GVIrish

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by GVIrish 2mo ago
The claim was that giving the delete PIN constitutes lying or making a false statement. If someone complied with what was asked, they would not be guilty of lying, even if a reasonable person would judge that the action did not meet the in
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by GVIrish 2mo ago
It would depend on precisely what the ask was. Did the officer ask, "Give me the pin to unlock the phone."? In that case the command was complied with.
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by GVIrish 6mo ago
Starts with how you evaluate employees for bonuses and promotion. Do you evaluate people on the impact of what was delivered? How fast they delivered feature work? The quality level of what they delivered? How well they worked with others?
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by GVIrish 7mo ago
> Maybe. Anonymity is where bad actors play. The problem is when the government changes the definition of 'bad actor'.
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by GVIrish 1y ago
Musk intervened at FAA to get a Verizon communications contract cancelled while quietly trying to get FAA to sign to a Starlink contract: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/13/elon-mu.
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by GVIrish 1y ago
That hasn't been my experience over 20 years. I've worked in multiple SCIFS that didn't handle SCI at all.
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by GVIrish 1y ago
So you're using the word 'compromised'. In this context that would mean malware, unauthorized access, circumvented logging, etc. If someone thought this was happening the answer would be to lock the system down, perform for
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by GVIrish 1y ago
SCIFs are for viewing TS materials, whether or not they are SCI. Even then, SCIFs are often employed for processing things that are only marked Secret or systems only handling Secret. But yes, if we want to be specific, Secret has a lower
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by GVIrish 1y ago
That doesn't really make sense. If they had strong reason to believe that the secure comms systems they were supposed to be using were compromised, using personal phones to communicate outside of SCIFs is very, very far from what any
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by GVIrish 1y ago
Using Signal in this case is wrong and foolish full stop, and the extremely likely reason they did so is so they could escape standard government record keeping compliance (NARA). To start with, classified information is ONLY supposed to vi
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by GVIrish 2y ago
> but to attack the core idea as essentially wrong is anti math, science, and rationality The way Microsoft implemented stack ranking was anti math. You're supposed to measure the data then calculate the level of fit to a distribut
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by GVIrish 2y ago
That's not the point. The test giver has free discretion to say either answer is correct or incorrect. You could argue that if the intent was to underline "word" that it would have quotes around it, but it doesn't matt
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by GVIrish 3y ago
Microsoft pay isn't the best in the industry so if compensation is the only thing that matters to someone, Microsoft shouldn't even be in their top five.
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by GVIrish 3y ago
> People refuse to acknowledge that their conservation efforts for a year are undone by some guy in Texas in five minutes I don't think that's a good way to look at things. Some guy in Texas is polluting a lot more than you, o
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by GVIrish 3y ago
Typically you're not asking for a price(salary) upfront. Ideally you've done a bit of homework to figure out what positions can pay in the ballpark of what you want. Then you get their offer at the end of the interview process a
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by GVIrish 3y ago
I think the author is taking a bit of the wrong lesson from his experience. One of the challenges of coordinating a group of people is getting everyone to buy into the same vision. Fact is that other people see the world differently and ma
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by GVIrish 3y ago
Reputation may not affect Google's ad based revenue, but it absolutely affects their ability to profit in lines of business outside of ads. Google might have made more inroads with enterprises with G suite and GCP if they didn't h
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by GVIrish 3y ago
Since 9/11 there's been a shift towards not siloing information as aggressively as before in order to make intelligence failures less likely. Don't know if that was at play in this case though. At the very least, access cont
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by GVIrish 3y ago
I would argue that the red tape is not so bureaucrats can make more money, it's that Americans have a very, very strong aversion to seeing people benefit from social programs that they think are undeserving. So we put all of these hur
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by GVIrish 3y ago
This is why police reform is so hard to achieve. When crime spikes, people are far less committed to police reform. Even when crime isn't spiking, police can just sit on their hands whenever reforms are pushed and instantly change the
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by GVIrish 3y ago
The federal government certainly is not adopting remote work as much as they could, but this OpEd is a bit off base. For starters, there are a lot more federal agencies embracing remote work since the pandemic. From the people in my networ
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Twitter actually had some profitable years lately and in the last 5 years before Musk bought it they recorded a net profit. Revenue had been grown 60% over that time. But now with Twitter reportedly losing 40% of its advertisers and taking
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by GVIrish 4y ago
If you fire people hastily but then are forced to ask them to come back because you discovered they were actually key personnel, that speaks to incompetence. The speed of Twitter's layoffs were completely under the control of Musk. T
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by GVIrish 4y ago
The fact that Twitter had to ask some of the people it laid off to come back shortly after having fired them says it all about how incompetent and self-defeating those layoffs were.
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Sure we won't run out of water, the challenge is gonna come when weather patterns shift in a way that cause droughts on crop-bearing land or abnormal temperatures in key parts of the growing season. Some parts of the world may be in f
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by GVIrish 4y ago
Bingo. This has made me spend a lot less time on Youtube because recommended content and search are worse for me. If I'm searching for a marine biology video I don't want to see recommendations for clickbait influencers 3 result
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by GVIrish 4y ago
The problem is that Google makes enough money from ad business that they don't care that they may be losing out on more revenue/profits by having better support. This fundamental belief is one reason Google has a hard time making
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by GVIrish 4y ago
> Stack ranking seems to misunderstand how statistics work. This is the fundamental flaw with stack ranking that really irks me. Stack ranking force fits people to a normal distribution but that's backwards. With normal distributi
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by GVIrish 4y ago
To be fair, in the internal email they described it as 'discretionary pto'.
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by GVIrish 4y ago
> My guess is that Musk wins the battle of the wills here; he no longer needs to maximize advertiser income, just get enough to make the wheels turn Twitter now has to pay $1 billion a year in debt servicing costs. Twitter was not wildl

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