eganist

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by eganist 6y ago
> Now, if Mike from Accounting wants to talk urgently, I may not be available because I have my own list of urgent things to tackle. I will try to carve out time and prioritize his request, but I am in no way committed to his personal se
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by eganist 6y ago
Probably, yes, but not always. It depends on the matter.
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by eganist 6y ago
> Absolutely, but it's still polite to schedule the synchronous call via async. Maybe this is a failing on my part, but I'm having a hard time understanding how these: > × "Hello, are you around?" > × "hi
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by eganist 6y ago
> There is no indication that Swiss Government at the high level was aware. Intelligence agencies were aware. I'm not seeing how 1. Swiss intelligence is somehow distinct from the Swiss government. 2. this mitigates the risk I de
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by eganist 6y ago
The Swiss Government was (at the latter part of the operation) aware and complicit. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/no-official-outcry-in-... Given this precedent, there's good reason to believe it woul
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by eganist 6y ago
Worth noting that the linked site advocates against this: > × "Hello, are you around?" > × "hi sophie - quick question." > × "You got a sec?" I agree with you around scheduling synchronous communicatio
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by eganist 6y ago
The linked page advocates against these on the same premise, which is my primary challenge with it. It ignores urgency.
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by eganist 6y ago
Unless the matter has an ephemerality requirement, in which case I message seeking immediate availability and then transition to a phone call. A signal call if the matter needs to be both ephemeral and confidential. Insisting on asynchronou
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by eganist 6y ago
> Wanting a synchronous conversation is a pretty arrogant grab of someone else's time. This is an assumption, and not always a valid one. There are plenty of circumstances where synchronous comms are warranted, such as when matters
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by eganist 6y ago
Depends on the mode of communication that's been determined to be most reliable with the person in question. I've resorted to synchronous comms when the other party is notoriously bad at responding async. ...which would likely per
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by eganist 6y ago
Not op, but it's pretty well researched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by eganist 6y ago
> UFCW told Motherboard the layoffs will impact nearly 2,000 of the company’s 10,000 grocery store workers.
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by eganist 6y ago
For unsteady contracted project work, this doesn't sound off the mark for high-value niche skillsets at a senior or principal level. I wouldn't expect FAANGs to pay it for steady work, though. Well, Netflix might come close. I can
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by eganist 6y ago
The full list of incidents is here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-capitol-hist... But while all of those are incidents, attacks, etc., I think the distinction (which I failed to highlight) is that 181
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by eganist 6y ago
Ah, TIL. Thanks!
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by eganist 6y ago
> Then you're not even trying to see any perspective but your own. "Terrorist" should mean violent, radical extremists. If you're saying that all of the protestors are terrorist then you're either loosening the d
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by eganist 6y ago
> I'd say intent to kill is what makes them terrorists. What makes this muddied is the varying degrees of intent from all the people who stormed the capital. Some saw it as a chance to kill people. Others just went to protest -- not
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by eganist 6y ago
I don't really see how the number of people killed makes a difference in whether an attack is terrorism. An attack can result in zero casualties and still be terror (depending on some definitions. Others require at least one death)
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by eganist 6y ago
> > What they can't survive is... > And yet, here we are, democracy intact. You keep cutting off quotes without including the relevant details. You need to stop doing that. The original quote: > What they can't survive
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by eganist 6y ago
> If you expand the definition of terrorism to such an absurd degree (anybody who may need grief counseling) you're diluting actual terrorism. > The Pulse nightclub is what real terrorism looks like. And the Christchurch shooting
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by eganist 6y ago
> Firstly, nobody was terrorized. I can count six DC-area thousand+ employee firms that provided grief counseling in response. And as a reminder, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism - even if a subset of people
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by eganist 6y ago
> Not really, I don’t think all her research involved gathering and communicating relevant insights. There’s lots of other parts of research. But that is, in fact, the definition of research ("the systematic investigation into and s
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by eganist 6y ago
> Pedantically pointing out that, literally, this is a false statement. My statement is so generic as to be true in the context of fields involving scientific research. And that's in essence the point: that's what data science
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by eganist 6y ago
> Which of those degrees qualifies her as a data scientist capable of contravening WHO recommendations? Literally all of her research involved gathering and communicating relevant insights from vast and disparate data sets, which is the
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by eganist 6y ago
hey NicoJuicy, there's a [dead] account called throw_nico commenting on everything. Is that also yours? Can you comment from your NicoJuicy account?
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by eganist 6y ago
Sounds like there's a difference between gathering prints (faceprints, fingerprints, voiceprints) that can be used to identify people v. simply identifying that something is a face, a fingertip, or a voice, which is what iPhoto did.
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by eganist 6y ago
> That are offered to the customers below cost of running them in order to stifle competition, which is only possible as long as the government antitrust body is looking the other way. Twitter as best as we can tell is not offering servi
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by eganist 6y ago
Unbound resolves to multiple things for me. Are you referring to the DNS resolver, or something else?
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by eganist 6y ago
> Great, do you want a cookie? Hey, this isn't productive. The parent comment provided a good opener for others to ask them their experience migrating away, etc, and that's the kind of discussion we often like to have around s
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by eganist 6y ago
> According to modern zeitgeist, if Facebook can't be trusted to moderate their users, Facebook should be deplatformed and shut down. They've got (poorly paid and treated) human mods for user interactions, but apparently ad mo

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