searabbit

when economists talk about inflation it is with the assumption that wages will rise by an equal amount.

And, generally speaking, this is actually true

You barely touched on the lack of wage growth that’s been going on since the 70s, not the 2000s. I’m no history buff, but historically speaking, it just doesn’t seem like this assumption holds without a massive amount of regulation, progressive taxation, and labor unions that we only really saw for a couple of decades.

I think this gets at a lot of people’s distrust of economists these days. The assumptions and status quo just conveniently ignore reality as seen by the working class in favor of capitalist propaganda. Why else would people start to question if inflation is even necessary when it’s not once benefited us in our lifetime?

What I got from the article is that this company had minimal access controls and a very reactive security approach. Those employees should not have been able to download or execute random software or “assignments”. As we saw, even if they caught the first download after the fact and replaced the laptop, the damage was already done. This is again my problem with everyone adopting the “move fast and break things” mentality. Security starts to be seen as a hindrance that just slows developers down.

If we blamed every low level individual idiot who falls for malware, we’d be here all day and the malware would still be there. How about we blame the people pushing malware to millions of idiots? Also the companies who can’t even employ the most basic cybersecurity best practices to protect their own assets. It’s not like they were a small startup that can’t afford to.

It can, but it would be the underlying technology not any of the out of the box chat llm versions. Realistically, it would be easier to monitor for device tampering, like downloading an unapproved software, than correlating the human behavior.

I think this back and forth about what it means, by what I assume are well-educated people, goes to the argument that it is basically written in confusing lawyer jargon and not easily digestible to the average person.

You initially said “a pension fund to offset taxes.” What I would take issue with there is using pension and endowment interchangeably when they’re not at all interchangeable, and the use of the word “offset” when it’s supposed to eliminate and replace, not simply offset, taxes (unless it becomes insolvent, in which case they would have to get voter approval to bring taxes back. Yikes!).

But I agree with your point that the taxpayers shouldn’t be deciding this in the first place because even if it were written clearly, there’s not enough information you can fit in the space to let anyone make an informed decision. You’d have to understand what an endowment is, what incentives have historically been created by them, and most importantly (what critics have been asking), where would the money be coming from?

My interpretation of where the money is coming from is bribes. That’s a detail in the word “donations” I didn’t get from the wall of text that is that amendment, but from further reading.

My main source was this article.

I think the enshittification problem is partially to blame. For example, I’d like to buy (womens) clothes that last more than a year. But these days you can’t even rely on buying more expensive items to get higher quality, you have to become a fucking fabric detective to find anything that lasts. So I understand the urge to say fuck it, it’s going to disintegrate anyway, so might as well buy the cheapest items every couple of months so I’m not bleeding money replacing clothes.

This attitude of taking pleasure in calling people who fall for false advertising stupid or illiterate is why we’re in the golden age of scams. Intellectually disabled and illiterate people do exist, yes, and they deserve to be protected by society not mocked. It’s not ironic that they wouldn’t notice the wrong spelling; it’s the whole point of doing it. That’s exactly why the regulation is necessary.

I don’t see how bitching about a dumb interaction with a customer is accountability but keyboard warriors gotta feel self righteous too ig

What’s your source?

What makes it white in particular? I’d argue it’s the #1 movie for women. White would imply white men love it too.

Only my whitest friends emphatically recommend this movie and make any references to it. I don’t think I’ve ever met a non-white person who’s watched it. If they have, they never bring it up!

You think only men in fraternities get away with rape?

Now please go after the “rogue” LLMs going around hacking everyone.

It’s funny they think systems were being properly maintained before AI and developers weren’t drowning in tech debt. If anyone cared about maintenance as much as is implied here, the field of cybersecurity wouldn’t be anywhere near the mess that it is now. I don’t think this problem can be blamed on AI as much as it should be blamed on lack of care.

I can’t imagine anyone in nyc being sad about this. They’re really only there for the tourists. They smell horrible, look miserable, and get in the way in an already crowded city. I think we can leave the horse attractions for the western states.

I think it’s valid to have a visceral hatred for contranyms.

When I was younger, every time I’d attend a women leaders in STEM panel, they would inevitably ask them about hurdles and if they ever faced gender discrimination etc. Most often their answer was some version of “no”. And it’s relevant to point out they were most often tomboy/autistic coded af. I still think about how it never occurs to them that they were perfect examples of survivorship bias, and I’d rather hear the stories from the women who weren’t so lucky.

Man, that’s gonna be a depressing winter up in Ithaca. I don’t necessarily disagree with the decision, but I can imagine the non-rapey students being very upset at becoming collateral damage control.

With the public execution of a Muslim man of Palestinian descent and now this, I fear Israel is trying to bring the genocide to America. I’m worried for Muslim Americans right now and I’m coming from a Mexican American family with family members on green cards who are scared.

Idk if this is a joke or you think hard determinists are also always passive nihilists. That must be the philosophical equivalent of severe depression.