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What makes this singular shade a colorway instead of a color?

Been seeing this used frequently lately on tech blogs, and trying to ascertain if there is a functional nuance to the term that isn’t apparent to me, or if it’s just a trend of using a novel, longer word for what was just “color”. 

coolfactor said:

I agree 100%. Many employees are paid way more than most of them *earn* (or are worth to the company). Overtime, holiday pay, benefits.... on top of their hourly wage or salary. Yet they bitch and complain and unionize against their employer just to get more, more, more, without giving more. It's a sad state of affairs.

(this doesn't apply to everyone, but a very loud portion of workers)

Those of us that are self-employed know what it's truly like to work hard without any return on that work until the job is done. We don't get to sit around getting paid by the hour whether we produce results or not. I suppose commission workers experience this to a degree, which explains why car salespeople can be so pushy. 

Nonsense. Wage stagnation has proven as fact (not opinion) that middle class incomes dropped, while wealth was consolidated at the top. Corresponds with weakened unions. When unions are strong, collective bargaining allows more fair splits. This is why pro sports leagues have unions too!

mikethemartian said:

danox said:

IBM are they still around? slowly sinking into the tech sunset.

When Apple was releasing the original Mac, IBM was inventing quantum key distribution and still to this day is one of the leaders of bleeding edge technology in the field. But since they don’t make phones in Midnight blue with cute emojis and other shiny consumer products you think they are obsolete.

Isn't much of their business standard enterprise consulting now? In my markets they're just another Accenture, SAIC, etc. These companies are billing machines -- they all say they're tech but having worked within them for a decade they're just high-tech temp workers building web apps for healthcare, government, telecom, etc. I'm sure IBM still has some R&D stuff, but I'd like to know how much of their business is that vs business consulting/billable hours.

TikTok is a joke - so-called "influencers" pumped on PEDs looking to build their follower count so they can go on free cruises -- on a CCP-run spy platform. No thanks.

Peleton requires proprietary, expensive hardware. No thanks. 

Apple Fitness+ is the happy medium -- guided workouts by pros, on my own equipment. But importantly, syncs w/ my Watch for real-time metrics data collection. Yeah so the Burn Bar may be based on standardized height/weight BMIs, but guess what -- WHO CARES! I'm not training for the Olympics! lol. I'm just a guy trying to stay motivated. 

And that's what Fitness+ excels at -- motivation. I've been working out for years, and I can tell you the biggest barrier is boredom. How many times do I want to run my HIIT workouts and listen to music staring into space? With Fitness+, it's taken my rowing workouts to another level -- I'm getting form tips, and perhaps most importantly the trainer is crafting a narrative, and leading me through it...all of a sudden 20-min sessions on the rower go by in the blink of an eye, as we work through various imaginary race scenarios, and I'm spending much more time in my target HR Zones. The screen tells me which row pace to do, for how long, and my HR and cals. And it syncs between my Watch, AirPods, and iPad held by the rower. It all just works.

I run the same "episode" multiple times at various intensity levels (set on my rower) for additional linear progression, doing the same episode 5-6 times. Then I move on to another. This is great. I don't like all the music genres but you can filter on that, and on duration. This is works very well. 

Madbum said:

carnegie said:

Madbum said:

There is nobody causing more harm to regular working people than the a federal Reserve with their crazy interest hikes based on lagged data. Well maybe with exception of Putin… But actually FED might be affecting more people than Putin…

an example, CPI report Fed based their policy on said there was a .8 increase in housing and shelter in December. Show be one place in this country housing increased by .8 percent in December…. The answer is none as all housing has been plunging since summer…

but the Fed is still using that lagged data…

so the Fed need to look in mirror before telling a Goldman what to do to protect consumers

Home prices have generally been falling, yes. But the BLS doesn't account for such things as part of its CPI reporting. An owned house is considered a capital good rather than a consumption good or service - an investment rather than a cost of living. Inflation measures are about the latter.

What the BLS measures for the Shelter category (as regards CPI) is the cost of renting for actual renters (excluding, e.g., utilities), the theoretical cost of renting for homeowners, the cost of lodging away from home (e.g. at college or in hotels) and the cost of renters and homeowners' insurance. The rent equivalent for homeowners is by far the largest component of the Shelter category, but it isn't based on the prices of current home sales. It's based on what they'd be paying in rent if they were renting instead of owning their residences. In other words, it's based on current rent prices.

The Housing category includes the Shelter category and some other things - e.g., in effect, utilities. But it still doesn't take into account current home prices. Again, CPI measures are about spending on consumption goods and services rather than capital goods investment.

Rental costs have been flattening and are perhaps just now rolling over (it depends on what reporting you look at), but they haven't been plunging, as you say, like home prices have been.

Rent has also been crashing since summer across the country…

Nonsense. Rents are nuts, and I’m a landlord.