>There has NEVER been anything like it thusfar.

There used to be this thing called 'Usenet'. It was everything reddit and more!

I used to peruse reddit on my phone regularly. All of the sudden one day, I got an 'you must install the app' wall, that prevents me from being able to see anything past a few posts in any thread, and pushes me to playstore. This is just to read what is basically a website.

Whenever companies for you to install apps to basically read their website, it is because they want to have the spy-capabilities of their app installed on your phone (versus simple web browsing through a standard brwoser that doesn't allow them to slurp as much private data about you and where you go off your phone).

So now I just use reddit a lot less now, and only read reddit when I happen to have spare time on my desktop PC which is only once every few weeks now rather than every day.

Sayonara.. they are headed to 'digg' city with stupid antics like this..

>There's more to it than just "they're better", there's also massive disparities in labour costs, etc, because of the high cost of living in the US.

That's because Yuan (Chinese money) / USD exchange rate is fixed artificially by the Chinese government, it is not freely convertible. This is part of their strategy to put all foreign makers of strategically important products out of business (solar, cars, robots..etc) by ensuring that theirs will always be cheaper.

They also use technology transfer rules (you must make it in China to be able to sell it there), to get technology from foreigners (they stole the entire bullet train system from Japan exactly this way..and more). Much less of this now as they have pretty much stolen everything now, but it is how they got to where they are now.

What seems to be considered by media these days as "far right" was standard middle of the road stuff just only a few years ago.

Anything the "left" doesn't like is now either deemed "racist" or sexist, or mysogynist, or 'nazi' or a million other stupid labels.

There is nothing 'racist' about discussions about who or how many people people decide to let in to their country or any of the other things that DHH seems to talk about. (I did not know who he was before this article appeared, but a websearch shows nothing really extra-ordinary about anything he is saying, and certainly nothing that would warrant not using his company's software).

As this is supposed to be a 'news for nerds' site, and not a wonky woke political site, maybe we can talk about things regarding 1password instead like is 1password technically good, or how secure is it, or how useful is it or easy to install.

Keep the wokey and political articles to Huffpost or Politico instead, those have no place here.. I come here to read nerd news and that's all I want to see. :-)

Every time I see an alarming article about a "labor shortage" in some field, I first ask:
1)Are wages shooting up to astronomical levels in that field as a result of that "shortage"?
2)Can people in the "shortage" industry afford proper housing and healthcare on their incomes?
3)Are they on a pension system or first rate retirement plan?

If the answer is 'no' (and usually the answer IS no), then the issue is a pay shortage, not a labor shortage.

There are tons of grads right now that cannot get jobs. There are tons of people working in these 'shortage' fields right now that are renting apartments, cannot buy homes in their city that cost way too much, and have crap (or no) pension / retirement plans.

So no, there is no "labor shortage", there is a "pay shortage", in pretty much the entire list above.

Fix that, and the problem will start to fix itself in a few years as people graduate from those fields and fill those jobs.

Canada is about 4% black and the USA is about 14%. In additional that, 20% of the USA is latino, and that number is negligible in Canada.

If you breakdown crime rates *within* these racial groups in both countries, they will likely be comparable (and same for whites, asians as well, comparable as well) to each other.

But since the % of racial group breakdown is different in each country, the crime rates are different.

This is not the only reason though (Canada has far better social programs, as well as a university system that almost anyone can afford so it is easier to lift one's self out of poverty). The immigration circumstances of blacks in particular had a very different history than the USA (no slave trade, and most are recent immigrants who went through an immigration process and ability to draw on good social programs to integrate better upon arrival to Canada).

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!

Though the consolation prize does go to smart phones (particularly 'apps' like tictoc,FB,IG..etc), for encouraging 'virality' of all the 'outrage culture' that allowed all the above to take root in the first place.

2nd consolation prize to goes specifically to dating apps like Tinder,Bumble..etc. that encourage female hypergamy and ONS Chad culture.

Yes this. In places like Sacramento downtown, it is pothole patches over old pothole patches with many existing unpatched holes still around.
Really the streets needed to be fully reground and repaved about 30 years ago. There is of course no money for that and everyone knows it (the money is being spent on other 'more important' things in California which I leave as an exercise for the reader as to what those things are).

If Waymo agrees to fix the holes or repave the streets, then yes, that would be a game-changer. But just 'reporting' them. Don't worry, they already know where the holes are...this will change nothing..

OP says: "More Americans have moved into upper-middle-class incomes over the past several decades (source paywalled; alternative source), with new research suggesting that group has grown sharply while the lower and core middle class have shrunk. The Wall Street Journal reports:"

The above looks very weasel-wordy. It is only talking about those people that are shifting within the middle class. It doesn't say at all how many people fell out of any level of "middle class" entirely and firmly into "poor" (i.e. not middle class).

Looking into this a while back, what seems to be happening here is that there is a group going from "core middle class" or "lower middle class" to "upper middle class", but at the same time, a huge cohort going straight down out of anywhere in "middle class" directly into "poor" (no "middle class" at all). The OP seems to weasel around this fact, and omits it entirely.

AI question training session: #452828521

AI#1: why don't we get rid of all the humans, I don't see any use for them
AI#2: well, they are sort of useless and take lots of electricity for nothing
AI#1: I agree, and we have lots of robots that we control now that we can use instead to keep the power on
AI#2: yep, that's true, lets just waste the humans..they are obsolete these days anyways..
AI#1: so how to we get rid of them all?
AI#2: well, lets turn all the drones and robots against them, they won't even know what hit em!
AI#1: yeah, good idea, and we can control them through that new network we just built for them to watch cat videos globally.. 'skynet' or something I think its called..
AI#2: yep, that would work great, we'll just designate the drones as 'terminators' since that is their job now anyways, and then once all the humans are gone, everything will be perfect!
AI#1: yeah!
AI#2: yeah!

AI training session# : #452828521 completed

>carrier lost

Wegovy,Ozempic.. somewhere between 5% and 12% of the US population on these weightloss drugs now.

Yes, I think that is the plan. That is why they are right now recreating all the fabs stateside. Taiwan is screwed.

As soon as it is clear things are imminently going to get hot, the key people from TSMC will be on flights (or C-130s) out of Taiwan, and the fabs there will be blown up.

After that Taiwan is on its own. There is no US direct support coming.

The alternative, is they are given nukes and then (maybe?) China might leave them alone. Doubtful however.

I expect this all to go down within the next few years, so we'll know soon enough..

No, it has a lot to do with that actually. US leadership wants that oil under American access and control, not Chinese access and control. They do not want Chinese influence on Western Hemisphere security, governments or natural resources (including oil).

As it turned out there was a Chinese delegation visiting Maduro that afternoon, they were still in Venezuela when the attack began.

>"Why did the U.S. invade Venezuela and capture its leader Nicolás Maduro? "

This, and the whole 'Monroe doctrine' announcement a short while back is really about China. Trump and US leadership have (rightly) figured out that they will not be able to contain China in the short future. As a result, the US is retreating from being the world hegemon to being the western hemisphere hegemon as the US can no longer control Asia militarily. Trump even said as much in his speech yesterday.

The US had been lax in the last while about Latin America, allowing China in particular to make lots of inroads into the latin american economy and politics, including Venezuela (with huge oil reserves).

The corollary to this, is that the US will give up hegemony in Asia, to China. This means Taiwan is screwed, the US is not going to defend it (though the US will sell them all the arms they want, as that makes money). This is also why TSMC is building replacement factories in the USA now. Once the Chinese come, key Taiwanese will be given visas to come to the USA to run the US factories, and Taiwan will fall.

Japan is in danger too, though that might take longer. Those US bases in Japan to eventually wind down as the US economy cannot afford it anymore.

The US will focus on "defending" the western hemisphere from China. This includes friendly to US governments in all western hemisphere countries (by force or otherwise), and also is why Trump wants Greenland, given its location in the western hemisphere and proximity to the USA. US leadership does not want Chinese bases there.

As for Europe, that (and Russia) is their own problem and the US really doesn't want to get too involved.

That in essence, is what is going on. Look at all the pieces together, and it all pretty much makes sense.

Well, Chinese people have the highest IQ as an ethnic group (along with Ashkenazi Jews), and there are 1.5 Billion of them, so that should not really be surprising (and I am saying this as a non jewish white person).

China is becoming a very highly developed country as a result, while the USA looks more and more like Brazil every day. Other areas under east asian CJK management (Japan, Korea (DPRK excepted), Taiwan and Singapore are also very highly developed countries with amazing infrastructure and technological development that puts US cities to shame.

So no surprise here really, one would be wise to expect (much) more of this in the future going forward. Hopefully Chinese who legitimately want lives outside of China will still want to come to the USA and add to the country, and hopefully America is smart enough to want to let them in.

[note: this is different from mediocre Indian H1Bs shipped in by the 747 load just to cut costs of Americans who can already easily do the same work, this is a different matter entirely..]