marcovaldo

Hurrah! War is Over! Upvote to the Googolth degree! To be brutally honest, it concerns me that dissent on HN is not welcome.

I think we can agree most people reading this site and competing in the startup space know accreditation isn't too important. Aside from us, there is the 99.999% of the professional workspace where this idea is heretical. For them, a reasonably credible system of accreditation carries a lot of weight. The post-Uni startup that addresses these concerns will take most of the pot.

The Authoritarian Left (i.e. Obama administration et al) would love to make meat the new tabacco... Wait a minute! 'Meat _IS_ the New Tobacco'! They are on the case already, dictating the agenda, wrapping our language in their swaddling clothes, to meet their Utopian ideals. Count me out.

Will Udacity courses be accredited? Will their accreditation be taken seriously? If not them, then some new startup in this space will be. They will spike the money-hose directed at HarvardYaleOxfordCambridge.

It's not only his statement that is ridiculous. Have you see his photo? Admittedly, it is unlikely he had any control over the choice of snap that went with this story, but who approved such a insincere photo on behalf of his company?

It is impossible for the Guardian to verify the authenticity of the emails as a whole. It is quite possible that they are a mix of real emails from the regime plus intelligence agency injected disinfo, conveniently leaked as the drums for war against Syria line up for parade. Indeed, if you ran an intelligence agency, who would you 'leak' such a bundle of 'evidence' to? The courageous, crusading, twittering Guardian or the shunned, vulgar NWS stable?