travmatt

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by travmatt 10y ago
In "Code Complete", the Steve McConnell describes that as the wicked problem of software development.
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Funnily enough, I just had a reminder go off to check for your financial osint paper. Awesome interview on risky business.
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This is what confused me so much about the outrage Gawker was trying to incite - didn't they explicitly ignore a court order so they could keep making money on a pornographic video published without the consent of those in it? It was m
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by travmatt 10y ago
Wouldn't this be case-by-case? That argument makes perfect sense if we're talking about a bar hosting a band, but I can't apply that same logic to a stadium whose cost was largely borne by taxpayers with the promise it would
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by travmatt 10y ago
I can't tell if you're genuinely asking, but Iran is widely considered one of the largest sponsors of state-funded terrorism in the world. Lots of self-flagellating Americans like to ask about the US/Saudi Arabia, but Iran&#x
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The Iranian nuclear deal?
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After the civil war the southern states voluntarily rejoined the union
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Hillary is a lot of things, but inexperienced in foreign policy's a something she's not.
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"It's worth noting that for now the Saudis still retain a bit of leverage. They could potentially start a kamikaze run on the dollar. " Do you have an idea of whether their increased production has affected the fracking produ
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"The "drive till you qualify" and "rather a longer commute" assumptions are wrong. You don't have to work in Palo Alto. You can have a short commute if you work elsewhere." The literature I just posted was
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This is known as the 'drive till you qualify' approach to housing and has been studied for some time. Just because you'd rather a longer commute doesn't mean it's in anyones best interest to do so.. "2. The Dev
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A simple starter for webpack: https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/hjs-webpack
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That'd be accurate. I suppose my stance would be that Japan's current pacifism was imposed on them at the cost of all their soldiers. In my mind 'bought' assumes intentionality, and I don't believe that pacifism was
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You're employing a strawman in suggesting open military conflict is the only way in which Japan is a benefactor of America. In reality, America's dominance of the ocean's secures Japanese commerce and frees up money they woul
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Yea the snideness of that last sentence is a bit much, seeing as its current pacifism was bought with American blood and is secured by the Pax Americana.
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To the author of that comment your idea is nonsensical - if they are incontrovertibly correct, than any other viewpoint isn't and as such is not only wrong but malevolently so. This isn't about an exchange of ideas, it's iden
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"You can't choose your skin color or where you were born, but you can choose your political beliefs." You sound really confident about that, would you care to cite your research? My ignorant assumption would be that people&#x
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by travmatt 11y ago
Hands down it would be Peter Thiel. After I read that book I heard so much of Rockefeller in his worldview, I really thought it was uncanny. Specifically, Thiel's view on monopolies had some hints of Rockefeller.
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The part that struck me about the descriptions of him was his metronome-like consistency.
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That book was invalualable for exactly those two reasons: the evenhanded portrait of a very complex individual, and a detailed portrait of the world in which he lived and knew. That book started me on a long tear of other biographies of lar
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by travmatt 11y ago
I wonder how much political inclinations are malleable though. I can't dig up the work now, but I know psychologists like Jonathan Haidt show that things like a persons openness to experience influence their political beliefs. If we ca
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by travmatt 11y ago
I'm currently finishing reading Robert Caro's "The Power Broker", which is about the man who is mostly responsible for New York's choice to embrace the automobile over people, Robert Moses. In short, this choice was
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Julian Assange's book regarding his conversation with Eric Schmidt ('when google met wiki leaks') depicts google as a company becoming increasingly intertwined with the existing power structures of government, especially the
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Why not just turn the phone off instead.
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I think you may overestimate how strong people are.
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I powered through this tutorial in two days and would highly recommend it to anyone - I feel like as though I took quite a bit away from his teaching.
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Chinstrap! Cool to see a familiar face. Howard's band was definitely entertaining.
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... Less a chance of being arrested for homicide, less a chance of being murdered in a future retaliation, less a chance of being sent to jail for firearms related charges?
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Coke, shroom, acid, horse users (midfle class)in past decades were dealt the same zero tolerance policies with no effect, this surge is seeing a different response in light of new acceptance of recreational drugs and in light of the failure