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Comment Re:Correlation/Causation (Score 1) 131

I have seen a lot of sharp people working in factories.
They are smart people, they are just not ambitious.

Getting a College Degree/Certificates/Licences etc... Isn't about intelligence it is about doing the work. Now a lot of this work is not fun or enjoyable. So the people who get these accreditation get it from their own personal ambition, not from actual intelligence.

Sure there is a set of people who have significantly below intelligence who are unable to do work that requires brain power. But people with 1 Sigma below average and all above average, in general can be prepared for jobs that doesn't require shift work.

Comment Re:Scum (Score 2) 253

For the most part these people do no know your ambitions in life so they will offer jobs that match keywords.
Their value is that they know of places who are hiring better then you may. There are a lot of jobs, and most of them are in small businesses, or business without much of a name with them. These companies will often contact recruiters who have a history of finding good people and see if they can find employment.
If the recruiter is giving you a job that you feel over skilled for or isn't part of your life ambition you can either ignore their message and tell them that you are not interested in such a job.

Now my real issue are the companies who make job requirements so select, in essence they are trying to get the same guy that left. So undoubtly they will not find a person to fit the role. Then they will just drop their standards down to Zero and outsource to India and proclaim that there isn't enough skilled tech workers in the US.

I see jobs say you Must have so many years of experience in technology that is 2 Google pages in the search results. After you dig threw you find that it is a custom built app made just for that company.

Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 150

While they may find a hack. I expect like a lot of vulnerabilities, they are hard enough of a hack to keep you safer using this method then the previous ones.

If you want to get into a hotel room, there are ways to do it. Heck if you really want to get in, bypass the door all together and punch threw the sheet rock.

Comment They may not know yet. (Score 1) 150

How dare an article not jump to a conclusion before they are facts to back it up. You must be watching too much Cable News.

I know we live in the internet age where we demand information right away. However some things takes time.

Make sure they are keeping the investigation productive, but stop pressuring people to find who to blame so we can do a token fire of that person, then carry on like nothing has happened.
 

Comment Re:Not a chance (Score 1) 631

Business supports it, but it really comes down to the customers.
Hooking you app to your bank account is a bad idea.
1. Overdrafts are expensive and annoying. With CREDIT card we can pay some or preferably all of it back when it is more convenient. If you can't get your drugs because your bank account is empty and you will get paid tomorrow, you lost a customer.

2. Setup. A lot of personal questions online, which is scary to fill out online, Then it takes time to setup. Then as you point out too much of your info in a server that you really don't know how secure.

3. Ease of use. An app is bulky. and you have to show your screen to the person scanning it. All in all bad. with Apple pay you scan and beep in and you don't need to show what is on your screen to no one.

In general the stores hate Credit Card Processing fees... However they need to deal with it because customers like credit cards better.

Comment Re:China is more capitalistic than the USA (Score 1) 73

You are confusing increasing growth, with bigger.

China has been so far removed from capitalism for so long that small-medium steps in that direction cause major changes. In China there is still the Government overhead to make sure you don't cross the line, which is rather rigidly set. In the US we hear about the rise in socialism but it is just because we had so little before.

Comment Re:So they got their reservation using deception? (Score 1) 1007

Exactly these groups are so tied up in the belief of the grand conspiracy, that if you were to silence them it will only feed to the core belief.
Have them talk, make an ass out of themselves. Then point out the flaw in nearly every point.
Hitler was a big fan of evolution... He was also a big fan of Art and Literature. Some say the root to Hitler Evilness is due to the artist in him, trying to make the world perfect in his vision.

So Art is evil.

What I would much rather see, is setting up ground rules for the debates, cutting people off if they make arguments that fall as invalid. Such as intimation, making a broad assumptions.
So if they could backup their claims then let them go at it. Otherwise they are just ranting.

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