comrade_ogilvy

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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
In modern America we have this outlandish idea that it is a fine thing to "be ourselves" to the limits of the law out in public. More traditional etiquettes include the concept of what happens in public following different rules f
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
"I often wonder about the quality of the people they hire as I have yet to run into a talented dev who would quit their current job to do this one week contract for hire option." I wonder that, too. The very best people usually h
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Right. To be more precise, security is a set of costs on web developers, web viewers, and attackers. There is no obviously correct way to balance all three, once you start seeing feasible removed/missing features that would be genuin
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
And the contract change is not considered valid unless it was overtly accepted by an employee with appropriate authority. A random low wage employee processing these kinds of forms would be presumed to not have that authority with the busi
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
"Passive income" was once the province of people who accumulated wealth and now were reaping the benefits of good long-term strategies. That is honest enough. Being a marketing middleman can be an honest enough niche, too. That t
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
As a volunteer member of the armed services, he is expected to be held accountable by standards that do not necessarily apply to civilians. That can cut both ways. In this case, it is likely to the defendants disadvantage, but that was al
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The niche is growing and will continue to grow into the foreseeable future. So making a good profit is possible. However the competition is heating up quickly to nuclear fusion temperatures. Every useful app or silly game on every smart
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
That is fine, even if confusing. The point is the book allegedely has distilled the "good enough" formula -- whether the formula is new or mined from previous films is unimportant. That so many movies are echoes of The Matrix an
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
There must be 50 books out there about screenwriting that talk in similar terms about the pattern -- the 3 act structure with character development tent poles and rising stakes. Their weakness is that there is no admired movie that fits an
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I would argue that confirmation of the shape in 1G has some actual value. Sometimes "silly" experiments can have value. I chatted with a physic prof once who said the very first experiment he did after gaining tenure was to inves
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Perhaps not from the outset. But if you put your mind to it, you can probably make a good guess about whether to cut and run after 12-18 months, and go for another lottery ticket.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
As I see it, we need more explicit rules about privacy that encompass both gov't and private parties. Whether we get rid of FISA or the NSA will ultimately not matter (fat chance, of course) -- if it seems important enough, gov't
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
If it really was a consistent win for the employers, then perhaps it is a non-issue in the larger sense -- employees just need to negotiate hours vs. compensation. Whatever. I think the deeper insight of TFA is that there may be short term
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Agreed. Inside of that (formerly) $16 billion company is a really wonderful $2 billion company fighting to get out.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Considering the norms of the particular industry would be good advice, but there are often choices within the industry. Dressing up False Choices in machismo not only obscures reality, but plays right into the hands of managers inclined to
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Indeed, a 4% difference compounds quite well. Unfortunately many people imagine they might get a 3% or 4% net bump, when they are really going to get 1% extra. Working an extra 20% so that you are paid appropriately larger salary 19 years
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The grass is always greener, especially when you remember someone lifting their leg and peeing on your own grass last month. I would bet that ~100% of the women with small children who stay at home sometimes get inappropriate suggestions th
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Congress can very easily act to define the terms of the debate on these legal questions by defining "due process" (and similar factors). The courts are obliged to show reasonable deference to Congress. Congress chooses not to, an
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Furthermore, what holds the Executive in check is the combined vigilance of Congress and the Judiciary. The Judiciary must show reasonable deference to Congress when it comes to defining such things as "due process". If Congress
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The incentives do not necessarily work well there. But I could imagine a "We The People Buy It" under a system of wealth taxes. That the gov't could choose to buy any asset for a modest premium over what the taxpayers assert
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Well, you could read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mis-measure of Man. Or you could read The Bell Curve. It is positing a small difference between "races", a difference so small that it is very minor compared to the expected range
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The fact that the instructor may perhaps (or perhaps not) be mistakenly attributing to Korean ethnic-culture certain worrying aspects is completely unimportant. The real cultural problem is that an instructor perceives pressure to pass stu
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Yes, but I would agree with dvt that there are professors who consider themselves "clever" for putting material on the exam that looks nothing like what showed up in lecture or in the homework. Kinds of problems that can justify b
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The question is whether exam material should seem substantially different from the course material. Looking at your first question, I am hemming and hawing whether it is correct to say zero is positive or negative or both. I would say both
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Curriculum design and assessment design is not a new field, it is just an oft ignored field. The first step is to make very explicit goals. The downside of explicit goals is failure of the institution itself is potentially measurable. &q
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
It is a magical technological cloud city. For certain business models. If the company in question is betting on very strong growth, then it needs a large pool of experienced talent to draw upon. Paying 3X or 5X as much to get top talent
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
That is a problem with the people who vote. We either will not vote for people who fail to over-promise, or fail to continue to support elected officials who make reasonable efforts to follow through, or both.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Unobtainium is almost within reach!
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The other thing about plutonium people fail to recognize is that practical uranium civilian power reactors are pretty lousy at producing plutonium. The proliferation risk is non-zero, but processing spent fuel is a pretty nasty business an
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I rather liked the graphs, made up as they were. It clarified something observable in real life projects gone wrong: in order to partially cover up for a badly slipped schedule, new business requirements get added on. "We were late,

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