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Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:34PM (#41012128)
> Why would Windows systems be anywhere near critical infra ?

maybe Heartbleed or the xzUtils debacles convinced them to switch.

Everything you said is valid assuming the student GRADUATES which is precisely the point Gladwell is trying to make.
Malcolm Gladwell explains why it's statistically FAR better to be among the smartest kids at a 2nd or 3rd tier school than struggling to get into some elite institution where you will be below average among your peers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEwbRWFZVc&t=220s

If you're borrowing money to pay for a degree, going to a school where you are not at the very top of the class is really taking a big risk.

Re:Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf] on Thursday September 09, 2021 @07:06PM (#28475760)
[citation needed]
Re:U.S. Consumer Prices Rose Strongly Again in May on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:53AM (#27461447)
Re:Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average on Friday April 30, 2021 @03:18PM (#26998009)
> This is the strategy myself and many of my college friends took when we graduated in the late 80's. And we're all pretty comfy right now.

I wonder if your Japanese peers in a Nikkei 225 fund over the same time period would agree with your strategy. Buy-and-hold for them is still down 50% over the last few decades.

Re:Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments on Sunday April 18, 2021 @02:13PM (#26854864)
The US Navy has 11 aircraft carrier groups protecting the USD status as the world's reserve currency.

History suggests that won't last forever, but it probably won't be COIN shareholders or activist hedge funds that forces a regime change as big as that.

ask Digg how well that worked out...
Calcifediol is just a way to rapidly increase the blood levels of Vitamin D in an obvious crisis situation. Going outside, and/or supplementing Vitamin D from exogenous sources takes many days to have an effect.

Talk to your doctor, but start now. Your downside risk is fairly minimal. It is estimated that 40% of more of the US population is deficient in Vitamin D.

Re:Nasal vaccine against Covid-19 prevents infection in mice on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:26AM (#24244734)
It's worth mentioning that nasal rinses without proper precautions can be extremely dangerous, and even fatal.
Re:Why I Still Use Emacs on Monday February 20, 2012 @11:45AM (#3612904)
What env currently supports mixed-mode editing well? They all seem pretty crappy at the moment.

Either way, the code looks/reads a lot cleaner if you include the JavaScript as a separate file referenced from your HTML. Solves 2 problems.

Re:Why Python is Important for You on Saturday February 11, 2012 @04:27PM (#3580226)
Blocks.

Ruby gets a lot of things wrong, but blocks are one thing they more or less do well. Everything good that has been built from/for Ruby owes a large measure of its success to Ruby's block implementation.

Python programmers are definitely looking up the power curve at Ruby.