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Comment Re:This will never, ever, EVER fly with the banks. (Score 1) 66

"What do you mean that I can't submit an ACH with the same file amount twice in the same day for the same amount, even if the company ID and file identification letter are different?"

Ya, the ACH system was built for a different age. Shoehorning into modern tech is painful: It is more like a series of queues (folders, since it is file based) that aren't expected to relate to each other, but then have been forced to.

And lets not start talking about reporting elements......

Comment Re:This will never, ever, EVER fly with the banks. (Score 4, Interesting) 66

As a bank, we already use NACHA for moving money (the US ACH system with the federal reserve). We are SUPER excited for FedNow and have been watching closely for years at point. It costs several cents for us to deposit an amount same-day. An order of magnitude less for next day. FedNow will flip that and make faster flows much cheaper. That's a win for us as a bank and a win for our customers. We're excited for it.

Comment Re:Why not me? (Score 1) 30

I've found some things in my life:

1. Bugs LOVE me. Always have. I currently have about 10 mosquito bites on me and I hate it. I have a picture from when I was a teenager after hiking with a pack for a few hours and there are over 50 flies hanging out on my hot, humid, heavily aspirating shirt/back.
2. Girls love my natural smell. I know, its weird, but I dated a lot of girls in my day and I got lots of comments about how they like my musk. I don't like my wife's natual musk and bugs pretty much completely leave her alone.
3. I have large lungs. Very large. X-ray technicians when trying to get a chest xray will generally have to take several shots because my lungs go down to my 10th pair of ribs.
4. I have a naturally high metabolism.

From these data points I think that mosquitos use CO2 and sweetness of your scent to track you from afar, then use your body heat and perspiration to really hone in on your exposed parts.

I'd be curious a compare/contrast of these points from your view to validate/disagree with any.

Comment Re:This is exciting. (Score 1) 39

> Pulse rate decreases as the age increases. Pulse length I guess is distance dependent?

My LIMITED understanding of pulsars is that pulse frequency is largely determined by the axial spin. And that age can affect it a little, I thought that age primarily affects the brightness. Pulse length then is determined by how aligned it is to us. e.g. do we see a LOT of its "arctic" circle? Or just a little sliver?

To me, this sounds like a magnetar that is quite aligned and pretty big and pretty slow spinning.

Comment Re:The US banned it over proliferation fears (Score 1) 170

This has generally been my impression with nuclear: The better you are at using spent fuel, the closer you are to having weapons grade material. Hence, the US wants to keep it generally harmless and limited. Do you know if I'm wildly off base in this assumption?

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 250

This is the first comment actually worth replying to.

And the real question should center about this question:

Are IT professionals, professionals?

Do we have professional standards? Do we have professional ethics? Do we have professional licensing?

What good is liability if there are no standards to adhere to? What good is saying yes or no if there are no ethics that are to be upheld? What can be done to stop me from continuing to practice?

If there are minimum standards that should be in place (no naked RDP hosts on any public IPaddress), then liability can be assigned. Without these things, I submit that we are not professionals in any meaningful capacity and liability for ransomware is not the fix.

Having said all of that, I totally agree with you: The sorry state of professional licensing for digital trades is untenable. I'm not sure that there is a solution that isn't worse though...

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