Comment Re:Well that's depressing. (Score 1) 205
And then there is brain dead simple stuff, like "dark matter", which happens to be so red- or blueshifted that we can't directly observe its existence. How hard is that grasp? Yet no one does.
I always thought it was a slope - a lot of bad ones, a fair amount of decent ones, and some really good ones
EXACTLY this. Those "10x more productive than anyone else" programmers people rave about are simply abusing methamphetamine. Not altogether uncommon in startups. Without the drug you'd probably observe an average to below average productivity level in the same individual.
I'd have an easier time finding a unicorn in this culture than a woman who will truly commit to creating a family
Go overseas! The problem is lately people aren't going for foreign women, creating this artificial scarcity of women. A well-to-do 1st-world man can pretty much eat the lunch of the men in any smaller pond in the world. In many cases you can go take one home with you. With the add in benefit that you have good connections in case you need a cheap place to retire.
Happiness is twin floppies.