The problem with the "adjust for inflation" methodology, is that inflation is not equal for all components of the basket. The CPI measures the average inflation of the basket, but if some components have grown significantly differently from others.
In particular, some components of the current household budget were not included in the the original cost estimates. So the "inflation adjusted cost of living" doesn't incorporate those aspects, which is why rebuilding the number from scratch gets a result so wildly different from the inflation adjusted number, instead of being a few percent off due to a different methodology.
He isn't arguing that they do that, he's saying that if we accept that that remains a reasonable methodology to extrapolate the data, then we can use that methodology to get an updated estimate. He gets his estimate a couple of different ways, and they end up similar.
You really want to use WSDL? OpenAPI v3 would be a much better fit. But it has a tone of features that are completely unnecessary for this use-case. What if we just stripped it down to input and output json schemas? Oh wait ... we just invented MCP.
Some people don't really get to "decide" for themselves.
FTA:
> my parents were not a love match. at 27 and 26, they were embarrassingly old by the standards of their small chinese port town. all four of my grandparents exerted enormous pressure to force them together.
> the unspoken reality is that our regulatory morass is the deathbed of thousands of hardtech companies that could be drastically improving our lives. We must unleash them.
was "the unspoken reality is that our regulatory morass is also the deathbed of tens of thousands of hardtech companies who have no concern about destroying our communities in the interests of making a dollar", and that's what the regulations are there for.
If you are facing a wall-plate with two power sockets on it side by side and you are telling someone to plug something in, which one would be "the right socket", and which would be "the left socket"?
If above the wall-plate is a photo of a person and you are someone to draw a tattoo on the photo, which is "the right arm" and which is "the left arm"?
ETA: and if I were telling someone which socket to plug something into, it would absolutely be from the prospective of the person doing the plugging, not from inside the wall.
There's a difference in quality needed for bad things vs good.
If I'm trying to oppress a minority group, I don't really care about false positives or false negatives. If it's mostly harming the people I want to harm, it's good enough.
If I'm trying to save sick people, the I care whether it's telling me the right things or not - administering the wrong drugs because the machine misdiagnosed someone could be fatal, or worse.
Edit: so a technology can simultaneously be good enough to be used for evil, while not being good enough to be used for good.
It does not seem impossible to anyone who has watched someone use a computer for a few minutes... A bright green button from google pay saying "click here to secure your interest in this car" is easily mistaken to mean "save to my interested list" rather than "place a deposit on this".
It's sad, but you need to browse almost any site assuming the company is an adversary. I register my domains through two decent registrars but I recently needed to help a client through using GoDaddy and NetSol. The up-sells and cajoling were relentless, vile and eye-opening.
The "supercookie" phenomenon from a few years ago (when this was created) was that despite using private browsing or deleting cookies, the site id remains the same for the same browser.
In particular, some components of the current household budget were not included in the the original cost estimates. So the "inflation adjusted cost of living" doesn't incorporate those aspects, which is why rebuilding the number from scratch gets a result so wildly different from the inflation adjusted number, instead of being a few percent off due to a different methodology.