LDB415 wrote:
I will acknowledge it was a bit bigger chore to move from one programming language to another, but the basics there were and are the same, and moving from one coder's work to another within the same language much easier than changing languages. But you guys for whatever reason feeling so desparate to make this a bigger deal about Twitter, maybe due to wanting Musk's clean-up to fail, go ahead.
You seem to be overlooking two key points:
- This is not an ordinary website. It's one of the most high-volume sites on the web. If it goes down for even a few minutes, it makes the news.
- Between firings and people deciding to move on, there is going to be a mass exodus from there.
Getting up to speed on a new code base is much more difficult when there's no one experienced around to help, and you're under a crushing deadline.
SteveR wrote:
In other words, if you had an 8.4% increase the previous month compared to the year before, and an 8.4% increase this month compared to the year before, that would give you a 0% increase from month to month. Inflation is still bad, but not getting any worse or better.
Exactly. And you have perfect justification to whine about your life. BUT, there's nothing anyone can do about what happened 10 months ago; we have to deal with what's happening now. And now, we seem to have inflation under control.
And you seem to think that inflation is 100% under the control of the president, which is nonsensical. The government has little control of the economy in general, and inflation, the least of all.
Now, you might remember what happened in 2020 --- we had a little "pandemic". Many people out of work, businesses shut down, and (most importantly) no one went shopping.
Then in 2021, we opened back up. Businesses started opening back up, and commerce started to flow again (slowly), --- and suddenly everyone went back to the mall! Supply-and-demand kicks in, and prices go up. That same law says that prices will go down when there's a glut of product in the marketplace --- but there's nothing here to cause a glut; just a return to normalcy, which should maintain prices at their new higher prices. As I said, this stuff is complicated. (And I didn't even mention the war going on disrupting the oil supply, or the GOP's attempt the screw up the economy just to make Biden look bad).
Architect1776 wrote:
Yes we have and the dems are fighting tooth and nail to cheat and harvest ballots again this time.
Still more obsession with "harvesting ballots" --- which, again, is merely a way to make it easier for people to vote.
Wyantry wrote:
These demanding (mostly) young persons may be technically bright and talented, but they are not irreplaceable.
It is likely they had to undergo at least SOME training on the specifics of the systems they work on — so it is not as though they were completely qualified in every way, to perform their jobs.
I'm sure they could be replaced -- eventually. But onboarding a new employee takes time, particularly into a high-tech job. But the plane is already in the air --- this is no time to be training the pilot and the co-pilot and the flight attendants and the ground crew and the control tower.
SteveR wrote:
But you don't debunk my claim of Republicans filing 73 lawsuits before these midterms and being highly successful.
Provide some specifics, snd I'll comment.
SteveR wrote:
It won't be going DOWN until your "month to month" inflation rates are in the negative.
Depends on what you mean by "it" in that sentence: inflation or prices. I meant inflation; you apparently meant prices.
However, actual deflation (prices going down) is INCREDIBLY bad for the economy. Why buy something today, if it will be cheaper tomorrow? And why buy it tomorrow if it'll be cheaper the day after? Soon people delay all purchases that they can, and no one buys anything, and the economy falls into recession.
Managing the economy is an incredibly complex task, which is the GOP's one-size-fits-all solution (Tax cuts, tax cuts, TAX CUTS!) always fails. (Our last three Republican presidents each caused a recession)
SteveR wrote:
Take Pennsylvania for example, where the PA Supreme Court overrode the legislature, against the state Constitution, on the running of the election.
Bzzt... Sorry No. In April 2021, the US Supreme Court (ya know, the one which Trump packed with Right-Wing idealogues), dismissed the challenge by the Penn Legislature. IOW, they found what the PA Supreme Court did was completely CONSTITUTIONAL!
(Try getting your news from a genuine news organization....)
Wyantry wrote:
Another Disinformation rant. Not factual.
It would help if you had some idea of what you were talking about.
Those aren't "monthly data" values. Those are the "year-over-year" numbers.
"September 30, 2022 ……. 8.20%" means that prices are 8.2% higher than they were in SEPTEMBER 2021, while
"August 31, 2022 ………….. 8.26%" means that prices are 8.26% higher than they were in AUGUST 2021.
Now, you might notice something about those date ranges -- they OVERLAP by 11 months. Your counting inflation from last year in this month's number.
So, if we look at the actual monthly numbers, we see that it peaked earlier this year, and has been going down significantly over the last three months.
J F M A M J J A S O N D
2021 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.8 0.5 0.3
2022 0.8 0.9 1.3 0.6 1.1 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.2
Putting Biden's recent numbers right in the range of Trump's pre-pandemic numbers:
2018 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 -0.3 -0.3
2019 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.2 -0.1 -0.1
(Number copied right from the BLS)
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0&output_view=pct_1mth
SteveS wrote:
And can be replaced by someone else who can also do the work, but doesn't have a sense of entitlement.
These aren't unskilled labor jobs.
Running an extremely high-volume website like Twitter is a highly specialized (and highly compensated) job. It will be very difficult (and very expensive) to replace them.
And that's just operations. Development is an equally specialized field and would require a long period where the new staff learns the existing code base.
scooter1 wrote:
Are you in la la land? There have been numerous arrests for voter fraud. Try reading something other than watching CNN. Your position is fantasy and worse yet it's liberal fantasy. Try to become more aware of the facts then you won't seem so ignorant of the facts. Google is your friend.
There have been a handful of arrests. Most were for local races in small towns (where it might have actually affected the results)
As for arrests for voter fraud in the presidential election, they've LITERALLY involved less than 10 votes across the county-- and they've all been by Trump voters.
SteveS wrote:
What is less desirable to any employer, is when an employee forgets who signs their pay check.
No, what's least desirable to any employer, is forgetting who actually does the work.
InfiniteISO wrote:
Saying there's absolutely ZERO evidence is gas-lighting. There was evidence of fraud but little conviction to find out how much there was since we as a country were not about to overturn the election (no matter how loudly they talk about "THE INSURECTION".
And clearly, you're the one who's been gaslit.
Did you hear about the 64 lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign, challenging the results of the elections --- ALL of which failed, with most being dismissed for lack of evidence?
Did you hear about the numerous recounts across the country, NONE of which changed any race?
Did you hear about the "forensic audit" in Arizona (conducted by a person whose only qualification was that he was convinced there was fraud) which couldn't find any fraud?
Just because no one has found evidence supporting your position doesn't mean no one has looked for it. (It means there is none because your position is a fantasy)
SteveS wrote:
As Elon Musk prepares to purchase Twitter on Friday, some of the employees thought it wise to write a letter with demands for the new owner. If they really think this was a good idea, their sense of importance is probably higher than he will think it is.
There's actually been considerable talk about this in the Tech world lately.
The bottom line:
- Any developer or IT worker at a major social media site like that (Facebook, Instagram etc.) can pretty much leave there and name the salary at any large tech company.
- RIGHT NOW, this is also true for staff at Twitter.
- Having the new CEO call the staff crooks and liars who he is going to replace is not great for employee morale.
- So, a LOT of the staff will leave voluntarily.
- A large website like that cannot run long on auto-pilot, so it will need to staff up quickly, for a company that is getting a reputation as a toxic work environment, leading to a number of low-quality new hires.
- This will, gradually, lead to it being less desirable to have "Twitter" on your resume, leading to even more of the original staff leaving before it's too late.
Blurryeyed wrote:
When they get wiped out in the Midterms, they won't blame themselves, they won't consider that the country has rejected their policies and initiatives, they won't change their agenda, they won't work with the new congress....... They will blame Trump and simply insult their fellow Americans who rejected them.
When the GOP got wiped out in 2020, they didn't blame their cultish support for their Orange God.
They instead insist on massive voter fraud --- with absolutely ZERO evidence any occurred.