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There have been recent studies that point that it's not necessarily a lack of opportunities that prevent girls from getting into CS fields of study, but that early educator's biases may be more to blame.

My dad had a saying when trying to hire competent developers. Out of every 100 who apply, you're lucky if 10 are good, and most often only 1 is great. I have to say, that it definitely seems to hold true in many situations.

Plenty of people honestly. Whether through cancellation of plans due to lack of mandated coverages, or in my own personal case, being forced to a plan with weaker benefits because my wife's employer was going to be penalized for offering a "Cadillac" plan to their employee's. For those that don't know what that is, it's a mandated 40% excise tax placed on plans that offer premium coverage.

So now we pay about the same amount as before and have a deductible and coinsurance that we didn't have before. Thanks ever so much for that. Considering now we have to be concerned for up to 4800 dollars more a year in expenses. In an environment with looming inflation, and stagnant income growth. Hurray for Obama. Thanks so much for causing millions of Americans into the threat of financial instability.

If the 10 million people now being covered are primarily from poor and rural areas, you could have easily covered them by modifying existing options like medicare to better suite the needs of those unable to properly insure themselves. And probably at a lesser expense.

So yeah, lots of people have reason to hate the ACA, and the people who shoved it down our throats.

I store all mine on a dedicated home NAS. Raid 5+1, over 4 2tb drives. That way I have drive failure redundancy. Anything truly important I store backups on an additional external drive that can be grabbed quickly in an emergency.

One of my old companies had an actual name for those of us in that DevOps role. It was called the swat team. We were the ones called in when it absolutely had to be done yesterday. Did it suck? Sometimes, but when we said something needed done, management actually would listen instead of blowing it off.

Damn Hippies!