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Comment Re:Well, many students are not very good (Score 1) 70

Those that got into CS or IT just because it was easy to get a job even when you were not good at things now find that this approach does not work anymore. For the rest, this is at worst a temporary set-back.

I graduated into the .com bust and was still able to get a job. But it was harder to land, farther away, and for less money than it would have been previously. Take what you can get, and eventually you won't be a junior developer anymore.

Comment Re:Concerts (Score 3, Insightful) 29

I attended a school orchestra concert where one of my children was performing, and I was shocked to see 90% of the audience holding their phones over their heads filming the event. The Whole Time.

There should be a no recording policy, and the event filmed with a real camera up front and then published on the school web site.

I haven't been to a concert since before camera phones. I guess this is what people do nowadays. (Get off my lawn.)

Comment Re:Mass Unemployment / Economic Death Spiral (Score 1) 101

When you tally Uber / Lyft drivers plus OTR Over The Road and Local Route truck drivers you end up with a number that is by far the largest source of employment in the United States, dwarfing the second largest category, K-12 public school teachers by a few million more jobs.

That second largest category could also be automated. I wonder when that will begin?

Comment Re:Public Transit (Score 1) 181

I'm in Virginia. While there is no law specifically against cruising in the left lane, there is a law that if the car behind signals by flashing their lights or honking, the driver has to move to the right. I don't bother, because in practice, the driver in front will either ignore it or will slam on their brakes.

Maryland has no left lane law at all, or any law that you have to signal for lane changes. I despise driving there. I firmly believe that at the head of every traffic jam, there is a Maryland driver.

Comment Re:Public Transit (Score 4, Insightful) 181

In the US, raising the bar to obtain a license would go a long way towards making driving safer. It's almost impossible to not pass the exam, and you only ever take it once.

I also believe raising the penalties for causing a crash would help. You can kill someone and get nothing more than a $50 fine.

It would also help immensely if every state had the law that the left lane is for passing, and it was enforced.

Comment Re:This is clickbait (Score 1) 144

If you voted for Trump you voted to raise your taxes by about $2,000 a year minimum. Do you have a couple hundred dollars a month you can give trump? You're about to find out whether you like it or not...

The 2017 Trump tax cuts were about to expire. Every person reading this would have been paying several thousand more a year in taxes.

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