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Comment Re: Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. (Score 2) 286

by hypertex (#56942110) Attached to: Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup?

VAR is an attempt to put a halt to the drama. Goal-line technology not so much, but still needed. IMHO, if a match goes to extra time, the teams should be limited in some way to make a goal more likely; my pet idea is to have the keeper lose the ability to use 'his' hands. Perhaps one day there will be an honest discussion on this topic.

Submission + - SPAM: NSA's best are 'leaving in big numbers,' insiders say

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Low morale at the National Security Agency is causing some of the agency's most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs, former NSA Director Keith Alexander told a room full of journalism students, professors and cybersecurity executives Tuesday. The retired general and other insiders say a combination of economic and social factors — including negative press coverage — have played a part.

"I do hear that people are increasingly leaving in large numbers and it is a combination of things that start with [morale] and there's now much more money on the outside," Alexander said. "I am honestly surprised that some of these people in cyber companies make up to seven figures. That's five times what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes. Right? And these are people that are 32 years old."

"Do the math. [The NSA] has great competition," he said.

The rate at which these cyber-tacticians are exiting public service has increased over the last several years and has gotten considerably worse over the last 12 months, multiple former NSA officials and D.C. area-based cybersecurity employers have told CyberScoop in recent weeks.

"Morale has always been an issue at NSA, with roughly 20 percent of the workforce doing 80 percent of the actual work," a former official told CyberScoop on the condition of anonymity. "NSA is a place where people retire in place. At some point watching this behavior even for motivated people becomes highly demotivating."
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Submission + - Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com)

Submitted by mirandakatz
mirandakatz writes: The Thiel Fellowship was created to prove a college degree doesn’t matter. But what began as an attempt to draw teen prodigies to the Valley before they racked up debt at Princeton or Harvard and went into consulting to pay it off has transformed into the most prestigious network for young entrepreneurs in existence—a pedigree that virtually guarantees your ideas will be judged good, investors will take your call, and there will always be another job ahead even better than the one you have. At Backchannel, Jessi Hempel has the definitive look at what the Trump-loving VC's genius factory means in the Valley in 2016.

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