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by bladegash 5y ago
Not just service members. It was most people who had ever held a security clearance, civilian and military. Only ones not included were agencies that did not use OPM for background investigations (which was only one or two). Even then, many
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by bladegash 5y ago
Have to wonder what the end goal is here. Putin is human, but he’s also pretty calculating in his actions. People have mentioned before China’s competing system to SWIFT and this move potentially being to their benefit. You also have the EU
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by bladegash 5y ago
Well, we both have about the same size nuclear arsenals, while the US’ military budget is 10x more than Russia’s. In other words, we spend almost as much just maintaining our arsenal as they do their entire military budget. Again, same size
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by bladegash 5y ago
I’ve always found the “convention over configuration” thing a bit of an odd descriptor for Ember. Outside of Ember CLI generating things for you or errors/unexpected results being thrown after something has been made, if you look for a
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by bladegash 5y ago
“As long as you're open about your past and convictions” 100% this. We had someone who hid that he was previously gone to prison for robbing banks. He used his dad’s SSN and slipped through the cracks. He was terminated immediately whe
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by bladegash 5y ago
Well, for what it’s worth and I sincerely mean this, if there is anything I can do to help you out (medically, not legally) please let me know.
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by bladegash 5y ago
Being forced to make a choice under threat is kind of the definition of coercion, but I think we are getting hung up on semantics (e.g., the word blackmail) and you certainly raise a mature perspective and valid points. I think your interpr
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by bladegash 5y ago
Hey, if nothing else, at least you’re owning it at this point in the conversation. Separate: I sincerely hope you feel/get better my friend and are able to get the medical treatment you were seeking (if you haven’t already). Best wishe
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by bladegash 5y ago
Nice use of words specifying your actions regarding the high court instead of the judges in question, who were specifically being referred to. You do realize that just because other people act like jerks, it does not give you license to do
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by bladegash 5y ago
I think the flaw in your logic is the assumption it was an either/or situation. There are a whole lot of options between “resign or face the consequences”, and let’s face it, is destroying someone’s career one way or the other (via by
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by bladegash 5y ago
I don’t think I made that argument, in fact, my comment was made specifically without the qualifier of it being legal vs. illegal. Manipulation (which let’s face it, social engineering is a fancy way of saying) is a pretty solid example of
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by bladegash 5y ago
Ugh, your story literally changes and is moving the goal posts. So now it was the prosecutors who made the decision? Not that an indirect threat is any better, but here's your previous description: "I did offer each offender a sec
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by bladegash 5y ago
People have been using "the ends justify the means" to justify all sorts of unethical behavior, not the least of which includes torture, genocide, and wars. Let's not go down that ethical reasoning wormhole. As for his story,
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by bladegash 5y ago
You can try to wordsmith and twist the logic all you want. Telling someone “resign and do what I want, or else” is an ultimatum and bordering on blackmail. It is an ultimatum that is directly counter to your stated goal as well, which to “a
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by bladegash 5y ago
Why do you believe it is your position to give any official ultimatums just to meet your own perceived sense of Justice? The way your are speaking about this is to right your own feelings of injustice, not anyone else’s, yet you do it under
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by bladegash 5y ago
Good cause according to who? The OP? You? How about the other people that have received and live with judgements from this official? And sorry, but social engineering is pretty unethical if you ask me, and has nothing to do with the name of
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by bladegash 5y ago
Is that really a decision for you to single handedly make? People make mistakes, but it doesn’t mean they are evil. Pushing them to admit their wrong doing, give up their livelihood/careers, etc. is just stupid. Especially if “doing it
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by bladegash 5y ago
That’s fair, but we were also running out of tools to increase liquidity/inflation as well. Not many tools to increase inflation to a healthy number when interest rates are already at or approaching 0% and billions of dollars are being
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by bladegash 5y ago
I think that is a perfectly reasonable and likely hypothesis. It would make sense for prices to rise simultaneous to wages, as companies are not cutting their profit margins out of the goodness of their hearts to pay increased wages.
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by bladegash 5y ago
What is your source? From the article: “ The burst in inflation has muted the sizeable earnings growth workers have seen. Real average hourly earnings rose just 0.1% for the month, as the 0.7% monthly gain in wages was almost completely wip
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by bladegash 5y ago
Might seem counterintuitive, but does anyone else see this as a positive sign? In that, we have been going for about 15 years injecting liquidity into the economy with little to no increase in inflation. That was counterintuitive to most ec
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by bladegash 5y ago
Wage growth was flat when taking into account inflation. It was not flat in and of itself. In other words, I believe inflation adjusted wage growth was 0.1%, or a wash when taking into account inflation, per the #’s.
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by bladegash 5y ago
If I am understanding the numbers correctly, I am pretty sure inflation adjusted wage growth outpaced inflation (barely), so assuming both trends continue, it’ll just be a wash.
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by bladegash 5y ago
Glad I am not the only one. Have even watched it without my kids and listen to the soundtrack when they’re not there! Haven’t done that with a Disney movie, aside from maybe Moana with the soundtrack, probably ever.
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by bladegash 5y ago
Tend to agree here, or if you were to ask one of my kids (5 and 8), they’d say the grandmother in general was the villain. They didn’t see the nuance of it or the end as a moment of redemption. They just saw her as mean to Maribel and the v
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by bladegash 5y ago
It’s FedRAMP authorized at the moderate baseline. That requires implementation of a pretty sizable and stringent set of security controls, continuous monitoring, and more. I’d say it’s probably a bit more secure than their commercial offeri
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by bladegash 5y ago
You haven’t seen businesses using things like Square on an iPad or iPhone as a pseudo POS system? Square even has a contactless reader on the Apple Store. Presumably, now businesses do not have to use those third parties anymore.
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by bladegash 5y ago
Not OP, but have been on stimulants off and on for a decade (tried various ones, with Vyvanse and Adderall being most effective, but the former triggering mania so can’t take anymore). YMMV, but “withdrawal” has never been more than a minor
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by bladegash 5y ago
Think whoever did the Digg v4 redesign should be a top candidate as well.
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by bladegash 5y ago
Really? Not that I particularly wanted to, but all I had to do was take a photo of the front and back using my iPhone and it went through without any problem.

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