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Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry? by austincheney on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:05PM (#22880202)
Those are nice. Thanks for sharing that!

I have never seen anything remotely close to that in a place of corporate employment ever. I have been doing this in the corporate world since 2006, but if you count my time as a security analyst in the military than I could push that date back to 2001.

The military does force feed you (memorization verbatim) ethical standards, though, at a huge contrast to the loosey goosey corporate world:

* https://www.army.mil/values/nco.html

* https://www.army.mil/values/

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Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry? by andor on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:18PM (#22883197)
Those are not ethical standards or concepts. "Loyalty" and "duty" don't help evaluating if an action is good.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry? by austincheney on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:20PM (#22884763)
The values are vague intentionally so that they can be broadly applied. They are not a code of ethics but a guiding set of virtues.

The NCO Creed, however, absolutely is a code of ethics.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry? by craftinator on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:35PM (#22881309)
I had a similar shock, after 10 years as an analyst in the Marine Corps. It's a strange country we live in.
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