> Historically this has been true, but nowadays it's not (at least in the US).
Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'd say 2010 is when it really got going.
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Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'd say 2010 is when it really got going.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024101
It's the one with this disclaimer: "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobile.com."
They also released this $200 phone to go along with the plan: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/samsung-exhibit-ii-4g-to-...
I think you should take it to the next level and use the zippy quotes from psychoanalyze-pinhead.
Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.
How anyone feels about that is up to them. He mostly just wanted to point it out.
2. Even if the passage you cited were about "getting less in an absolute sense", there's still no fallacy. zafka already pointed this out in his #1 above. What's so hard to comprehend?
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...
Because they are inspired by 20th century mathematics rather than 18th century mathematics. This quote from wikipedia explains it:
These developments of the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of 20th century were systematically exposed in Bartel van der Waerden's Moderne algebra, the two-volume monograph published in 1930–1931 that forever changed for the mathematical world the meaning of the word algebra from the theory of equations to the theory of algebraic structures. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra
The academic languages are the ones aware of that change in the meaning of the word algebra. Everyone learns Euler in high school. Nobody learns Mac Lane.
Followed by a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162288/