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I see about three participants making the argument of handwaving. One of them breaks one of the rules of HN in his opening sentence, the other is name calling and the third has made up his mind years back. I also see a couple of dozen decent comments discussing the article. Take from it what you will.

But that is not the argument he makes leading up to the quote. It may seem like semantics, but mixing absolute and relative inequality makes an increase in equality seem unfavorable.

That seem quite hypocritical since you write quite long rambling text yourself. At least show other people, who did upvote it, the respect of reading the article before you flag it.

"So now the fashion establishment calls designers with real vision, like Westwood, "eccentric". Ah, capitalism. Fuck you so much."

While the ambivalent relationship between fashion and commerce isn't new, it does seems like valid criticism.

It would be a much better argument without the strawman of absolute equality.

I don't really get the "I'm indifferent so I don't vote" argument. If you're really indifferent you might as well vote as the downside is minimal, while the downside if you're wrong is quite large e.g. someone is manipulating you into not voting. Sometimes the only way to be rational is to act irrationally.

The iphone is a poor example as the original wasn't carrier subsidized. There were a number of phones that unsubsidized were just as expensive as the original iphone. The cheapest unlocked iphone you can buy today is still $450.

The big question is of course how (or if) Berlin can avoid the same fate as London.

"I don't think I'm the only one in this thread who saw rayiner [...]"

Uhm, no. Like many of rayiners "arguments" it's authoritative rhetorical bullshit. He frames the question, makes some assertions that aren't backed up and leaves the burden of proof on the reader. If you look closely you'll find he's not even taking much of a position on the subject. So even if you manages to disapprove what he's claiming you'll end up in a discussion you can't win since he's the one making up the rules as you go along. Actually this is quite similar to how copyright keeps getting extended.

The "decline" is based on that in the US younger people do worse than older people when compared to other countries. Think of the study as a core sample.

"Some countries are making progress from generation to generation. But in the United States, as in Britain, the literacy and numeracy skills of young people coming into the labor market are no better than those who are about to retire. Americans who are 55 to 65 perform about average in literacy skills, but young Americans rank the lowest among their peers in the countries surveyed. The problem is not so much that the United States has gotten worse, but that it stood still on indicators like high school graduation rates while its foreign competitors rushed forward. Beginning in the 1970s, other developed nations recognized that the new economy would produce few jobs for workers with mediocre skills."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/opinion/the-united-states-...

"The real question is will I be seeing a banner for Southwest when I search for JetBlue."

It's not so much what you are going to see, as what you're not going to see. I'm sure BP is happy to buy a shiny image ad and take traffic away from wikipedias article on the deepwater horizon oil spill.

I'm ok with that. What I'm not ok with is when people use open source as an excuse for mediocrity. Many times you do hear "It's open source, I'm doing this for free, just fork it!" when it probably should be "It's a hobby project, it probably won't go anywhere and the code wasn't really made to be used by someone else, but if you can find something useful you're free to use it". There are a lot of active open source projects out there that spend a lot of time maintaining their project and I think it's kind of "meh" to undermine the positive things they've been working for.

Sweden just isn't made for a high income, high spending scenario. For instance most of the benefits (unemployment, sickness, parental etc.) have a cap. Taxes have also become more progressive in recent years.

If you can find a rent controlled (or otherwise modestly priced) apartment in the city, otherwise I wouldn't bother. It's also not something you can easily offset by a higher salary.

The announcement is delayed to 12:45 CET i.e. 50 minutes from when this comment is posted.

It's pretty difficult to immigrate to most "attractive" places without a degree, the US included.

Yes, that really is a useless metric since the US has four times the population of the next most populous western country (Germany). And btw:

    Sweden - 15.9%

http://esa.un.org/unmigration/migrantstocks2013.htm?mtotals

Unless you have to also swipe a card in which case the fingerprint might be stored on the card. That how it's done where I live since you can't store peoples fingerprints without a good reason.

You probably shouldn't use a computer that has been in the hands of the police anyway. Of course depending on how para^H^H^H^Hcautious you are.

Ah, the downfall of HN personified.

Quite cheap for undermining democracy, free speech and the right to protest.

If something is actually good it rarely has to hide behind something like sexism. It's not like you read xkcd and think "I wish it had more dick jokes".

"The Internet was made by DARPA. Let's stop using it."

A lot of companies probably should, or at least severely limit its use.

Especially in light of recent events where we definitely learned that, while some of the players might have changed, the power structure is still the same.

I think you proved a point here, just probably not the one you expected.

The demonstration is tomorrow from 17:00 at Medborgarplatsen.

https://www.facebook.com/events/144871222386531/

From what I can find there's been around a thousand comments on the subject over the last week. Three comments called someone xenophobic, all of those where directed at pg. No comment called anyone else on HN a racist. So either I'm missing something or you're doing the exact same thing you accuse others of, making false accusations and overreacting.

Who is the really the "thought police" here? You're the one trying to ridicule people whose opinion you don't agree with while hiding behind some "warm and fuzzy" sarcasm.

"The release, by CBS News, of the photographs"

So why can't I find this at CBS news or any other reputable source?

I would guess they are going for an IPO soon and tries to attach themselves to something sufficiently vague that seems bigger than themselves.