GVIrish

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by GVIrish 7y ago
That's a strange argument to make. These money-laundering fueled asset bubbles are caused because money-laundering is illegal? So if we make money laundering legal, then the dirty money will be spread out across all economies rather
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by GVIrish 7y ago
This has nothing to do with vindictiveness. Simply put, if you refuse to testify in court, you can be held in jail for contempt of court. Manning was offered an immunity deal but decided she didn't believe in the concept of a subpoen
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by GVIrish 7y ago
There has been a number of experiments that tried to isolate chemicals produced by the decaying shark flesh to repel sharks. The theory goes that sharks will avoid the smell of dead sharks, so a few groups I've tried to isolate those
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by GVIrish 7y ago
What's also amazing to me is that they've learned that they can turn the sharks upside down to induce tonic immobility and make it easier (and less dangerous) to eat them.
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Trying to help someone evade detection whilst committing a crime is not really 'attempting to save someone from terrible treatment'. To save Manning from being punished Assange could've guided her to only expose documents rel
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Manning was not pardoned, she had her sentence commuted.
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by GVIrish 8y ago
> I think the problem is largely isolated to companies in decline or stagnant -- which unfortunately is most companies. I don't think that's the case at all. I think it's just that typical corporate culture (in the US at
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by GVIrish 8y ago
You're right, the actual charges they were convicted of were espionage. Still, the point I'm making is that Assange's actions are nowhere near what the Rosenbergs did. Unless we see some superseding indictments of worse stu
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by GVIrish 8y ago
The Rosenbergs were executed for treason, not just sharing some secret documents. They actively spied for an adversary of the United States, recruited other spies, and stole some of the United States' most powerful secrets. The gravit
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by GVIrish 8y ago
The fact that Assange is being extradited not snatched via rendition means he is going to face the US justice system. He is being charged in Eastern District Virginia with conspiracy to commit computer hacking. If Assange just disappeared
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Not true. There may be people looking to get into that field who hope to have the chance to leak information. Imagine someone inspired by Snowden who wanted to unmask some other clandestine program that they didn't agree with or view
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by GVIrish 8y ago
> And yet, near completely useless as shown by cases known to wide public. Just because a system isn't foolproof, doesn't mean it's useless. There are certainly many improvements that can be made to how we protect secrets
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by GVIrish 8y ago
The thoroughness just increases through the clearance levels. So in a secret clearance investigation they do a cursory check of references, dates, addresses, relatives, etc. but as you go up the ladder to TS and getting cleared for particu
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Not saying she wouldn't have been charged anyway, just saying she would've had a stronger case that might have been winnable.
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by GVIrish 8y ago
The system is not perfect, but the reason Manning went to jail is because she made an indiscriminate leak of secrets of which she did not review before she released them. Had she only released material on stuff she had thought to be a crime
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by GVIrish 8y ago
I mean, Manning is in jail because Manning chooses to be in jail. Manning had an immunity deal to testify in front of a grand jury and refused to do so, leading to the contempt of court charge that currently has her in jail. She says she d
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by GVIrish 8y ago
> I actually think it's incredibly insulting when people assume that engineers are choosing frameworks just for their resume I don't find it insulting at all. Reality is that many, if not most, recruiters are looking for candi
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by GVIrish 8y ago
I would first evaluate how much work would be involved with making their design pixel perfect. There are some platforms where making certain things pixel perfect is extremely difficult (Sharepoint customization for example). I would also
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Who knows, maybe they have dyslexia or anxiety with reading or something. There might be a good underlying reason for the avoidance. Either way I think the most relevant factor is as you said, are they effective? If they are, it's up
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Eh, view those cost comparisons with a grain of salt. Something F-35 proponents have been fond of is quoting the flyaway cost of the F-35, against the total procurement cost of legacy aircraft. They'll exclude all the testing, toolin
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by GVIrish 8y ago
> It was supossed to be the swiss-pocket knife of airplanes. This is the main reason this program was massively over budget and didn't meet expectations. By trying to create one airframe for three very different sets of requirements
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by GVIrish 8y ago
To be clear, Backpage didn't get shut down for merely hosting prostitution ads. They got shut down for actively editing ads featuring minors to remove references to their age, money laundering, purposefully not reporting missing and e
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by GVIrish 8y ago
And those same black neighborhoods had redlining, deliberately starved infrastructure and public services, and bad policing to contend with. Not to mention that black GI's were deliberately cheated out of the GI Bill that created so m
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Parent post is talking about suicide rate, not murder rate. Unless the original post mixed it up and later corrected it.
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by GVIrish 8y ago
This was posted here 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369
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by GVIrish 8y ago
> So much diagrams with made up data. It's like ... it's OK to make up things just because it not falsifiable. Who could have thought? That's a bit of a strange criticism. The diagrams are meant to be illustrate a point,
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Agreed. I liken it to the natural world where a species can be extremely specialized to exploit a particular ecological niche, but that niche is getting destroyed. Times are good when you're the only animal that can get to a particula
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by GVIrish 8y ago
It would be unwise to stop the arms race when your adversaries are proceeding apace in it. There are only two times it makes sense to withdraw from an arms race. One is when you sign an enforceable treaty with your rivals. That would be
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by GVIrish 8y ago
I understand the desire to not participate in defense technology. But at the same time people need to be realistic about the world we live in. Peace is a matter of good diplomacy backed by military force. You can be a peaceful nation with
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by GVIrish 8y ago
I'm very much not a fan of using public money to build stadiums for billionaires, but the deal with Amazon is a bit different in that it would actually have positive economic impact for the eventual location. With a stadium, you only e

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