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Comment Re:Big woop (Score 1) 170

or perhaps because world events went through a sort of unusually calm period in the 80s and 90s

sure as shit ain't that...

or perhaps it's as simple as the notion that we were mostly sheltered by our parents as children to some extent and didn't truly open our eyes to the reality of the world until we got older.

and that's where I'd put my money.

Comment Re:APIs can be creative works; we need another pla (Score 1) 260

If the copyrightable APIs that you desire existed at the time then Linux could never well have come into existence and we would only have proprietary Unix which would have never would have taken off like Linux has since the primary attraction of Linux is the open source nature of it.

What?

Linux ate proprietary unix's lunch.... which could not have happened unless proprietary unix had a lunch to eat. They had already taken off.

Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007

do you know how fucking hard it would be to resurrect someone... like, really? the persistence of consciousness alone... or magic. a world with magic is not compatible with the world we think of ourselves in.

It's just a matter of restoring from a backup. That's what backups are *for* anyways.

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 558

By the way; what the fuck are Rite Aid and CVS?

They're two large drugstore chains in the US. CVS has locations in almost every state (looks like about 5 or 6 don't have one).

And, quoting from Rite Aid's site

With approximately 4,600 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia, we have a strong presence on both the East and West Coasts. Rite Aid is the largest drugstore chain on the East Coast and the third-largest in the United States

Comment Re:Hold on a minute (Score 2) 198

In rural Illinois you'd pay $500/month mortgage on a reasonable 3 bedroom home in a safe middle class neighborhood, in Dallas you'd pay maybe $700, in Albuquerque you'd pay $800, in Miami you'd pay $1200. So, the biggest gap there is $700/mo. That's $8,400 a year.

I paid around $1300 / month to rent a 2 bedroom apartment roughly 30 miles east of Manhattan. Was a decent but not great neighborhood. And this was 10 years ago. Mortgage + taxes for a decent sized house in NYC suburbs can easily run you over $3k / month. Now your biggest gap is $2500 / month, or over $30k a year. Other expenses add up as well. I've often joked that the nice thing about being a tourist from the NYC area is you barely notice how much you're getting gouged for food at tourist traps. It's a comparatively small markup.

Comment Re:Hold on a minute (Score 2) 198

And your sister might make that, but the average salary for a teacher in the US (across all levels of experience) is close to $50k.

Going to quote a bit selectively from various spots for a second here...

My sister-in-law is a teacher for a high school in NJ, and makes over $80k a year.

If those high salaries are in Silicon Valley or New York, though, they might not seem as high as half the same rate would in Omaha, or Houston, or Raleigh.

Emphasis mine.

If the highly paid programmers are skewed towards certain high cost of living markets, then it's fairer to compare salaries against other professions in those same markets, and not nationwide averages.

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