GVIrish

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by GVIrish 10y ago
The silly thing about companies being so obstinate about hiring someone with experience in the exact stack they use is that often times job reqs go unfilled for many weeks or even months. The result is that they end up wasting a lot more t
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That is great news, I think engaging and training COR's across government could yield some real improvements to how these projects go. I'm personally seeing some 18F projects come down the pipe that are truly innovative and hopefu
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by GVIrish 10y ago
The problem is that the contractor doesn't write the RFP or the final contract, the customer does. So if you want that money you sign on the dotted line and hope for the best. Within the contract there is often flexibility as to how t
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That's part of it. Back in the mid-nineties the idea that the private sector could do government functions cheaper/better really took hold and the result is that whole core sets of responsibilities are almost completed outsourced
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by GVIrish 10y ago
It's heartening to see some new approaches government IT actually getting high level support to make a positive impact. Funnily enough I see someone I used to work with in one of the pictures. Hopefully this will lead to more substant
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I think the social barrier to entry is extremely high so supply is not going to going to rise very quickly. The rich clientele here are looking for very attractive women who may have some college-education. In that group of people (and re
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Yeah I think if you gave private sellers a way to do that, many would do it voluntarily. I just don't know how you require it. Maybe you could hold someone legally responsible if they commit a crime with a firearm you sold them if yo
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Sex is probably the highest demand human 'service' right behind food and medical attention. It only stands to reason that the internet would enable that demand to find people willing to be paid exorbitantly to perform sex acts.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> closing the insane loopholes that mean no-one needs a background check if they buy a gun at at a gun show, etc. It's not that buying a gun at a gun show magically means you don't need a background check. It's that buyin
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Now I know there are a lot of US citizens who believe in the right to bear arms, and many more militant NRA members believe that is more about defending themselves from the state, but if you take a step back, they've already lost
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by GVIrish 10y ago
In that situation, the military may sometimes be stricter than a civilian agency would be for the same infraction. Anything dealing with nuclear tech has a higher chance of turning into a much bigger deal. The other thing is that he tried
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Has there been anything like this before? If I work for the government and forward confidential and secret emails through to a server I'm running myself I imagine I'd have criminal proceedings against me. Unlikely. You would
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Surreal how there are people smiling in that photograph with the corpses hanging. One of the grisly and horrifying things about lynching is that this was quite common. Whole towns would turn out and gladly pose for the camera with dea
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by GVIrish 10y ago
There are actually many advanced statistics available to NBA teams via SportsVu. It can measure who passes to who, how far people travel on a possession, gravity (how close opposing defenders are drawn to the offensive player, how much som
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Certain willful and vile behavior does merit banning from a community. Why should other people have to endure sexual harassment and be fearful when they go to events because of this guy? Tolerating his behavior sends the message that it is
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Is that your takeaway from that post? Out of over 3000 words, "rape" was literally only mentioned twice. The rest of it was an account of A LOT of appalling and unacceptable sexual harassment.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> The suggestions you mentioned all have substantial negative impacts to humanity - arguably as much as climate change itself (i.e. doing nothing) - and has a huge upfront cost, to boot. Not even remotely true. If we experience massive
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Ah ok, that is not something I've seen mentioned anywhere else. Still, Gawker is/was big enough that several frivolous lawsuits would've been unlikely to cause bankruptcy if none of them resulted in an adverse judgment. I ha
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by GVIrish 10y ago
It's not supposed to scale, this is an article about the cost and time to build a MVP.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> What if the Koch Brothers decide to start funding lawsuits against Nature or Science magazines that publisher articles about global warming? Even if none of the lawsuits win, they could shut down these publications because of the legal
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Why have a problem with that? If Gawker was not in the wrong that would've been money wasted. It's not like Hogan/Thiel wore Gawker out by whittling them down with frivolous lawsuits until they couldn't defend themselv
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> That said, 5 minutes per ticket pretty much requires offenders to present themselves in a nice, orderly line. Officers get exactly that when they set up shop in a place where they know there are going to be plenty of violators. Highwa
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by GVIrish 10y ago
To me it would only be scary if a media company was taken down by a rich entity simply litigating them until they couldn't afford to fight the lawsuits anymore. In this case, Gawker lost because they were in the wrong. A media company
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Absolutely. There are plenty of elected officials who want the prestige bestowed by hosting a big international event (e.g. Formula 1, World Cup, the Olympics), and I think many of them believe the idea that the potential tourism revenue j
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Except that it usually isn't a net positive for the host country. The host country gets zero percent of the signage revenue, tv revenues, ticket sales, or merchandising revenue from the Olympics. The only way the host country makes mo
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Right, but State Department has Classnet for classified materials, this is not a case of Clinton plugging into Classnet with a private server. The fact that other people sent information to her Opennet email address that contained informati
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That's because in the federal government the average employee simply doesn't have the same amount of power nor leeway that a cabinet level executive would. For one, several cabinet level appointees have original classifying author
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by GVIrish 10y ago
The NSA is not beholden to the State Department so they could very easily have told her no. Even between different branches of the Armed Forces there is limited ability to force the issue if another branch doesn't want to do something
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> This wasn't just poor IT security, this was willful ignorance of the consequences of state secrets being in the open. To be clear, this was unclassified email. Classified email is on a separate network. Certainly having access to
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I think people are negative about the profit potential of Snapchat ever coming close to justifying the multi-billion dollar valuations. As a fun and sticky social media service I think most can recognize Snapchat is killing it, but as a bu

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