Yeah, they take that into account when calculating inflation, which is why CPI is quoted at 1% when the cost of housing, food, gas, health care, college tuition (i.e. everything you actually need) is more like 10%.
only half? I hope the percentage is higher than that.
sorry to s--t on your profession bro, but it is what it is. People with money (inherited or won gambling) fall on the same intelligence spectrum as everyone else. There is a shallow end of the pool there. There are…
I see a lot of similarities between "AI", as understood by business people, and the pursuit of alchemy and the philosophers stone. It seems like a hustle to separate rich dupes from their money by promising them the…
> having to provide and record ID when entering a concert, restaurant or other public places What do you think cell phones and credit cards are? In all of your examples you do have to provide an ID.
Yes, I agree with this. I think that governments should provide a verifiable digital ID the same way they provide physical IDs and that they should provide communications platforms that allow people to communicate with…
Laws like this are long past due. This particular law may not be the best implementation but governments do need to take action to provide their citizens with a real public square online. Excluding fake and paid users…
The statute says "anything of value." Here the thing of value would be a person's contact list. The attempt to gain this thing of value through deceit (telling the person you are trying to verify their account and using…
18 USC 1030 (a)(4) (4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains…
> is that a thing you want to fix though, or to prevent? wanting to fix is pretty obvious. capable of fixing is a different story. biologically there is no fix (genetic engineering maybe? but that is super sci-fi). so…
Human cognition is riddled with exploitable defects. Biologically we are basically just highly pretentious and neurotic monkeys. All of human history is full of people looking for someone to blame for their condition…
In the U.S. a large segment of the population (100M+) is told over-and-over again that they should rely on the expertise and charity of the elite in business and politics to take care of them. Examples like this just…
The problem with "objective" journalism is that truth and falsehood are not as important as what the objective of the story is. If a propagandist can use the truth to achieve their objectives that is better than lies…
> Will also never leave a good review when I'm satisfied ... tend to rather just leave bad reviews when I'm not satisfied This is basic consumer behavior. Receiving a good experience (either service or product) is not…
> Sprint is the one doing the buying. Rather, Softbank. It is a merger, but Softbank will get a smaller stake than DT. "The new company will be about two-thirds owned by T-Mobile shareholders and one-third Sprint, with…
the consumer is being lied to about who is serving their request and who is tracking their online activity as a result.
Profitable, but still only $40B in revenue compared to $126B for Version, and only $4B net profit compared to $30B for Verizon. Verizon's net profit is closer to T-Mobile's total revenue.…
if they deny it the only possible reason is to f--k foreign (in particular german) companies to favor US ones. sprint is practically dead now and t-mobile is doing fine but they would certainly be more competitive and…
> not just connections totally true. but even the dumbest children of wealth will end up in six-figure jobs while the average ones will be top corporate lawyers, sales people, or professors, and the extraordinary ones…
yes, but hard to scale outside the US, and studios were hostile to it because it didn't pay them enough, so they pressured Netflix to stop promoting it and adopt streaming. It exists the same way AOL did EOL but it is…
I signed up for Netflix once because I wanted to test how it worked on linux when chrome first added support for it and I had it for about 18 months (never watched it) until my credit card expired because they require…
The other problem is that netflix physical had both a better catalog and better quality so digital is a massive regression for them. Their physical system was a hack that exploited existing systems (retail pricing for…
depends on what you call a good job: 6 figures as a grunt or 7-8 figures as an "entrepreneur."
The earnings for college graduates are very misleading because virtually all the children of wealthy people graduate from college, and they get high salaries, but those high salaries are due to nepotism and exploiting…
> b) source modems from Intel. This settlement does not say good things about Intel's progress on 5G.
Yeah, they take that into account when calculating inflation, which is why CPI is quoted at 1% when the cost of housing, food, gas, health care, college tuition (i.e. everything you actually need) is more like 10%.
only half? I hope the percentage is higher than that.
sorry to s--t on your profession bro, but it is what it is. People with money (inherited or won gambling) fall on the same intelligence spectrum as everyone else. There is a shallow end of the pool there. There are…
I see a lot of similarities between "AI", as understood by business people, and the pursuit of alchemy and the philosophers stone. It seems like a hustle to separate rich dupes from their money by promising them the…
> having to provide and record ID when entering a concert, restaurant or other public places What do you think cell phones and credit cards are? In all of your examples you do have to provide an ID.
Yes, I agree with this. I think that governments should provide a verifiable digital ID the same way they provide physical IDs and that they should provide communications platforms that allow people to communicate with…
Laws like this are long past due. This particular law may not be the best implementation but governments do need to take action to provide their citizens with a real public square online. Excluding fake and paid users…
The statute says "anything of value." Here the thing of value would be a person's contact list. The attempt to gain this thing of value through deceit (telling the person you are trying to verify their account and using…
18 USC 1030 (a)(4) (4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains…
> is that a thing you want to fix though, or to prevent? wanting to fix is pretty obvious. capable of fixing is a different story. biologically there is no fix (genetic engineering maybe? but that is super sci-fi). so…
Human cognition is riddled with exploitable defects. Biologically we are basically just highly pretentious and neurotic monkeys. All of human history is full of people looking for someone to blame for their condition…
In the U.S. a large segment of the population (100M+) is told over-and-over again that they should rely on the expertise and charity of the elite in business and politics to take care of them. Examples like this just…
The problem with "objective" journalism is that truth and falsehood are not as important as what the objective of the story is. If a propagandist can use the truth to achieve their objectives that is better than lies…
> Will also never leave a good review when I'm satisfied ... tend to rather just leave bad reviews when I'm not satisfied This is basic consumer behavior. Receiving a good experience (either service or product) is not…
> Sprint is the one doing the buying. Rather, Softbank. It is a merger, but Softbank will get a smaller stake than DT. "The new company will be about two-thirds owned by T-Mobile shareholders and one-third Sprint, with…
the consumer is being lied to about who is serving their request and who is tracking their online activity as a result.
Profitable, but still only $40B in revenue compared to $126B for Version, and only $4B net profit compared to $30B for Verizon. Verizon's net profit is closer to T-Mobile's total revenue.…
if they deny it the only possible reason is to f--k foreign (in particular german) companies to favor US ones. sprint is practically dead now and t-mobile is doing fine but they would certainly be more competitive and…
> not just connections totally true. but even the dumbest children of wealth will end up in six-figure jobs while the average ones will be top corporate lawyers, sales people, or professors, and the extraordinary ones…
yes, but hard to scale outside the US, and studios were hostile to it because it didn't pay them enough, so they pressured Netflix to stop promoting it and adopt streaming. It exists the same way AOL did EOL but it is…
I signed up for Netflix once because I wanted to test how it worked on linux when chrome first added support for it and I had it for about 18 months (never watched it) until my credit card expired because they require…
The other problem is that netflix physical had both a better catalog and better quality so digital is a massive regression for them. Their physical system was a hack that exploited existing systems (retail pricing for…
depends on what you call a good job: 6 figures as a grunt or 7-8 figures as an "entrepreneur."
The earnings for college graduates are very misleading because virtually all the children of wealthy people graduate from college, and they get high salaries, but those high salaries are due to nepotism and exploiting…
> b) source modems from Intel. This settlement does not say good things about Intel's progress on 5G.