rollo_tommasi

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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This is a smart idea, but it made me think: I'd like to see some productivity/exercise/lifehacks for those of us who are stuck with inflexible managers or retrograde office cultures. I know I'd be vastly more productive
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It's an exceedingly simple example used to illustrate the technique. The methods included in the python library are robust enough to work just as well on much larger and more complicated data-sets but that would be too difficult to fol
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
BAH is a massive corporation full of ex-government officials, and vice-versa; the current Director of National Intelligence is a former BAH executive. They're gonna be ok.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
General Clapper point-blank lied - or provided a legally-truthful answer so contorted it may as well have been a lie - to Representative Wyden when questioned about NSA phone-data collection just a few months ago. You can't take any st
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"Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks"(guardian.co.uk)
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what sparked this reaction? Is "problem solving" a euphemism for technical drudge-work? Glorified IT contracting?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Right, but the documents were still classified at the time so he could have prosecuted for publicly disclosing them had he not taken advantage of his position to read them into the record. The point is that there is a Constitutionally guara
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
If he had access to documents showing the extent of this program he should have read them into the Congressional Record, like Mike Gravel did with the Pentagon Papers.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It also has a bearing on the sorry state of U.S. human intelligence, since Mormons make terrible interlocutors with foreign informants.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Part of the purpose of the 'like' button is obviously help form a more complete profile of a given user in order to more effectively customize advertising - would incorporating a 'dislike' button make this task any easier? That is, would an
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Is there an option to have it mounted inside of a massive gyroscope and suspended above a bottomless pit?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Yeah, but the question is, where are these economic gains from automation and AI going? They don't just go into the ether - they'll accumulate to whoever financed the automated whatsit, and rightly or wrongly that person will not willingly
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It's not coming, because the business media intentionally uses articles like this in order to pit the members of struggling underclass against each other (and it doesn't matter what your job title is, if you have >$100,000 in non-discha
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
So the Detroit woman who taught herself Excel and outscored Stanford and Harvard grads, and is held out as validation of Friedman's thesis - she's only referred to as a "top applicant". Did she get the job? And if not, what was the backgrou
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Even if this is true, it will be the low-level grunts and support staff who feel the burn, not the high-level people who actually run the show. Operating at the pinnacle of those professions requires the ability to form strong personal rela
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Where the hell does this "we were all given medals for trying" meme come from? I came in fourth or fifth place or sixth place in a lot of activities as a kid and I never got a got a trophy for any of them. Is this idea backed up by any kind
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Test scores and college-acceptance rates seem like odd metrics for judging the success of K-12 education - surely the goal is loftier than just slotting kids into a college. You can optimize a process for "winning" college admissions much m
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Possibly you should work harder to understand the world rather than expect the world to conform to your ignorance.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I get maybe four or five e-mails a week and actively look forward to - no, ache for the experience of - reading each of them. I can only imagine what it must be like to live a life where I am so in demand that I literally cannot process m
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
That's not quite accurate. Having no credit history is typically a flag, not having no current debt.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Buddy, if it ever comes to pass that fully 1/3 of the population rises up in armed rebellion against the government, equipped with the kind of military-grade weaponry and foreign backing that sustained the Afghan/Iraqi insurgencies, then th
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Zikes, let's do a simple observational experiment. Compare the rates of violent death in countries with few guns to those in countries with lots of guns. Get back to me with your next keen insight on how the number of guns in a society is a
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
That gun crime has been falling does not mean that proliferation of guns is a neutral proposition, it only means that other trends have been stronger. More handguns = more dead people, period. The only people rooting for a society awash in
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Clearly impossible to stop the spread of this information, and any attempts to make it possible would be extremely objectionable, but anyone found actually producing or using these weapons should face extreme prison terms. Mass prolifer
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
This is so silly. If the country ever comes to the point where only you and your 3D printed gun stand between freedom and the government's tyranny, you'll just be obliterated by a Predator drone. Advances in and proliferation of 3D guns wil
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
The visual is quite cool, but the piece itself is a pretty typical "white guy walks into east coast Chinese city and is blown away by THE FUTURE" piece of insight-free China-commentary.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
You seem to be confusing a trend towards bespoke consumer products with a rejection of a technological society, when they are not at all the same thing. One is an upper-middle-class reaction against mass consumerism and has nothing really t
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Is this based on actual data they've released about service use, or just on your own personal viewing habits?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Only if you're poor and/or black. If you're able to attend private school, or a public school in an affluent district, you'd be fine. The rules are applied very differently depending on what social class you belong to.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I'd be interested in learning a model of the mind that would explain why you felt compelled to name-check your school twice in one post.

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