When the benchmark changes, you should ask 'why.'
According TFA the number of people in extreme poverty dropped when using the old IPL value, and went up with the new value.
So politically, no NGO wants to say poverty decreased, because that might reduce urgency, and thus priority. So moving the goalposts means a 50% increase in poverty instead of a 20% decrease in poverty. Which one benefits your mission more?
That's not to say the revision of the IPL was wrong. But it does further the mission. Did the improved statistical methods trigger the IPL revision? It's hard to tell without internal world bank docs. I'll bet it did.
Why on hacker news when it comes to tech salaries, if they stay for a year the same everyone calls it a reduction due to inflation.
However in cases of poor people and poverty there must be an ulterior motive.
It is not a five alarm fire for HIPAA. HIPAA doesn’t require that all file access be logged at all. HIPAA also doesn’t require that a CVE be created for each defect in a product.
End of the day, it’s a hand-wavy, “look at me” security blog. Don’t get too crazy.
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