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Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies
Where are all the details? Shocking journalism
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Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies
Where are all the details? Shocking journalism
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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
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That response doesn't sound very anarchist of you
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Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies
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If it works it works
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Factorio 2.1 is out now with the native ARM64 Linux build to run on Steam Frame, Raspberry Pi and more
Steam frame factorio?
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Victorian shop owner finds nearly 30-year-old Magnum Ego ice cream in freezer
Is this an ad
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It’s twice as fun when you have both
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I'm struggling to think of any decent professional jobs beyond data entry that don't tick the boxes
Maybe not if your manager is a cunt but you can get that anywhere
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Victorian shop owner finds nearly 30-year-old Magnum Ego ice cream in freezer
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You can definitely still buy magnums
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Victorian shop owner finds nearly 30-year-old Magnum Ego ice cream in freezer
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Never tried any of them lol, allergic
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It’s twice as fun when you have both
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Were you unable to structure your days? That's a bit rough
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Signs point to renewed major US military ops against Iran
Oh boy here we go again again
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Haha yeah wouldn't that be crazy
Isn't that what the English have done to Ireland?
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Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss.
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It's pretty disgusting you'd try to use this misleading appeal to authority, attempting to frame this as some reputable government finding when it's only just a third party document mirrored by the congress website. Let's dive into the obvious problems here.
Unknown author and funding: No named author, no disclosure, no sign of peer review.
Advocacy-linked sources: Key claims cite Cato, NFAP (Stuart Anderson) and the Partnership for a New American Economy. All are policy advocacy organisations.
It's 9 pages with no original analysis beyond a couple of charts. Its conclusions depend on a handful of studies chosen by the author.
Old data: It's a 2016 brief using 2009-2013 figures, so it misses the post-2020 immigration surge, post-pandemic labour markets and recent fiscal studies.
"Economists generally agree": The only support is a 2013 IGM expert poll in a footnote.
Contested findings downplayed: Borjas's estimate that 1980-2000 immigration cut wages about 3% is footnoted, then treated as an outlier.
Static framing: It doesn't model scenarios, uncertainty ranges or sensitivity to assumptions.
The brief's chain of reasoning is that immigration adds labour supply, wages dip, firms invest more, capital per worker recovers, and so wages recover. Except no evidence is presented for wage recovery. The theory needs capital per worker to hold. Wages also depend on labour's share of income, which the brief admits has fallen since 2000. It dismisses that in a footnote as "technology and globalisation"
The two studies in Table 2 are simulations that build in the investment response and imperfect substitutability between immigrants and natives. The roughly +0.5 percentage point result for native wages depends partly on those assumptions, so it is not an observed wage change.
I could go on but the fact you're trying to claim this very misleading report produced by lobbyists is reputable is insane. If anything, it strongly supports immigration causing immediate dip in wages. They have a theoretical simulated scenario to suggest wages might improve afterwards.
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Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss.
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With ALL key sources being policy advocates?
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DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied
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Classic playbook, you'll see it used everywhere if you look closely.
Need to decrease public support of someone? Push a fake story out that they abuse kids or had child abuse material.
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Each rate rise locks tens of thousands out of home ownership, research finds
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Yes the RBA
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What's going on with PHP?
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The default Apache configuration*
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Camouflage
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Not just 4, but for eight things they used numbers under 300
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TIL the French Embassy in Monaco is Just 50 Meters from France Itself
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Nah work from home
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Australia sanctions North Koreans over 'fraudulent' IT work, cybercrime
Surprised all North Koreans aren't sanctioned or monitored by default - if they're operating internationally it's a government approved/run operation?
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Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss.
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I can point to good studies and government modelling too that find immigration reduces wages, it's a pointless internet battle..
The key difference between all the research is in the subgroups of workers compared and a few issues trying to study it:
Immigrants choose where to go, often to booming places, which can mask wage effects.
Natives and firms adjust (people move, capital flows in, jobs get reorganised), which dilutes local comparisons.
National-level studies avoid that problem but depend on modelling assumptions, such as how substitutable workers are.
This prompts the debate of skilled migrants vs unskilled, which leads to looking at how wages reduce or stagnate for professionals when there are high rates of skilled immigration aaaand we're back at square one