Escape to another world
As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality. Ryan Avent suspects this is the beginning of something big
Hasnain says:
"However one cuts the economic data of the last few decades, the labour market has become harder for the young. The Great Recession and its aftermath were somewhat worse for young workers than the population as a whole. Yet the struggles of younger workers pre-date the crisis. Hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, have stagnated for young college graduates since the 1990s (that is, young graduates now earn roughly the same wage as new graduates did 20 years ago), while pay for new high-school graduates has declined. The shares of young high-school and college graduates not in work or education has risen; in 2014, about 11% of college graduates were apparently idle, compared with 9% in 2004 and 8% in 1994.
“Underemployment” – work in a position for which one is overqualified – has risen steadily since the beginning of the millennium; the share of recent college graduates working in jobs which did not require a college degree rose from just over 30% in the early 2000s to nearly 45% a decade later. As frustrated college students take jobs for which they are overqualified, young people with less education often find themselves competing for still less demanding work, which pays lower wages and offers less security and room for advancement."
Posted on 2017-03-17T04:33:27+0000
HTTPS Interception Weakens TLS Security | US-CERT
TLS and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are important Internet protocols that encrypt communications over the Internet between the client and server. These protocols (and protocols that make use of TLS and SSL, such as HTTPS) use certificates to establish an identity chain showing that…
Hasnain says:
Good to hear some official acknowledgement. Hopefully it'll help stop these things from being installed
Posted on 2017-03-17T04:12:44+0000
Enroute A380 wake flips Challenger 604 upside down
We normally don't report on individual aircraft incidents here, because the causal factors are related to a very narrow set of unique circumstances. This instance is different, and should be of concern to all operators. A Challenger 604 at FL350 operating from Male-Abu Dhabi passed an A380 opp
Hasnain says:
"A Challenger 604 at FL350 operating from Male-Abu Dhabi passed an A380 opposite direction at FL360, one thousand feet above, about 630nm southeast of Muscat, Oman, over the Arabian Sea.
A short time later (1-2 minutes) the aircraft encountered wake turbulence sending the aircraft into an uncontrolled roll, turning the aircraft around at least 3 times (possibly even 5 times), both engines flamed out, the aircraft lost about 10,000 feet until the crew was able to recover the aircraft, restart the engines and divert to Muscat. The aircraft received damage beyond repair due to the G-forces, and was written off."
Posted on 2017-03-17T04:11:43+0000
Young people are right to be angry about their financial insecurity
Social injustice on an unprecedented scale, massive inequities and loss of trust in elites define our political moment – and rightly so
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Posted on 2017-03-16T04:41:38+0000
WiFi ResetPlug - A smart plug to monitor your WiFi router/modem and automatically reset power if WiFi fails.
WiFi ResetPlug Plug your WiFi router/modem into the ResetPlug. The smart plug will act as a WiFi client to test the Internet connection. If the Internet fails to work, the ResetPlug will automatically cycle power to the WiFi equipment to reset the Internet connection. Do you have devices that de...
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Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
The makers of the We-Vibe, which can be paired with an app, don't admit any wrongdoing. But they will pay $3.75 million after allegations that the app was collecting "highly sensitive information."
Working While Female
A Twitter thread has gotten some attention recently, where my former-coworker / current-best friend, Marty, recounted the day he realized…
Hasnain says:
I still don't get why men have a hard time believing it when women point out systemic sexism :(
Posted on 2017-03-14T22:36:20+0000
Declaration of Gary Brown (PUBLIC)
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch).
Hasnain says:
Sharing this separately just because this looks like a solid nail in the coffin in the Waymo vs Uber case. Incriminating evidence that the guy took secret documents with him
Posted on 2017-03-14T05:21:43+0000