Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 9y ago
I don't understand the animus towards CEO pay. It can easily be applied to any major celebrity or athlete. If anyone could do what they do, they'd be paid accordingly. The market (via the shareholders) sets the rate of pay. Why
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Who gets to decide this? As I understand it, it's the board of directors that put together a compensation committee. It's not like they are spending your money. They're spending the shareholder's money. If only you ow
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
His risk isn't asymmetric. He (or she) has got to justify their job each and every quarter to the investors. A couple of bad quarters and you can expect the shareholders to be looking for a scalp and it's usually the CEO. I thin
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Something I find curious is the degree to which HN seems to want to break out the torches and pitchforks when a CEO profits handsomely by increasing shareholder value. There doesn't seem to be the same animus towards ordinary develope
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Sounds like a great research project. Let me know what you find.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
>> and tell me if you think that list compares to the large governmental subsidy that is provided to support non-taxation of tuition for graduate students. >From my original post: >> Additionally, and in direct analogy, GI Bi
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
AHEM. https://www.wes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/blog_20140722...
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
You're joking right? Have you served time in the military? I did and know a thing or two about how the government taxes service-members. Combat pay is a tiny portion of a service-member pay. And no, spouses don't get special tr
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
And no: members in the US armed services do NOT receive large tax exemptions. They pay taxes on their income just like everyone else does. That includes state income tax as well.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
If you don't think earning a PhD substantially improves your material existence, I'd beg to differ. There are plenty of folks who don't have PhD's who would be better positioned in the job market if they had the talent
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Then I think it's fair to ask if it's really OK to subsidize that compensation delivered in terms of valuable education. You can argue that graduate students and universities are just another special interest lobbying the governme
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
ORRRRR....maybe they should pay higher wages to stimulate demand for people to enter in those occupations. I can't help but think that the H-1B VISA program should be tightly restricted by industry and time-limited. If we can't fi
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Well...sure....but you could argue that universities shouldn't be competing for H-1B VISA slots anyhow. The whole point of restricting immigration is to avoid the sort of race to the bottom that accompanies the corporate directive to g
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Less than you might think. It's treated like real-estate with RF "zoning rules". But very wide swaths of the RF spectrum are essentially a free -for-all. You could argue that the most valuable parts (UHF) are used for stuff
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Uh huh. That's all well and good until someone decides to apply that reasoning to something else, like, say....the Internet. You really think all that wireless spectrum is finding it's best use sharing cat videos? High-bandwidth
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
I hear this kind of stuff from folks who don't really understand why offshore entities are useful in any number of scenarios for perfectly legitimate reasons. I also hear it from folks who have never had to deal with the heavy handed t
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
This is really the central issue. The H-1B program hasn't ever been a way to get solid talent from other countries to come to the United States because equivalent talent can't be found here. It's ALWAYS been a way to expand
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Access denied.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
I think this is a very important point and one that many folks don't fully appreciate: The total cost of ownership of a computing asset is several times greater than the cost of the actual asset. Think of it this way: a dog can be obta
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Are you sure that those are actual HSMs? I looked at the Kingston website and nothing I saw looked like any HSM I've ever worked with. Just encrypted USB drives.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm saddened by the efforts of others to divide the nation and pit us against each other. Sometimes it feels like there are too many interests trying to use fear and division to achieve their own ends. I refus
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
YUP. REMEMBER: A taxi medallion is a component of a government-enforced monopoly on regional transportation for hire. One of the great achievements of Uber is highlighting the gap between what's possible when a company is able to compe
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
What makes you think they haven't? In the DC area, there is a single provider of taxi service from Dulles Airport (IAD). http://www.flydulles.com/iad/washington-flyer-taxi-service Any other taxi service trying to
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
SOOO....continue the madness that existed before we had compulsory KYC rules. The same rules that allowed the financial system to enable the exact criminal activity we'd like to prevent? Gotcha.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
What's your solution? The issue that was faced is that banks could rightfully claim that they had no duty to verify identity and/or the legal status of funds they accepted on deposit. This led to all sorts of shenanigans like fra
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Yeah. Not really. All responsible banks have KYC (know your customer) rules. They aren't just going to let some company come in and open an account without knowing anything about the people who have signatory authority over the acco
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
This might help: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/05/palo-alto...
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
The initial attack vector is via an email attachment. Once it's infected a host, the SMB scanning for vulnerable hosts is launched and secondary infections begin with no further user action required.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
You'd be very surprised at how dumb criminals can be. Nobody is smart at everything 100% of the time.
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by Nrsolis 9y ago
Sprint isn't CDMA-only any longer. They're running an LTE network. CDMA as an access method is dying in the US. I'd expect it to be completely gone in a couple of years.

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