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Comment Re:Viable second car (Score 1) 137

It's the exact opposite for most people. A Mustang Mach-E lists 224 miles on the low end. That's enough for my wife who drives around a school district every day to go to blind student's. That would be enough for me to do most of a weeks driving without charging. It's getting to the point that for the vast majority of people they can use EV's as primary cars. Really all we would need an ICE for is long distance.

Comment Hopefully no more blacklisting States (Score 2) 111

Colorado has had a similar law for a year or two. I've run into a number of job postings that say something like "not open to Colorado residents".

It'll be much harder with California having joined the transparency of salaries.

Next to tackle is better ranges, I've seen ranges in cybersecurity with 100k range, that's just too much.

Comment Re:Common Core didn't help .... (Score 1) 196

I take it that you aren't aware that common core isn't a teaching methodology. Common core is a set of Federal standards that students are taught to.

Given that there is an emphasis on showing you understand the concept and the use of real world problems, i.e. word problems, yes there have been changes to the curriculum.

Then you argue that it was never intended to be "the way" to teach math. Well the modern curriculum's teach multiple ways to solve problems for everything but the most basic math. The current standards literally acknowledge that kids learn different ways.

What gets some people riled up is that the method is tested and not the answer. So you see a meme where the kid gets the right answer but the problem wrong. Well, the kid didn't follow directions for that particular unit. I had multiple college professors who did the same, mostly undergrad but one or two for the two Master's I've earned.

Summary: Common Core = standards, nothing more, nothing less.

Comment Re:This is a lie (Score 5, Insightful) 304

Sounds like you have never had to deal with the American family law system. The current system in nearly every State is designed to force a parent (father normally) mostly out of their children's lives. Title IV-D incentivizes States to maximize child support payments and in turn that gives the State money from the federal government.

You want father's involved, then do like a bare handful of States have done and make it a presumption of 50/50 parenting time. Of all places, Kentucky has this as law.

The system supports false allegations and so much crap by mother's due to child support being a multi-billion dollar industry.

In just over 6 years, I've spent over 250k to get 50/50 and joint decision making which has led to bankruptcy. I even had a full day trial where a judge ignored the report of a psychologist with nearly 40 years of child custody evaluations and found that my ex is not a suitable parent for even 50/50.

Start small, allow father's to be in their kids lives without spending insane amount of money. Studies have shown that 50/50 has outcomes simliar to peaceful 2 parent homes, so let's go for that.

Comment Re:Careful... (Score 3, Interesting) 94

The problem with your statement is at a minimum the leaders of the GQP are no longer conservative and sadly a significant but hopefully minority of the people who belong the GOP are the same way.

Liz Cheney has always been quite a bit right on the classic conservative line but she's out because she isn't a racist and puts country first.

Some of us conservatives have left the GQP because we can't stand where Trump has taken the party.

As bad as Biden is and I couldn't vote for him, I'm glad he won.

Comment Bad idea in general (Score 1) 241

I don't understand how anyone would think taking a picture of a child's groin area or other "private parts" is a good idea these days. It's far too easy to have it mistaken and taken out of context by automatic systems.

Of course I'm also highly biased due to our DHS/CPS system hating father's. I lost my kids for 6 weeks because my ex lied about me sexually abusing our 3 and 4 year old. I was assumed guilty, the case worker was an incredible asshole.

Guess what, the legal system doesn't care and thinks it is just fine for a mother to make false reports.

I've taken plenty of other pictures but nothing sensitive due to our society being so extreme, for better or worse. My now D6 has come over with visible bite marks from her older brother.

Comment Re:More secure? (Score 2) 112

I absolutely agree that the cloud can be more secure with a couple of caveats. First you have to setup guardrails at the organizational level and you have to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Guardrails are so important, even a simple one of RDP, ssh, remote access, etc. be denied by default. Then requiring IaC, in my case it's Terraform and GitLab. If a project needs remote access they have to put it into the .tf and request it be merged. Multiple groups have to review and approve the merge request (MR). I'll question every single request for remote connection.

Then we have the cloud infrastructure patching and configuration be handed by the vendor. In my experience Google does an excellent job even though they are what I call a "beta company", everything always seems in beta.

It's far easier to get secure deployments in the cloud than traditional data centers. Though you can move to IaC for traditional data centers.

One thing besides the technical side is the financial side. Using a cloud provider moves the cost from CapEx to OpEx which has some interesting but at times bizarre tax implications, I'm very US-centric so this may not be true in other countries.

Comment Re:Honestly kind of surprised (Score 1) 47

The document has a cryptographic hash to show that it isn't modified after signatures, just like a MD5 checksum that is provided for many downloads to verify authenticity. This is better than any paper contract which can be more easily manipulated.

At this point DocuSign is well accepted in courts (US) and there isn't a need for anyone to testify about the process to obtain the signature and authenticate the contents of the document.

Comment Re:Honestly kind of surprised (Score 4, Interesting) 47

It's heavily used in B2B, nearly ever single MSA at the Fortune 200 I work at is finalized using DocuSign and we're talking hundreds if not thousands of signatures per year.

The problem is that for the longest time, DocuSign was the only player in the market. I had a conversation a few years ago when I did a Cybersecurity 3rd party risk assessment on the Adobe product that DocuSign increases prices every single year.

Between the poor customer service and constant price increases the competition doesn't have a high bar to hit to surpass DocuSign.

Right now DocuSign is coasting on reputation but just as it was once said "No one ever got fired for buying IBM.", it's time is ending without major changes.

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