comrade_ogilvy

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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>Maybe it's just a matter of opinion, but I'm very comfortable characterizing this reply as "discounting because it's just metadata." Perhaps. But keep in the mind the context: " nobody’s listening to the c
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
That is the most ominous scenario, which is likely complete fiction (so far). Finding the high value targets requires good detective work. Blowing up acquaintances is destroying good leads. The metadata creates leads, and helps narrow the
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Right. Once upon a time, the physical control over our bodies and our personal property was an adequate definition of privacy. Yes, there were many corner cases, even two centuries ago, but it was "good enough" approximately alw
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
No, his art is not being misunderstood in the least. That would have required an iota of effort on the part of the mindless haters. No, they (and apparently you) think that forming harsh judgment about the person based on a few superfi
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I suppose there is a kind of self-contradiction is trying to be "fashionably unfashionable" which seems ripe for mockery. But, in practice, the mockery boils down to an exercise in More Authentic Than Thou based on guesses from
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
It boils down to jobs. Texas is a fine place to live if you work in certain sectors. California is great place to live for other kinds of work.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The other way to look at this is apartment rental prices are merely "correcting" upwards to be less out of line with the housing prices. A $1 million SF home has to charge $6000 in rent each month to break even, to cover cost of c
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Agreed. One has to prove that individual arguable mistakes are a purposeful pattern of fraud. As the system exists, if I were to make, say, an incorrect bill or make some other factually incorrect assertion that you owe me money, it is ass
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
A mafia organization is a certain kind of acquaintances that formed a "social group" and did not necessarily work for a single employer (or small set of employers), thus the paper trail did not exist. The FBI had to do a lot of c
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Bernie is an interesting example for a number of reasons. The likelihood of being caught is probably a bigger factor in deterrence than the severity of the punishment itself. White collar criminals probably get away with a lot of small cri
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
But the tax base did not collapse. It drifted downs to ~60% of peak, while the populace drifted down to ~40% of peak. Shrinking is always going to be a painful and not easy process, but the raw numbers suggest that it was doable.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
In the short run, maybe. In the long run, no, no, no. It is hopeless to expect the gov't to not do whatever corporations commonly get away with. Once the corporations do it, the information in question becomes private property. Now a
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Tan, cotan, sec, cosec have practical value in calculus. It might be a little unfair to expect your trig teacher to prove that to you.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Smoke jumpers are taking on a job that offers a boon to others, so I politely give them the benefit of the doubt. Thus it is an exercise in adult behavior, even if the details of their personal motives are more ambiguous. I do recognize a
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
To counter whining about sheep with a literal defense of flocking behavior is going to be hard to top.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
People die on Everest, regardless of how well they were prepared physically, mentally, or materially. Not taking oxygen is not the worst way to be unprepared, it likely only means you will give up sooner. The sooner you give up on the att
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
They may be stronger, or maybe not. They certainly will learn to inflate the price to include lawyers fees. Are you hiring a contractor to get work done? Or are you allowing the head of your legal department to pad his resume, while your
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Right. An honest, competent, and communicative contractor will not prompt a revenge lawsuit, because even if things go wrong, they will not blow up into 100k+ problems without the client knowing the risks of continuing down that road. Unle
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The other problem is if your lawyer spends 20 hours, the many requested amendments are likely to prompt my lawyer to bill another 20 hours. What happens then? Your lawyer has even more work to do. The cycle can easily spiral. Even for a 40
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
LOL. That may not be a coincidence. I hear that the VCs are flummoxed -- they have pots of money but they are not finding good prospects. The latest fad is to sprinkle little amounts of money around and hope they can pluck a promising see
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
In times of rapid economic change, the risk of doing nothing is often far worse than a grand project that is merely less than fully successful. Chicago feared it would become a big flat toilet, for many good reasons. When things work prett
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
If we were talking about a young aspiring writer-director moving to Hollywood and similar shenanigans happened, we would not be surprised would we? Based on the OP and your story, I guess tech start ups have truly "arrived".
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
You might be correct about the reasoning. But those records are likely to work against if a suit ever hit full speed, because those scores could easily support the plaintiffs. "Gee, everyone over 55 ever hired has a 75%+ score. But
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
My experience as a human driver is that most accidents can be avoided by either (A) slowing down in ambiguous situations, or (B) aborting that lane change (usually because two cars are attempting to go into the same space). Those behaviors
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The auto industry works in cycles on the scale of approximately 5-6 years. So technology that is not practical right now is 6+ years out. They are basically promising to sell this as soon as possible. They have 1-3 years for the go or no
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I would hypothesize that it is a very rare police officer who walks around intending to break the law before they know the facts. They break the law because it turns out to be very convenient given how the situation unfolds (e.g. add a few
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I think "Rodney King 2.0" angle is being terribly unfair to the police, even though I so happen to find the police actions there deplorable. Those police officers were making a proper stop of a fleeing suspect. But they lost cont
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I am sure that is true, even if it is just their voice on the tape, with the camera pointed forward. Any potential prosecution will involve someone from the DA's office reviewing all evidence. How many officers want to be seen as an o
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
It depends on your business model. If your business model does not include strong growth, you have the option to organically growing your dev team from smart and less experienced people over the course of many years. If your business model
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
And a correlation between citizen complaints and a particular officer having mysteriously incomplete records is going to look bad in front of a jury. What will happen is that police chiefs will simply tell problem officers that if they are

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