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Comment Low Pay (Score 1) 318

The average coal miner makes over $20 an hour. In most of the places where mining is performed this is very good money. That's a bit over 40K a year while the median pay for coders is a little over 80K. Given the need to move to another location and most likely in an area where prices are much higher it might actually result in a lower standard of living.

Comment Re:You first (Score 1) 207

In a large urban area a public transportation system is as vital as the roadway itself. It's insane not to have one. I've lived in big cities although now I live in the country and I always used public transport when possible. Now I'm retired so I stay home for days or weeks at a time and I've debated just getting rid of the car and calling for a ride the 3 or 4 times a month I want to go somewhere. But then I'm a hermit.

Comment Re:You first (Score 5, Insightful) 207

Public transportation in big cities SHOULD solve those problems. I lived in Germany for 3 years and parking was such a bitch that I took public transportation all the time. In Atlanta, the largest oversize urban zone near me, public transportation is shitty which is why so many people don't use it. The real problem with US cities is the idiots running them.

Comment Re:microsoft doesn't care.. (Score 1) 445

It's not malware unless you consider windows itself malware. The update choked and then went into a loop with unending access of the hard drive causing it to take 5 minutes for chrome to open. It was a mid range dell laptop not a dirt cheap unit. You must be in tech I guess since you have their overwhelming "blame the user" mantra. Peecees, thanks to the monopoly of microsoft, are one of the few industries to get to do that and the consumers accept it.

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