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by HillRat 11y ago
Depends in part if there's a mens rea component to the law; NLP pipelines lack the requisite intent to hate.
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's horrible to say, but almost every manager at the tactical to low-operational level keeps people around in good times specifically to act as ablative shielding in the bad. Sometimes they're low performers who can still be usef
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by HillRat 11y ago
The specific one they're describing is, I think, a feature that would have Tay echo anything you sent it. That one was somewhat more "annoying embarrassment" than "coordinated attack." The bigger problem was that Ta
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by HillRat 11y ago
Oh, I think the fact that TN's median income is about 70% that of CA and Nashville's is about 60% that of SF might have had something to do with it, along with commercial lease rates being 20% those of SF office space. Meanwhile
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by HillRat 11y ago
I remember the Digital Convergence guys -- they were actually an infomercial company who did a show, "Net Talk Live!" (punctuation and all) that was targeted at the AOL set. Their other product was something called, IIRC, "Co
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by HillRat 11y ago
One mistake that many people make is attempting to understand the Amish as a religious sect. Really, they're more tribal; in fact, many Amish are essentially Biblically illiterate, as their "official" Bible is a translation i
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by HillRat 11y ago
The key difference is that the tax code and the ACA cover very large surface areas of which only a subset applies to any one player. FAR is largely applicable to any vendor, regardless of contract size, and requires onerous documentation
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by HillRat 11y ago
ContentEditable is an absolute nightmare across browsers if you want to normalize your content in any way -- since there's no standard for what the generated HTML is supposed to be, every browser implements it differently (and sometime
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by HillRat 11y ago
His wealth was connected to the patronage of the hardline Iranian government and his willingness and ability to help them evade international sanctions. In that, he's a bit like the Chechen operators who murdered Nemtsov and didn'
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by HillRat 11y ago
Though you could argue that the Philippines war had its similarities to modern three-block-war conflicts; see Mark Twain on the Moro Crater Massacre ( http://drnissani.net/MNISSANI/cr/moro.htm ).
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by HillRat 11y ago
More importantly, once "GovtOS" (as Apple's filing calls it) is developed -- even if the government is billed $800K for the privilege -- each subsequent writ will be much less expensive to fulfill, creating a tidal wave of LE
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by HillRat 11y ago
Yes, this. I've had to deal with inter-datum conversions in the past, and as far as I can tell, though after a very brief review, GCJ-02 is just another datum, albeit one not well documented. The "random offset" described i
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by HillRat 11y ago
It's really more likely -- and I'm replying without having read the topic article -- that this is related to the fact that developing states with "socialist" (I use the term advisedly) bents tended to privilege engineeri
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Study: EMF amplifies pain in amputees(utdallas.edu)
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by HillRat 11y ago
Arguably, the Jacksonian era was the "second American revolution," and the Confederate rebellion the third, retrograde and thankfully failed one. I think today's political climate is more similar to the 1930s, when widespread
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by HillRat 11y ago
A better question is, "How do you spend $1 billion on software and succeed ?" The fundamental problem isn't the quality of your developers, it's the fact that you have to coordinate multiple environments composed of mut
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by HillRat 11y ago
The distinction we hold in America is between letting a racist teach children vs teaching racism to children -- it is the act, not the beliefs, that are controlling. Though obviously I understand why European states are more wary in such
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by HillRat 11y ago
There's a modern Sa'udi proverb that I think sums up their situation: "My father rode a camel; I drive a car; my son flies an airplane; my grandson will ride a camel." Nobody can match a Gulf Arab for sheer fatalism.
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by HillRat 11y ago
Ah, but it's so much easier for us to stand by the side of the road and complain that the emperor's clothes have the wrong fringe on the hem. Politics is boring, it's messy, it's tedious, and it demands compromise -- in
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by HillRat 11y ago
Match.com and PoF come to mind -- Match on the very large infrastructure side, PoF more along the lines of "punching above its weight."
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by HillRat 11y ago
Escalades aren't (I believe) on the current GSA VAL, but Cadillac is a recipient of "non-standard vehicle" contracts, such as for the Presidential limo. Tahoes are pretty much the default SUV, even for non-standard tactical v
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by HillRat 11y ago
Based on open sources, NSA has a fleet of about 100 vehicles at most in CONUS, so they would be more likely to fly vehicles cross-country if DIRNSA needed to use a fleet vehicle. Having said that, NSA doesn't just arbitrarily get invol
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by HillRat 11y ago
Only a few agencies have blanket exemptions from using GSA plates -- CIA and NSA, unsurprisingly, are two of them. An official federal VIP motorcade wouldn't have generic state plates, but official federal ones with an agency code.
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by HillRat 11y ago
If the wellness program is offered as part of a group health plan, then the wellness-plan provider is a business associate of a covered entity under HIPAA, and PHI protection applies. So in these cases, the employer cannot have access to in
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by HillRat 11y ago
John Kelley (@johnhedge), former Apple security engineer, says that Secure Enclave isn't protected against that kind of tampering, so that's not a solution, either. Until manufacturers start going to embedded HSMs, anyway.
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Neurogastronomy: Transforming how we eat(newrepublic.com)
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by HillRat 11y ago
Many people think the term arose because of the dominance of French in diplomatic circles, but I t's actually quite apropos; "lingua franca" is an early medieval term that essentially translates to "language of the Weste
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by HillRat 11y ago
I think that's a worthy goal. Speaking as a parent of a young child, I can say that he is more important to us than any startup or career. But, obviously, careers and startups don't go away and are pretty critical for the health a
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... Except that he's quoted as saying, "I think mothers have more important things to do [than be entrepreneurs]" which, while certainly a position that can be defended (though you won't see me doing so), is inarguably p
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by HillRat 11y ago
I think it is far more likely that the problem is that the Pentagon doesn't want to buy enough platforms -- weaponized or not -- to make the market worth their time. Better to sell off 1/16 of the business for some free cash f

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