I think it is B.S. when hackers take down an easy target for no apparently good reason.
I respect those that take chances to risk their freedom for the good of humanity. For example, if a government were lying to its people about something that was negatively impacting them or their future, and only bad was coming from that information being restricted, then I could not argue with those that took on risk to release that information. I could not support doing anything illegal, but I would at least respect it. But, busting on MIT has no value I can see, and in-general attack-oriented hacking is just as bad as the Cobra Kai.
I have to agree with this post to some extent. Years ago we had an MBA from a local university apply and it actually made a negative impact on the interview when we saw that on the resume- and this was for a business analyst position.
But, I think if you are geniunely interested in business, there is nothing wrong with getting an MBA anywhere. Just couple it with starting your own business. You don't even have to list it on your resume if you think it will hurt. Just be aware- it is NOT cheap, and you are lucky if your company will fully fund it; the last place I worked would fund only the cheapest in-state MBA program and they wouldn't pay for books or associated fees, so it would have been thousands of dollars a year out of pocket I couldn't justify.
From my and few other people's I trust (totally unscientific) observations: not only MBA does not help you with starting your own business, it actually lowers your chances.
MBAs come out of schools with a set of skills geared towards big businesses. That is what MBA was created for. But the real killer: after so many courses and case studies, for any idea or execution plan you know exactly why it is not going to work. Because this "was tried before and did not work", or "it works sometimes, but we do not have enough capital".
Why entrepreneurs that make it big are usually young? It is not just pure energy and stamina. It is also because they do not "know" that things will not work. And they don't, 95% of the time. But 5% of the cases when they do, against all odds, bring real innovation and wealth creation.
MBA adds too much years of this kind of knowledge on your shoulders.
One or two succeed and tens of thousands fail. With MBA's, one or two succeed but only hundreds fail. I call that improvement. It's not guaranteed success but you've improved your situation. And failure does actually have real consequences.
This "I'm too dumb to know better, therefore I am better" idea is based on the few lucky people but ignores the huge amount of failures. Consider there may be ten thousand failures each year that you never even heard about.
I absolutely despise crapware, google or ask toolbars, etc. that are bundled with installers, however if there is a market for it and there is no law against it, it will happen.
And once Google/etc. one day has everyone's credit card info and charges us more often, I could totally see items starting to be added ala Vistaprint (if you've used Vistaprint you almost certainly know what I'm talking about) like magazine trial subscriptions, etc.
The more the economy sinks and people are less willing to spend, the more crap will get dumped on us. Fact of life.
Here is the reality. Serious concerns will get few votes. Things such as building a death star that are completely stupid and not serious get lots of votes.
So what this is really saying is, "We're going to raise the threshold so we won't have to waste effort replying to your death star petitions, and btw we don't give a fuck about the little man and never did. Fuck you. Case closed. Now if we can get the media to sponsor some petition we really care about like banning all assault weapons or raising the debt ceiling, then you can vote on that, and we'll be glad to tell you why you have a great idea."
Killed my other account last night as I swore again I'd stop posting to HN... that didn't work I suppose.
Do you not understand that raising the threshold 4x is going to reduce the chance of the little man getting his concern addressed by a factor of 4?
My point was that the petitions I've seen on that site getting to the top are too often just joke petitions, and yet there are many legitimate petitions that don't get enough votes to meet the thresholds but should be addressed. Joke petitions have given them a reason to not address serious issues, and the more the threshold gets raised, the less of a chance that serious issues will get addressed.
If you seriously think that you can get 0.52% of the voting age population to sign an online petition, think about how much money and time both political parties had to spend just trying to get people to vote for president and how they were pouring millions into swaying 1% of the population. 0.013% vs. 0.52% is a HUGE difference even though it might not seem like it.
Change is disruptive. Disruption during instability (such as the economic condition of our country, political instability due to polarized nearly 50/50 political split of the people) is dangerous. But more importantly, estabilished lobbying powers inherently tend to equalize change unless one or more become significantly stronger and change the balance of power. And if those lobbying powers are not in favor of the change, it won't happen. Finally, change can lead to a great deal of uncertainty. Uncertainty is risk, and risk is typically bad when it comes to politics.
Amendments to the constitution could happen of course, but this would be an unlikely time for them.
It is more likely that the interpretation of the constitution would change. And that has changed very much over time.
One problem I've had is uneven neck (and probably shoulder/back) muscle development, because I don't sit staring and facing straight at the monitor. This is a warning to those that are younger and haven't noticed this yet.
The more laws are bent and disregarded, the less any law (not just those laws) will be followed. Ask any parent.
I think that we may be better off if those that are willing to give up all power to the government to disregard the constitution would just run their own country, and leave the rest of us out of it. For someone that writes for an organization that makes its living off of the 1st amendment to advocate throwing out that which provides it that 1st amendment is moronic at best, and suicidal and murderous of a free press and a free people at worst.
Exactly. How many times has the supreme court struck down laws because they violated the first amendment? I'm not OK with giving congress unlimited authority to do whatever they please.
Edit:
A quick search shows a total of 1,315 laws have been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. And countless laws weren't passed in the first place because legislators were aware that they would eventually be overturned.
That sounds like a lot. Shouldn't US have the Supreme Court verify laws for constitutionality as soon as they pass Congress, like it happens in other countries?
First someone who is affected by the law has to challenge it, then the challenge has to make its way through the appeals process until it reaches the level below the supreme court, and then finally the supreme court must decide to take up the case. It's a fairly involved process that only ever gets applied to a small fraction of laws. But the filtering process tends to select laws of questionable constitutionality, so it's fairly inevitable for something like the ACA to end up there. Though it helps to have a powerful interested party pushing a case through the process.
I respect those that take chances to risk their freedom for the good of humanity. For example, if a government were lying to its people about something that was negatively impacting them or their future, and only bad was coming from that information being restricted, then I could not argue with those that took on risk to release that information. I could not support doing anything illegal, but I would at least respect it. But, busting on MIT has no value I can see, and in-general attack-oriented hacking is just as bad as the Cobra Kai.