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Comment Re:Articles like this assume... (Score 1) 266

...that the only reason to get a college education is to get a job
While it's true that professions like engineering, science, medicine, law and others often require a degree, it's not the only purpose of education
When taken seriously, college trains the mind, kinda like an athlete lifting weights to train their muscles
We need more trained minds

Medicine and law students are wasting time in college. They should go directly to medical and law school rather than wasting 4 years.

Science and engineering degrees are meaningless now. Professors teach whatever they want. There is no standardization. Experience with actually doing science and engineering would be more beneficial.

Comment Re:Well Shite (Score 1) 107

He made the mistake of committing the crime without the power and position to get away with it.

His wife did the correct thing - had she not reported it, then when it was eventually noticed she'd still have been fired as well having to repay the profits with interest, be facing a potential 20 year stretch in jail, and up to a $5 million fine.

Instead she just dumped her idiot husband and can look for a new job able to point that out to any potential employer who asks. "This is how committed I am to ethical behaviour - my husband became an issue so I divorced him". I'd hire her. Most people would have tried to cover it up and hope to get away with it.

He did nothing wrong. Overhearing information is not insider trading. He didn't go out of his way to obtain information or breach any sort of trusted position. He has doing his thing and overheard it. It is not insider trading.

They are playing the cards perfectly. She knew she would get fired since BP had to do it. Then, she moved out and filed for divorce but it was probably carefully calculated.

It all depends on if he gets to keep the money or not.

Comment Re:Fair and not fair (Score 1) 170

Benefits public colleges and universities?

More like benefits administrators there.

They keep tuition high because of student loans, keep professor salaries low and rely on external funding for any research.

Professors are paid low, have to constantly beg for money for research and grad students are paid peanuts. On the other hand, tuition is soaring.

Only thing that increases is the number of administrators, their salaries and bullshit around the university. What makes a university a university doesn't benefit.

Comment Re: Fair and not fair (Score 1) 170

CA already spends more money than any other state on maintaining infrastructure and you think more money will somehow solve the problem.

There are some very well compensated people benefiting from the current scheme of things who will try to brainwash others. Either you're benefiting from it directly or you're a brainwashed by them.

For an average person, a high speed rail connecting the cities will be of enormous benefit. It takes some serious PSY-OPs to say that is a bad thing.

Comment Re:Bad cloud use cases killed cloud (Score 1) 176

An old company department I worked at had a room for datacenter use as we were super adamant about on-prem.

Hardware purchases were next to impossible. First anything physical and company had to approve and then inventory which was hard. But, that was the smaller problem. The bigger problem was someone to setup the hardware and not have it interfere with already what was already running. IT was super-reticent about changing anything and could always bring up thousands of excuses not to do any changes.

Our times to finish the jobs grew and grew but without the ability to buy hardware and have someone set it up. We had to do so many shortcuts to just to be able to do our projects.

Our company acquired another startup making everyone on the acquired company multi-millionaires. We were asked to merge with that department and thankfully we got the full cloud workflow from them.

Comment Re:History repeats itself (Score 1) 86

Sounds like you haven't dealt with IT.

If your project depends on some IT person doing a lot of things right, good luck.

There is zero incentive to help you in any way. If everything works great, IT won't even be mentioned.

And, they have every leverage against you since your project completion depends on them and you have really nothing to offer them.

If you do the IT yourself or if the IT team are your underlings, maybe. But, any big institution IT is an absolute nightmare to deal with.

Comment Re:History repeats itself (Score 1) 86

... they could very well run on their own premises, at least partially, for much cheaper ...

Have you dealt with the nightmare that is IT?

You might think we'll just run a server on premises but you're missing the thousands of details that will run you ragged dealing with IT.

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