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This is often measured by researchers. It is called a "cost of living" calculation, and every one of these that I have seen indicates that this isn't the case.

>how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude...The average worker can't afford anything without taking on debt. For people from other countries wonde…

I couldn't agree more and I think the road the right takes with "free speech" is purely emotional and makes no sense. What makes HN great isn't that there is free speech, it is tha…

Well first, Twitter literally banned the President of the United States while allowing ISIS and other terrorist groups to have free reign. All this tells me is that one of your fri…

Bad example because the only reason the communist dictatorship in North Korea still exists is that they are propped up by China, and the only reason Chinese dictatorship exists is …

This is historically accurate, sure, but from what I have seen the current ruling class in the West has used this as a cheap excuse at best. It certainly seems to me that they have…

>Yanukovych decided to flee on his own What on earth does that even mean? If you watch the videos the entire city was on fire and the "peaceful protestors" were firing rocket prope…

I'm not religious so I don't feel old growth forest have any sort of spiritual value.

Two things: 1) An all powerful state is the logical conclusion of anyone who believes the collective is more important than the individual. 2) There were many benevolent all powerf…

There are a huge number of cultural differences in the US to other places, with all sorts of different reason behind them (seriously it is like being on a different planet), and th…

>have this shitty ideology where the individual matters more than ... the collective You do realize that the 20th century gave us very good reason to feel this way right?

Ok you have provided zero evidence of anything happening today, the best you had is 40 years ago, and that one was false. >In the 80s we have plenty of lawsuits demonstrating the b…

Forest cover has been increasing in most first world countries since 1970 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?end=2020... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LN…

I remember listening to someone point out (I think it was Sam Harris) that what all ideologies and religions have in common is that they must have, somewhere, a very strange idea t…

It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at le…

> This is the precise argument in favor of diversity: that we have, for centuries now, been discriminating on the basis of race and selecting inferior performers over better choice…

The fact that no one could possibly have a clue what this sentence means is a pretty good indication of how important this work was.

Every release is more bloated, runs more slowly, non of the old problems fixed or improved (e.g. still can't handle large files well and every release handling of graphics gets slo…

You are going to need a very specific citation for that because, if he did, no one working in physics today has heard of it.

I don't understand all these comments saying "Sure Wolfram may be arrogant, but he has achieved amazing things". "lets look at his work and ideas not him as a person". ... What doe…

Yeah but if older you had actually told younger you to relax a bit, would you be where you are now talking about how things are going well, or would you be like OP in the linked ar…

That was the case 10 years ago, but since then they have discovered that all the temperature records since 1950 were wrong, and they have been correcting them. Turns out the comput…

They definitely misinform their audience for money.

Oh believe me, every thread here about physics is exactly like this. 90% of the comments are the most ridiculous crackpot nonsense from people who clearly learned physics by watchi…