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My point was more that it was surprising to me that someone as vilified as Trump still got almost a third of the votes in CA, but I agree that your point makes that look substantia…

Come on, try to make an effort. Your comment is full of straw men.

EDIT: Removed comment. See better response below.

I find it hard to take a 2.4% difference observed through what seems to be a self reported, necessarily imperfect survey[0] seriously. [0] http://www.payscale.com/about/methodology…

Read the studies yourself! :)

That's not what is meant by wage gap, you have been (intentionally) deceived. The gap only works if you do NOT account for things like "doing the same job".

The problem is that the way the issue is (intentionally, I'm sure) presented is with charged phrases like "for every dollar a man makes, a woman only makes X cents". To a reasonabl…

Many people find it more convenient to instead believe the difference is caused by people in charge automatically offering women less than what they would offer a man. Of course, s…

That has been proven false, negligible or within noise over and over. The version stubbornly pushed is simply that median_salary(all women) != median_salary(all men).

The concept of minimum wage is beneficial to the big players as well, because the small players will eventually have neither the money to pay people more than they're worth nor the…

You will also never be able to justify hiring more expensively if you can instead use a cheap/free machine, which is of course where we're heading, since people refuse to acknowled…

> Hackers are demanding a payment of $300 per machine, roughly equal to 300 Bitcoins currently worth around 510,000 euros. EDIT: nvm. Apparently they mean to imply they have about …

Uh, it's their platform, their rules?

Which is a problem why? Uber is not a charity.

How is it Apple's problem to pay for Ireland's mistake?

> If successful, the state would collect 75 percent of the penalty, while the rest would be paid out over to the company's 65,000 employees What is the logic for the state somehow …

Not sure why this type of thing keeps on popping up as "news". The fact that jobs requiring no skill will be driven down to bad conditions/pay/whatever is sort of axiomatically obv…

This entirely depends on what utility you assign to a given amount of money. For many people who are well-enough off to consider having a good risk floor, the utility of a non-life…

Is HN being censored? Why is this not on the front page, with 611 votes as of right now?

I agree with you, I'm just disappointed with the article I guess -- it seems to dress up completely banal information as research/news. For instance it basically says that a largel…

Okay, but what does that have to do with the article? It brings nothing to the table. Of course we should innovate and keep bringing costs of everything down; this will happen with…

This reads like a huge tautology. If you cut down bills people have to pay, they'll have to pay less. Brilliant..? > The good news is that reducing poverty by cutting monthly expen…

Alright, I'll bite, even though I can't vote here, so I suppose my opinion doesn't really matter and I would not say I am a strong supporter of either candidate. There are many iss…