> [This analysis] notes that the criminal justice system is more lenient toward white-collar offenders than nonviolent property offenders and that affluent offenders are less likely to serve prison sentences than poor offenders even when they have committed the same offense.
Certainly not arguing that it's fair or just, but it's important to distinguish the mechanisms to have any hope of potentially improving the situation.
The most plausible idea would be some other bank buys SVB. Depending on the current state of SVB’s balance sheet (which is not publicly known), other banks may be willing to pay as little as $0 or there may be no takers.
Even if English is the lingua franca of the world, people master it to varying degrees. Also, it seems like 'quitted' was the more common form up until the ~late 1930s [1], so it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that, if this person learned with some vintage material or they read classics, they've seen 'quitted' more often.
I'd like to add my experience. I did a year of English in university, then switched to a software engineering major after internalizing all the "an English degree is useless" rhetoric.
While I am glad I didn't spend the ~$32,000 CAD it would have cost to get an English degree, I do wish I'd enrolled in a CS/English double major to get the benefits of technical studies and a humanities education. I have realized that, while I like software, a corporate job is just a means to an end to what I really enjoy: shared experience and art.
On another note, I did make the mistake of paying $15,000 CAD/year for a software engineering degree compared to $8,000/year for a CS degree. Now, in my final year, I'm taking many of the same classes CS students take. I would warn anyone in the same position in Canada (or the US) to seriously compare the two curricula when making a decision.
> On another note, I did make the mistake of paying $15,000 CAD/year for a software engineering degree compared to $8,000/year for a CS degree. Now, in my final year, I'm taking many of the same classes CS students take. I would warn anyone in the same position in Canada (or the US) to seriously compare the two curricula when making a decision.
I find this interesting, at least at the school I attended, there was no difference in pricing between degrees like this. Almost all of the computer related programs are just included under a BS (bachelor of science) and covered by normal tuition.
There were certainly focus differences between something like Computer Engineering vs Computational Media vs Electrical and Computer Engineering, but the prices were the same, and many of the core classes were the same.
The "software engineering" degree only exists because the Faculty of Engineering didn't want to miss out on the firehose of demand for CS degrees in the last couple of decades that went to the Faculty of Science. Effectively though, "software engineering" is just a parallel CS program taught by the Faculty of Engineering.
As far as I understand, universities' reasoning for differential tuition varies from demand for a particular major, projected earning potential, and the cost of providing the major itself (for example, a civil engineering student requires all the material and facilities for their labs and field courses).
In Canada, this differential pricing between engineering and other majors is applied to all engineering disciplines, which is why software ends up with a higher cost than computer science, despite there being very few tangible differences in the curricula.
In my opinion, a model like that of your school's is much more reasonable, given that many of the core classes are the same.
While I do agree that a mid/low-level employee is very unlikely to be the cause (why risk a reasonably high salary at Uber and possibly being blackballed from the industry if detected?), I think Hanlon's Razor [1] could be used here to infer that it was more likely a breach of Uber's systems.
Hanlon's Razor is a social policy for harmonious judgments on individuals. Uber is a company out to make money and there's no need to extend such a courtesy to them.
Even the US DOJ is aware of it.[1]
[1] https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/rich-get...