mgrat

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by mgrat 8mo ago
Not arguing for star courts. The UCMJ is a supplement to civilian courts, but applies additional levers. I am arguing that a similar system be applied to federal LEO. Right now they are only beholden to the civilian system. How is that
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by mgrat 8mo ago
Correct - and incoming POTUS will have to use up political capital to do so.
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by mgrat 8mo ago
DHS has become what actual conservatives were worried about during its creation - super federal power without balance. There exists precedence within the US: the military. They are granted extraordinary powers at the discretion of civilia
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by mgrat 8mo ago
Take a sabbatical if you can afford it and do random things. I'm in the US, so some of the things I've done - spent months through-hiking the Appalachian Trail, cave diving, camping, whitewater kayaking up and down the east coast
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by mgrat 8mo ago
If I have any hope for the future of America it is that the upcoming generation finds 'Industrial Society and its Future', and instead of becoming radicalized, simply turns its back on tech fetishization.
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by mgrat 9mo ago
It isn't just that he made a killing — Osmani helped conceive a broader vision of blogging as a fusion of human in the center writing and AI agents.
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by mgrat 9mo ago
Find the relevant discord and search.
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by mgrat 9mo ago
I can't defend all the modifications, but let's take a look at why they may have felt the need: > Men should express their appreciation of a woman’s effort to look well and dress becomingly. All men forget, if they have ever re
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by mgrat 9mo ago
> Brilliant Touch Display: A bright, interactive 8" touchscreen is easy to use and includes custom screen backgrounds, weather updates, and more. More ads.
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by mgrat 9mo ago
I think that's true for the tech & financial press, for obvious reasons. Outside of that bubble journalists and writers have been very anxious, given AI seems to directly threaten their profession even further.
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by mgrat 9mo ago
Isn't this more or less what OpenAI was intended to be?
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by mgrat 9mo ago
I've worked at a number of non-tech companies the past few years. They bought every SaaS product, Palantir, Databricks, multi-cloud, their dev teams adopted every pattern popularized by big tech and the results were always mixed. Any
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by mgrat 9mo ago
There's just no path to home ownership in the DC area for the fed career path after the ZIRP era. A capable person would have to be insane or desperate given the economics alone.
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by mgrat 9mo ago
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by mgrat 9mo ago
This platform maybe. They always have the option of buying Google distributed cloud for air gapped deployments which includes gemini
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by mgrat 10mo ago
These are the sorts of people that deserve national holidays. Many of them come from problematic background, or had problematic politics, but when it mattered they showed up.
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by mgrat 10mo ago
Very cool, thanks for posting this. I've had a number of colleagues try to level up through programs like this with mixed outcomes.
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by mgrat 10mo ago
Glad this made HN. Just wanted to thank you for writing, and I've ordered one of your books.