alt Hacker News> I can say with a lot of confidence that optics weren’t considered in any of this, possibly to a fault.
How can you possibly know that? Do the people on that committee have a cast-iron tenure guarantee?
> I can say with a lot of confidence that optics weren’t considered in any of this, possibly to a fault.
How can you possibly know that? Do the people on that committee have a cast-iron tenure guarantee?
> How can you possibly know that?
I know folks who have been on these. They don’t have tenure. But they’re basically emeritus. If S&P wanted to do something that would cause chaos, it would be fucking with those folks because they made a decision that looks bad.