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   Surprisingly Few NSA Workers Have Been Caught Spying on Their Exes(betabeat.com)

   1 points by ballard 13y ago|1 comments
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   by ballard 13y ago

   Yup. JET is delivering much than NIF, in terms of reaching the goal of maximizing Q. NIF has a program cost (1997-2013) on the order of $8B USD to reach this unimpressive number. (Based on $450m/yr not including fixed/one-time c
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   by ballard 13y ago

   For anyone that has worked for a large organization, for- or non-profit, for any amount of time with a budget then it's easier to understand how things actually work. I have seen 9 figure / 7 year internal projects silently scuttl
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   by ballard 13y ago

   Duh. NASA wastes billions for the value delivered, and it's more/less an Amtrak. SpaceX, Virgin Galatic and Stratolaunch deliver much more value because they have to; hence vendor partnerships and [0]. NASA, along with the rest
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   by ballard 13y ago

   Wow. Interesting. As having having used several at different scales in both tech and business capacities, general feedback on payment gateways is: - developer support (libraries, examples to get apps going quickly and sandbox APIs) -
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   by ballard 13y ago

   Curious. Was it the paperwork, snort setups or something else?
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   by ballard 13y ago

   There might very well be. Check feefighters, it depends on volume and type of transactions.
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   by ballard 13y ago

   Yup. TL;DR - More money -> likely fewer results. Large organizations tend toward waste, delay and mediocrity. Without a profit motive and a mission to deliver a specific solution, the modus operandi is to grow as big of a budget pyramid
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   by ballard 13y ago

   TL;DR - 3 orders of magnitude from economic viability. in 1.7 MJ out 8 kJ Q = 0.00444_
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    by ballard 13y ago

    I'm coining a new word: Lawrenfreude n. Schadenfreude when the underdog moonwalks over The Man.
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    by ballard 13y ago

    As having graduated from a large university and having worked at another one, there are several problems: - failure to understand customer needs. There is very little feedback considered in most university processes. It's "if yo
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Another recent example of planned violence that only exists because of prohibition: "2 U.S. Army veterans accused of plot to kill DEA agent" http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09&#x2
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    by ballard 13y ago

    2012 interview with LEAP's Neill Franklin on the failure of Mexico's #warondrugs strategy. http://youtu.be/PELjksQMpnc
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    by ballard 13y ago

    It's curious that Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has such massive diversity of high ranking officials [0] that they have not yet moved the needle enough to bring the debate to a head. Perhaps a massive ad campaign to make the insa
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    by ballard 13y ago

    http://www.ted.com/talks/russell_foster_why_do_we_sleep.html I hope they get a chance to speak at TED themselves.
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Yup. Work is work. Anyone too pretty to GSD is a waste of space, including CEOs.
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Pilots are already expected to deal with all sorts of emergencies. Will never happen: 0. Guidance signal loss 1. Guidance signal jamming 2. Guidance signal hijacking 3. Pilots on the ground don't have a vested interest with passenge
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    by ballard 13y ago

    If anyone's in the market, compare gateways on https://feefighters.com/
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Double agree. Not delivering value for dollar is called one thing: a scam. It might be letter of US law legal (which doesn't have a stellar consumer protections record), but it's dishonest as predatory lending and crap hawked fro
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    by ballard 13y ago

    "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt The only thing to add is great minds are more generous and less concerned with violent retribution to compensate for a lack o
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    by ballard 13y ago

    For sure. Most people get ripped off on general electives at big brand schools. Caltech has/had pretty awesome staff/student ratio.
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Or $0, if the sheepskin, corrected homework and grades won't matter. Audit classes at the large institution of your choice means just sitting in on whatever lectures you like. In big lecture halls, even with attendance, it's rea
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Myself and a couple other guys did the due-dillegence for a proposed documentary about Stone Age to building a functional electric calculator. The starting point would have various ores as they came from the Earth. Glass and metal working a
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Altenator generator howto http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nathan/nepal/ghatta/alternator....
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Sometimes just getting credit card processing merchant approval makes EV2 SSL look like the Stripe API.
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    General solicitation live on AngelList(angel.co)

    4 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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    Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world(bbc.co.uk)

    7 points by ballard 13y ago|1 comments
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Predatory lending on top of indentured servitude: dual slavery of the body and poverty. I'm sure there are much worse and much better companies than what is reported regarding un/semi-skilled labor workforce vendors. The former s
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    by ballard 13y ago

    I disagree with the findings being a blanket truth. I encounter a great many persons that appear to maintain their own internal pride by practicing anonymous civility in the everyday world. So much so that it becomes almost competitive cou
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    by ballard 13y ago

    Marginal_propensity_to_consume hookers and blow has been shown in some studies to shorter lives and balance sheets of pro basketball players.