Kurimo

If you went to work every day and were verbally and physically intimidated by your team, full of larger people making racist and sexist comments against you. Then when you tried to get help, your company essentially blamed you, trapping you in that situation with that "team". I'd imagine you'd feel a different kind of "stress" than what you're talking about.

This is a very poorly worded headline.

Also, the author of this article criticizes the original article for playing fast and loose with facts. But then takes an unsubstantiated claim from the CEO of the company in question as evidence that the Apple Watch is doing great. Maybe not the best source for such information. I've never heard a CEO say "Sales are not what we hoped" without raw data forcing that concession out of him/her.

If you live in a society that does not hear your voice, there are ways to make that voice heard as long as the society remains free. Eventually, over time, that voice might resonate with others. Black people were not a majority when integration happened (not saying it solved all problems, but it was a step). But their plea for fairer treatment resonated with the majority and progress was made.

As soon as you abandon democracy because the majority doesn't represent you, you are surrendering your ability to be heard. When you throw out democracy, the majority doesn't disappear and become magically replaced with someone who does represent you. In most cases, a strongman with the backing of extremists in the military will end up filling that vacuum. And that person won't care about anybody's voices except his or her own.

Certainly, it seems appealing and, worse, people feel disenfranchised when they see polls that show the majority of people support something while the government rejects it (because people of a higher economic class or special interest side against it). This leads to them not participating in the system, which leads to further feelings of disenfranchisement. It is a negative feedback loop.

Democracy only works if people actively participate and make their voices heard. Not voting, campaigning, etc. only leads to further entrenchment of the lobbyist nightmare.

Further, rejecting democracy because "your side lost" is idiotic. When your side loses in a democracy, you get to try again in however many years when hopefully your side's arguments bear out in the negative impact of actions of the other side. When your side loses in a military dictatorship, if you try again, you go to jail.

Came to the comments to post this, so thanks for beating me to it.

Any time someone says they have "the secret," they are selling you something. And more often than not, there's a good amount of snake oil in that bottle.

Yeah, he's obviously just trying to get the biography rolling since he fears he won't be able to soon. Not some secret "go" word or something.

Governments censor. Private institutions editorialize.

If the NYT chooses not to print an op-ed you send them, it is NOT censorship.

If the United States government forces the NYT not to print your op-ed, it IS censorship.

See the difference?

Agreed. This whole phenomenon was reported on widely after "Avatar" came out. News anchors gleefully reporting that people left the theater feeling depressed their world wasn't as fantastic as Avatar. More of "the kids aren't alright!" reporting they love to do to scare parents and elderly folks.

My solution: Move out of the big cities. I live in a small town in the countryside and my world is that fantastic.

It's pretty hard to secure a border crossing in a country, let alone an entire planet.

Planets are noted for, among other things, being rather large.

Except the economy is becoming more globalized and many people's jobs have them working at odd times anyway. I used to work 4pm-1am EST and so my schedule aligned more closely with people in hawaii and australia so I ended up befriending people in those locations on the internet since they were awake when I was.

I think this will be a more and more common thing as more of our lives ends up online. It won't matter when the sun shines so much as what is normal to the individual.

I came here to post this after reading the article. These clickbaity headlines using ill-conceived methodologies are going to doom us all to the pits of misinformation.

There are notable ceasefires still in effect in the middle east, eastern europe, and asia that have been going on for years (if not tens of years).

Of course, ceasefires, like medication for a psychological illness, are merely a treatment of symptoms and not a cure for the cause. But they do create stable living conditions for the civilians in an area.

And, perhaps equally as importantly, they open up the opportunity for diplomacy to find that cure that will lead to a longer, more lasting peace.

Another one to add in is "Buzzword Chasing."

I've been a part of a startup where we were growing our core product at a reasonable rate and having success. But some of our customers kept throwing certain buzzwords at us, "Millennials" being the most oft repeated one. As a result, our founder pivoted hard to a new product targeting that buzzword. The consequences have not been ideal. Another buzzword that is currently threatening to derail us again is "bots."

Buzzwords or trends are something big companies can afford to waste thousands or even millions of dollars chasing aimlessly (often for no real return). A startup cannot. Startups need to have a clear vision of a single product and pursue it relentlessly until they are in the black.

When our customers throw buzzwords at us they aren't expressing a need. Reacting to it as such is often self destructive.

People retrospectively don't like it because it didn't live up to some of what the trailers promised (in terms of how large or open the city was) and the dimension tearing mechanic robbed it of weight for some ("If this is just one version of how things play out then what's the point?" Missing, of course, that THAT is the point).

Personally, I really enjoyed Bioshock Infinite including the so-called "Twist" ending. I did not see it as a Twist since they very obviously foreshadowed it. But to each their own.

The number cited in the article is probably limited to a certain release-based window.