RickJWag's comments

Reminds me of when Trump won the Republican nomination-- a gob of stories ran with basically the same theme and spin.

There's no such thing as straight news. It's all spin, one way or the other.

Here's Politico's take on the Trump speech lockstep reaction: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-convention-spee...

Reminds me of the monetary damages levied against people who shared music files.

There was a wrong-doing, but the punishment is excessive.

Not victimless. That fraudulent vote cancelled a legitimate one.

The punishment is excessive, but there is a real crime here.

They'll be bored out of their skulls in no time.

And if kids come along-- well, they'll want to go back to work anyway.

It's no use being jealous of those that have lots of money. It comes with it's own problems, by the way.

The good lesson of the article is this: If we spend less than we make (no matter the amount), we can eventually stop working if we allow the magic of compound interest to work for us.

We have yet to return to the excellent pop music of the 80s.

Count me in the 'skip the Starbucks and buy index funds' category.

Over time, it will make you much richer than you'd otherwise be. It really works.

Wow, my home state of South Dakota at the top of the rankings.

Snow days must have something to do with it.

"This situation can’t endure for long – years, perhaps, but not decades."

Time will prove this to be nonsense.

You can learn a lot from old TV.

I saw a Miami Vice episode a while back, the Bad Guy noted that the Dow Jones was about to break 1400.

It's a constant upward trail, with peaks and valleys along the way. Don't bet against it.

Great article. Hacker News paydirt!

Thankfully, we avoided war-supporting Hillary Clinton.

Are there bad cops? Sure.

But most police are honest. They work a dangerous job, at low pay, and with a mostly ungrateful public. These days, they are a political football with a powerful press working against them.

I'm glad cops are there. It'll be a bad day when the 'Ferguson effect' becomes amplified.

As a near-Boomer (early Gen-Xer) I do believe I fell into a lucky time. I left high school, then a quick college-paying stint in the service to a red-hot economy in 1990. (Ronald Reagan was to thank for that, and Bill Clinton kept it going.) I started in Programming then, it's been a great ride to this day.

I think kids today have it harder, the opportunity isn't there. AI may take the programming jobs, I'm not sure. (Kids today also have to be exceptionally well-grounded, I think there's a lot more ways to go astray.)

I wish the Millenials good luck-- they'll need it.

As a baby boomer, this would have confused me 'till recently.

I've been studying generational differences for an upcoming talk, so I'm tuned into generational attitudes.

We had a mail-list thread this past week about an employee who felt lonely. I found it hard to relate to, but someone on the thread mentioned a YouTube video by Simon Sinek, it's about Millennials in the workplace. It really clicked-- I can see how some people feel this way.

Nothing, really. Except business guests really like to have a nearby airport to fly into.

I know this as I used to work for Acxiom, headquartered in Conway, Arkansas. (Population: about 30k then, an hour from the Little Rock airport). It really was a restriction.

Ask an American Indian how that worked out for them. They had treaties, after all.

Indeed. A majority of Americans support making late-term abortions illegal. (With good reason. It really is a baby human that's being slaughtered.)

Such nonsense. What would Vox know about rural America?

Rural Americans are mad about being called 'flyover states', about being called racists (really for voting against Democrats) and for being portrayed as backwards.

Rural Americans are great people, the same as urban Americans. If you can't see the good in other people, the problem isn't with them.

At the time, I'm sure Ford's ideas were considered very progressive and a gift to the indigenous people.

Today, he's the target of a critical article like this one. (There's more criticism of Winston Churchill on HN today, too.)

My theory is that the world has become so prosperous (at least parts of it) that people have no idea what's good and what's not any more.