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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
Does anyone know if there is a publicly available list of the 50k numbers that were exploited by this software?
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
There's an aspect of toxoplasmosis that I think is interesting, but didn't show up in the (disappointingly sensationalistic) article, or in the comments so far: toxoplasmosis can result in significant personality changes, such as
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
With regard to Trump, there was a lot of media reporting around him being sloppy with classified material, etc -- and it's entirely possible that career intelligence professionals, aka the "deep state", took this into account
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
Shady stuff including psychological experiments definitely went on during the Cold War (with a lot of EB support for that general sort of thing if not explicit approval of every program) but one of the main results of the Church Commission
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
Respectfully, you seem to be confusing the fact that there are government agencies which report to the EB and are overseen by the LB, and these agencies have highly sensitive SAPs about which very few people know specifics (true) with the n
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
These programs are directed by the Executive Branch with Legislative Branch oversight and potential Judicial Branch review. Not sure what any of these programs have to do with GC violations or laws/norms of war? Literally every major i
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
It's funny, when I studied abroad in Russia people of all ages asked me this question incessantly and indignantly. It was almost like an article of faith for many people I met there that America has always denied the USSR's role i
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by leroy_masochist 5y ago
Nice, a real-life case of "Quo Vado" (check it out on Netflix)
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Former Goldman IBD associate here. Don't have any major insights to add to the discussion, but a few observations: - I'm not sure what to make of the N=13. Maybe it means that the survey was circulated within a small, trusted grou
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
The "Control-C + Control-V = $$$$" wall art made me laugh out loud. Well done.
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Parent comment is likely getting downvoted for its tone, but they've kind of got a point....the hormonal changes underway and the sociopathic clique-power games going on at school do indeed often combine to make many girls quite stando
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Citadel is not a Robinhood customer like retail investors are customers; they're a) an execution partner who executes Robinhood's trades and b) a source of revenue because they actually pay Robinhood for the privilege of doing thi
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Here's what I don't understand - this is is constantly framed as a matter of reforming Federal law, when the states could remedy this themselves by changing from a winner-gets-all paradigm to a Maine- or Nebraska-like system that
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
I think we're talking past each other. I appreciate you taking the time to source citations to the chapter and verse regulations. This isn't the right setting to discuss the details of individuals' past clearance adjudication
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
> Downloading porn on lime wire doesn't stop you from advancing in the process with a polygraph. This is factually incorrect. I personally know two people who, already holding a TS/SCI, were denied further career opportunities
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Does it really take that much imagination to understand how it could seem that way to someone who has, realistically, been organizing their life around getting into a service academy since they were 15ish years old?
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
> Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else's account? Those should technically be honor violations They make a HUGE deal about this in lifestyle polygraphs. It's completely asinine and
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/man-suffers-substa...
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Does anyone know if the Rosetta issue described in the review would affect the performance of a Parallels instance running MS Office products? Maybe this question would be better phrased, does Parallels fall into the category of software th
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
The question here, in my opinion, is whether we're looking at actual causation or simple correlation. Is this an example of, "receiving free coyote-colored tacticool gear and MRAPs prompts cops to become more aggressive, detached
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
It sucks that you are being downvoted for making a reference to one of Matt's recurring jokes
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
I was an intern at Goldman in the summer of 2010, right after we moved into the new building. One day about halfway through the internship, a VP told me to call him so that he could explain a couple of concepts relevant to a few pages we we
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
> Dynamic scans were started immediately after injection of 4-10 mCi of [11C]raclopride (specific activity 0.5-1.5 Ci/μM at end of bombardment) and after injection of 4-8 mCi of [11C]cocaine (specific activity > 0. 53 Ci/μmo
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CIA Team of Four Operators Died on Spy Mission Targeting China(news.yahoo.com)
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
There's a great documentary on this topic called "The Thirteenth Warrior"
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
If video games can teach K-12 knowledge more effectively than a teacher in a classroom, the implications for the educational world are interesting. Will we still need elementary and high schools as physical installations? If so, what will t
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
That can happen outside of attention-seeking exercises organized by extroverts, FYI.
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
> I think you are conflating introversion and shyness or a broader uncomfortableness / inexperience with social interactions. Respectfully, no. It's not about knowing appropriate behavior, it's about the fact that "ge
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
> I was at a liberating structures event recently, and one of the people I was working with related an anecdote in which he tried a party game as an ice breaker. Many of those are cringe, but this one sounded fun and inoffensive (it was
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
I have no idea whether OP would be fired if they mention where they work. While through context I'd infer that they're interviewing people on behalf of an established tech company, it's also possible that they're running

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