This is the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
We were not paranoid enough. I was not paranoid enough. You were not paranoid enough. Reality outstripped our imaginations. How are we going to recalibrate our expectations? What's next?
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We were not paranoid enough. I was not paranoid enough. You were not paranoid enough. Reality outstripped our imaginations. How are we going to recalibrate our expectations? What's next?
take on interns before graduation
if graduating within a year
make hire/no-hire decision by the end of the internship
else
make re-intern decision by the end of the internship
Hopefully fresh CS graduates are not taking contracting jobs with Bigco! From where I sit, they are in a seller's market and shouldn't take so little.
I think trolling is going to become an important part of our ecosystem before long, especially when it comes to fuzzing data miners and frustrating their data collection activities. Enough trolling and the system will be too expensive to follow up on.
It remains to be seen if it will be a sea change for US internet law, governance, surveillance, or the privacy debate in general. But it is important and affects many digital startups.
Obviously 9/11 didn't start the Iraq War, President Bush did. He may have done that in a state of belief that the two were connected, but we should not repeat his mistake.
It seems odd to me to lump in how much we poured into terrorism over and above the direct damages, and not to lump in with car accidents how much money we pour into auto safety, road maintenance, and so on.
The general point is that we over-respond to trauma, both in our daily lives and a macro society level. Clean living is more important and has broader effects on your life than crime, but it is less sexy on the evening news. Just like car safety and terrorism.
-- Don Knuth
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Best of luck!
The novels I'm talking about are about 300 pages in paperback. The reading level is not Peanuts, but it's also not Shakespeare.
By comparison, I read the World War Z book over the course of about a week, in bits. I found it very boring and wooden though. Motivation makes a big difference.
Speaking from experience, they only get better with age.
Spin, Little Brother, and The Last Unicorn are also great.
One book a month would be a living nightmare. If that's all I had time for, I would turn my life upside down.
This book really rips after it gets going. It is not for everyone. There are occasional blobs of 'rationality', but nothing like Ayn Rand's interminable philosophical passages. It's a great meta take on Harry Potter. And it succeeds in its own right as an adventure story. Maybe not emotionally, you could argue about that.
Can I just suggest that if you are not a conscious human being who makes choices, but instead, like a billiard ball, are whacked around by the myriad balls and cues you encounter in your meaningless existence, with thoughts caused by minds caused by brains caused by effects chaining back forever...
then being swayed by one more argument or not makes zero impact on your status. You remain a mere effect of your circumstances.
If you want to pretend to take part in a rational discourse, you should also pretend to be a conscious human being to whom discourse makes a difference and reasons can be better or worse as they conform to reality or not. Your alternatives are limited by the nature of the forum you've chosen.
My view, the journalists are in a self-centered way raising the question of whether Greenwald should be charged with a crime because they see their faces in the mirror of his face.
The boundaries the national security state is setting on journalism are still very fluid. The Obama administration, unfortunately, has changed the status quo of what kinds of leaks and sources will be prosecuted. It is having a chilling effect on insider journalism. Naturally all the insiders are curious about who will be called an outsider and what the fate of the outsider will be.
I like the song and you probably did too, if you ever heard it. It was used in The Perks of Being a Wallflower last year.
It does strike me that many people may be under 20 and this song might actually be older than they are. So I will assume the ignorance is genuine rather than flippant.
If you're censoring your feelings out of concern for the security apparatus, you are really missing the point. This is not Mao's hundred flowers campaign, and it is your job as a citizen to make sure it never gets there.
The only way to stop this leviathan is to change minds. If you thought SOPA was a dark day for the internet, surely this sucking up of network metadata and content data strikes at the heart of end to end communication.
I wonder if we need to start over on the privacy-protected internet, just to make sure this can never happen again.
Beholden to no one. Enshrining important cases in plain text in the public record. Crowdsourcing prior art and patent busting. Surfacing contradictions in court cases.
In short, they're the gold standard in IP law reporting. And it wouldn't be happening without their passion.
Who is going to label the data with ground truth? Clinicians who "know it when they see it"? What is the ground truth that the classifier is going to train on?
If you're going to do an unsupervised classifier (eg clustering) who is going to label the clusters? What is going to keep the data from turning into uncorrelated mush?
Do any of you believe that there would have been a new Letter from Birmingham Jail if Snowden were imprisoned? Keep in mind the US authorities are calling this civil rights whistleblowing "treason". Aiding the terrorists and enemy combatant status cannot be far behind.
Like it or not, the rule of law has been badly damaged by the endless emergency.
These days you do your nonviolent resistance from behind the safety of a diplomatic minefield.
The whole point of the Snowden story is that the government is not trustworthy in this era. I would not trust the US government to give him justice any more than they did Aaron Swartz.
I think Snowden knew exactly what to expect if he "faced the music" and exactly how much attention he could keep on his story in exile.
Today we need no such evil and aware of it crew to see the same systematic abuses, merely the banal evils of everyday.
GWB is a kind of touchstone for the modern generation, helpless while events swirl around him, grasping for a measure of control at all costs. And what costs they were: torture, surveillance, war, a Manichaean division of the world into heroes and villains.
Instead of intentions of powerful men, you have the psychoses of bureaucracies created by individuals for all the right reasons, full of unintended effects, ultimately achieving the opposite of their stated goals.
In 1984, there is a malevolence at the back of Big Brother. In 2013, there need not be anything but a decentralized system, harnessing the latest technologies, manipulated by the knowledgeable, but ultimately storyless, aimless, and inhuman.
That doesn't mean telling her so is the right choice.
If you don't address her experience, you're missing the point.
You can "believe" all kinds of things without feeling them and living them out.
In her case, skeptics may believe they are not fundamentally sexist. But her observation would then be that this belief is only skin deep. It should trouble the skeptic that an observer finds their community sexist, and trigger a crisis in the belief.
The only way to convict your opponent is on their ground, not your own.
Taking an argument seriously, as if it were the best representation of itself, is the only way to defeat it.
In order to truly disagree, you must discover how much you already agree.
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I know these sound a little fatuous. Can I just lampshade by saying they're all very true? :/
I left a defense contractor because I didn't like the way they managed projects. I found a new job and gave two weeks notice when a hole appeared in the schedule.
It is healthy to think about moving on even when you are in a stable, even great situation. If you don't, you won't make your life an adventure.
Saying all this as a generally satisfied person, I have no doubts I would be looking for an exit in your shoes.
I would find one too, because as an engineer, interviewer, and needer of engineering talent to work with, I know that good candidates are hard to come by.
You are in demand and will be for a long time.
The author compares buying a shoe rack on Google Shopping Express to buying on Amazon. He is impressed that a plywood laminated shoe rack sourced by Target is only $12 while a bamboo shoe rack on Amazon is $20, and makes much of imagining, zomg-like, 50% savings on his Amazon purchases over the year.
If you look at the same Amazon search results page where the author finds the bamboo rack, there is a serviceable resin rack for $13 (the author is obviously not going high-end with his plywood one). Four results down from his bamboo rack is a natural wood rack for under $16.
The real gorilla horse in the room is that the author goes on to lament $5 shipping for Google, which swamps any savings he was getting by going with inferior product. "Now, Google has to make sure its free delivery thing becomes well adopted the way Amazon Prime was, because the $4.99 delivery was a non-starter for me, and ruined the economics."
Twist ending?
I don't completely disagree with what you're saying, I am just trying to point out that the game goes many levels deep. A strategy that leads to victory on level 1, "tell me more about this dragon", is not going to work on level 2.