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by HillRat 6y ago
Press release this was ripped from: https://www.bcg.com/en-us/press/6january2021-more-than-half-...
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by HillRat 6y ago
Oh, I think we’ll see Biden add a whole bunch of names to the Magnitsky Act sanctions list, recommit to NATO, and look for additional punitive economic sanctions — probably via third countries — to squeeze the siloviki at the center of Russ
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by HillRat 6y ago
It’s astounding but not surprising that Trump (and the Trump WH) had a weak password and no MFA. It’s both astounding and surprising that Twitter didn’t enforce a stronger — or, indeed, entirely custom — authentication scheme for politica
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by HillRat 6y ago
It’s likely related to McKinsey’s recommendations to Purdue that they attempt to get major pharmacies to “loosen up” on efforts to stop illegal opioid scripts (which had resulted in an 18% reduction in OxyContin units sold by one major chai
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by HillRat 6y ago
I could have been less-acronym heavy! :) (The only correction is that TTPs can refer to tactical doctrine in general, which is the spirit I used it in.) To be a little more specific, what we’re seeing in Nagorno-Karabakh seems to be focused
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by HillRat 6y ago
In the short terms, EW and CIWS, which can be countered by “Wild Weasel” drones and overwhelming CIWS systems with cheap decoys. Now that low-tier states are fighting it out with autonomous systems purchased from mid-tier states in conditio
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by HillRat 6y ago
Also — assuming there isn’t more context to the quote (LRB hates mobile devices) — there’s no law that white flour must be enriched; there are regulations that state what must be done for white flour to be characterized as “enriched,” as
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by HillRat 6y ago
Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist (not to say poisoner) who oversaw a lot of CIA’s dirty work, must have believed in what he was doing, because he lived long enough to regret it (and turn to advocating pacifism and good works).
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by HillRat 6y ago
You also receive the resources of the United States intelligence community (and probably DoD) to design, experiment, and operationalize your ideas, which ain’t nothin’. And, in general, no one sticks it out in the IC to get rich — these are
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by HillRat 6y ago
Except MKULTRA was part of CIA’s “family jewels” —- indeed, it was so infamous that a cover letter to the DCI suggested they not familiarize themselves with the program in order to maintain plausible deniability. And MKULTRA was only part o
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by HillRat 6y ago
I assume the parent poster takes issue with the definition of “subsidy” in the paper, which is probably better called “unpriced externalities” in the context. (It’s still IMO a subsidy, but it’s not what we intuitively think of as such, and
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by HillRat 6y ago
In practice, you end up relaying a lot of traffic through TURN servers due to NAT issues, plus most enterprise-grade platforms connect to conferences as peers for recording purposes, and allow for server-sourced multicast for things like pr
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by HillRat 7y ago
Basically, there are three primary approaches to safely introducing antigens to the immune system: you can inactivate (or kill) a virus through methods such as heat treatment; you can attenuate it (make it less well-adapted to humans) by in
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by HillRat 7y ago
Unfortunately, COVID may also be associated with hypokalemia, so even patients without comorbidities could be at risk for TdP. HCQ may have therapeutic or prophylactic benefits, but it’s definitely not without serious risks.
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by HillRat 7y ago
If you start from philosophical questions of mind and identity (e.g., substance dualism vs physicalism, etc.), it’s not hard to get to an argument that qualia are neither substances nor physical identities but instead properties of systems
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by HillRat 7y ago
Fundamentally, that’s why SLOC can be useful as an estimating metric, but terrible as a control metric. SLOC, FP and so on all have their limitations, but they demonstrate that most of the effort-time in a project doesn’t go into puttin
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by HillRat 7y ago
Oceanographic sensor array of some kind — they may have been sampling ocean characteristics near the coastline for research purposes.
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by HillRat 7y ago
Note that it’s almost certainly not a “NASA device;” the Navy’s oceanographic office is located at the Stennis center, so it would make sense for it to be returned there.
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by HillRat 7y ago
Even as an ACM member with multiple subgroup memberships and subscriptions I can’t figure out what I have access to and what I don’t. Far too complex an access model for what they are.
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by HillRat 7y ago
As long as you don’t need to factor a prime greater than 4088459, absolutely. More seriously, my take is that a lot of the (modest) work on quantum algorithms in industry is to provide financial and some engineering and aerospace domains wi
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by HillRat 7y ago
If you’re the later Wittgenstein, you might just call them “philosophers.” (Rorty certainly might argue for that!)
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by HillRat 7y ago
I think Wittgenstein (like most philosophers who aren’t named Plato or Aristotle) is less “underappreciated” and more “completely unknown” once you get outside philosophy. Within that discipline, he’s unquestionably the most important think
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by HillRat 7y ago
Glad to hear that. Had an enterprise contract with you guys for years — mxGraph was an important part of our front-end stack.
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by HillRat 7y ago
This approach is rooted in the theory that language is not “representative” of the world, but significantly constitutive of it. In this view, language is not something that mechanically “points to” things, but is the system through which co
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by HillRat 7y ago
Concur is a pleasure compared to some internal SAP-based expense reporting systems I’ve used.
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by HillRat 7y ago
One of the people quoted in the article was incensed that a public employee would make around $41K per year. He’s a public employee making about $45K per year. There’s a definite “pull up the drawbridge” mentality in effect there.
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by HillRat 7y ago
That’s definitely one advantage they have in the market, but it’s also related to your sales strategy. You’re looking for companies that have both the need for large-scale streaming customer and analytics data routing and transformation, no
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by HillRat 7y ago
I think you’ve got a strong value proposition, especially in a GDPR/CCPA world. Have you figured out a channel and integration partner strategy yet? That’s probably the hill that you’re going to need to fight on.
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by HillRat 7y ago
It’s licensed under SSPL, so the definition of “open source” may vary. (Specifically, they have an enterprise business model, so this is more properly a proprietary, source-available on-prem Segment competitor.)
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by HillRat 7y ago
Legal remedy? This is what the state wants ; as far as the legal system is concerned, if you’re doxxed, it’s because you’re a de facto enemy of the state. The future of China looks like the Cultural Revolution implemented as a “human flesh

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