GVIrish

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by GVIrish 8y ago
The whole point being made is that prejudice/bigotry is not rational. Just look at the phenomenon of redlining. Black home buyers from certain areas were absolutely prevented from acquiring mortgages even though it would have been a
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> Will the governments being dissuaded from influencing ours include allies such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and the UK? Or will it just be Russia, Iran, and China? It does include some of our erstwhile allies but enforcement is obviously go
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by GVIrish 8y ago
FISA warrants come up for periodic review so if it was granted erroneously and no relevant intel is uncovered, it doesn't get renewed. So in the case of a witch hunt there is a mechanism by which it gets stopped. There is a good deal
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Yes, that is a very important loophole to bring up here. On one hand, parallel construction can be used in order to not compromise sensitive sources and methods. If you found out about a spy ring because you compromised a spy's phone,
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Would be very difficult to ascertain because a lot of the information gleaned from a FISA warrant may feed into counter-espionage efforts, which by their very nature are rarely going to become public. As I said, sometimes what the FBI does
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FARA is about people acting as agents of foreign governments. If it was just an American trying to influence American media on behalf of an American organization, it wouldn't be a big deal unless it involves classified information or
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FISA court is still about national security and espionage cases. The reason they may want a FISA warrant on a journalist is because we know that there are foreign intelligence services that use journalists to spread disinformation, propaga
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Different people enjoy different things. For some people, traveling is fulfilling and exhilarating. For other people being in unfamiliar settings with unfamiliar culture and language is much less fun. And even within that, some people can
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> Something that's not brought up often with this argument - the sales scope for modern games. Super Mario World was doing well if it broke 10,000 or 100,000 sales. In contrast a major game these days will break 100,000,000 sales. Y
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by GVIrish 8y ago
I agree that ideas should be judged on their merits but you're still dealing with human beings. Someone could approach a bad codebase and say, "Here are some ways we could improve X, Y, and Z," but you could have another per
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That's a situation created by Congress, not federal agencies. Federal agencies with dire needs for high demand/high pay skills would love nothing more than to be able to hire full-time employees at market rates but it is very dif
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Often it's not so much that the billion dollar program was created to make defense contractors rich. It's that the attitude of the US military and intelligence agencies is that if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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> As soon as upper management catches wind, you'll need to justify every little process flow change to them, or they'll start demanding regular reports with burndown charts and plots of velocity over time and crap like that. I
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That's a strange reading of Agile to me. Agile is not about making developers fungible, it's about building high performing teams of people. That takes time, and it is set back any time you have to replace someone. There's
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Maybe they were being toxic, but it simply seems like they took a little time in the morning to go over things and he chose not to join them. So what should they have done, each staged separate little talks with him to go over everything t
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Very good point.
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Stories like this are why I avoid relying on the sharing economy when I really need something. If I'm going on a trip with my kids in tow, I don't want to be at the mercy of AirBNB where someone can flippantly screw me over with
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by GVIrish 8y ago
You failed to read and/or comprehend what I said. Show me an example where children are forcibly separated and shipped to detention centers in different states when a parent is charged with a misdemeanor. I already pointed out that
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by GVIrish 8y ago
Show me one instance in the US judicial system where children are forcibly taken from parents and shipped off to detention centers in other states when the parent has been charged with a misdemeanor. Bottom line is that it is. Not. Done.
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> Pretty sure if you’re drunk in public with your kids and get arrested you will in fact be forcibly separated. For a misdemeanor the police are absolutely not going to take someone's children and ship them to detention centers in o
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by GVIrish 8y ago
First time illegal border crossing is a misdemeanor. Should people have their children forcibly separated from them and shipped to detention centers for a speeding ticket? Jaywalking? Drunk in public? Inflicting cruelty on innocent child
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by GVIrish 8y ago
There are 100 million gun owners in the United States. The US military has tried and failed for years to snuff out the Taliban in Afghanistan, and that group is literally 1,000 to 10,000 times smaller than the number of gun owners in the U
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by GVIrish 8y ago
> I am pretty sure the F-35's programmatic justifications were a nod to potential adversaries who were militarily advanced, meaning China. Yes, but the F-35 was also dreamed up as a way to dramatically reduce costs by sharing compo
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The problem for the F-35 is that all that advanced tech is not working properly and may never work as well as originally imagined. Meanwhile, adversaries already have aircraft that are faster, have longer range, and are more maneuverable,
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by GVIrish 8y ago
I don't know how one would define toxicity for the purpose of this challenge, but I am certainly baffled as to how people accuse StackOverflow of being a 'toxic wasteland'. Some people can be a bit curt or even rude with poor
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> Business on the other side, tend to be punished by the markets when misbehaving and then course-correct. That only happens when there are regulations to run afoul of and/or a company is not a monopoly. Without government companie
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Certainly there's a lot to estimating in software dev, but I'm talking about when estimates are regularly wildly out of whack. Where someone or a team regular estimates something will take a few days but then it takes several wee
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> Managing to metrics is harder, because the metrics (bugs retired, KLOCs written) are so meaningless and easily fudged. Agreed, managing to team metrics is usually the road to hell. But tracking some metrics can uncover problems. Mayb
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Where does it say that Youtube was the sole source of this woman's income? But let's say it was. People lose their jobs all the time and don't result to violence. It makes zero sense to assign blame to Youtube for the shoo
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Sorry but this is ridiculous. Someone decided that to respond to having video de-monetized on a website was justification for trying to kill people. How on earth is it reasonable to start down the path of 'well if she had talked to t

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