rollo_tommasi

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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This is really fascinating and I wish I had a better handle on the principles that underpin this kind of research. Can anyone recommend some starter books or papers that cover the subject? For background prior to reading some more advanced
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It is not a reasonable critique. He specifically mentioned the faster employee was 'Asian' as a racist dog-whistle. His problem isn't with 'government workers', it's with 'lazy black people'. Don&#x27
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
So in your estimation, 'bullshit jobs' exist because the majority of people need to battle it out amongst each other in order to be rewarded by the elite controllers of 'technology and machines'? I think you have unwitti
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I think you've missed the point of the letter entirely. It's not about people who are obsessed with their work, it's about people who have no choice in the matter.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I don't think yet another institution which selects life's winners based on who they were at age 16-17 is really the solution to the country's educational problems.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It's a mistake to think that the Presidents are really in the driving seat when it comes to issues like this. None of them since Eisenhower come out of the military establishment or have any deep background in security policy, so they&
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
On a similar note, the Naval instruction handbooks on electronics & electricity are a superb resource for hobbyists and first-time learners: http://jacquesricher.com/NEETS/
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Given how jury nullification was traditionally used, that fallout will probably also include accusations of virulent racism. I'm not sure a lot of more libertarian types who advocate for jury-nullification are fully aware that the reas
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
That's just a touch snobbish, don't you think?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This article is also interesting in that the total blind trust McSwain put in Goldman's explanation of the situation really illustrates the typical mob hit-man mentality of most law enforcement agents. The Big Boss gives them a name an
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
The President, various members of Congress, and senior military officials have all pronounced him guilty of various crimes up to and including treason, so I think you can fairly argue that his right to presumption of innocence has been viol
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I have no idea who you're talking about. I took the handle from the film L.A. Confidential.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This is an excellent way to get fired in many medium-to-large corporations.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I think you're broadly right but your specific example is a bit off. An unexceptional English lit major at Yale will walk into any number of prestigious and potentially lucrative jobs in publishing, finance, consulting, nonprofit work,
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Just start a nonprofit in Vietnam! Surely this kind of opportunity is available to a construction worker who attended Kennesaw State. And if you do spend your years of unemployment working for free - assuming you're not done in by the
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This is absurd. It's a human organization, not a school of fish. There are absolutely influential and directing personalities. That we don't know who they are doesn't mean they don't exist.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I'd vote for whoever employs the guy whose password is 'Elimgarak06!'
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
And, sadly, the sharper edges of the mind...
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
So the story is essentially that a computer program was able to succeed at a pattern-recognition exercise, correct? Or am I missing something...?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I'm not quite sure what point this is making. No one should feel any inadequacy compared to von Neumann - his intellectual gifts were handed down at birth, they were a fluke of genetics, a statistical outlier. Comparing your intellectu
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This just in: Internet idol receives less-than-flattering personal profile, Internet commentators disgruntled, have apparently never read a personal profile article before. God help the NYT if they ever run a less-than-godlike profile of, s
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I think what grates most people about Wolfram is his inability to acknowledge the massive contributions that other people have made to his empire. As is noted in a comment down below, Mathematica is dependent on the efforts of dozens of ext
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I think you're underestimating the lucrative "disoriented time-traveler" market.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
That's clearly hyperbole to illustrate the perception they wanted to create , not an actual checkbox on the hiring form.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This is how James Jesus Angleton drove himself insane.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Why not simply make the cryptographically secure service opt-in?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This seems to be at odds with the existence of tools.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
While its impossible to say what exactly his motives are here, there is definitely some civic value in having this information out there. The tremendous growth in the 'cybersecurity' apparatus - a massive hiring boom for contracto
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
There is a link to the motion to keep the court filing secret. The entire point of the EFF piece is that the constitutional merit of the legal argument underpinning PRISM is being kept under total secrecy, so obviously they don't have
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
The real question (assuming this story is true in the particulars) is why were they accessing her private messages in the first place? Was there any kind of flag, or do the border police just do random spot-checks into people's private

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