cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
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cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue
yes, that's why Canada is just as bad a Mexico, with Canadian drug cartels mass beheading their rivals in the streets of Toronto.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
You're waving around your favorite poor white trash hit piece, just like you haters have been doing since it was published.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
The "comfortable professional class" doesn't like having their contempt and hate called out, so they mod down their critics.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
"comfortable professional class"
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
"So basically increase the cost of goods for everyone so more people can be employed at a higher wage?"
Whenever the topic happens to be energy higher costs are offered as proper penance.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
...and it wasn't actually that difficult to pick up on either.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
If someone in establishment media wrote with such contempt for any aggrieved minority in the US, for instance the millions of black Americians that destroy themselves, their families and their communities with drugs, alcohol and aggressive anti-intellectualism, they'd be drummed out of the elite bubble as 'racist.' But you can shit on white trash if you want; the Internet will cite your hate for years when you single out those people.
How brave.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
"increasing minimum wage, make it easier to unionize, universal health care, protecting/expanding social security, and a bunch of other policies"
Despite what every source of 'truth' that you have self selected has trained you to believe, we don't actually want more bennies. Subsisting on the bennies you decide you can afford for us is not our aspiration.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party
"compelling message for the working class"
They have a compelling message for the working class. It's a message of contempt and hate. The long marriage of the working class and Democrats has ended and it wasn't the working class that walked out the door. The Democrats are down to the comfortable professional class preening its "values" and a coalition of grievance groups. Everyone else is on the other side pulling back on the stick to stop the dive before we run out of altitude.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down
I read that headline too, but the actual story didn't provide any evidence to support it. Schumer's 'Leather Special' was your usual tedious progressive lecture disguised as comedy with a few laughs and a lot of porn, and was modded appropriately, but that doesn't connect it to the Netflix rating change as far as I can see.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: “Eurocentric modernist” thinking is exploding
Kanth, like many, senses that a global financial crisis, or some other equivalent catastrophe, like war or natural disaster, may soon produce painful and seismic economic and political disruptions.
"many" "some" "like/or" "may" "soon"
That's about the safest prediction I've ever seen; whatever discontinuity the future brings Kanth and his "many" are right!
And no, the Western world is not a failure because Trump got elected. Calm yourself. A little push back on the Progressive Project (tm) isn't the end of the world. The truth is that if you could find some way to tolerate not overwhelming your precariat with foreigners you could have your way for the foreseeable future, unchallenged. But what good is power if you can't inflict "our values" on the plebs, right?
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Lethal Opiates Delivered by Mail from China, Killing Addicts in the U.S
Indeed, "some" do. Also, some would have you take your Blame America First group-think elsewhere instead of shitting up HN with it.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls
Here is the article covering that:
"Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads."
It then goes on to sort-of suggest that despite this new pain the net benefit will be better for "working-class" people......somehow. No thoughts were offered on how to keep the toll revenue from just padding out civil servant pensions and benefits while the traffic and roads muddle on.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
Indeed they are; Vox has improved the Q factor of the left wing echo chamber like nothing since the rise of huffpo.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: The story of Heady Topper, Americas most loved craft beer
>> general American public does not enjoy quality
Even in midwest Trump country where I live atm I have my choice of three excellent craft brewers inside a five mile radius, operating for years now, the places are packed full of "general Americans" every single time I visit. The "general American public" is driving a $22 billion+ craft brewing market and nearly every podunk cow town big enough to have a WalMart also has a "brewing company" now. Tilt your head forward so your snoot isn't so high in the atmosphere and maybe you'll be able to spot some actual "general Americans" as opposed to the knuckle dragging rice beer drinkers you decorate inside your mind.
I've been through all the brew pubs in the Boulder/Fort Collins "Front Range" area as well. Never heard anyone so much as mention "Heady Topper." The story is just hype. Someone buffing up the trademark for a sale maybe.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: The story of Heady Topper, Americas most loved craft beer
>> Heady Topper isn't sold outside of Vermont
And yet it's "America's most loved"... Never heard of it myself.
Beer hype. I've no doubt someone's gone off the deep end to get their hands on some; people do a lot of stupid things on behalf of the cliques they aspire to. There just seems to be a lot of this when it involves crafty beer stuff.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: New Rust hash table leads Benchmarks Game
>> while Rust is fairly young based on the 1.0 release date, there was a large amount of time prior to that where the language underwent a number of changes.
Both Rust and Java had similar intervals between start of development and 1.0 release, which is what I carefully referenced my claims to. The comparison is fair; deliberately conservative actually given Java 1.0 in 1995 (now 22 years ago.)
>> I don't see a reason that both Rust and Java's results can't be impressive in their own right.
The state of the art has moved on. There was a time when Java pulling to within 50-ish percent of a 45 year old programming language was impressive; back around 2005 or so. It's old hat now and there is little evidence the gap is going to close much further.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: New Rust hash table leads Benchmarks Game
>> Java is showing quite impressive numbers!
359% more RAM isn't very impressive. Even less so when one considers the 20+ years of effort spent to achieve it.
You know what impresses me? A 22 month old language besting everything else while guaranteeing no segfaults or NPEs at compile time. That's impressive.
cnnsucks | 9 years ago | on: Americans Hold Over $4.1T in Consumer Debt
>> forced
There is no force involved; please maintain perspective. There are no debtors prisons filled with 20-something Berkeley graduates. Every penny of every student loan was voluntarily assumed by the debtors. The terms for much of this debt allow payments to be deferred based on income. The average amount of student debt being carried is typically less than the cost of a new car. We deal here with "first world problems."
>> but it never seems to happen
2008? TARP? "Great Recession"?
It clearly registers on every measure of economic activity I've seen. Rather hard to miss, really. You can have a look and the 07-08 collapse of property values over here if you missed it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_housing_bubble#/...
It's the foundational document of the most powerful, prosperous nation in the history of the species. Things like that attract allegiance. It would be strange if it didn't.
"It seems like some people believe all new laws shouldn't exist if they're not in the Constitution."
Your "some people" straw man is likely fictional, or at least very rare. Laws that conflict with the constitution can be struct down via Judicial Review. Otherwise new laws are entirely compatible with the constitution. The US and its various states have no difficulty producing reams of new laws that survive the constitution just fine.