You might need to get out more, I've lived it, I've been around people who live it every day. I met someone for the first time in like 15 years (old school semi-acquaintance), something like the second thing we started talking about was how rough it was just finding and paying for an apartment in the remote super "LCOL" place we found ourselves.
Think about it, I'm guessing the guy welding the beams in your kid's school isn't making a quarter of what you make a year. Yet he has to be reminded every day that he's an economic failure vs what do you do, javascript? Early stage startup ideas? I bet it was pretty good in 2006-8.
Getting out more won’t help in this case because I will be walking around SOMA. The fact of the matter is that the stat is made up by a payday loan company and has no bearing on reality.
People like to share it because they are LLM like and just repeat things without looking at the data. “Hallucinations” are the common way that humans experience the world. World models born of pure fiction.
Also wtf I know journeyman ironworkers. They own homes in Oakland. People act like this is some poverty mode existence. Their lives are fine.
Thanks for sharing the slowboring blog post. I didn't know that stat came from payday loan companies, which definitely makes it suspect. Encouraging to hear that 55% of Americans have enough cash on hand for 3 months of expenses, and most of them have less liquid resources they could draw on if they needed more.
However, saying that the median American household has ~$200k net worth doesn't necessarily mean that they're doing great. A lot of the burden of funding retirement falls on the individual in the US, meaning if you're 60 and only have $200k of net worth in a M/HCOL city you're still potentially kind of fucked.
whats making the confidence that you are correct, and other people are bots, vs you being the bot?
up until recently, you didnt know the definition of homelessness that is used in the data. how are you making claims about the data? which data? what does it say?
since you know journeymen, you might want to ask them to meet their apprentices. That way, you could visit the apprentices homes that theyve bought, and can definitely pay the mortgage on by themselves.
or, if they dont have any, you could try to meet some CNAs at the local hospital? or the person at the grocery til?
I made no claims about homelessness. Only about the paycheck to paycheck thing. Did you use Llama 3.2 1B to make this comment? Next time use a bigger model. Gemma 3n 4B is sort of the limit before it starts talking nonsense about “claims about the [homelessness] data”. Complete non sequitur.
When someone first pitched Distributed ID (DIDs) to me, I had this thought that if the user agent was some kind of chat bot/personalized navigation agent, preferably customizable, that would be a really neat way to package increasingly complex identity and auth toolchains.
TLDR: firing and forgetting the first result off of a single google search isn't the best long term approach. But this guy had a bri..coaching to sell you that apparently makes you a better human being
> But this guy had a bri..coaching to sell you that apparently makes you a better human being
To the credit of the author and this individual post, you would have to go out of your way to come to that conclusion. That is, there isn’t anything present in the actual article to suggest that what you’re alleging is valid.
And if as a requirement for allowing foreign workers into the US they had to train 1-2 US workers to their own level of expertise, would that be a fair trade?
These Korean engineers and contractors were literally there to oversee the installation of new machinery at the battery plant under construction and train US staff on its operation, lol.
And who is going to set those milestones and hand-offs?
Sure, yeah, the USG can try that, but for the millions(?) of contracts you'd need over years of hand-off with red-tape and poorly paid 'refs' with no experience in the field and some dubious enforcement mechanism of fines or jail time?
It's a totally unworkable system prima face that just ties things up for no reason.
This is one of those weird edge cases that comes from us having an incoherent immigration policy.
We know that fitting out and commissioning these kinds of factories takes foreign workers who have the subject matter expertise on how the parent company does it. But we have a history of not providing proper work visas for it and looking the other way.
On the other hand, if you don't let these people in, it's not clear how Hyundai gets a functional battery factory that's built like their other ones.
The old policy of looking the other way was broken. But suddenly "fixing it" with enforcement isn't too smart, either.
Visa abuse has always been a serious issue. Are you sure we have been looking the other way, or just not looking? With the latter, the crackdown we are seeing makes sense.
Yah-- there's been no desire to enforce ESTA/B-1 visa restrictions for ordinary abuses, because we don't have a workable short term productive work regime. We don't really have a mechanism where Hyundai can bring over labor that can read engineering drawings and manuals in Korean to set up a factory and train local workers.
Most countries have a short term, productive work permit. We don't-- closest thing you can do is L-1 (and often this doesn't work: you can't hire workers for the purpose or use contractors).
Lottery based and slow systems like H-1B/H-2B don't work, and H-2B is intended for low skill labor. If we expect Korean and Taiwanese companies to establish factories, we must either provide a viable legal pathway for their technicians or accept the reality of ongoing B-1 visa violations. (I prefer the former).
(Oddly enough, ESTA/B-1 allow receiving training but not giving it).
> Oddly enough, ESTA/B-1 allow receiving training but not giving it
Does this mean there is an equivalent in South Korea where the US could send workers on this Visa to receive training on how to build their (Hyundai) factories?
Hyundai absolutely does a lot of training of US-based employees in Korea.
But sometimes you have a shorter-term need for some setup talent (especially when language skills and understanding local engineering conventions is important). This is much more common during plant construction.
I don't think you're going to quickly train US workers on how to decipher Korean documentation.
Show me any evidence your Republican party cares about educating Americans. Are they supporting better pay for teachers? Are they supporting more resources to schools? Are they pushing for tuition free college?
Does anyone else feel the desperation oozing out when they read these kinds of posts/browse linkedin? I sort of get the same frantic desperate vibe, cool if you own it though I guess
I think humans are hard-wired to distrust and dislike certain forms of self-promotion because of the risk of false signalling. In small tribes of apes everybody knows everyone so trumpeting one’s accomplishments is basically trying to change people’s perception of something without changing the actual underlying signal.
The higher status strategy almost always ends up being countersignaling, where “trying too hard” is basically the opposite of counter signaling. The problem (this is something I am actively learning in my work) is that the way society is set up right now requires you to participate in the “attention economy” and build your brand/reputation in a group far larger than an ape-sized tribe. Because you’re not established in those circles a priori you have to start with signaling instead of counter signaling.
Basically, you have to have a PR team and win the hearts and minds of The Atlantic and Forbes before you can make a public spectacle of your ketamine habits. If you skip straight to that you’re just an insecure loser with a drug problem. But after everybody knows you and what you’ve done then you can establish yourself as a tortured artist, which is socially “better” than being just a regular artist.
Sheaf residuals, each edge checks if its two endpoints line up. The squared differences add up to a single number R. That’s your “how inconsistent is the network right now?” gauge.
They could just call it "Field Service Tech" like the rest of the universe. I understand using title inflation/deflation to keep pushing the engineer title (and pay expectation) into the dirt, but still, this is dumb.
Ehh, I don’t think folks are claiming to be active duty or former military personnel, which is the bar for stolen valor accusations in my book. I agree with the sentiment but not with the determination of finding fault. Folks hired for a specific role rarely pick their own job titles.
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