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by adekok 9y ago
Again: nothing in her resume shows she has any experience in the field. It is entirely reasonable, therefore, to suggest she has no relevant experience. Likewise, it is entirely reasonable to suggest she might have some relevant experienc
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by adekok 9y ago
> That LinkedIn profile doesn't support Any argument. So far as any evidence goes, she has zero experience in the field. So basically you're trying to nit-pick at me for saying that there's no evidence she has any experi
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by adekok 9y ago
The point is nothing in her resume shows she has any experience in the field . While I don't expect an exec to be at the same level as current researchers, they should know something about the field. Her music degree is not complet
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by adekok 9y ago
This hysteria reminds me of the Nickel mines in Northern Ontario. For decades, they dumped high-sulfur compounds up the smokestacks. The surrounding area had millions of trees die or get stunted, and the rocks etched black from decades of
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by adekok 9y ago
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-m... Equifax “Chief Security Officer” Susan Mauldin has a bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts degree in music composition from the University of Georg
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by adekok 9y ago
> The Equifax breach here was caused by, at the very least, reckless negligence in that they failed to patch a published vulnerability for MONTHS after it was disclosed Managed by a security VP who had no relevant experience? I posted th
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by adekok 9y ago
Their security head was a music major, with little or no experience in the field. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/equifax-executives...
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by adekok 9y ago
If she's going to nit-pick and take twisted interpretations, I can use the same style of nit-picking to create twisted interpretations. Pointing out that such interpretations are twisted is redundant. Yes, I know they're twisted.
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by adekok 9y ago
Other states are better, but still have major issues.
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by adekok 9y ago
> Women take on more work too, it is just not paid work Well, yes. I did say "take care of their kids". As for paid vs unpaid work, see:: http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=54757 In most western coun
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by adekok 9y ago
> Even if a woman gets alimony, she probably also needs to work. ... if she wants to maintain the same lifestyle. If she's willing to take on a lower standard of living, perhaps not. > Comments like yours are essentially twisti
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by adekok 9y ago
> What gets paid to support children is called child support, not alimony. In most jurisdictions, child support is more than the cost of raising a child. In Canada, equalizing incomes was the goal of the latest round of child support gu
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by adekok 9y ago
> alimony tends to not adequately support a middle class lifestyle by itself. Should it? I mean, let's say we have a happy "leave it beaver" family with 2.2 kids, a white picket fence, a dad who works, and a mom who doesn
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by adekok 9y ago
See Florida for "lifetime alimony" Why would someone work if they can divorce, keep the kids, and get paid forever? Other states aren't quite as bad, but they're still bad: http://tomjameslaw.com/blog&#x2
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by adekok 9y ago
If you protect mothers by giving them welfare, you get more single mothers. If you give courts / child protection services a cut of the child support money, you get more divorces where the fathers are cut out of the children's liv
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by adekok 9y ago
> people won't use 20 character passwords because they're too hard to type precisely. I have friends who do this. They set huge passwords for "security", and then can't type them consistently, or forget them, a
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by adekok 9y ago
When your enemies are by definition bad, and your side is by definition good, you can do anything. Any evil is excusable, because it's done by "good" people against the "bad" people. The people advocating this
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by adekok 9y ago
Those are both the same species. Neanderthals and sapiens are separate species. Just look at the pictures here: https://phys.org/news/2014-11-neanderthals-sub-species-moder... Clearly related, but also different.
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by adekok 9y ago
> I’ve been thinking for a while what would happen and how much money Hollywood could make if they charged $1 for a 1080p film and $2 for 4k, no DRM, just a file download. Pretty much that model works well for Netflix. I pay $10 or so a
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by adekok 9y ago
"root cause"? As in no one would use drugs if the cartels didn't exist? How about removing the revenue from the drug dealing cartels? How much power would they have then?
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by adekok 9y ago
I've seen large companies do the same. Testing? Pfft.. that's for losers. Design specs? Same answer. Apparently if you spend enough on sales, you can sell utter shit to unsuspecting customers. Then, you beat up the engineerin
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by adekok 9y ago
1.5M for a content-manageable system used by a government is way too low. As in, whoever agreed to that was incompetent.
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by adekok 9y ago
The typical complaint is that you're at home, waiting for a package. You check the tracking all day "on the truck". Then at one point, it says "no one home". Uh... I've been at fucking home all day. Or wors
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by adekok 9y ago
I mean any negative feedback. A stern finger-wagging isn't negative feedback.
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by adekok 9y ago
The point is to make the individuals pay for their own misdeeds. Like car insurance. If you have a clean record, your car insurance is low. If you have multiple at-fault claims, your insurance is prohibitive. Why can't we do the same
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by adekok 9y ago
Look at sex differences in animals. There are many, many, cases where one sex does the searching for (colorful, lots of adornment) and the other is the searched-for (drab, no adornment). It is entirely reasonable to assume that there is a
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by adekok 9y ago
I have an engineering question: Is there any negative feedback for police who violate peoples rights like this? I don't mean theoretically. I mean practically, is there any negative feedback? The reason this is an engineering question
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by adekok 9y ago
The alternative is that we are unable to track changes in the law. Which to me, makes the law untrustworthy. Untrustworthy laws are rather more foolish than doing revision tracking on English text. I mean... FFS how hard is it to track ch
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by adekok 9y ago
While a good chunk of things are getting better, it's hard to say that eating most of the planet is a good idea. There are many, many, fewer animals now than even 50 years ago: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases&#x2F
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by adekok 9y ago
> I haven't expressed any particular ideology in any of my posts. The idea that women are oppressed by men is an ideology. Because it's based on ideas, and not on reality. If it was based on reality, it would be called &quo

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