Can we fix the title? This is clickbait for HN, the actual article's title is "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work"
That's the question the article was trying to answer.
>>> "If you don't allow firms to hire immigrant workers, they just become smaller firms," Lewis said. "They are not replaced with US workers. Instead, the output of the firm shrinks, and there are fewer total workers."
So, no, if they had no choice they just shrink their operations, it seems. The apparent conclusion is that immigration bans will just force those companies to reduce operations or shut down, instead of paying higher wages to locals.
Japan and now China, have used automation rather than the importation of foreign workforces. China, according to many accounts, is doing quite well compared to other world economies, Japan is not too shabby either and moreover are not suffering from increased effects of importing foreign labor --China is noticing which path is more harmonious for its people.
The context is literally the line quoted from the article, which made it reasonably clear what the word was supposed to mean, and you decided that (1) you understood what they meant, and (2) deliberately tried to bring up an alternative meaning and object to it, and (3) continue arguing why (2) was justified by taking the sentence out of its context (and into your hypothetical context).
> security against man-in-the-middle attacks but face the higher probability scenario of losing access to your accounts
The author says "security" against man-in-the-middle attacks. Are they not using the typical cybersecurity-context meaning of "secure" that I just mentioned? (Resistance against exploits, attacks, social engineering, etc.) And note that they say "higher probability scenario of losing access to your accounts" rather than something like "lower security against account loss" which would have been admittedly understandable, but a bit less clear since the more common cybersecurity meaning of "security" was just used.
> deliberately tried to bring up an alternative meaning
I am using the typical understanding of what "secure" means both 1) in the context of the quote from the article you used and 2) generally in the context of authentication methods. Let's not act like I dug up some obscure and irrelevant alternative definition.
> and into your hypothetical context
Is it really so unrealistic and hypothetical to think about how non-technical people (i.e., the vast majority of people) will interpret the at best questionable statement that "passkeys are insecure"? I stand by my claim that most people will get the wrong idea when they hear that.
> if phishing attacks were more common and more damaging than lockout
The calculus changes if the service is a bank or your stock broker, which, if you are in any reasonable jurisdiction, if you can prove your identity (in court) they are legally obliged to ensure they give you back your money.
But, for the vast majority of other internet services... I honestly don't think anyone would want to MITM my instagram account for example.
I'm surprised there's no actual commie coming out and claiming the end of capitalism is near. (except maybe me in my personal socials, only larping as a hobby)
I'm toying with the idea that until people realize capitalism is based on an increasingly invalid assumption that "things are scarce", the capitalist-ish economical system will eventually realize that the only scarce things are new, fun and creative ideas, and slowly value them more and more, which kind of might work out if nothing drastic happens between the times of transition.
And by surprised you probably mean "not really surprised" hm?
Just in case btw.: the world tends to get poorer in material ressources since around the 70s e.g. regarding habitable space, harvestable energy and the destruction of the integrity of earths biosphere - lots of things that establish value that is not bound to labour.
Knowledgework isn't everything, some tend to forget that.
> ...the capitalist-ish economical system will eventually realize that the only scarce things are new, fun and creative ideas, and slowly value them more and more, which kind of might work out if nothing drastic happens between the times of transition.
The problem (for most of us) is "new, fun and creative ideas" are pretty rare. If a worker has to be a font of them to eat in the new world, not many workers will be eating.
> I'm surprised there's no actual commie coming out and claiming the end of capitalism is near.
Aren't they doing that like literally from the very beginning? I clearly remember Lenin said that capitalism will end in a couple of decades because of electricity.
> I'm surprised there's no actual commie coming out and claiming the end of capitalism is near. (except maybe me in my personal socials, only larping as a hobby)
I'm a (libertarian, free-market) socialist, so not quite communist, but I think the differences are not substantial as far as everyone outside far left circles is concerned. And I've been saying this exact thing since this whole AI wave started.
If there was ever a time to seize the means of production and make them commons, this is it.
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