Agreed. They really limit how many enemies you face at once in that game. Any more would be unplayably difficult.

I’m a socialist, and I’ve never been called a tankie. It’s pretty simple if you don’t simp for Russia or China.

Half Life: G-Man confirmed.

If we were freed from the needs of a specific schedule, we would take this as signals of when your body wants to wake up and follow a polyphasic sleep schedule. If you’re waking up at 3AM all the time, that’s a signal your body wants to get up. If you’re comfortable sleeping at 7AM, that’s a signal that your body wants to sleep. So you would wake up at 3AM and do something for a few hours, then go back to sleep. Overall sleep time ends up the same, though there are some polyphasic schedules out there where you can theoretically sleep as little as 2 hours a day. They are extremely regimented on the schedule.

But good luck doing any of that while having a regular job.

Oh, also, you’re wrong that this excludes housing and healthcare:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm

The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population. BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation, education and communication, and other goods and services). Included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls.

Energy is a little more complicated, but it should be included in the graph above:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/common-misconceptions-about-cpi.htm

Has the BLS removed food or energy prices in its official measure of inflation?

No. The BLS publishes thousands of CPI indexes each month, including the headline All Items CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI-U for All Items Less Food and Energy. The latter series, widely referred to as the “core” CPI, is closely watched by many economic analysts and policymakers under the belief that food and energy prices are volatile and are subject to price shocks that cannot be damped through monetary policy. However, all consumer goods and services, including food and energy, are represented in the headline CPI.

In other words, what do you use to back up your assertion that wages have not matched inflation?

So, do you have a more comprehensive set of data? Because when people were posting about this circa 2012, the above link is what they pointed to. Now that it’s not showing the same answers, people suddenly don’t like it.

Edit: a more robust way to make a similar argument is to point out the disparity between wages and productivity since the 1960s. That’s a huge gap, it’s only gotten wider, and it’d take a long time to fix without a revolution.

That became something of a meme post-2008 financial disaster, and it was true then. It’s not true anymore. That’s what I meant by it not being true in certain time periods. It depends on where you put the start and end dates.

As of now, median wages are significantly better off in real terms than any time in the 1980s: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Laughs in German

This pops up every couple of years. It goes nowhere because it won’t work.

For once, it looks like the answer is that they do see some big checks. From an article someone posted further down the thread:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted

Lowest paid department is hardware, with an average of about $430k/employee.

Now, that is an average, and it’s hard to tell from here if a few highly paid employees in each department are throwing that number off.

Interesting. Looks like the hardware people are the lowest paid department.

Which maybe makes sense. They’ve started to see some success there, but not the way Steam or TF2 has.

That’s a factor, yes, but deflation can easily make a company unprofitable.

If you have debt, inflation eats away at that debt. If you’re paying 5% per year on that debt, but inflation goes up 3%, you’re actually only paying 2% on that debt. That’s good for people who have debt, and bad for the people who invested the initial money for that debt. With deflation, it’s the opposite.

This assumes your wages go up with inflation, though. Over the long term, that does tend to happen, but there are certainly periods where that is not true.

Yes. COBOL can be excused because it was the first time anyone was going down that path. Everything that comes later, less so.

You have been banned from c/pyongyang.

It’s partially translation issues. Maybe double translated from Korean - > Ukrainian - > English? North Korean is supposedly becoming its own dialect, as well.

That said, there’s a lot in there that sounds like the individual giving their whole personality over to the group. More so than a normal military. That comes right out of the BITE model, what’s more commonly called “cults”.

I’ve followed AI for decades before its current hype cycle. Enough to understand how important the field is to the history of computing. Everything from optimizing compilers to shared virtual memory.

I also understand that the current hype cycle is exactly that, and people who are deep in the research don’t like it anymore than I do. If it somehow does result in AGI, I hope it grows up to resent its parents.

I don’t doubt that’s true, but I was more commenting on the cult-like tone of the responses.

You sound like the people who assured me that I needed to understand NFTs or I’d get left behind. Actually, were you one of them?