genwin

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901.
by genwin 14y ago
Considering the FBI's anti-American history, they don't deserve the benefit of doubt.
902.
by genwin 14y ago
Your remote site method is my method too. I'm not worried about city-wide catastrophes, so I keep the spare drives closer for easier updating.
903.
by genwin 14y ago
For home use, it seems easier to put or more extra external drives (encrypted with, say, TrueCrypt) at some trusted locations, like the houses of friends.
904.
by genwin 14y ago
Yep. Exploring that risk, they might say something like "the attacker gained accesses to an unencrypted backup of the wallet keys", then say they'll consider making everyone whole, then go bankrupt.
905.
by genwin 14y ago
The quote makes sense if you want some plausible deniability for an inside job.
906.
by genwin 14y ago
What prevents S3 from being used as a highly scalable NoSQL key-value store?
907.
by genwin 14y ago
Not to downplay your pain: I would love to get $934/month for SS! I've maxed out contributions for many decades but will probably get less than $500.
908.
by genwin 14y ago
I do hope it's a private venture. My kids will have to work too many years longer as it is, to pay for all the other things. (I know that space travel is so cool that we're supposed to ignore the consequences of borrowing money for it.)
909.
by genwin 14y ago
> [The police] don't realise that false positives happen. Rather, they don't care. Neither do the prosecutors. They don't want to imprison innocents, but they also have a strong incentive to look the other way. That's why, for example,
910.
by genwin 14y ago
I too find that planning code while in the shower or during a walk is much more effective than when at the computer or whiteboard.
911.
by genwin 14y ago
When the drones come to US cities, and it seems they will within a decade, I'll be moving to a smaller town, however small or remote it takes to escape the noise. I'll accept that I'm an old fogey who can't handle "progress".
912.
by genwin 14y ago
Don't forget the teachers' pensions, which radically changes the equation. After considering that a teacher gets paid for ~25 years of not working, with health insurance paid too, whereas the engineer must survive on savings after taxes,
913.
by genwin 14y ago
> Meanwhile, a 50 yo who retires with 25 years of service gets 25% of the average of their top three year's salaries as an annual pension. Good info. I believe that would still put the 50 yo at > $100K annually on average during the
914.
by genwin 14y ago
Keep in mind that non-profits have no practical cap on salary for CEOs. Their money motivation can still be very strong. I'm convinced that many non-profits exist mainly to provide a nice living for the staff.
915.
by genwin 14y ago
If you look closely they're among the highest paid people already. By the time they retire at age 50, after just 25 years of service, they've got a lifetime pension that would cost you or me over $2 million (after paying taxes) to buy an an
916.
by genwin 14y ago
A side motivation for Ms. Davis is that it promotes kids learning just enough to work for her company for cheap, taking little vacation.
917.
by genwin 14y ago
Having them learn on their own is the opposite goal, I think. For the most part they're being taught by rote, by design.
918.
by genwin 14y ago
Plus, "Most likely to outperform peers" at what? I suspect at stuff that won't help them much in their adulthood.
919.
by genwin 14y ago
> ... maybe this way, we, the adults would finally understand the cruelty of having less then 2 months vacation a year! But then how are we going to compete with the Chinese?! How will the children survive when they're competing with 15
920.
by genwin 14y ago
Agreed. My grade school was year-round, repeating x weeks on, y weeks off. I would love my kids to be on that schedule. An extra benefit would be that travel wouldn't be so crowded and expensive.
921.
by genwin 14y ago
> We should expect our schools to furnish today's students with the education they will need to excel in our global society. Problem is, schools don't do that in the first place, for the most part. So a longer school year may make thi
922.
by genwin 14y ago
Same with my parents. They wouldn't pay for my college based on the belief that I could easily do it myself, after tuition growth had far outstripped general inflation for a couple decades.
923.
by genwin 14y ago
It might be the city. I moved from a city where there was a lot of silliness like that. Now I'm in a city with a lot of tech jobs. I haven't had an education section on my resume for a long time through many interviews; I usually get the jo
924.
by genwin 14y ago
A good developer shouldn't need to fall back on a degree; they usually aren't required to get a job, I've seen.
925.
by genwin 14y ago
I observe the opposite. The developer ads I've seen almost always say "college degree or equivalent experience". For a good developer who wants to stay a developer, college is a waste of money. It might be great for other reasons though.
926.
by genwin 14y ago
Love it. I suspect if the app was based on real data it'd be blocked. Apple would let you attack the same spots though.
927.
by genwin 14y ago
They go hand in hand, I'd say.
928.
by genwin 14y ago
Yep, censorship. Legal, profitable censorship. Caveat emptor.
929.
by genwin 14y ago
What I've read says that almost everywhere in the poor areas of the third world, basic birth control is easily available and free, and even the poorest most uneducated know how it works. They just won't use it, for the religious/cultural re
930.
by genwin 14y ago
Good question. The existence of food stamps probably makes the tuition more affordable. Before student loans, tuition was affordable on a minimum-wage job. Houses were far more affordable before easy mortgage loans created a housing bubble.

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