The article is talking about "The Economy" (read: stocks and bonds), not employment numbers. The market can both be awful for job seekers and great for capital owners.
Discord does gradual rollouts for all of their updates. It's always the case that I will have a feature before my friends, or they will have it first, or it's only on mobile first, etc.
I think there's a fundamental difference between having things you need to ignore (windows bloat) and having problems that prop up when you try to do things (linux stuff).
I think people are generally more willing to put up with the former.
Trains hit hundreds of people and thousands of vehicles every year, but we made it not their responsibility because you can't stop the train in time. You cannot accurately measure the comparison, since whether or not they were paying attention when they hit someone is both unknown and irrelevant.
You can't just absolve yourself of responsibility by saying "I hired a contractor". You are still responsible for doing your due diligence in picking your contractor.
Im young and I dont even bother learning how to use my Android phone's new features since it feels like everything moves or changes all the time. there's no point trying to get familiar with most of the features.
Because it's far cheaper to to not spend the tokens finding the vulnerabilities, and software is now being created and released magnitudes faster than ever before. I could see the huge software companies maybe having fewer vulnerabilities, but I expect to see so much more in the smaller side of things.
I think a lot of people have built those services. But doing it right is more expensive, and people end up choosing the $5-$10/mo option over your $30/mo+ that does it right. Multiply those numbers by whatever multiple you want for higher end stuff.
This might actually be one of the most useful status pages ive seen. Its not just random green tick marks representing the entire service that only change yellow when someone gives and admits that 5 hours of bad service is an outage.
We're relearning why you do math by hand before you use a calculator, and why you (usually) dont get internet access during tests even though in the real world you can quickly look things up.
Evaluating the financial situation of a group of people by visiting Disney World is about as canonical example of sampling bias as you can get. The people who are at Disney World are the people who can afford to be at Disney World.
It's like reading an entire article and pointing out a typo without engaging with any of the context. It's easy to find a single fault and point it out loudly, but if you don't even try to engage with the intent of the message, you aren't providing anything of substance.
It doesn't require concentrated wealth, but if wealth is evenly distributed, then presumably the power to apply propaganda is also equally distributed. Propagandizing information effectively become a meta-level form of voting. With concentrated wealth and power, those with all of the resources hold all of these meta-level votes.
It doesnt quite imply democracy does not work. It implies that propaganda works. And if propaganda works, then that would mean that having the bulk of the ability to propagandize concentrated in a few hands in a threat to democracy, as it means that few people effectively have a much more powerful vote. Which, if you'll allow me to shortcut the rest of the argument, just brings us to the fundamental threat to democracy is concentrated wealth and concentrated power.