The lack of a video demonstration doesn't really inspire confidence.
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From a layman's perspective, it seems like it's mostly an expected outcome of college degrees becoming a class signifier. In 1990, only a fifth of American adults had bachelor's degrees, with those who held them making 70% more than high school graduates. A sizeable gap, sure, but those non-college graduates have minimum wage retail workers and general laborers, and union steel and auto workers in the same educational bucket.
By 2020, it had risen to well over a third of Americans who had bachelor's, and 105% more income for those with them. One might expect a dilution in a degree's value, but I think it's just a matter of minimum wage workers still being high school graduates, whereas virtually all professional workers (including the increasingly few manufacturing workers) needing a bachelor's to get past the first stage of HR.
[1] https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
sb057 commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3
> Amazing how they continue not to cater to their core audience.
I’ve seen this across several industries now.
The “core audience” is too small and too particular. There is another audience, much easier to please, much much larger, much more money can be made off them. Why stick to your niche “core audience”?
Well Mozilla has completely failed at it, for starters.
This page (consisting of 693 words) took a full second to load for me because it had to import multiple fonts from Google (which also constitute over 70% of the page's size).
sb057 commented on Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express thetransitguy.substack.co... · Posted by u/FinnKuhn
>Dollywood moves about 5,000 people per day. That’s 92% of all rail riders in Tennessee, if you exclude Amtrak’s single daily train, the City of New Orleans.
So...why do they exclude the "City of New Orleans"? They don't explain.
City of New Orleans is functionally a through line with the only major stop in the state being Memphis. The only other bookable stop period in the state is in the middle of nowhere with the only trips departing at 11pm and 4am. I suspect the average ridership between the two stations is approximately zero.
sb057 commented on The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return ericneyman.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Isn't that subset of the population also very likely to believe that gambling is haram?
Technically, prediction markets aren't gambling, they're soothsaying, which is a form of witchcraft punishable by death.
Appropriately enough, the website is no longer accessible due to rate limiting, and the Internet Archive is down due to a power outage.