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by Proziam 6y ago
> Is it really possible we only have <5 terror plots against our country in a given year That depends on your definition. If you're talking about organized 9/11 style attacks, absolutely. It's hard to bring plans like t
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by Proziam 6y ago
The supposed targets (terrorists) use tools and technologies that are invisible to PRISM and similar programs. No security expert with an interest in being truthful could have made a strong case that PRISM and similar programs would have a
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by Proziam 6y ago
I disagree. Pre-X checklists exist because the reliability gained by going through step-by-step isn't easily replicated by other means. And, even if the surgeon has done your procedure every day this week, what are the odds they did it
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by Proziam 6y ago
It's hard to really elaborate because everything is a package deal. California is silly expensive, but comes with a lot of social problems. New York is the same to a large degree. The midwest is cheap, but opportunity is more scarce. M
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by Proziam 6y ago
As someone who has lived on the east coast, west coast, Sweden, and Germany...I've gotta say I disagree. The best overall quality of life I've experienced has been in Nevada. My money goes farther, the people are less of an obstac
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by Proziam 6y ago
> If everyone has a gun, we aren't all safer, we're just all each at the mercy of whoever decides to pull the trigger first. I wonder how the math breaks down on whether you're safer having fun at the gun range, or on the
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by Proziam 6y ago
> Aguably, the news is shadowed by other, more immediate topics - it would be interesting to see how it would have been received in a non-2020-ish year. This is what frustrates me. You can find these scandals happening way before 2020. T
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by Proziam 6y ago
The real key here is knowingly . Large banks have had a slew of "scandals" whereby they've been caught moving many billions of dollars for evil organizations the rest of us would go to prison for donating to. How many times
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by Proziam 6y ago
I'm not particularly concerned about a prisoner dillemma trap. If one country did that, the immediate response from all other countries could simply be 'stop all trade with that country' or simply 'crank up the import ta
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by Proziam 6y ago
You can apply such a tax in various ways. If the company resides in the US, directly tax the company. If they are importing, tax the imported goods. The worst thing that could happen would be some 'world dictator' making universal
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by Proziam 6y ago
Google does make a smartphone, and if my parents are any example, every smartphone is an iPhone just like every gaming system is an xbox.
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by Proziam 6y ago
The Japanese train system utilizes similar concepts IIRC. When I first read about this I was astonished about how effective it was [0](up to 85% error reductions)! [0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-
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by Proziam 6y ago
If you have 'known valid' legalese broken into segments and clauses (this already exists in platforms in use by legal professionals to speed up this process, but for legit purpose) and you can convert certain elements into variabl
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by Proziam 6y ago
Every parent I know (and I'm 28) has photos of their kids running around doing generic kid things while nude, or making weird faces while playing in the bathtub. The practice finding its way into the modern cloud is completely unsurpri
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by Proziam 6y ago
I can imagine GTP-3 being used to make legal documents that are even more difficult for a human being to parse. That's probably a net-negative for society as a whole if it is used that way. Of course, it's fun to chuckle at the th
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by Proziam 6y ago
As someone who spent years running marketing agencies I can attest that this is all sound advice. My principle advice for early marketing hires is to bring in people who know how to get money in the door starting yesterday. A few points I&#
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by Proziam 6y ago
You know, I've considered it so many times but have never done it. Laziness. I'll make that change today. Cheers.
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by Proziam 6y ago
> The NYT's reporting on "WMD" to legitimize the Iraq Invasion is a stain on their reputation, but I still consider them to be "as reliable as one could hope for". If the best we can hope for from major news orga
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by Proziam 6y ago
It's a useful aggregator to be sure. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve censorship. Example: I was trying to research the current events in Kenosha. Naturally, there's a 'diverse' set of views on the subject matter, so
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by Proziam 6y ago
I'm struggling to bring to mind a 'reputable' source that I haven't caught in some heinous misinformation in the past couple of years. Potentially worse is that social media companies are censoring opinions they disagree
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by Proziam 6y ago
> [0] economic warfare may reflect economic policy followed as a part of open or covert operations, cyber operations, information operations during or preceding a war. Economic warfare aims to capture or otherwise to control the supply o
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by Proziam 6y ago
It's not about communists, it's about groups that engage in specific behaviors such as economic warfare. > Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them - or - adheres to their enemies, giving th
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by Proziam 6y ago
> It isn't unreasonable to call someone who shot someone else a murderer. It just is not. How about KKK member, white supremacist, racist, etc? > It is not unreasonable to conclude that someone who travelled to another state and
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by Proziam 6y ago
TLDR - At the time the claims were made, there was not enough evidence available to make any potentially defamatory claims. If the same standards were applied to financial reporting, the reporters would be in jail already. > To get concr
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by Proziam 6y ago
[0]Negligence is "a failure to behave with the level of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances." Essentially, it comes down to what a reasonable person would do. A reasonable per
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by Proziam 6y ago
If a senator woke up tomorrow and wanted to help a martian terror cell that nobody knew existed, they would still be assisting an enemy of the state. It would still be treason, and I doubt that interpretation would be a topic of debate. The
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by Proziam 6y ago
> If the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law..." and Congress still makes a law, what are you going to do, throw Congress in jail? That's nonsense. The only nonsense is that we haven't done exactly that. If
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by Proziam 6y ago
I'm familiar with the standards and I stand by my assessment with full confidence. Twitter mobs routinely make up facts and spread completely unfounded misinformation that is demonstrably contrary to what evidence suggests. That's
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by Proziam 6y ago
[0] Not that long ago someone put a bomb in a truck and killed 300+ in Mogadishu. The article is horrific, however. They completely discount the possibility for planning, and they use terms like 'military grade' to make the explos
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by Proziam 6y ago
If a terrorist were actually strategic about maximizing damage they would always inflict far greater harm and never be stopped. You can fit probably 50lbs of tannerite (ammonium nitrate and some aluminum) and ball bearings into a large suit

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