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by dfsegoat 9y ago
It is funny you mention that actually - as a personal anecdote, I can say that many of my friends who happen to be advocates for free distro of crypto tech - or more commonly, cryptocurrencies - also tend to be fairly strong 2A advocates. T
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Yes, my impression is the LSO can correct / guide it in ultimately. However, I am wondering what happened to all of the technology that they put together for the X-47B - which I believe was fully qualified to land itself in most weathe
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Also, for the sake of those outside the US: Heavily weight the first impressions of the leasing / office staff to determine whether you WANT to live in an apartment complex: As stated above, these will be the people you will deal with
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Our tax dollars at work?
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Your first paragraph is so spot on IMO, that it frightens me. We, as free thinking, reasonable people are continuously drawn into hyper-polarized debates, particularly on social media: There is no nuance (as you said), only pro vs anti (as
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
"Force multiplier" -- love that you borrowed this term from military doctrine, because that is exactly what a good tech lead is IMO. Per the Wiki definition [0]: "Force multiplication or a force multiplier refers to a factor
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
You mean, like HAARP? Not saying it is a weapon. But it certainly has the pedigree to perceived that way, from a program & pop-culture standpoint: https://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-...
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
I just wanted to say how comprehensive and enlightening your first reference was: It gives clear empirical / historical evidence of why working too many hours will ultimately kill your progress. http://www.igda.org/?pag
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
I purposely avoided mentioning / implying blame in any way. I merely pointed out what appears to be a comprehensive list of POTENTIALLY SUSPICIOUS deaths of Russian diplomats etc.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
According to the below, there are other suspicious deaths (no cause determined, or conflicting info on cause of death) in countries like the US & Greece: https://www.axios.com/russian-diplomats-keep-dying-unexpecte...
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
"Blacklist all by default, whitelist as needed" is how we build most secure systems right? I'll admit it feels strange applying that construct to day to day browsing.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Adrian and I met back in '97. He always struck me as ahead of his time, and was someone who opened my eyes to what "information security" actually was: The man's natural ability to find his way into places he shouldn&#x2
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Yep I was mistaken. It seems the article you cited may have been the origin story. What I read, (and it changed in my head over time obviously to the point of perpetuating an urban legend) was from the military times in 2016 - which cites a
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
I am not a Marine. But I would venture to guess it has to do with the tide of maintenance & resulting readiness issues the Corps. has historically had to deal with (their budget is tiny compared to USAF/Army), and the demands of ru
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The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing(breakingdefense.com)
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
You are misinformed my friend. With respect to innovation and talent, and the military - One of the top officers in command of the US Marine Corps said this a few days ago, about the technical talent that the corps has been attracting [1]:
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
> "What is possible, and I have written legal articles about, is to have autonomous trusts..." Link?
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
What was their last big philanthropic project of this scope that was successful?.. If any. I am legitimately curious.
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Lost in space? The ZUMA satellite(allthingsnuclear.org)
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That is called existence in the world of espionage / counter-espionage. It doesn't really track with the existence of everyday people, or legislative bodies.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
If history is any judge, as I recall from several recent reads on NSA post-Snowden / Stuxnet etc: Even the most outspoken critic of the NSA (I want to say it was a State attorney or something) was quick to reverse his critiques when he
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
They also have Fiber for all office spaces in Santa Rosa within vicinity of the Sonoma County Airport. I've used Sonic since dialup/PPP in 1997. The Airport fiber is kick ass and enterprise grade -- 1000 down/100 up for very
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
The number of parallels between now and 1989 are striking: victimhood == top social currency, etc... It really is almost like we have these 20-30 year social cycles... Perhaps this is known to the sociological literature - but that's n
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Technically article title is incorrect and should be "...no US PASSENGER airlines operate the Boeing 747" -- UPS Airlines is US based and still operates the 747-400[1], it is just they are a cargo airline and not passenger. 1. ht
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
In a similar vein, this is one of the most amusing use of Markov chains IMO: It is trained on the King James Bible and several Computer science textbooks: http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ So you get some gold like: &
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
My apologies for being ignorant of these sources, and even just for failing to have the imagination to think about that scenario. I will do my homework better next time. Thank you.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Sheets... I just.. I can't. I was a business analyst (excel grunt) for 2+ years in a biotech startup. Sheets is just different in enough ways to positively irk even the "casual power user" of Excel, IMO.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Because the IDF would have annihilated them. It's far easier to pick on haphazard regimes, who are generally incapable of organizing strategic defensive efforts. Beyond that, ISIS was more about power and wealth than it was about ideol
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
>> 'Doesn't matter if it's tulip bulbs, baseball cards, bitcoins..markets operate on similar principles.' An elegant raison d'être for this whole thread: Not having any real technical knowledge of economics, i
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
...If it is a more stable asset class than what you currently own, then why wouldn't you buy and hold? Isn't that the point of diversification? Legitimate, honest questions from someone without any real academic background in econ

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