growupkids

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by growupkids 11y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something. How would you know if someone is an excellent censor (I.e. They only censor "bad" speech, and not "good" speech) if then intent is to shield you from the "bad" speech. Woul
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by growupkids 11y ago
I think you're missing the point, and would mind if we all went through your financial, medical and personal records. These records are made available to OPM under what are supposed to be strict privacy controls, because it's ver
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by growupkids 11y ago
With FISMA no one builds even remotely secure systems, nothing anyone here would even want their name associated with. And this is because under FISMA government executives can "except risk", and they don't have to justify w
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by growupkids 11y ago
Indeed. This is what's led to the skyrocketing costs of college degrees, the irrational belief that without one you're financially doomed. So any degree is presumed to be better than not having a degree, which is pure bunk. So
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by growupkids 11y ago
Then no one will issue loans to those students, who have a very high likelihood of never paying it back. You're right back to cheap schools and only issuing loans for degrees that will pay a very high salary. The whole point is to ma
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by growupkids 11y ago
In reality bad culture hires stick around because most people are polite and assume it's just them, and They give difficult people second chances, they put up with them for a long time because they're not used to being around peop
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by growupkids 11y ago
As Elvis Presely used to day: these aren't drugs, these are pills see I've got a 'script from my doctor. Psychology is everything, prescriptions aren't drugs, pills are safe, needles are scary.
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by growupkids 12y ago
Simple, diesel costs more per gallon, it's not as widely sold compared to gasoline (not every station may have it), and there are less car models availavle with diesel as an option. Therefore, even if you just look at it statistically
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by growupkids 12y ago
The first startup I worked for, after taxes, made me over 1m and I was employee 42.
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by growupkids 12y ago
Which is why I'm always puzzled as to why job applications ask for information that has no bearing on the process of qualifying an applicant, such as age, gender, nationality, race and so on. Unless you are specifically looking for so
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by growupkids 12y ago
Your on to some thing here. In some resort communities, with high housing costs and large "seasonal" residents, you'll find rent controlled properties for just the reason you mention: local labor. For example, aspen colorad
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by growupkids 12y ago
I don't follow, privately owned housing is a normal good. It's a Textbook case, as average living standards rise, the total demand for housing expands, as does the demand for more expensive properties as people look to move &quot
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by growupkids 12y ago
I'll probably get down voted for this, so be it. I worked in the Clinton whitehouse in the mid-90s. Every time you sent an email, which was on a cluster of VAX servers, you got a full screen notification about the presidential record
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NSA bulk data collection authorization due to expire June First(techcrunch.com)
1 points by growupkids 12y ago|0 comments
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China drops Cisco, Apple and others from state approved purchase lists(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by growupkids 12y ago|0 comments
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by growupkids 12y ago
A 90 minute delay by immigration because someone didn't bring the right paperwork is not the same thing as being imprisoned.
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by growupkids 12y ago
Neither MIT nor Harvard are public schools, they are both private.
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by growupkids 12y ago
Most ROTC cadets do not have scholarships, and for their first two years they recieve no money. Of those students, only during their 3rd and 4th years do they recieve any funding at all, which is a stipend of approx. $300-500 a month and o
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Why Apple Pay and Dollars Are Killing Bitcoin(forbes.com)
1 points by growupkids 12y ago|0 comments
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Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
24 points by growupkids 12y ago|11 comments
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by growupkids 12y ago
Its DHS that is responsible for protecting critical infrastructure, not the NSA: http://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-presidential-directive-... In the NSAs charter, the term "National security information" refers
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by growupkids 12y ago
Minor point, Hicks is a private in Aliens.
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What really scares terrorists(cnn.com)
2 points by growupkids 12y ago|0 comments
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by growupkids 12y ago
Or they're just sociopathic and sadistic and actually enjoy what they are doing. Wouldn't be the first time a DDOS was done just for the lulz.
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by growupkids 12y ago
Doesnt use of natural gas have an adverse impact on climate change?
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by growupkids 12y ago
There were trials for crimes committed in Vietnam, and the commanding officer was found guilty: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
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by growupkids 12y ago
And he's wrong. The loss isn't just 1 million, and calling a certainty a risk is just baffling. If we assume the legacy system actually needs 10 million in enhancements to be adequately protected, I think it's safe to say i
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by growupkids 12y ago
How would you recover if the intent of the attack was to ex filtrate something, say payment information?
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by growupkids 12y ago
What's your point? That anecdotally you've heard that someone in the military used a term that's offensive, and you then therefore conclude that the military is just as racist now as it was then? You're wrong. The US
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by growupkids 12y ago
I'm sure you realize people are handcuffed for the officers safety. Not to dehumanize them. First offenders, even so called non-violent ones have been know to panic under the stress of an arrest and have been known to attack officers

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