This is country with compulsory military service, where young people patrol a very dangerous border where infiltrators operate, plant land-mines, etc. Shootings aren't uncommon.
Had a coworker whose best friend got lost on night patrol. Another unit killed him when he didn't come up with the password of the day quick enough. The coworkers comment? "He screwed up."
Have worked with several trans folks at major legacy corps like IBM and while I'm sure there may have been rank-and-file issues, discrimination was not tolerated by mgmt in the latter 90s. My memory is IBM and HP added non-discrimination policies around that time.
Any drop out from any of those has hurdled more than 98% of the general college corps. Or at least that would be a rational assumption by the VC cadre that is probably in the top 0.1% and an Ivy League grad.
We will see a combinatorial explosion of centuries of experience in the hands of any creator. They’ll select the artistic model desired - a Peckinpah-Toland-Dykstra-Woo plug-in will render a good enough masterpiece.
Christopher Nolan has already proven we’ll take anything as long as the score is ok - dark screen, mumbling lines, incoherent plotlines…
Massive desert projects are just big subsidies to big corps. Few make money, at least one failed, others get bailouts. We could have all the same capacity cheaper, energy independence by putting more PVs on home roofs.
The hippies are right, the corporate whores are wrong.
“We don’t need deregulation. We need better designed regulation.”
Ah, I guess the anarcho/libertarian crowd is stepping back from the abyss. But how is that going to make your EC2 SSD go faster? Cheapen your egress fees? Make you write software that actually has less exploits? Pay artists better?
As with many ideas here, how about a concrete suggestion? Here’s mine: software security education for all developers. 1 year of it. Mandatory. Financial penalties for developers and their employers.
You don’t get to call yourself a professional and punt on responsibilities. We don’t let doctors or lawyers do it, why should we let coders?
Roy Cohn was Don's business mentor.