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fed intervention has been shown to make things worse, rather than a quick and violent correction we get the anemic recovery from the 2008 recession, combined with another 10 trillion in debt from the fed printing money to buy stocks and prop up Obama. Zero interest rake hikes during his entire presidency is a joke.

The housing bubble was caused by Clinton's policies that modified the CRA resulting in all those crappy loans

It would be easier to convince them if liberals didn't outright mock them, Hillary bragged that she was going to put a lot of miners out of business.

There's also the sense of abandonment. Coal miners worked and died for generations to provide the energy that made comfortable city life possible. Now when they are no longer needed they get thrown away like an old tool. If liberals actually promoted something other than "leave behind everything/everyone you know and move to the city" they might be more receptive to dropping coal.

Do you really want your power grid dependent on manufacturing by an increasingly hostile and authoritarian country? The tariffs were made based on national security reasons.

housing cost, health insurance, and college tuition aren't counted in inflation. Economists and politicians can lie all they want but there's a reason people are angry enough to vote Trump or Bernie Sanders and it's because they can tell their standard of living is dropping. Don't piss on my boot and tell me it's raining

If the establishment was doing it's job people wouldn't vote anti-establishment.

Globalization, free trade deals, and illegal immigration only benefit corporations and shareholders. Jobs are outsourced to the country willing to take the worst deal, immigrants with no federal labor protection flood in lowering wages and living standards. Corporations pocket the labor saving rather than passing it on to consumers.

End result is increasing income inequality. If nothing is done we will return to the historical norm of peasants and wealthy nobles with nothing in between.

There's obviously zero biological differences between men and women, the differences are all sociological. For that reason I demand gender equality in the NFL at middle linebacker and in the olympic 100 meter dash. The only explanation for the fact that no female has ever made the olympic finals in the 100 meter dash is discrimination.

Globalization and free trade benefit corporations, not workers, hence the increasing income inequality.

Corporations are pocketing the difference in labor pricing from off shoring labor rather than passing the savings onto consumers as was promised by politicians and economists when trade deals were signed.

>UK

Your government currently arrests people for criticizing the government online, covers up child-rape gangs, arrests people for reporting on those cover ups, and mandates whether citizens should receive health care or die, regardless of whether they have the money to pay for it in a foreign country.

Your government took 1984 and used it as a blueprint. Your government see you as an actual human, they see you as their property.

survival of the fittest, the sexual dimorphism of humans and ingrained tribalism should make it fairly obvious that conflict between groups was common

How dare Australia make Jeff Bezos follow the law and stop Amazon from undercutting local competition!

Larry and Sergey's research was initially funded by DARPA. Silicon Valley itself was built by military funding. Self-driving cars and AI research were initially funded by the military. Everybody working in tech is getting blood money, anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant or a raging hypocrite.

Boggles my mind that companies do this. I'm just out of college and am amazed by the depth of knowledge older programmers have. A lot of them can find bugs on an almost instinctive level .

I think it might come down to founders being insecure around older engineers who probably won't be afraid to call them out on dumb decisions and won't be as likely to drink the hpye kool-aid because they've seen it all before.

Seems like an opportunity for startups to get great talent.

Wouldn't be surprised to see some blackhat services come out that offer to drown competitors with these requests.

Anywhere power is consolidated is going to be targeted for corrupt purposes. Around 50 people on the Congressional budget committees are effectively in charge of trillions of dollars of spending by the federal government, making it easy to bribe and get in your pork spending. Most startups would be far better off making a few donations to some politicians and getting fat government contracts rather than making a great product.

Just look at Amazon and their billion dollar federal cloud contracts. Politicians sell themselves cheap, the ROI is fantastic, probably the best growth hack out there.

Logical conclusion is to limit the size and power of the government to limit consolidation of power and thus make corruption less worthwhile/viable. The founding fathers understood this and that's why they essentially limited the federal government to only managing national defense and left the rest to the states, if you didn't like what your state was doing you could vote with your feet.

Humans got by for thousands of years by simply gathering around the fire and telling stories. I think people could adapt to not having something(the internet) that humans didn't have at all until the last few decades.

It's fairly disturbing that some people can't even imagine surviving without modern conveniences.

Tech companies don't want H1B to become citizens because then they would have no leverage to drive down wages for software engineers. They want indentured servants, not citizens.

hunger- Has been mostly solved thanks to GMO increasing crop yields.

crime- Is strongly correlated with poverty, which has been rapidly reduced globally thanks to technological innovation

Housing- Will be solved by tech making remote work viable and thus reducing demand in cities. Automation and some form of income stipend could also allow people to live in more affordable places rather than cities.

Your view of "tech" is pretty stunted if you only think web apps.

The Data Scientist "shortage" is another scam by the big tech companies to drive down wages. My boss had hundreds of applications for the position he was looking to fill and the majority were so well qualified that it was basically a coin flip between multiple PhDs with great resumes.

Tech worker's arrogance reminds me of "made in the USA" factory workers who thought their jobs were safe. If people don't start pushing back wages will be pushed down to global equilibrium. Based on how things are going I'm predicting neo-feudalism thanks to the joys of open-boarders globalism putting all power into the hands of corporations.

If you took out a dam in Montana the following chain of dam failures would cut the United States in half all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and destroy US agricultural output. The US produces 40-50% of the world Soybean and Corn supply. Long term you're probably talking billions of deaths due to food shortages.

Saying there isn't talent involved in programming is like saying talent is involved in sports or guitar or painting. Sure anyone can improve but some people just have a natural aptitude.

When I was an athlete in high school and college there were people who barely trained and ate whatever they wanted and were far better than people who worked their ass off and counted every calorie.

Programming is much the same. I've had lots of people want me to help them learn, some people are naturals and will make more progress in a few days than most people do in weeks or months.

I'm not sure why people get so defensive about it, nobody cares if you say someone short can't make it in the NBA, but say it about programming or some other mental endeavor people get upset.

Why does nobody talk about the fact that Clinton and Democrats spent 10s of millions astroturfing various online communities? You could see r/politics go from fairly balanced to rabid pro-clinton when CTR got fresh funding infusions. You can check Alexa rankings and see the massive traffic surges at the same time. You could see sentiment shift on weekends when the shills were off.

Hell, the CIA had an entire "Meme warfare division" according the vault7 leaks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/correct...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xyvwdk/meme-warfa...

React will be around a while due to the ecosystem and the fact massive companies are using it. Big companies aren't going to rewrite their entire front-end for the next flavor of the month framework. React-native gives it staying power as well.

The issue is people who in the past would have went to wall street are now going to Silicon Valley solely for the money and it has poisoned the culture. Tech companies shouldn't have pushed the coolness factor so much and instead let people continue to think tech was for nerds

We spend more than any other country on education, that's not the issue. Baltimore for example spends 16k per student, 4th most in the country and only 11% of their students graduate proficient in math, 13 schools didn't have a single student proficient in math.

Paying more money to teachers isn't the answer, the answer is expanding the reach of great teachers using tech. I learned to code for free using online resources. I was able to take courses from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford for free. I brushed up on math skills with Khan academy. What's the point in pay to learn from random teachers and professors when you can learn from the top researchers in the world?

Another issue is language. In California 45% of students speak Spanish at home, so of course they are going to struggle in English and other classes as well as part of that. This also increases costs because you need bilingual teachers.

Kremlin was first built in 1485, most churches were built well before the soviet era.

As for persecution of clergy is true, I suppose it depends if you count mass murder, torture, and shutting down churches as persecution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-religious_campaign_during...

The government wants to maintain power at all costs, what's best for the country and it's citizens is irrelevant. If a large number of Chinese begin to value the word of god more than glorious leader Xi, that's a threat to the status quo.

For an authoritarian government to work long term they have to be the highest power. This is why the Soviets worked so hard to destroy the church as well as the concept of family, people who value god or family above the government are a threat. In effect the government has to become god.

Why wouldn't the ability to quickly process information be considered an important part of intelligence? A proper IQ test is very general and just tests processing speed and working memory.

IQ has a higher correlation with future income than parent's earnings. If you had a choice between having 99th percentile IQ and being born into the 1% you'd be better off taking the IQ. The issue is that because IQ is highly heritable many in the 1% tend to be intelligent as well so the rich get richer.

China is currently heavily funding genetically engineering geniuses and AI. The US can either wake up or sit around and wait to be subjugated via an autonomous drone swarm developed by 250IQ Chinese scientists