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This is absolutely retarded. In my my neighborhood I've seen an increase in luxury cars in the last 3 years or so. Porche SUVs, BMW SUVs, Teslas, etc. I think to myself, 8 years ago these folks were crying in a ditch..and they have forgotten about it already.

How about we make society more equal instead of sending people that stand out already even quicker to the "top".

It is, but their audiance are often fundamental Christians who gobble up anything that matches their conservative ideas (which usually involves limiting other people's freedoms). Look at Trump right now, total scumbag if you look at the evidence, but somehow the represents their "values".

Let me also point out that conservative in this case does not mean US conservative. US conservatism is slowly creeping towards theological conservatism.

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That's exactly why you need public media. Not everybody can afford NYT

I disagree. Government can fund media, without you immediately thinking of Russia. Being Dutch originally, I would refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_public_broadcasting_syst...

Note that this is not a closed system where there is no private news/tv.

Also, look at DW (Deutsche Welle) and BBC. Whatever your opinion, these still provide much better information than whatever you can get in the US (well, you can actually get BBC/DW).

I would love to hear a better approach.

I actually think the fact that many people in the US coming from less free/developed countries is a problem (not the fact that they are here). They might come here thinking..wow this is great..this must be how it's supposed to be (together with the existing citizens who constantly hear they live in the greatest/free-est country on the planet). While when e.g. a Northern European comes here they are amazed by what kind of shit-show it sometimes is in this country.

I think it prevents real change from happening. Questioning why things are they way they are. Should some of the fundamental just be changed/replaced? What country do we want to live in? Do we want people worrying about going bankrupt because they got sick or went to school? Do we want to worry about drinking lead poisoned water? etc etc.

Sorry, I went way off topic. Trump apparently also want to defund PBS/NPR. I see a clear pattern here. None of these ideas will save substantial money and will erode democracy. Who else is going to educate the busy citizen about world events? CNN/Fox?

I feel like I sleep better when I'm backpacking. Even though I sleep less comfortable without my own bed, and I might even wake up during the night, I feel much more refreshed in the morning (5:30am). Of-course I sleep before 9pm and am exercising during the day. But just the fact that I have nothing to worry about or think about helps a lot.

If companies are really in it because there is a shortage they should pay H1Bs the same wage. If not, limit H1Bs. I'm pretty sure Thiel will prevent this from happening

Pick a more expressive language. Less code will mean less arms on the table. All kidding aside, exercise will have benefits on all levels.

What is the motive for the CIA to lie?

I always use plumbing as an example. You never hear about that being not diverse enough. Look, I'm all for equal pay, but I didn't see those ladies in my classroom 10-15 years ago. Only after it became "cool" to be a nerd, seeing that there is money to be made being a nerd, and realizing that living in a major city can't be subsidized by whatever they chose to study, did they start hammering on about this.

Equal pay will be very difficult to enforce unless you make salaries public. I can assure you that among your peers there are plenty of differences in compensation.

More like "why not to use Python"

Same in the Netherlands. It's changing, but when I went to "high school" (age of ~12) you could go to a vocational school to become e.g. carpenter, electrician, etc. When you are 16 you are set to get into that profession. You will still attend school until 18, 1 day a week. You can also level up and go to a higher level vocational school all the way up to university.

I wouldn't completely disallow cars (e.g. for the real locals) but I would make it less pleasant (e.g. more expensive) to drive your car through cities. When I visit Amsterdam I don't drive to the city center of Amsterdam, I drive to some train/bus station where I can park the car and get a ride into town that is included in the parking ticket. Parking in the city center is very expensive and it's a pain to drive.

So yes, transportation hubs!

A mission to Mars is nothing but a distraction from the real issue(s).

People need to be taught how to use the internet. There are too many noobs that just gobble up whatever they want to hear. It's already a lot safer to say "if your opinion doesn't match with what's on wikipedia, you are probably wrong"

There is a cause/causation issue BUT it does so happen to be that these countries have a: high living standard, little inequality, rank high on press freedom, high upward mobility.

These monarchies also have very little to no power, so an argument against them, other than the financial burden, usually doesn't hold.

I'm glad OP took the road less traveled. I'm getting pretty tired of people living up to their stereotypes.

Use Scala or some other statically typed language for building bigger stuff. Python might be nice for the first 3 lines but you will be convinced once you need to do some serious refactoring.