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kujhytrtyu··on The Paywall may be journalism's Maginot Line
Still happened though
kujhytrtyu··on The Paywall may be journalism's Maginot Line
The maginot line failed because they only built it along the border with their enemy (germany) and didn't continue it along the border with their friend (belgium) - so the enemy simply drove around it.

In newspaper terms it's like having a paywall but allowing the full text of the story to appear via Google's cache.

kujhytrtyu··on 10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
The clever bit is finding customers who will pay $5000/day for consultants who can just about do intro level MS-Access.

Except for the government of course

kujhytrtyu··on 10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
So your choice is pay 80-90k salary to somebody who will contribute $M to your bottom line (Google earnings/employee are incredible) or pay $35-45K for sombody who will just tie up your other programmers fixing their bugs
kujhytrtyu··on Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
Well they could add up how many terrorists they have caught
kujhytrtyu··on Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
That's a TSA website - it also claims that they are professionals working for our security.
kujhytrtyu··on Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
They aren't meant to detect explosives. They are meant to detect weapons that the metal detector might not pickup

The explosive you would just put through the x-ray machine anyway where it wouldn't be detected.