paulgrant999

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by paulgrant999 8y ago
Sleep through the first 3 days. Chew on ice cubes for the first couple of weeks. After that clear. The real problem isn't the "addiction" (which is so mild as to be laughable); its the sudden influx of time you have, and t
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
What are you joking? They strike anyone with a brain or domain-level knowledge (until they run out of strikes). You never see the totality of the evidence; just what the judge "allows in" (that isn't prejudicial to the prosec
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
I often make this point (if you don't have a grad-level understanding..). And people get pissy. Same with statistics ("if you don't have a PHD in stats; you don't understand stats"). -- I had someone contact me f
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
and once you get the Courts ok'ing it, then why do you even need lawyers or courts? If no-one is going to look at the actual evidence/agreements/law....
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
"Predictive Coding". You don't need AI. You just need collusion between law firms i.e. to write a program, and then agree, that whatever it interprets, is the way it will be semantically enforced in court. To be clear: the s
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> Wouldn't the fact that passing resource to modules works in 0.12 help with the mass exodus of output variables for modules? might. I skipped it, use soft-links, and hard outputs (variable files) to get around it. cuts down on th
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> It is -extremely- rare, even at the higher levels of pay, to get a lawyer, who actually knows the specifics of your case. > In a very real way, its all ad-hoc expertise. > A series of one-off's you try, to get a compromise y
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
presuming you don't just abandon the search is irrelevant. :) which is why I don't stress that "agree to disagree over similar premises". can be both a hindrance, and a benefit.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> OK, that makes some sense. wink. > One formerly quite religious friend who lost faith in his mid or late 40s seemed quite apathetic for a while after. runs deeper than that. people who are religious, usually are religious because i
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> Through these raw streams of data and through post mortem analysis of situations, the company started realizing they could predict when things would wear out. They experimented with things like how many times does a bus door open and c
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
Wouldn't help with perpetual corporations owning most of the assets. Globalism was just an extension of capitalism, to escape to other jurisdictions. It is not an accident that the GINI coefficient, is so drastically out of whack in t
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> Says who? You? Yup. Your idea of good, is not my idea of good. That we can reach an agreement (compromise), the consensual portion. That good, is often a matter of perspective, and subject to change in hindsight (i.e. a value judgeme
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
yeah its different here in the US. :) Everything is more polarized/political. Everything. > Just the odd individual going off on one on some Facebook post or other net forum from time to time. I discuss theology on a fairly regula
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
Dude. Case law, is the only thing that matters.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
What is this higher standard? You think hanging them up from yardarms would deter them? You want to ensure proper behavior; you have to take away the tools that let them aggregate power in the first place; and prevent it from re-occurring.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> At some level, the law is like computer code. LOL. This is so wrong, its not even funny. Lawyers, are incompetent. If you haven't come to that realization yet; its because you haven't dealt with enough of them. It is -extr
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
atheists here are "theistic" atheists. they are militantly anti-religion, anti-god, claim this as a "neutral" position. in reality, its just another religion. true atheists, are like true feminists; god/gender, sim
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
> and I think it boils down to her not believing that someone can be "moral" its interesting to note, that the concept of morality, is in fact, moored as a consensual hallucination as to what is good. therefore, as an atheist,
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
translation keeps correcting itself. :) same thing you do when you listen and try to guess where the conversation is headed. ;) also with the same flaws when you guess wrong.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
nobody has a system that can track this. its a failure of all modern business management methods.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
Terraform is pretty good; but its strength is its weakness; the declarative syntax (DAG planner) isn't perfect and once you start hinting it, it causes all sort of chaos. The solution to complex deploys that re-use portions of the depl
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
you know why banks are so heavily regulated? a distributed systems of ledgers, where banks attested to the amount of cash, in their vaults. ... ... ...
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
in fact this is the primary reasons why I want to learn French, Russian, German ;) reading the masters, is never a waste.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
a status field, does not a person or a persons work effort make ;) ...and if my workers were under the gun, they understood I was there strictly to offer assistance. shit sometimes I pull up a chair and code right next to them (now fangled
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
I would say, suit it to the person you're managing. me I just trained my reports to use their judgement where appropriate, and bring things to my attention when it looked like it was going to be a problem that needed to be addressed lo
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
don't do 1-on-1's unless there is an acute problem. I do however, walk and talk a lot i.e. keep on top of things. way way better. most of the time, 1-on-1 is personal issue (death, scheduling conflict, injury), or personality-cla
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
the correct way to force prison systems to follow the law and their regulations, is called a "consent decree". it forces them under penalty of law, to actually live up to specific terms in a settlement. unfortunately; they are no
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
I have no idea why they insist on using such horrible graphs to explain a simple idea. Go to wiki/quaternions. scroll down to about 2/3rds of the way ;)
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
Japanese design philosophy.
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by paulgrant999 8y ago
Well since I've limited to 1 post a day here (very irritating!), this is it! System dynamics is the name of the field. I studied it outside a CS curriculum as a "high-level" topic, but really I took to it like a duck to wate

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