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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Don't forget that he's press secretary for the one guy who actually made accurate polling assessments prior to the election. So if you met someone on a street corner who pointed at the sky, and told you "Hey look, it's
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This is different than every Presidential transition of power, how? It's the aims of the control, and the utter brazenness with which the new administration attempts to manipulate facts and reality in general that are different. Th
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The new management of the agencies want to review the social media policies. With the aim of installing Orwellian-style thought control practices† at every level, affecting every last publicity statement, blog post, and tweet. You forgot
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Also, some of the perceived bigotry is perhaps actually perpetrated by people who believe they are fighting against bigotry. For example, right now Blacks are admitted to med school with an average MCAT score around 61%, while Whites and A
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
To be honest, stuff like this really annoys me. Personally, what annoys me is the the current (soon to be completed) genocide against certain elephant species -- and the people who profit from it. Once we have the problem contained (and
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It was, indeed, in jest. Irony and humor being one of the few defenses we have against the rapidly onsetting age of darkness.
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Stonehenge tunnel plan finalised by government(bbc.com)
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They also have (as bullies like Trump know all too well) a duty to feed their families, pay the mortgages, and save for their children's education. At least until they find another job (in the wonderfully lucrative and liquid job mark
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In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an interview, which is typically a stressful situation, may produce poor results. To some extent, yes. But the flip side is that for
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Those weren't footnotes. My point was that you were completely mischaracterizing the core nature of the problem.
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The "CB's" he's describing are so incredibly transparent, they might as well be strawmen. The characterization is a bit overdrawn, but not by much. In my experience the more common scenario is not that of the S-W who
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
You need to feel you accomplish something every day, and (good) work does that. That's great for you, but of course Bukowski wasn't thinking of the "have your cake and eat it, too" world of tech workers in 2017 (who ar
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
"Announce intent" and "Stop bill that was never going to pass congress" aren't exactly adroit acts of statesmanship. OTOH "making a clear, simple statement about something that hits a raw nerve with tens of m
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
As much as we like to complain about it tech is still one of the most meritocratic fields out there. Relatively meritocratic, yes. But at the same time, suffused with bullshit. In particular as regards to the (generally inflated and use
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The only thing that stopped keeping up are salary increases. What's wrong with your overall summation of the situation is that the housing crisis is -- like most things that go systemically wrong in economics and public policy -- a p
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The state of the economy (and life in general) for people who aren't tech workers, these days.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Not trying to be snarky; why do they owe their drivers anything but incentive to work for them? Because karma is bitch, and history bites back. And if Uber doesn't step up to the plate, and start doing what's not only right for
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Bad "architecture smell", generally (except for niche cases). Basically you don't want to rely on something that (1) requires a whole new service / monitoring later, (2) intrinsically exposes your data to untrusted sourc
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There is no end to the... creativity of CSV file authors. Indeed, it never ceases to amaze. That's why it's so hard to imagine a "general" solution to this problem. You can think of something to handle to 90% most li
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
If you're really intent on ending a conversation, try not attempting to slip in the last word. Sounds eminently reasonable. It's all yours, then.
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OK, I can well imagine DARPA or other agencies would be interested in doing this kind of "research". And of course I wouldn't put it past the Army (or other services) to conduct this kind of experimentation on unwilling subj
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Because that's essentially what Manning did. No, that's not what she did. She gave the archive to a third party (Assange) who turned out to be unreliable. But that's not "the same" -- or even "essentially&q
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Diplomacy is a lot less interesting and less nefarious than you seem to believe. About 95% of it, yes. But if the other 5% were so profoundly uninteresting then people wouldn't be talking about how "embarrassing" and &quot
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"Man, I really need to watch what I say to the Americans." Given the degree of subterfuge the US has facilitated in many of these countries, over the years -- most of these folks already knew that.
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There's about as much public benefit in knowing how exactly Gaddafi was corrupt as there is in known just how many women Tom Cruise has slept with. This is, quite frankly, a bizarre equivalence to make.
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Who didn't already know all of that in broad strokes? I guess that argument could be applied to high crimes and corruption of all sorts, just about anywhere: "We already know about that in broad strokes. What good does it do to
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Then maybe you shouldn't (repeatedly, incessantly, decade after decade) engage so shamelessly with forces of corruption and darkness such it that inspires people to take great personal risk to expose that information.
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Estimating the Severity of the WikiLeaks US Diplomatic Cables Disclosure (2015)(academic.oup.com)
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All kinds of stuff. Disclosure about what the U.S. diplomatic staff knew about corruption and torture in various countries -- and what they really thought about the ruling elites of these places, despite public statements to the contrary;
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Others would say -- and I would say also -- that in general, the public has benefited greatly from the disclosures in the more pertinent cable leaks. The thing to keep in mind, though, is that Manning didn't simply dump these to "

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