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We have rising inequality and also about 137,000 less people miserably poor each day. It's complicated. https://www.cato.org/blog/what-newspapers-reported-real-news...
As Thatcher has famously said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37Oy8dD-U4
[0] “Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind,” page 91.
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We have rising inequality and also about 137,000 less people miserably poor each day. It's complicated. https://www.cato.org/blog/what-newspapers-reported-real-news...
Inequality is not that bad when everyone is getting richer even at the very bottom. Inequality speech is the tree hiding the forest.
https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-wages-arent-growing-in-america
That's difficult for those in upper middle class jobs to comprehend though, but in less fortunate areas and slices of the population, it's everyday life.
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At 76, I think it's fair to say he just died. I actually had no idea he was that old. Maybe he looked younger than he was because he had no wrinkles.
Nobody "just dies". Most "natural deaths" are still heart failure. The rest are other kinds of organ failure. For a lot of people that die natural deaths they could have lived longer if they had kept fit. It just gets really hard to either do or justify when everything hurts and gets harder to do year over year. Or when you are confined to a wheelchair since your early 20s, were told you would only live two years, an…
But after a certain point, that cause of death starts looking pretty meaningless. Everything is failing at once; if you hadn't died of your actual cause of death, you would have died shortly afterwards from another one. In that sense, you do "just die" of old age.
His last comment on the Internet is relevant to Hacker News.. someone asked him about unemployment due to automation and the rise of technology[1]: "If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby again…
RIP.
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As Thatcher has famously said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37Oy8dD-U4
Let’s please honor the man and not link to her wretchedness. Steven Hawking hated Thatcher and regretted never having the chance to run over her toes[0] [0] “Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind,” page 91.
Thatcher should never be mentioned in a thread dedicated to his legacy. He wouldn't have got this far if she had her way.
Stephen Hawking was very special to me. He's a large part of why I chose a life in science in general and physics in particular. I'm just one of many, but he unmistakably and uniquely affected my life for the better. Growing up, I read Brief History of Time and Universe In A Nutshell dozens of times each. I relished the jokes I got, and I won't forget him. I also weep for him, knowing he never got the Nobel prize he…
I had the honor of attending one of his lectures at CWRU in undergrad. Two things forever stick out in my memory. #1 - That he told jokes during his lecture. To be wheelchair bound, facing a degenerative condition... and still have humor. Inspiring. #2 - The respectful silence. At least at the lecture I attended, he live keyed his entire speech. This meant the synthesizer would speak, followed by 20 or 30 seconds of…
He was "typing" one bit at a time? How can he type the entire sentence so quickly?
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We have rising inequality and also about 137,000 less people miserably poor each day. It's complicated. https://www.cato.org/blog/what-newspapers-reported-real-news...
Cato Institute is about as trustable for facts about poverty as my cat is for facts about quantum mechanics. Here's a rebuttal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/1...