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Can relate to some parts of this. Controls are bypassed routinely. The concept of privacy is a foreign idea, almost. People don't understand basic elements of security. But openly giving up your PIN seems quite silly. Not shame as much as laziness and stupidity, it seems.
Some of these guys may be super specialized, and not find easy opportunities in their line. Others may just not be agile enough to stay on top of the latest thing that came up in the last 6 months, which is perhaps more of a DevOps mentality.
But on the hardware aspect, I would think there is hope. Given the increasing move towards the new maker mode of desktop fabrication & IoT, there should be demand for people with hardware skill sets that integrate well with web, cloud & mobile.
The problem always remains that the smartest minds are frequently poor at marketing themselves.
torch for me. and of course the e-reader.
and we are not even talking about things like knowledge about knowledge (infinitely recursive), or the fact of knowledge being a limited 'concept' constrained to the organs of perceiving 'knowledge', etc ...
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