GVIrish

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by GVIrish 6y ago
Ah, my mistake, I thought you were suggesting that he didn't go through proper channels when he went public.
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by GVIrish 6y ago
He did go through the proper channels: "At that point I snapped. VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the argu
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by GVIrish 6y ago
I ran into this in my last federal contracting job. Customer was being sold on using ServiceNow as a low code solution to replace a custom .net application with something like 2 million LOC. No-code and low-code solutions are seductive to
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by GVIrish 6y ago
The key is testing, contract tracing, and quarantining when the number of cases is small. That's what South Korea, New Zealand, and a few other countries did and they've all suffered relatively few fatalities. You still need a ma
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by GVIrish 7y ago
But that's kinda the problem. If Google doesn't care what developers think, they are very unlikely to succeed with Stadia.
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by GVIrish 7y ago
> Honestly my main concern in the United States is the complete and utter panic that will be caused by something that is only marginally less dangerous than getting in one's car to go to work each morning. If the fatality rate of CO
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by GVIrish 7y ago
I think some people believe in irrational things so that they can conform with their in-group, but I there are a number of emotional reasons people believe in irrational conspiracies. -Desire to be nonconformist -Desire to feel intellectual
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by GVIrish 7y ago
I would tend to agree. Maybe I'm ignorant of the inner machinations of political campaigns, but it seems like it's not the type of work that requires domain experience to be effective in. But that's what we would think as I
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Recent history has proven out time and time again that all sorts of organizations that should know better about securing their applications and data, absolutely don't. Just look at the Equifax breach or the OPM breach for examples. F
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by GVIrish 7y ago
The challenge there is that if you're hiring people who are a venn diagram of developer and politically active/connected, you're always going to be getting people who have some sort of history with candidates. Maybe it's
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Exactly this. The DoD basically took the mistakes of the F-111 program, doubled down on them, and added on some reckless new mistakes. The result is the most expensive weapons program in history.
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by GVIrish 7y ago
The problem with civilization recovery is that the warming won't stop after it goes past some key thresholds. The positive feedback effects will keep pushing temperatures higher, and the CO2 already in the atmosphere will stay up ther
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by GVIrish 7y ago
> Spoiler: evolution Millions of years from now, sure. In the near term future: mass extinction. A mass extinction in the seas means that the 1 billion people that rely on the ocean as their primary protein source would be in deep trou
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by GVIrish 7y ago
We should absolutely reforest on a large scale, but we also need to drastically cut emissions, and pursue other carbon sequestration strategies (olivine weathering for example). I'm not sure trying to convert desert into forest is even
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Indeed. And in the last few years we've had a couple of 60+ degree stretches in the middle of winter, whereas I can't remember that ever happening while I grew up in the area. It's all well and good to be able to go outside
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by GVIrish 7y ago
A good book might hook someone into reading it all in a binge, but once it's done it's pretty much done. A game on the other hand can create a sort of rewards treadmill where no one ever really 'finishes'. A book can&#x
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Russia's conventional forces are not on par with the United States and they can't project that power globally. But Putin's Russia has shown willingness and ability to achieve their geopolitical goals using espionage, propagan
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by GVIrish 7y ago
I don't think that argument holds at all. The low hanging fruit from 10 years ago has been picked. But in a lot of ways we only see it as low hanging fruit in hindsight. Today there are new business opportunities that in 10 years wi
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by GVIrish 7y ago
10% more in raw hours is just 44 hours a week. This whole issue is not about companies with 40 hr work weeks versus companies with 44 hour with weeks. It's about environments where 60, 70, 80+ hours a weeks is the norm. I think the a
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by GVIrish 7y ago
The whole argument is not about temporary spikes in hours to meet a goal, it's about the wrong-headed idea that one should be working 60-80+ hours on a long term basis. Some of the proponents of long term overwork argue that it is a re
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Probably a lot to do with this. Incentives are probably the strongest driver of behavior in a company, much stronger than any stated strategy. If people are richly rewarded for launching new products, they'll optimize their work for l
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by GVIrish 7y ago
If indeed the extensions were only for security/privacy notifications, I would categorize what Speier did more as off-topic. That would be maybe something deserving of a correction not outright termination. The fact that the message
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by GVIrish 7y ago
I'd agree, it sounds a lot like a code review, but at Google that was also the approval standard for deploying such an extension. I don't really see how Google could be in the right here though. If they have an internal program f
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by GVIrish 7y ago
> Yeah, I could sense there is something wrong with the article as soon as I got to the part where the Japanese were portrayed as this unique society where you need to say "excuse me" before approaching a stranger on the street
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by GVIrish 7y ago
I think for some conservatives it's about the philosophical question of the Fed Gov't should actually be doing. But IIRC most are supportive of Medicare/Medicaid so they're not totally against government run healthcare.
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by GVIrish 7y ago
> Of course we can afford free health care for our citizens in the US -- but our leadership favors corporate welfare over citizen welfare and that is unfortunate. I think that's dramatically underselling the American voter's ro
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by GVIrish 7y ago
While I agree that alarmists who think the world is ending in 10-20 years are wildly off-base, Shellenberger is badly understating things at times. He asked an IPCC scientist about what was unmanageable about a 3 ft+ sea level rise, and aft
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Whistleblowing is about revealing specific wrongdoing, not data dumping all sorts of sensitive and damaging information that had nothing to do with the wrongdoing. So if there were a defense contractor who noticed embezzlement in nuclear mi
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Not safe + 'working' means people will die. When people die due to negligent engineering, the company goes bankrupt at best. Safe + not working eventually leads to bankruptcy too, but people don't die in that case. Not to sa
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by GVIrish 7y ago
That's how I try to frame things too. We have basically four possibilities. -We do nothing about climate change -> Climate change is actually not a problem. No money wasted -We do nothing about climate change -> Climate change i

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