RickJWag

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by RickJWag 8y ago
Reminds me of when Trump won the Republican nomination-- a gob of stories ran with basically the same theme and spin. There's no such thing as straight news. It's all spin, one way or the other. Here's Politico's take o
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Reminds me of the monetary damages levied against people who shared music files. There was a wrong-doing, but the punishment is excessive.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Not victimless. That fraudulent vote cancelled a legitimate one. The punishment is excessive, but there is a real crime here.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
They'll be bored out of their skulls in no time. And if kids come along-- well, they'll want to go back to work anyway.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
It's no use being jealous of those that have lots of money. It comes with it's own problems, by the way. The good lesson of the article is this: If we spend less than we make (no matter the amount), we can eventually stop workin
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by RickJWag 8y ago
We have yet to return to the excellent pop music of the 80s.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Count me in the 'skip the Starbucks and buy index funds' category. Over time, it will make you much richer than you'd otherwise be. It really works.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Wow, my home state of South Dakota at the top of the rankings. Snow days must have something to do with it.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
"This situation can’t endure for long – years, perhaps, but not decades." Time will prove this to be nonsense.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
You can learn a lot from old TV. I saw a Miami Vice episode a while back, the Bad Guy noted that the Dow Jones was about to break 1400. It's a constant upward trail, with peaks and valleys along the way. Don't bet against it.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Great article. Hacker News paydirt!
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Thankfully, we avoided war-supporting Hillary Clinton.
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by RickJWag 8y ago
Are there bad cops? Sure. But most police are honest. They work a dangerous job, at low pay, and with a mostly ungrateful public. These days, they are a political football with a powerful press working against them. I'm glad cops ar
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by RickJWag 8y ago
As a near-Boomer (early Gen-Xer) I do believe I fell into a lucky time. I left high school, then a quick college-paying stint in the service to a red-hot economy in 1990. (Ronald Reagan was to thank for that, and Bill Clinton kept it going
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by RickJWag 9y ago
As a baby boomer, this would have confused me 'till recently. I've been studying generational differences for an upcoming talk, so I'm tuned into generational attitudes. We had a mail-list thread this past week about an emplo
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Nothing, really. Except business guests really like to have a nearby airport to fly into. I know this as I used to work for Acxiom, headquartered in Conway, Arkansas. (Population: about 30k then, an hour from the Little Rock airport). I
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Ask an American Indian how that worked out for them. They had treaties, after all.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Indeed. A majority of Americans support making late-term abortions illegal. (With good reason. It really is a baby human that's being slaughtered.)
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Such nonsense. What would Vox know about rural America? Rural Americans are mad about being called 'flyover states', about being called racists (really for voting against Democrats) and for being portrayed as backwards. Rural Ame
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by RickJWag 9y ago
At the time, I'm sure Ford's ideas were considered very progressive and a gift to the indigenous people. Today, he's the target of a critical article like this one. (There's more criticism of Winston Churchill on HN tod
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by RickJWag 9y ago
I totally agree. There are far too many political articles on HN, especially.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
So sorry for your loss, Matt. She was far too young.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Politics on HN. BOO!
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Having seen recent hiring data, I think SV is not sustainable. Compare salaries to what you get for remote work (especially a timezone or two away.) It's only a matter of time. The numbers will catch up.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
"...a city with more intellectual diversity" I'm stunned the NYT printed this. In fact, I'm surprised the NYT printed a lot of the article. I owe them another look.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Huh. Here in the remote-work mid-south, chickens are commonplace. The eggs just taste better. I guess every locale has advantages and disadvantages. For me, winter weather gets extra weighting.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Yes, it has. HN is about one step above high school in that regard.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
I'm not one to tell Barbra how to spend her money, but I think she should stop portraying herself as a textbook liberal and champion of the 99%. It doesn't ring very true.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
I feel the same.
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by RickJWag 9y ago
Why not vilify George Soros or ultra-rich Hollywood as well?

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