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Comment It might be more than one person (Score 1) 77

People always seem to assume that Satashi Nokimoto is a single person, and if it isn't then there will always be some evidence pointing to "this is the guy" and some other evidence that "this isn't the guy", but I suspect it is team. Solving a puzzle basing the approach on a false assumption is a great way to guarantee you can't solve it.

Comment Re: Hubble out of support (Score 2) 129

There are two categories of realtime: soft and hard. Realtime is complicated, and no OS can guarantee hard realtime if the hardware is not up to the task (excuse the pun.) For example, if you are running an OS written in assembly language on am Intel 8051 microcontroller clocked at 10 Mhz you cannot handle events that could easily achieve hard realtime on a modern system, because the task switching overhead alone precludes such capability, even if your application is just an infinite loop.

Comment Ironically, this Slashdot summary title is a lie (Score 2) 104

It's ironic that the human(s) reporting this couldn't do so without (apparently) lying, in the title no less. The article talks about accuracy, and an inaccuracy is not a lie unless it is intentional. Of course whomever wrote the title is likely seeking to impose their own anti-AI bias to the story, and so chose to lie about what the study actually says.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 193

I agree with the point you're making - there are vast variations by geography such that this range can represent a very financially constrained lifestyle or a pretty comfortable income.

I'd also add one other big confounder, and that's overall household wealth (including one's family). If you are 24 years old and you are living with a relatively low salary, there is a huge difference between knowing can always pull the plug and live with your parents or go to grad school on their dime versus having nothing to fall back on. Same income, totally different life.

Or you can be making over $300K and supporting both your own kids AND your parents (plus possibly helping fill gaps for extended family) and still be pretty uncertain about your finances. That's justifiable, too - the monthly cost for a single person in skilled nursing is easily over $12K for many facilities. That ends when your parent/loved one dies, or they run out of money and go on Medicaid.

All that said, I believe it's true that the upper middle class has expanded. Part of why Trump's form of class warfare works is that the educated upper middle classes (of who I am member) have overall seen growth in income and wealth, but they don't see themselves as "rich" or "taking all the money". Trump has succeeded in pointing a lot of the lower 60%'s rightful economic frustrations at these folks, because they're visibly well off but want to be believe they are "middle class".

While I think the really rich need to pay in a hell of a lot more to the system, I also think the "true" upper middle classes (the subset of AEI's cohort that has a comfortable set of resources) also need to pay in more.

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