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As to the points in the article: Correlation does not equal causation. Now to two major points it conveniently left out.

- First, the overall labor participation rate is at 40 year lows, so there is no labor shortage. In fact, the rate for those 55+ has gone up and is at 50 year highs.

- The biggest danger from an aging population is how to fund our entitlements Medicare & SS.

The reason for a weak recovery and stagnant wages are pretty obvious and completely avoided by this study and article - which I think was purposeful.

One of the dumbest statements from a very dumb, condescending post. SF is uber progressive. "Ayn Rand followers" are few and far between and, even then, very much in the closet.

Sorry, I can't take this post seriously. Some thoughts without trying to get too political:

- I guess he was disappointed by Obama? Join the club.

- "I moved to Silicon Valley" No you didn't, you moved to San Francisco.

- The Bay Area is one of the most naturally beautiful metropolitan areas in the world. Beijing is one of the most polluted. You can have it.

- "I was confused by the sheer amount of narcissistic Ayn Rand followers." Really? Where are they, I've been here 15 years and have yet to find this mythic horde

All told, I'm getting really sick of the Euro-lectures-Americans schtick.

Tigers don't change their stripes.

A better recipe is to enforce a culture of actual politeness (not fake tolerance) and not talk about politics or religion at the office.

Well, by preventable, I think I meant something different than you. I meant you could not share needles or you could always use a condom. Sex/needles are what, 99% of transmissions?

And yeah condoms break, but if HIV transfer was limited to the condom breaking that would be a step in the right direction.

I love the fervor of the poster as I strongly support the 2nd amendment and find leftist/democrat arguments to be hypocritical...

But... I don't see the relevance to HN and if this were a leftist post I'd flag it and I want to be intellectually consistent, so... Flagged. Sorry.

If I'm wrong on flagging it, please let me know. Trying to adapt my HN behavior to the general decorum.

Hmm... I'm surprised by this. At least in the US AIDS is under much more control, is it not? My fiancee treats AIDS/HIV and has never mentioned "resistance" except when referring to antibiotics. This seems more like a funding issue, though I could be wrong.

All told, this is sad. Aids is the most easily preventable disease. Most of her patients know exactly when they got it.

Note that it's also very relevant to comment I replied to. Not being argumentative (or don't mean to be.) I'll admit when I'm wrong, but I feel this comment was relevant to the original comment in the thread and article and these are my reasons why.

In fact, I probably should have brought up another threat to fair elections, which is the lack of any voter ID requirement. Also very partisan, but essential for security.

Actually, I didn't say financial influence, I said foreign influence and the article refers back to foreign influences in multiple places, just one example below:

If foreign governments learn that they can influence our elections with impunity, this opens the door for future manipulations, both document thefts and dumps like this one that we see and more subtle manipulations that we don't see.

I'm not derailing a thread if I'm reminding the readers that much of the foreign influence we are threatened by comes about through the complicity / corruption of domestic political actors.

actually, if you read the article and the post, the subject is about foreign influence in elections, so my comment is on point.

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