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> You'll have to pardon me if I'm reluctant to take my economics lessons from a linguist.

Your loss, not mine!

Their security questions are a massive security hole. Credit cards don't require a PIN. I don't see much indication that it is difficult to steal from people.

> I think you would find that their security is better than you think.

You can get in to my account by verbally relaying my grandfather's first name over the phone. You can open a bank account with a SSN and no photo id. What security? Their "security" is a fraud department, much like our credit card industry.

> Otherwise they'd be hemorrhaging money left right and center to North Korea and the likes.

This is not how transactions work.

> Edit: It's worth pointing out that banks usually don't gain or lose customers based on their UX, so it's not something that the business optimizes much.

All banks offer the same shitty experience. What does differentiate them if not their software? They offer literally nothing my local credit union doesn't offer.

> I don't think there is anything technically difficult about almost any of the consumer software facebook offers, except scale.

No argument here, but facebook at least manages to hire designers and not impose weird non-sensical patterns of auth, like "Look for this image when you log in".

> Wait until you find out how far the pay of those rich assholes goes when you spread it around!

Like by raising wages? How else would you spread it around?

> That some people make more - sometimes substantially more - isn't always one of them.

Read marx. Or chomsky.

Bank of America should really not brag about the quality of the software it makes based on its consumer website. Maybe they should consider spending more.

Is there any other future?

Fair enough! I think my assessment on the partisanship of infrastructure development stands. My understanding is that the underlying reasons for cost inflation are non-partisan.

> In summary, earlier versions of OSX are perfectly fine (my one remaining mac is on 10.10), but Apple has not been doing itself any favors with the dev community in more recent iterations of the OS.

The GNU/Linux community also isn't bending to my will arbitrarily either. Frustrating, to say the least.

In all seriousness, people are all happy to talk about how easy linux is to customize until you broach the subject of changing keybindings to use a mac-like scheme (using command for gui interactions as a rule of thumb, readline bindings everywhere there's text entry), and you find out this is pretty much impossible. In reality software is mostly customizable in the way the creators built it to be customized, including things like windowserver and macos mouse behavior and X11 and gtk and emacs and bash.

> We have a political system where one major party (out of two) decries any public spending that might help people who aren't millionaires/billionaires/corporations.

Wasn’t it Newsom who canceled the project? Most high ranking Democrats are certainly rich from things like “energy” and “weapons” via k street and international analogues. We are bipartisan in our corruption and failure to build infrastructure.

Meanwhile what will demonstrate Yang wrong—conveniently for him—is just waiting a decade.

Right, which is why our tools all suck.

Oh wow, my bad.

Still, I’m not a fan—I don’t trust apple to be a good judge of behavior here.

Yup.

Nah it’s just harder to fix wages low when you can job hop so easily.