progressive_dad

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by progressive_dad 11y ago
make do do something do great things do nothing do experiments do a dance fondue Can you make fondue with gravy? Yeah, I bet that would be tasty.
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Google, The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and Edelman all strongly courted Obama staffers in 2012 during and after the election. There are many close ties between these companies and the current administration. It wouldn't surpris
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
And then kidnap and sentence their families to hard labor up to the 3rd generation.
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
What's disgusting is the misuse of the "contractor" designation just as it is with Uber or Instacart. When I work as an independent contractor I do so knowing that I am paying significantly higher taxes on that income, paying
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Do you have kids in school? The curriculum is 70% studying for standardized tests and anything else they're lucky enough to get is 20 year old pretty shitty stuff. Go read little house on the prairie again. I bet its in your second or
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
That's a pretty biting take on the matter. Who first taught you to hate your country?
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Or worse, Navajo indian sympathizers.
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
What breaks my heart about this "cold war" becoming a "hot war" is it will probably stifle school age curriculum. If its a hot button political issue then teachers won't be encouraging little johnny and suzie to sho
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
All I'm concerned about is a bottle. Take a little walk to the edge of town across the track. Where the viaduct looms as it shifts and cracks. Where the border lies. Across the stack. On a gathering storm comes a handsome man with a re
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
> For me, this boils down to whether or not people are allowed to have strong encryption. Its easy to see why DOD originally classified it as a munition. Video games have become a powerful tool for storytelling, education, performance ar
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
I think you underestimate the value of trust in business and government. Its a common failing in the hacker ethos. Just because you CAN mess with the programming of an elevator the president uses every day doesn't mean you SHOULD.
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It becomes non-trivial due to the marketing of their devices as secure systems. Just as with the burden of proof in defamation actions is higher in the case of a public figures, the "triviality" of the modification in this case is
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
The specifics are important. If I said, "If a police officer gives you a lawful order do you have to comply?" you would immediately say, "yes". Now what if I said, "If a police officer demands that an entire neighbo
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
There are many issues here which have thus far been conducted in a legal or nebulous grey area of the law or flown under the notice of the general public for far too long: Can the government compel the creation of original tools and IP outs
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Election issues aren't what you probably think they are... You probably have it backwards in your head. An anachronism left over from when we all still believed the 4th estate of news media existed to educate the electorate. Everything
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
airbubbles + manstrength: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3yvxuMGwCg
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
> knowledge of how you would bypass the device encryption is locked up in the heads of several engineers there WARNING — THIS Apple Engineer IS CLASSIFIED AS A MUNITION --rsa--------------------------------8<--------------------------
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
That's why police drive them in Chicago...
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Maybe not the NSA, but the US census bureau certainly has: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-c...
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
The fact that my salary goes up every time I switch jobs is actually incidental to the fact that I have been fleeing toxic project management practices for a decade... Got too much to do? Add process. Got too little? Let's add s'm
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence?
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Personally, I welcome our new free webcams. Next time they're retrieved and plugged into a machine on the ATF VPN I'll immediately have all the evidence my defense team is legally entitled to for discovery.
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
I take it to mean, "don't marginalize, punish, and otherwise manage like an asshole. It will ruin your team faster than layoffs."
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
I have some personal experience here. Worked with the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns and knew a few guys in the "Cave" (their analytics and big data initiatives that helped direct strategy) The biggest thing to remember is that ult
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
I was reading a reddit post the other day that looked like it was produced by a markov chain using martin amis and michel houellebecq as source material. Unexceptional except they used the name, "Gortibole Blubbet" for a fat old p
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Sticking with the explosives analogy I'd liken it more to rocket science than gunpowder. Sure, you might understand and be able to somewhat predictably control the output of the reactants but in order to use them effectively you are go
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Juche (Chosŏn'gŭl: 주체; hancha: 主體; RR: Chuch'e; Korean pronunciation: [tɕutɕʰe]), usually translated as "self-reliance", is the official political ideology of North Korea, described by the regime as Kim Il-Sung's &q
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
Well there's an argument to be made that a mistaken analysis as to your "threat level" curtails your personal freedom and has a detrimental impact on your ability to accomplish your goals. Just as the existence of your credit
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There are so many issues here I hardly know where to begin. I've made similar arguments myself in the past and you have to be very careful to compartmentalize what you hope to say and accomplish when debating someone directly affected
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by progressive_dad 11y ago
I was quoting Richard Dawkins quoting an editor of New Scientist magazine. I even linked the debate. Its not a new issue, its a very divisive issue, and I think that sums up the opposition quite succinctly. For further context this discussi

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