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by HillRat 10y ago
One interesting case of using "lawfare" to compensate for less-sophisticated military technology is the designation of the Kuznetsov -class carriers as "missile boats with aircraft capability." Under the terms of the Mo
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by HillRat 10y ago
Having consulted in the adtech space, let me make some counterpoints: First, ad growth is fueled entirely by mobile at this point; non-mobile ad revenue has flatlined despite continued growth in non-mobile content consumption. Second, while
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Right now, 18F is primarily a product delivery team within FedGov, but -- due to the volume of work they're receiving -- they've started a process to prequalify a small number of vendors to take on work they can't. "Buy
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by HillRat 10y ago
Exchange is/was FB's retargeting/remarketing solution, AKA "we will follow you everywhere you go on the Web and remind you that you once looked at a pair of shoes on our site." Some detail would be cool -- adtech
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by HillRat 10y ago
Hm. Okay, perhaps a better analogy might be the way gun manufacturers are expected to ensure they're selling to licensed gun dealers.
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by HillRat 10y ago
I think you're being too charitable in your reading of that statement; that wasn't Trump acknowledging that he overreacts in an attempt to heal self-traumatization, but (in context) him justifying his behavior by saying that his
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by HillRat 10y ago
You're thinking of Qwest's Nacchio and his insider-trading conviction. WorldCom was a few years earlier and an unambiguous case of massive financial fraud on the heels of Enron. Bernie and his cronies deserved every bit of what th
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by HillRat 10y ago
Schmidt is sitting on an advisory board, not taking a position within DoD. You can ask about the propriety of a corporate executive sitting on a board advising the civilian defense component on new and emerging technologies -- especially si
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by HillRat 10y ago
The problem with the OP is that it can be summed up as "writer doesn't want to work on legacy systems." Good for him! But the amount of greenfield development is a minuscule slice of SLOC out there in the world. Context matte
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by HillRat 10y ago
To be less generous than you, I see it as an invitation to death-march deadlines, desperate executive-level demands for unreasonable results, a likely spiral into oblivion that no operational improvements can stop, and essentially no meanin
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by HillRat 10y ago
I'm going to say that regulating the transport of highly-caustic toxic materials is a proper function of government. (Edit: Not caustic, but evidently highly acidic. Even better!)
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As far as I've seen, this isn't anything you couldn't do with basic classification and NER passes in OpenNLP. Straightforward, even trivial, stuff as far as existing NLP toolsets go.
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But if your server doesn't enforce data consistency -- that is, the business logic resides on the client -- you can't rely on the quality of your input. And if your authorization sanitizes the data to ensure consistency, then you&
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by HillRat 10y ago
That's why you use Hipchat -- use it for a month and you'll learn to always be ready for it to go down.
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Technically, it's trivial to manufacture carpet anywhere you want -- but 85% of all US-made carpets are manufactured in Dalton, Georgia. Likewise, theoretically it's easy to develop software from anywhere (or many anywheres), but
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by HillRat 10y ago
IBM actually has a system trained on a legal corpus, used for tracking down potentially-relevant case and statute law. There isn't a huge amount of client funding in legal AI compared to other applications, and the problems are much ha
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by HillRat 10y ago
Part of it is no longer having eighty linear feet of ten-foot high bookcases anymore, part of it is just that the Kindle is so damned convenient for most books, and Safari only slightly less so. (And it's not as if I don't visit
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by HillRat 10y ago
It's sad that, the more I live off my Kindle, the less serendipity I let into my reading life. There's something about the experience of a bookstore -- thumbing through a commentary on Origen in the Strand's basement and fe
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by HillRat 10y ago
It's a terrible shame what happened to Mali -- until the collapse of Libya it was a stable, if terribly poor, democratic state. The return of militant Tuaregs (now armed with the weapons Qadhdhafi had outfitted them with as his persona
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by HillRat 10y ago
Report the accident directly to the James River Insurance Company rather than going through Uber. You'll have better response going directly to the insurer.
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by HillRat 10y ago
That isn't a useful metric without details, as it probably includes such sundries as licensing, maintenance agreements, and salaries. A brand-new suite of Oracle enterprise systems would probably be as unfavorable a cost profile.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Every time I think I can't be shocked, someone steps up to prove me wrong. Evidently "computing while black" is now a thing.
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"Gregory Douglas" has written a number of conspiracy-theory books that encompass Holocaust revisionism and JFK assassination theories; he is widely believed to be the nom de plume of Peter Stahl, who is also believed to have for
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by HillRat 10y ago
Compulsory licensing under TRIPS means that India can allow manufacturing without running afoul of international trade law, though if enough non-Indians started doing this it could cause some headaches due to the "predominantly for dom
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by HillRat 10y ago
Generally, they're not replacing UIs, they're replacing call centers. The idea is to put an NLP and task layer between the user and a call center agent, with the hope that you can automate commonly-recurring tasks and save opex. (
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That's about $100/employee/workday, which is significant but not insane -- a couple of meals, a few espresso drinks, a massage and some dry cleaning and you're probably in the ballpark when you consider operational overh
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by HillRat 10y ago
Or, to put it another way, it's Microsoft saying, "Hey, you probably want local event tracing in your application, so we enabled it by default." Been a while since I've done Windows dev (and I'll install VS Beta to
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by HillRat 10y ago
Try a pu'er -- incredibly dark, rich fermented teas. If you're in SF, Red Blossom Tea Company has a wonderful selection.
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Well, it's not like they were organizing for a living wage and then decided, "Heck, let's burn the Reichstag and kill us some rootless cosmopolitans!" The rise of the Nazi party is basically intertwined with the right-wi
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The interesting thing about the didymo ("rock snot") paper isn't just that the government refused to allow the researcher to speak to the press, it's the massive amount of effort the government expended on what you --

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