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  1. Re:Blame Trump on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is 100% wrong. Unless you are extremely poor, you DO pay all the tuition - at least, my sister's kids did. Unbelievable. (AND they got fluffy degrees, woohoo).

  2. Re:High tuition on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Plus, couple it with students who want five star amenities on campus like a country club.

  3. Don't forget the Clinton method.

  4. Plus many tech companies that hit it big and whose CEOs are "tech leaders" started the company themselves. So...what do you do? Force women to star t their own tech companies?

  5. Re:Why do intellectuals fall for socialism? on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Other nations that are today being called socialists are 'mixed economies'

  6. I don't see how it's 'better than nothing' for this very reason - it's 'fake encyclopedia' in many ways, just like 'fake news.' Now if you could link to something that was, perhaps a bit more objective, but...

  7. Re:If they would only lift the age cap... on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    And they don't play foosball all day.

  8. Re:Why do intellectuals fall for socialism? on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You're presuming that humans are not inherently lazy, which we are. And I've never particularly noticed that socialists were more tolerant than anyone else - nay, one might even say they are less so. Witness the USSR. (And don't talk to me about how they all got along - may be they did after Stalin's genocide). Or the cultural revolution in China. And, um, being a person who lives extremely rural I have less concern about strangers here than you do in a dark street at 2pm in (say) New York City. So your theory is bogus in two ways.

  9. Re:I'm glad... on Virgin Hyperloop One is Coming To India (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Failure s*cks no matter what. But *shrug* it is what it is. Mitt Romney - he can go away as far as I"m concerned.

  10. Re:I don't see rise of AI going well in USA on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont' see the US as significantly more divided than any other advanced country, except, perhaps, Japan - though even Japan has a HUGE underclass.

  11. Re:It took 80 years to adjust on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    After, of course, a major war that kills 3 billion people -- the last one killed not nearly that much but there's a lot more people now.

  12. Not to mention the fact that leftists only seem to give a rip about if you have the "right" degree and the "right" opinions and the "right" friends.

  13. Yeah we can see how well that worked, yes?

  14. Of course.

  15. Re:let student loans be dishcahnged in bankruptcy! on Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And the flip side of this is, there's little to no incentive for colleges and universities to try and contain costs. Indeed, it's the other way around; dorms that are as fancy as 3-5 star hotels, incredibly lovely college campuses - this is great, in theory, but it has to be paid for. Me? I went to a 'meh' environment state school, didn't pay a lot for it, and worked my way through > half my education. Again, nothing in life is free; I could have spent 4 years in school and had tens of thousands in debt, or 9 years in school while getting work experience andhave almost no debt.

  16. Re: let student loans be dishcahnged in bankruptcy on Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Last I noted this described every nation on earth, yes?

  17. Re:Companies only care about profits on IBM Sues Microsoft's New Chief Diversity Officer To Protect Diversity Trade Secrets (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    That's interesting, I know many, many conservatives in high tech roles. Clearly it would benefit you to leave the San Jose bubble.

  18. Re:That's the trouble with you Americans on Occupational Licensing Blunts Competition and Boosts Inequality (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you compare it to road fatalities, it's ... wow. Yet people keep driving their assault cars daily! And they do it whilst surfing the web, drinking a coffee, shaving/putting on make up, etc. Incredible.

  19. Re:I'm glad... on Virgin Hyperloop One is Coming To India (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a good question as typically it's libs who can't stand having failures.

  20. Re:I'm glad... on Virgin Hyperloop One is Coming To India (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an easy to to stop having personal debt - stop overspending!

  21. Re:I'm glad... on Virgin Hyperloop One is Coming To India (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The socialist world has had their failures too - Chernobyl for one. Another destroyed town in (the Urals?) in the former USSR, that was completely contaminated. Escapes of bacteriological weaponized anthrax that killed many. Etc.

  22. Re:So Many Buzzwards. on Why Decentralization Matters (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is you have to go to the second derivative, which most people won't do: Make sure your two vendors do not share infrastructure.

  23. Re:Back in my day on Why Decentralization Matters (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Hear, hear! I'm always amazed at the anti-monopolists who think that ever increasing government powers are wonderful. What?

  24. Re:Back in my day on Why Decentralization Matters (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the bell system was broken up many times; AT&T had to divest Bell Canada. Western Electric stopped doing things like sound for movies. They stopped making consume electronics. The latest is of course the 1/1/84 breakup of the former Bell System.

  25. No , that's "Save the Children" (a great charity ) but all I can think of is Sally Struthers saying "For less than the price of cup of coffee..."