Both lines of thinking assert that the lower classes cannot control themselves, so they deserve exactly what they have and nothing more. No need, then, for higher wages or subsidized health care. After all, the poor will just waste it on cigarettes and cheeseburgers."

Subreddits also have a strong tendency to become echo chambers due to how Reddit works. Controversial opinions are downvoted into oblivion and fewer people see them. Traditional message boards have none of that.

Why game on a console if you can afford to do so on PC?

I hope you don't watch movies or TV/shows or play sports

Isn't it kind of impossible to know what there might be to learn there until you actually look?

I'm so sorry.

The one event that would unite humanity like no other (even taking advantage of our xenophobia) would be contact with other intelligent life.

For many people in the US, the nearest truly walkable city is literally hours away by car.