killjoywashere

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by killjoywashere 10y ago
They don't really have to follow the rules. They just have to drag their feet long enough for your project to die.
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by killjoywashere 10y ago
They buy 100% Juniper to secure their routing. Formal analysis?! They can barely analyze the purchase contracts. In fact, that too gets farmed out to contractors. You'd be hard pressed to find an actual civil servant or active duty mil
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by killjoywashere 10y ago
The problem is conservative economic philosophy depends on letting a problem get bad enough that the typical customer becomes informed. How many people do you want to get MDR TB before people are sufficiently interested in the topic to beco
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by killjoywashere 10y ago
This seems to presuppose you are starting with a vast group of highly skilled subspecialists who, in aggregate, understand everything about the system, from the chip design, OS, routing, database, etc. In reality, you usually start with jus
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by killjoywashere 10y ago
number of search results for "q=X+corruption" where X = - New York: 68M - Washington: 55.5M - Trump: 54.3M - Russia: 39M - Chicago: 32.6M - Football: 22.4M - Putin: 10.5M - Soccer: 9.0M - Olympic: 1.9M - NFL: 0.73M - MLB: 0.58M -
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by killjoywashere 10y ago
Minor point in case someone asks: he mentions "Werner’s granular meclosis". I think he might be thinking of a transient mention he heard once of Wegener's granulomatosis, but he's probably just making something up. Sort
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Professor Smith was, at the time of the publication of this essay (in the Ohio State University's law journal), midway through a 20-year span as chairman of the Ohio State physics department. He basically works his way through history