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Comment Re:Coastal elitism in this assessment (Score 2) 110

Ok, here's a direct accusation. They made their list directly based on the number of tech jobs, not the number of tech jobs, per capita or the number of unfilled tech jobs, per capita. They made no adjustment for quality of life. They made no intelligent adjustments whatsoever. They simply said, "this city has x number of tech jobs" with no account for how many people live in that fucking city. Who cares if NY has x number of tech jobs, if you're also not accounting for the fact that there are almost 9 million residents?!

This is a great example for plugging the book How to lie with statistics

Comment Coastal elitism in this assessment (Score 4, Interesting) 110

I have a hard time believing this assessment when Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Raleigh-Durham aren't in the list. Of course, let the coastal elites think there aren't any good jobs outside of their bubbles. The last thing we need is more competition for these almost equally paying tech jobs in areas with half the cost of living.

Comment Re:it has been decided (Score 1, Insightful) 177

The buildup phase of groupthink is well past and has fully matured. Half of the western world already conflates holding certain political views with having moral superiority, hence the justification for openly accepted corporate censorship.

The genie's not going back in the bottle without major societal conflict.

Comment I miss my Pebble (Score 1) 32

First Fitbit runs a talent acquisition on the Pebble engineering staff to steal their OS, laying off everyone else, and now maybe Google will come in and Androidify everything and make the original Pebble tech - now Fitbit - even more of a data-mining nightmare.

The Pebble was the ultimate programmable watch. They even had Node.js running native just before the Fitbit acquisition.

Comment Re:"perceived foes" (Score 0) 183

This is your bias speaking. If you think either party isn't the "party of corporations" you've been duped. A Fox News KoolAid drinker will rightly tell you that the Clintons (the first NeoLiberals in the White House) and Obama (who took his cabinet positions from a CitiBank list) are from the party of corporations, and wrongly that the Republicans are the party of traditional values.

Here's some truths the Democrats have lied about, from the last few months, to negate your last sentence and prove they lie too:
  • Biden really did use his son as a vehicle to take bribes from several countries.
  • There is zero tangible evidence that Russia hacked the DNC servers, only the word of a private firm hired by the DNC. The FBI never looked at the servers.
  • At least three of the Kavenaugh witnesses, pushed by Democrats were bald faced lying. Two admitted it to Congress and Michael Avenatti made up things in the affidavit and didn't inform his client.

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