Chrisoaks

Why are you not using the subscription plan?

So what enables job security now?

Not true.

Even a perfectly inelastic (vertical) demand curve still intersects the supply curve at some price.

In other words, even if I would pay infinite dollars for a widget, I would still purchase from the cheapest supplier.

Appealing to a local maximum more or less repeats the claim.

Why would the current design be at a local maximum in the first place?

They will be able to view the public certificate but will not be able to sign or decrypt anything because they do not have the corresponding private key, which is never sent over the wire.

HTTPS protects against MITM attacks.

When the owner of the domain originally obtained a certificate, the obtained signed attestation from a trusted provider that they were able to field requests to that domain. Those requests can come from anywhere and are not possible to MITM. This attestation pertains to a public key/private key pair.

That’s not true either, as they won’t possess https certificates for whatever the domain is and your browser would flag/block you from continuing.

An unsecured network doesn’t help an attacker gain your TOTP and password unless you’re using a website without HTTPS or that otherwise messes up by putting the credentials as query parameters.

The most an attacker might be able to view is the addresses of the sites you are connecting to.

Because the price paid is somewhat less than the value derived. You might have been willing to pay him $110 and he might have been willing to walk away with $90. But regardless of whether you settle on a rate of $90 or $110 or split the difference at $100, a $20 positive sum is created.

You mention competitive markets, where surplus is reduced or almost eliminated. But most markets do not reach such a late stage level of optimization.

Sounds like you’re recognizing that the example is positive sum.

And bringing currency into the equation doesn’t change the fact that the plumber is better off for engaging in the trade.

Not all ways of spending money create the same value. He could also spend the money by burning it, which would be negative sum.

Free time isn’t zero sum. An accountant and a plumber can create free time by trading services. If it would take a plumber five hours to file his taxes, he could instead fix the tax accountant’s sink in one hour in exchange for the tax accountant filing his taxes. Assuming the tax accountant can do so in one hour and would have taken five hours to fix his own sink, both profit by reclaiming four hours of time.

But is there a zone, at least internally, where such communication is safe?

I would imagine that a firm is incentivized to want to know where their team members are leaving gaps.

> Of course, without any treatment at all, the pain would also have gone away after a few days.

And if you struggle for years with chronic back problems and doctors don't really have an answer except to prescribe addictive painkillers and then you see a chiro and everything is cleared up in a couple days?

Telling me that's a coincidence is just gaslighting.

Sorry, I have no clue what confluence of political/cultural forces have led to the inability of science to figure out how/why this stuff works.

Maybe in another 40 years. Good luck!

I also think step 10 is wrong because it assumes that P ≠ Q.