So your saying that specific area is levelled by a major earthquake and a tsunami every 3yrs or so? Doesn't it strike you as odd that the Japs would have to rebuild every 3yrs or so with the full knowledge that they will have to do it all over again in another 3yrs? It is not remarkable that Fukushima Daiichi was built 41yrs ago, so by your calculations had already survived a dozen such events before it fell apart?

The incident was a catastrophe, with or without the nuclear reactors, there's no need for hyperbolic "what ifs" based on what are clearly dubious claims.

Bullying is not assult, it's intimidation and harrasment, sometimes to the point of mental torture (especially for children and teens), people are not complaining about random insults from random trolls they are complaining that real life bullying is extended to online harrasment. The online bullies are KNOWN to the victim, there is no way for the victim to escape their attention in RL or online.

I went to school in the 60's, throughout grade school there was a girl in my level called Allison. Nature had not been kind to Allison and her parents often sent her to school in dirty clothes and oily hair. For her entire time at grade school the entire school would not go near here, at lunch time, after school, and on the weekends, the other kids would taunt her with chants of "Allison's germs". I cannot recall a single instance of physical violence against her but it is by far the worst and longest case of bullying I have ever personally encountered and I'm ashamed to say I participated willingly.

OTOH, I was punched a few times by "big bullies" myself, virtually all male children are at some stage the victim of a random bully, that is almost trivial compared to the constant mental torture Allison had to deal with in her childhood. We don't have any silver bullets for "cyber bulling" precisely because it's a continuation of what people (in particular kids) have been doing since before the dead sea was sick.

A slashdot mirror?

My (Aussie) CS degree is around the same vintage, out of 160 starters 3 were women. 12 people made it through the course in the minimum possible time of 3yrs, including myself and 2 of the 3 women.

My kids are adults now but I had the same experience. To the boy learning about the computer was an end unto itself, the girl used it to learn spanish. Same thing with cars, the boy pulled his apart, the girl never looked under the hood.

For your last point, that's why I made the clarifying comment about using education for entry level. I strongly disagree with past experience being hard to verify. Sure, the exact details may be hard to verify, what you can verify is whether or not they developed the expected level of skill in the given amount of time. If I ask for 5 years of java experience, that's really a proxy for having developed core competency with the language (along with some of the technologies in the ecosystem), and that's what I'll test for in the actual interview.

People who get fired for incompetence or social problems are both pretty easy to pick out in an interview.

They already exist, EFF, Grok law, ACLU, collectively they are known as lobbyists.

It's Monday morning here, the above quote eloquently describes the rest of my week.

I'm guessing the US attacked Hitler becuse he formally declared war on the US, not because the Japs 'king hit' the US in the Pacific parking lot.

I've always found past job experience + #2 for confirmation to be best. Better, even, than #1 + #2, for anything other than entry level.