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You really think that the USSR of the early 1940s could have fought that era's Germany and Japan at once?
What about the comments by no less than Admiral Zhukov himself acknowledging that in his view, the USSR couldn't have defeated Germany without US assistance?
I'm criticizing the content.
With all due respect, no you aren't. There isn't any criticism of the actual content in your post. It's all critiquing the tone - what style he used when writing, who you think he thinks his audience is, how informal his phrasing is. None of that has ANYTHING to do with content, it's all about form.
We taught the lesson on this, didn't we?
I don't see why, given that looking through Google Maps seems to suggest that it's at least as common as not...
Let me just step back and observe that this is possibly the worst way to do cultural exchanges. Why does everyone have to take an attitude of superiority and judgement, instead of objective inquiry and mutual discovery?
It seems extremely unfair. Rather than focusing on the content, you're criticizing tone. It comes off as a structured tactic, given that famous image of Mudge with unkempt hair in a suit sitting before Congress, intended to draw attention away from his words and onto his rough edges. It's an ad hominem attack of a particularly cheap variety.
What sounds immature, unprofessional, and out of depth is Agrawal's mass e-mail tarnishing Zatko's reputation, a tactic that your post seems to repeat from a different angle.
I'd rather have the theory of general relativity written in crayon, than the most beautiful calligraphic illustration of nonsense. Wouldn't you?
It's interesting that in the countries where it seems to be less common, everyone assumes that displaying flags outside of schools is a US-only thing, when spot checks of Google Maps seem to suggest that it's relatively common throughout the world.
Americans get a lot of flak for assuming the world looks like their backyard, but maybe this is a case of the reverse?
This seems like a bad comparison. Hanging from cranes isn't a form of criminal assault that some people experience, as "being assaulted in the USA" is. It's a form of standardized systematic judicial punishment of gay people in Iran. Not quite the same thing.
Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confined to the US, and at least based on my spot checks it seems to be more common than not for public schools to display national flags.
Its very much a US thing
Are you sure? I've done a little bit of spot checking on Google Maps, and I find that national flags are clearly visible outside public schools in:
Canada Mexico Poland South Africa
...all have flags with flagpoles outside public elementary schools.
I can remember seeing flags in front of schools in every country I've visited, several in the Americas, several in Asia, and several in MENA.
It's certainly not normal in my country for schools to display the country's motto or flag
Wow, really? Can I ask what country? In my state it's illegal for the leader of a school to neglect or refuse to display the flag:
https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3313.80
...maybe this is a US thing?
Why is it odd that regulations would require public schools to display the motto of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or any of that? These things seem like exactly what every country does.
[edit - This comment is currently at -2, less than 10 minutes after posting it. HN, you're changing, and not for the better...]
[edit #2 - I don't think this has been a very good thread at all.]
The only honest answer I can give there is, "I don't know". So far as I'm aware, Twitter hasn't alleged that, no evidence has been presented supporting such an allegation, and generally it seems a heavy burden to present a court with convincing evidence of a conspiratorial theory like that, but I can't categorically say what Elon Musk's motives weren't.
Mudge is to cybersecurity as Orson Welles is to film. That's not hyperbole.
I don't think you understand how poorly attacking Mudge's character or insinuating that he's driven by some unethical ulterior motive is going to work out. Mudge is... he's Mudge. He's a known quantity, and one everyone wishes we had more of. When he says something like this, smart people listen intently.
Mudge alleges that their disclosures were a less than good faith attempt to gauge the figure.
Mudge also raises a number of allegations not pertaining to bots, including that Twitter has deliberately failed to abide by the terms of a federal consent decree. If proven out, that fact alone would constitute material adverse affect.
There seems to be the impression that "waiving due diligence" in an acquisition is some license for the seller to defraud the potential buyer without recourse.
If Mudge's allegations are true that Twitter has been defrauding the public in their reporting, failing to abide by the terms of a federal consent decree, and generally turning a blind eye to real problems to prop up their image, then "waived due diligence" or not, Musk has an out from the acquisition, and cause for a significant tort claim.
"All multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise, and which are resorted to by one individual to get an advantage over another by false suggestions or suppression of the truth. It includes all surprises, tricks, cunning or dissembling, and any unfair way which another is cheated."
"Zatko was fired by Twitter in January and claims that this was retaliation for his refusal to stay quiet about the company’s vulnerabilities."
The fraud that Mudge alleges in this article, for instance?
waiving due diligence rights
Pop legal quiz - does "waving due diligence rights" during an acquisition remove the other party's liability for fraud they've committed against the prospective buyer?
Some options that shareholders would have in the situation where investors were knowingly deceived by false disclosures of a publicly traded company are missing from this response.
Just to clarify for those who don't catch it in the article: Mudge's whistleblower complaint predates the Musk/Twitter feud entirely.
This is rampant. How is this a story?
Bro. It's not every day that literally Mudge, who has -no doubt- seen his fair share of shit-shows, whistleblows on an employer.
Building a successful security organization is very easy, it just starts higher up the food chain than whatever experts you hire to do it. Security is a cultural practice, it's not a feature, it's not a bolt-on. To the extent that your security organization influences and receives buy-in from your corporate culture, becoming a part of your organization's identity, it will be successful.
Develop sufficient in-house subject matter expertise so that you're not depending on sales consultants to do your cyber program for you.
Develop an empirical understanding of risk management. While we can't predict the future, through well established techniques and adequate resourcing, professionals can achieve consistent results that are far better than random guessing. Risk management principles drive not just corporate stragegy writ large, but entire industries like banking and insurance.
Hmm. What public companies do you know of that don't work for their shareholders?
He had something called PGPFone a long time ago, though it didn't get much traction.
Does anyone have a copy of it? I can't find it ANYWHERE. Actually used it way back when, it worked surprisingly OK and was the first softphone I used.
What? I feel like one of us has forgotten how we got here.
The idea of punishment as a deterrent is hopefully dead and buried at this point.
That's an absence of correlation claim?
A single data point can be sufficient to contradict a thesis.
A correlation is an observation that seemingly unrelated events occur in proximity to each other, temporally or otherwise.