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alvaromuiron 9M American men in prime working age can’t find jobs. I’m one of them

Here's the thing.

A: in 7 years he couldve gone back to school to learn something else B: most smaller schools I know waive tuition if your unemployed.

C: What's this idea of "stopped looking for work" ? And people say all of us minorities are the ones who want handouts. I've supported a family of 3 on $36k. In New York City. It wasn't easy but I had to do what I had to do.

alvaromuiron Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity

Yes, Downandout, because as president He single-handedly did that. You do realize his political opposition LOVES that stuff, right?

alvaromuiron Show HN: Live visualization of Kafka streams

That is effn' cool.

alvaromuiron Arch Linux on MacBook Pro Retina 2014

Agreed. I'm too old to worry about drivers and compiling kernels. it's exciting when you are a young hacker/tinkerer. Now I just need to get work done. OS X basically 99% perfect for me. Most unix stuff compile no problem, and the OS is free.

alvaromuiron UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository

As a student @ UC Irvine I can tell you top notch talent leads most of their coursework

alvaromuiron President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet

Unfortunately they are the tools of warfare used by enimies of the US as well as domestic terrorists as well. The werent used in the 60's simply because they were not available back then.

Oh, but our government had giving small pox blankets to Native Americans, or syphilis to African Americans or rounding up Asians and putting them 'segregated camps'.

That American History class may not be a bad idea. Just sayin.

alvaromuiron President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet

well said.

alvaromuiron Finnish HTML5 house SC5 pays salary and accepts payments as Bitcoins

Now.. if only my landlord, baby mama and weed dealer would follow suit....

alvaromuiron Super Mario in HTML5

this is amazing

alvaromuiron Thinking the unthinkable

I'm sorry. Im a parent. This lady needs to control her kid. Vote it down if you want, but when 'Michael' snaps and shoots up a school then everyone will say shouldve couldve woudldve. She is clearly ALLOWING this behavior. Funny, no mention of a father.

From experience, mothers are way more tolerant of out of control kids.

This is a tragedy waiting to happen.

alvaromuiron Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform

Congrats on amazing work.

alvaromuiron Smashing Node.JS book is out.

Not to be a hater but this book got MAD programming errors. I guess since its not for beginners, there's no read to technically edit?

I mean, you can infer what he meant but man it would suck if you didn't know JS that well.

I still applaud this man for his contributions though.