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Cake day: October 7th, 2023

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  • You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.

    Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it’s 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.

    Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.

    EDIT:

    Also, that’s only a difference of 7%, so it’s not even that drastic.

    EDIT2:

    Also also, what does any of this have to do with your post being removed? What was the post? Did the mod/admin give you a reason for removal?




  • I’m with the above commenter. I’ve worked at many companies of various sizes, from small local shops up to international corporations, including at least one contractor for the US military.

    Every one of them had rules and policies and training on security, to varying degrees. But at every one of them, I’d find some vulnerability, or instance where someone was neglecting security. Each time, I’d bring it to the attention of someone in management. Each time (with one company as exception), those warnings would be “heard” and “passed up the chain”, and then nothing would happen. Only one company in 20 years of work actually fixed a security issue I found. And no company I’ve ever worked for was leak proof.

    In my experience, until it threatens to cost a company much more money in losses than it would cost to fix the problem, but said problem will not get fixed. That’s profit motive. And often it seems they’d rather roll the dice until a loss occurs, and then (maybe) fix the issue.









  • Should Jon Stewart run for POTUS? No.

    Would I vote for Jon Stewart if he ran for POTUS? Probably.

    This says less about my faith in Jon’s ability to govern, and more about my lack of faith in current politicians to lead ethically.

    I’d rather see Jon make the right decisions but make mistakes, than to see a seasoned politician make the wrong decisions and execute them competently.

    I at least have faith Jon is smart enough and with a true compassion in his heart, that he’d be able to surround himself with real experts, listen open mindedly to their advice, and regularly make decisions with empathy.

    All that said, he’s said repeatedly he doesn’t want that job, and I do not blame him.