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by Duff 15y ago
The college vs. no college debate is bunk. The real question is: Why doesn't high school prepare folks with the skills needed to succeed in one of the professions mentioned in the article. The key to succeeding in all of those jobs is comma
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by Duff 15y ago
In the first 10 minutes of forensics class, they start stressing that you never work on original equipment -- always from copies. So a "bug" in a HDD would just hear all of the fascinating conversation that takes place in an evidence locker
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by Duff 15y ago
Does that statistic include: - Freight traffic - State and municipal costs, including law enforcement. (Ex, New York employs over 40,000 state and municipal workers dedicated to roadways, not including contractors) - Health impact. (Exha
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by Duff 15y ago
I share your disgust. Personally, I have a real problem with academics or journalists who go on a junket to a third world country and act like the people around them are animals in some zoo. Look at any western family for a similar period o
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by Duff 15y ago
They probably hired a company like Accenture/Deloitte/etc who flew in a small army of 30-40 people to align the customer enrollment process with some enterprise infrastructure standards. Since you don't need 40 people and a couple of $700/h
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by Duff 15y ago
Rail is the US is a nightmare. It impossible for a private entity profitably operate passenger transit because the government subsidizes road transit to the tune of trillions of dollars.
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by Duff 15y ago
Typically, you are in trouble when you destroy evidence when you has reasonable cause to believe that it is evidence. If I delete all of my email today, I'm not committing a crime. But if I find out that my company is being sued for breach
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by Duff 15y ago
I've been using Puppet for Linux servers and SCCM for Windows stuff... what's missing for me is good out of band configuration verification. Is there a good replacement for Tripwire out there? It's a great toolset for change management and
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by Duff 15y ago
It's a flaw in the system. A system built around a reactor with known risks if electrical supplies are interrupted. This is a region of a country where tectonic activity is significant enough that seaside villages are cutoff from the sea by
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by Duff 15y ago
Perhaps, but just as ignorant. I would expect a scientist or engineer to react in the absence of good information to say something like: "Is this the worst disaster ever? I don't know, it depends." At least the person assuming that the sky
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by Duff 15y ago
Around the time of the disaster there were stories about a GE engineer who resigned in protest in 1970 over this particular model of reactor. If I recall correctly, the engineering team's concerns about fail-safes in the event of a loss of
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by Duff 15y ago
I was shocked at the immediate "this is not a problem" reaction by many people -- particularly here at Hacker News.
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by Duff 15y ago
The complainers are getting alot of attention because the company itself is a scam.
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by Duff 15y ago
You give regulars perks, not cash. If you give them a discount on something, it should be a discount that can convert to additional spending. If you run Groupons often, you're like one of those restaurants that put a 20% off coupon in those
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? Restaurants typically have razor thin margins. And that's including front of house staff who are mostly paid directly by the customer!
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by Duff 15y ago
I guess it's time to prime the pump again. More hype == more investment == $35 bitcoin. Then in a few weeks, the early adopters start the "dump" phase of pump & dump. (ie. history repeats itself)
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by Duff 15y ago
I'm glad to hear that. Most of the Accenture people I've engaged with on a personal level share that skepticism and pragmatism.
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by Duff 15y ago
Is it just me, or do all of the ex- or current Accenture people posting here sound like Amway salesmen or cult members.
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by Duff 15y ago
This is an enterprise. So they probably use a AV product like McCrappy that takes 3 hours to scan for stuff.
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by Duff 15y ago
There's a line between perspective and propaganda. The pablum we feed high schoolers is the latter.
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by Duff 15y ago
We're allowed to possess opinions and positions that are controversial. It's not illegal to have point of view that challenges the mainstream. From my POV, the Khan Academy view of history described here is utter bunk and doesn't really giv
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by Duff 15y ago
Here's what you need to do. 1 - Practice humility and drop the attitude. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. 2 - Come up with a plan to have a net worth of $0 in 18-36 months -- owe nobody anything. If that is impossible to conceive of, make s
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by Duff 15y ago
I think Groupon is a suspect company to begin with. It's a great idea, but most of the last few rounds of funding have gone to pay off the early investors. http://allthingsd.com/20110602/where-did-groupons-billion-do... They raised nearly
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by Duff 15y ago
The market is getting saturated with Groupon copycats. Plus, high quality merchants can't repeat Groupon offers all of the time or they risk cheapening the brand. I have a neighbor who owns a "Moe's" franchise -- many of his customers refus
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by Duff 15y ago
With the exception of teachers, "professionals" are licensed workers who carry liability for their actions. If a Registered Nurse is negligent in the course of her duties, she can lose her license to work as a nurse and potentially be held
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? Public school STUDENTS get the short end of the stick. Public schools as institutions get rich funding streams, second only to Medicaid at the state level. I'd suggest looking into the $7,500 per student figure as well. Usually when sc
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by Duff 15y ago
It's a PR campaign.
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by Duff 15y ago
Easy. They go after Mt. Gox. They go after the very small number of payment networks that let you trade Bitcoin for coin. This may push the trade of bitcoin underground, or more likely push both of the drug dealers using bitcoin to use actu
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by Duff 15y ago
Bye, bye Bitcoin!
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by Duff 15y ago
Yup. That's a feature of currency systems that are pegged to a commodity. The difference is that instead of coconuts or gold, the scarce commodity is a bunch of random numbers. The are many problems with such systems, which is why the entir

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