Interesting to see the posts almost exclusively macro here. What about the micro. While I benefit from an urban environment in which raising a family is easier I don't even have to get into a car there's still so many daily challenges and unglamorous moments I have so much sympathy for everyone else who's raising kids... it still feels invisible to many.
Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
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Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you could improve one small, concrete thing about your government issues, what would it be?
Positions don't have to be filled. Blank votes should be counted and, if the majority , throw the election; or, even better, the majority of people on voter's rolls, should be the condition to be elected.
Excellent. Do you know of someone who agrees with you, in your same municipality?
Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell me more. What exactly would you like to redistribute that wealth to ? What specific measurement is your concern? Also, please don't use the voting buttons for things you disagree with. I'm trying to have a productive conversation here.
Equality in quality of Education As better education/tution leads to over achievement relative to natural ability. So you end up with people in positions of power that are beyond them, and low educated voter too
Ahh. Are you aware of the argument that education shouldn't be funded with property taxes, to even it out?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we've got a higher level of comfort, why does it matter?
I don't like how HN users downvote honest questions instead of engaging with it. Left you an upvote because I'm interested in responses to this.
I appreciate you! My goal here is to guide people who care about things to take a little step toward working on them. :)
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't like how HN users downvote honest questions instead of engaging with it. Left you an upvote because I'm interested in responses to this.
I appreciate you! My goal here is to guide people who care about things to take a little step toward working on them. :)
And I got down voted. Lol.
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#57Got a referral to work as a Solution Architect at a company from the Senior Sales Person who I will literally be paired up with to talk to customers. Outgoing architect also said I would be perfect for the role. Got on a call with their internal recruiter who cut me off partway through most of my answers about my background and then received and automailer rejection.
That someone who would be bearing the impact of a bad hire recommended me and some recruiter who openly admitted she didn't know much about that side of the business made the call to drop me left a pretty bad taste in my mouth about the company
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#58Wealth concentration beyond a point which would have resulted in widespread revolution 150 years ago, but that is now being tolerated because we've grown accustomed to a level of comfort we don't want to risk losing.
Someone else being rich doesn't make you poor.
Garys Economics would like to have a word with you
Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we've got a higher level of comfort, why does it matter?
I don't like how HN users downvote honest questions instead of engaging with it. Left you an upvote because I'm interested in responses to this.
Yes, it's presumably a problem, but you also can't know why somebody is downvoting. They might believe a comment is dishonest or distracting or otherwise low-quality or non-curious, or breaks one of the subjective site rules.
I try not to make assumptions when I get downvoted. I think: Maybe I was a little sarcastic or aggressive or I implied something weaselly; or maybe the downvoter just disagreed with me. I don't assume either way, and I don't guess about moral high ground or whatever. All my comment's points tell me is what delta of people clicked the down arrow, not what was in their heads individually.
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#60i live in the US and cant get something sent here to save my life
i used to get weekly packages from indie european stores and samples from asia
since tarrifs, that has dropped to zero, with 90% of my shipments being returned for cryptic reasons (like 'incomplete address' when the full address is correct and visible) or outright 'No' from sellers
its starting to feel less like random failure and more like "system working as designed" :(