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agarjogger posted:I don't think things are that bad for them at all right now, most of them have a reasonable expectation of a house before thirty. It's when the inevitable surplus of STEM hits that we're going to see some seriously pissed-off MechE grads. This surplus being so completely inevitable because no one will shut the gently caress up about the certainty of these degrees, and will not shut up until its five years too late. It's actually pretty funny because my university is planning to effectively double the number of engineers here in the next 10 years (to 25,000 students ). The impact of this program is effectively causing a mini housing bubble as everyone and their mother builds apartment complexes.
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Kobayashi posted:This is so true, and so sad. Anyone who thinks the Bay Area is the last bastion of progressive values should read up on last year's BART strike. The union got its rear end kicked in the court of public opinion. Management would have broken the union outright had two workers not been killed during the strike. I'm not really convinced this is a new attitude though, just one that people didn't pay attention to until recently. "gently caress the homeless" definitely isn't new.
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May 1, 2014 23:18
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Nonsense posted:A lot of college-bound young people are either bleeding heart, or stone-cold, but all agree unions are 'not needed', and the simple go to is that unions are a business started in your business to take from your business to sustain theirs. Anecdotally it's more that unions are not even thought of. It's like the shapes from Flatland trying to conceptualize a third dimension, it just doesn't come up.
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May 7, 2014 05:21
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Did the number of people using CAAP decrease as well? Perhaps they just kicked people off of the program. e: I guess by the name it's a county program but you get my concern, how do we know that people weren't just kicked off of the program?
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May 8, 2014 19:15
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ProperGanderPusher posted:An engineer friend of mine is chomping at the bit to move to Texas someday. He's never been there, but he feels he'll save a shitload of money and be able to own a fuckton of land (which he'll proceed to do nothing with since all he does is play video games all day) if he moves there. California's sales tax is 7.5% so it's less than a 1% increase (8.25%), plus there's no income tax either. I can also guarantee that coming from the Bay Area you will have cheaper cost of living no matter where you go (of course no where is really as good as the Bay Area but still). e: the 8.25% rate is also the maximum allowed rate in Texas; in California you can add another 1.5% on top of the baseline tax too.
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May 16, 2014 03:55
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Yeah the Dallas suburbs are basically full of the Orange County types of wealthy conservative assholes. Those are the guys you normally have to worry about in Texas politics.
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May 16, 2014 15:41
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enraged_camel posted:As someone considering moving from Long Beach, CA to Austin, I'm very much looking forward to it. I've visited the latter multiple times, and as far as I can tell, it has better beer, prettier women who are way less fake, friendlier and more down-to-earth people, and a way more interesting culture. Not to mention actual seasons. Be warned that while Texas (Austin especially) has "actual seasons" you will often be able to see all of them within the same
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May 17, 2014 00:19
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Telesphorus posted:I've concluded that California's liberalism is largely a facade covering up libertarianism. Prop 13 passed before Reagan became President. If anything that just shows that California's system is very resistant to change.
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May 26, 2014 19:36
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As a general rule you don't want to put your capitol in your largest city because your capitol is going to have a fair amount of population just by virtue of being the center of government. Basically it helps stem the notion that everyone not in [big city's region] is a bunch of dumbshit rednecks who don't deserve to be listened to (though that certainly hasn't helped some states, e.g. New York).
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Jun 4, 2014 05:13
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Kobayashi posted:This kind of "gently caress you I'm rich / poor people get out" attitude is everywhere in SF right now. Which is why it's going to be really funny when the bubble pops and everyone loses their shirts.
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Jun 17, 2014 21:15
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on the left posted:Yes, exactly, Google is far from a whites-only company. Now men, on the other hand...
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Jun 18, 2014 02:24
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Kaal posted:I completely agree with this, and I've definitely noticed it too. There's something extremely problematic with the notion that blacks are the only real diversity. I mean, excuse me? What the gently caress does that say about equality in America? Why are there apparently insignificant numbers of Hispanics, despite California being a minority-majority state?
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Jun 18, 2014 05:45
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Space-Bird posted:It's weird. I don't know a single person who doesn't want better public transport in the Bay Area. Most people want to pay for it too, but local politics seem to prevent anything productive from happening. What's the "real story" behind it? If it's like anywhere else it's probably a combination of disagreements over the exact implementation (routes and the like) and having multiple jurisdictions that you have to deal with which adds to confusion (e.g, there's the SF government but also the Oakland government, etc).
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Jun 21, 2014 04:07
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on the left posted:The graduation rate of Black/Latino people is dramatically different from Whites and Asians, both in the UC system and in general. Getting them into school doesn't help if they wash out or have a poor GPA (a contributing factor in the washout problem). The UC system has an 85% 6 year graduation rate. ( http://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/documents/accountabilityreport13.pdf , page 42)
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Jul 1, 2014 13:58
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Xandu posted:
The median age of Google is 29. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/technology-workers-are-young-really-young/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 quote:The seven companies with the youngest workers, ranked from youngest to highest in median age, were Epic Games (26); Facebook (28); Zynga (28); Google (29); and AOL, Blizzard Entertainment, InfoSys, and Monster.com (all 30). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only shoe stores and restaurants have workers with a median age less than 30.
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Jul 2, 2014 00:29
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on the left posted:I am sure this is true for Africa as well, but there are plenty of well-qualified Hispanics in central and south America who can't get visas to come work for Google in the USA. If congress would fix the visa situation, a lot more diversity would take place. Hispanics are definitely hurt by the fact that immigration has been dominated by the uneducated/unskilled, who will then have children who are behind their peers, and so on and so forth. There are also plenty of well qualified Hispanics in America too but for *some* reason Google et all aren't hiring them. (And again this applies to non-tech workers as much as tech workers)
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Jul 2, 2014 01:09
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on the left posted:Only a small percentage of hispanics have bachelors degrees, and markedly less than the African American population: And even with those figures Black people and Latinos are still under-represented by a large margin (they should be 2-5 times higher than they are at Google even if you're only counting the native population*). *And again, this is with non-tech jobs, i.e. the ones that are highest in Black/Latino representation.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:23
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cheese posted:There was a book that talked about the shift towards ideologically homogenous neighborhoods but I can't remember the title of it for the life of me. tl;dr most of us used to live in neighborhoods that were a lot more diverse in terms of political ideology, but white flight/suburbanization has created many more places across the country where you will no longer have to see or interact with the political other. I severely doubt this or at least I doubt it actually existed for very long given the urbanization trends of the US. Maybe it was more prevalent in California than the country as a whole.
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Jul 3, 2014 18:37
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Trabisnikof posted:Most evidence points towards peak housing integration being in the past so that aligns with idea that neighborhoods were more diverse. Yeah, which is why I added "I doubt it actually existed for very long ".
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Jul 3, 2014 18:46
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Chegg runs a "pay to cheat on your homework" service as well.
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Jul 11, 2014 03:28
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Forceholy posted:Wait, what? They have a "unified help session" where people can post questions to homework (like physics etc) and get answers. These questions (but not the answers) are conveniently cached on Google so people have an incentive to sign up. It's hard to find prices online but it costs ~$15/month for this service.
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Jul 11, 2014 03:57
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Bobby Digital posted:iTunes music hasn't had DRM since 2009. And that was quite clearly a requirement of the labels and not something Apple wanted.
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Jul 11, 2014 16:06
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enraged_camel posted:Please provide quotations from this thread that supports this assertion. Hmmm.
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Jul 12, 2014 01:25
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enraged_camel posted:What exactly is "self-centered" or "entitled" about that statement? Here, I'll provide it again for context: I'll give you a hint: if someone from Detroit said that regarding the automobile would you think they were self-centered or entitled?
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Jul 12, 2014 03:47
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enraged_camel posted:Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to attach too much meaning to that statement to begin with. I simply posted it in response to your dismissal of Silicon Valley as "businesses out to make money as they should." No, SV is a lot more than that. To understand this, you need to understand how innovation happens. Literally every urban center that's not a decaying husk fits the description of "innovation center" and "full of businesses out to make money". The point is that you're not more special than Chicago, Houston, or NYC.
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Jul 13, 2014 00:19
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Leperflesh posted:I never claimed SV invented the computer. But anything in the world that is running a modern computer is using SV-created technology, absolutely. And Dallas-created technology, and New York created technology, and [urban area] created technology.
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Jul 16, 2014 19:33
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Family Values posted:Right, SV hates taxes. That's why Santa Clara voted against Prop 30, which increased taxes on high income earners. Oh wait, Santa Clara county actually passed it by a solid margin. Yeah but I bet those evil fucks in San Mateo rejected it, after all that's where the real richies form SV live. Nope, they passed it by double digit margins too. But mah taxes! They also voted near evenly for Prop 31 though.
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Jul 17, 2014 16:24
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Aeka 2.0 posted:If I've been conserving water for the past few months and then we see a mandatory conservation, will they take my previous record into consideration or will they demand more and then fine me because I can't go further because I started early? Well, a sensible application of the policy is to take the average water use and tell everyone they have to be under x% of that average. But sensible is sort of optional I guess.
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Jul 18, 2014 06:46
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Trabisnikof posted:
I'm guessing these are "things the US makes" rather than "things available in US markets" (for example, most of the olives I see are from somewhere in Europe rather than California).
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Aug 7, 2014 23:40
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Leperflesh posted:I would say that we can't afford to water orange groves any more... but I bet a sprawling housing development full of 4000-square-foot homes with swimming pools and green lawns uses several times more water per acre than an orange grove. If there's ~10 trees/person then they use equivalent amounts of water.
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Sep 4, 2014 01:11
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cheese posted:This is true of literally every state. Not to defend central valley conservatives, but "rich areas with high cost of living paying more in per capita taxes than poor areas with cheap cost of living" is pretty much the norm and almost inevitable math wise. That map could also read "the people with the most money own homes in these yellow areas" and it would be true. It's also limited by only looking at state sales tax and income tax. If you're primarily a farmer the latter won't apply to you, and if 20% of your county is below the poverty line you're not going to generate much sales tax either.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:21
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Leperflesh posted:Kind of missing the point, here, guys. Are the poor people themselves voting Republican though? Just as a cursory example, Kings County (one of the ones on the map) had 41% of their voting population* vote for Obama in 2012. That's a pretty significant percentage and could be indicative of other things happening than just "dumb rural hicks voting against their interests". *Which, incidentally, was only 30% of the entire population of the county, and the county itself is majority Hispanic. That doesn't sound like "rah dumb white people". e: Based on the above figures, only 18% of the county actually voted for the Republicans, though something like 12% of the county are inmates alone and ~6% are immigrants. computer parts fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Leperflesh posted:Low voting turnout is common everywhere in the US, that's hardly surprising. And a 60/40 split is considered a landslide victory for the party getting 60. Of course not everyone in the area votes republican, but the majority of the people who show up to vote do. Voter suppression is also not a new concept. Leperflesh posted:
I think the people that use these services are not the ones that are voting.
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Leperflesh posted:
We were talking about the state programs.
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Sep 28, 2014 15:10
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FRINGE posted:New malpractice practice: Cut off someones leg "by accident"? 20 years minimum in prison for negligence and medical torture-equivalence for everyone involved. Or at least it would discourage the practice of 30 hour shifts.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:So stock up on gasoline and assless chaps. Spiked shoulder-pads optional. So, become a Raiders fan.
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Oct 15, 2014 21:02
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Trabisnikof posted:That capacity. I'm saying that if we taxed Almonds to force farmers to grow more Tomatoes, which use 50% of the water needed for Almonds per acre, we'd just grow 2x as many acres of Tomatoes. Only if demand for tomatoes was inelastic (which it's not, they're perishables).
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Zeitgueist posted:How in gently caress did such an unabashedly good prop get on the ballot and pass? It doesn't apply to current felons unless the justice system wants it to (so probably not). Keep the cynicism alive!
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Sydin posted:4. Banks are suddenly getting far less money from their student loans. Yes, in the long term they will theoretically get it all back since the debt can't be discharged, but with $1 trillion or whatever it is now tied up in student debt, even having 10% of that return nothing for 2-5 years would be debilitating to a lot of banking institutions and could potentially tip us into another 08' style crash. Banks have actually been a relatively minor part of the student loan issue since the ACA passed. Non-federal loans are up but a large number of those are state loans.
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Leperflesh posted:Building additional housing capacity helps everyone even if all the additional housing capacity is luxury, unless all the additional housing capacity is filled by people moving into the region from outside it. Though this is ignoring the unique costs associated with the California market (ie, rent control and Prop 13 makes it so that vacated properties might be more expensive than the ones they move into).
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