GVIrish

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by GVIrish 9y ago
Yeah it is really frightening to think about. Cautious moles were hard to catch even before some of these breaches. There could be an exponential increase of compromised people in cleared environments and like you said, we might not even
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I feel like it's only a matter of time before we see some devastating compromise(s) of security using the OPM hack and/or hacks of private data sources. When you look at some of the common methods intelligence adversaries use to e
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by GVIrish 9y ago
What has effectively happened is that VC-backed startups have discovered a weakness in the US legal system. Basically, if you have enough funding and gain enough traction, you can ignore the law with little consequence. There may be pushb
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Shorter code may or may not make things more readable. If brevity was the key to readability, we'd all be minifying all code we write to make it more readable. Readability is about clarity of intent and function, as well as sensible s
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Some of the worst laws are made with good intentions. But people who fervently believe in a good cause often neglect to consider negative side effects in their quest to "do good" and can sometimes be actively hostile to anyone as
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Sure, the United States has a lot of blood on it's hands in Latin America. Doesn't change the fact that it is very much not business as usual for Russia to attempt to subvert the US Govt like this. They've crossed several li
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Putin often does want the world to know Russia was behind some aggressive action while simultaneously denying it in order to avoid repercussions. In the last decade or two it has been their MO. At the same time, sloppiness has come into pl
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by GVIrish 9y ago
When Federal law enforcement takes down criminal enterprises they don't reveal the evidence they have until they're ready to take down the head(s) of the organization. The proof will come then. Right now they're just rolling
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> We interfere all the time in foreign elections, and so many countries tried to influence ours I don’t see anything innately wrong with it. There's a big difference between 'influencing' an election and committing a conce
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> Unwritten cold war rules have gone out of the window. Exactly. I think the US Govt failed to appreciate that Putin has been waging Cold War 2.0 for some time now. The scary thing is that he is clearly not playing by the old rules and
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by GVIrish 9y ago
People are absolutely trying to about baggage fees now, with the result being overhead bins being packed to the brim and causing delayed when people's stuff won't fit and had to be gate checked. For a $300-400 ticket, baggage fees
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Problem there is that once people learn to cook, they have no need for the service anymore. To survive you'd need to have a healthy pipeline of new customers with manageable acquisitions costs relative to the lifetime value of the cus
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by GVIrish 9y ago
150 might be the 90-95 percentile in some places, but it is absolutely not the ceiling. There are niches that pay above that if you're willing to acquire the skills needed to get those jobs. Machine Learning, big data, and cloud engi
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I don't know that it is so much that the Google hiring process has selected for adept internal politicians as it is that Google hasn't paid as much attention to human factors as it should. A lot of Google's philosophy is abou
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I can't think of any one particular article that goes into the details of gravity and some of the related metrics (respect and distraction being the others). Maybe lookup NBA gravity scores and SportVU. I believe the company that sel
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I think it's something that might be quantized through SportVU and the advanced analytics they provide, but not published anywhere to the public.
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> We miss the perimeter shooter who positions themselves just so to pull two defenders out of position, but give credit to the point guard who makes the now-easy pass for the "assist". The NBA has an advanced metric for that ca
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> Individuals like to optimize for their own personal productivity, and sometimes in order to increase the productivity of the team the individual productivity needs to suffer. This makes a lot of things click into place for me. I'
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> Russia is not a particularly wealthy country. If they can pervert our democracy with a few million dollars, we have much bigger problems... That is the essence of asymmetrical warfare. The 9/11 hijackers didn't even spend a
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Being an American doesn't mean one agrees with everything the United States has ever done. The US Gov't has absolutely done mean and nasty things around the world that has caused suffering for millions of people. Still doesn&#x27
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by GVIrish 9y ago
The indictment is not about PR, it is about punishing Russian nationals who participated in this op. The long arm of US law enforcement may not be able to get these folks in Russia, but it can prevent them from traveling in many countries a
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by GVIrish 9y ago
It's not clear whether voter data was altered. But the possibility of that happening remains a grave threat to the integrity of our elections that to my knowledge hasn't been adequately addressed.
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> Man, I wish those pesky Russians would stop interfering with U.S. elections. Last time, Boris and Natasha were outside the polling place and wouldn't let me in. Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration roll
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I know what trash talk is. The point is that not everyone welcomes that behavior.
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> Something has gone very badly wrong with the internet and we should be working out what we can do about it, rather than sticking our fingers in our ears saying “boys will be boys” or “this isn’t scientific!”. I think the internet has
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> You're about to virtually shoot them in the head so saying something rude to random online gamers doesn't feel at all bad. Other people often respond back, just as rudely and I think it's hilarious. Examine what you&#x2
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by GVIrish 9y ago
> A junior dev after months of training could jump ship for much better comp now that they're less junior or that suddenly some other company's product interests them more. Sure, but that's why you need to give people rais
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by GVIrish 9y ago
Wave any new fangled investment vehicle in front of people with insane returns and people young and old will buy in. The current generation is no different than previous generations that got swindled on whatever the bubble du jour was.
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FOMO is not exclusive to young adults or teenagers. I would wager FOMO is probably one of the most powerful basic human impulses. It's why people ran out and bought houses they couldn't afford in the housing bubble, it's wh
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by GVIrish 9y ago
I dunno man, some games are really fucking addictive these days. Especially with some of the abusive gambling mechanics.

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