Revoking a clearance for political beliefs is some seriously dangerous ground.
I didn't say that. Her particular beliefs are NOT extreme. For instance, she opposes Keystone XL, and so do tens of millions of other Americans. It is the way she expresses her beliefs. She appears to be emotionally unhinged. She talks about stopping Keystone XL as if it was the most important issue in the history of the universe, when actually it is a silly symbolic issue that doesn't really matter at all. The oil is just going to continue to be transported by rail if isn't built. It is a politically manufactured issue like the spotted owl and Bears Ears.
Since they are not transparent about what they spend the money on, you don't know if they deserve it or not. All you know for sure is that WMF's foundation thinks it is best to obscure the truth.
There are several organizations that rate charities. You should do your research before you donate. Many, many non-profits are not what they seem. They divert huge amounts of money into salary, perks, and fund raising, while only a small fraction is spent on the supposed beneficiaries. I once visited the United Way offices in Alexandria VA, and marveled at all the beautiful Italian marble tiling. How many children went hungry to pay for that?
I don't know about insane, but certainly not very bright.
If you look at her social media posts, it is clear that she was not emotionally stable and while her views were not particularly extreme, she was very passionate and riled up about even small issues. She should have had her security clearance revoked long ago.
Way too much crap is classified, and because of that, way too many people have clearances.
Disclaimer: I had a "secret" clearance for 15 years.
Or just build a 50 mile test track from San Jose to Palo Alto, and then up the Peninsula to SF. That would be enough to test the concept, and if it works, there would be plenty of demand from people that can afford the fare.
Because $75,000 is *not* what it costs for an individual to live in a cement cell in the ground, get served shitty food, and work on a chain gang 365 days a year.
Indeed. When you include the legal expenses for court challenges, medical expenses, and the cost of the higher recidivism rates, that would cost WAY more than $75k.
Free markets work better than socialism for distributing groceries.
Monopsony markets do NOT work better than socialism for running prisons.
Back in the 1980s, there was a big push for privatized prisons. I was a supporter, because it seemed like a good idea to use the profit motive to drive reform. But it has NOT worked, and private prisons have a dismal record. Since I believe in evidence based reasoning, I no longer support private prisons. They were a mistake.
The prison guard unions have funded ballot initiatives to lengthen sentences and send more people to prison. So it isn't just a matter of how much they are paid, but how many of them we need. California has way too many people in prison, and way too many prison guards.
Also, the biggest problem with guard compensation is not salaries but pensions. Pensions are based on "final year salary" so what they do is cram an extra thousand hours of overtime into their last year, wildly inflating their pay, and guaranteeing themselves an obscenely generous pension for the next 40 years (they can retire at age 50). Most of them spend longer collecting a pension than they spent collecting a salary.
if these people currently in prison actually went into the armed services, their chances of committing crime and ending up in prison would been cut dramatically.
I don't think so. In the military, being late for work is a crime. People that can't follow rules tend to do very poorly. When I was a Marine, our 120 man infantry company typically had about 5 guys in the brig. That is way higher than the civilian rate.
not to mention the amount of energy pissed away mining these pointless tokens.
The mining centers are in Iceland and the US Pacific Northwest, where nearly all the energy comes from hydropower. So mining just means the water is flowing to the sea slightly differently.
Bitcoin mining is way better for the environment than gold mining.
Yeah, I sure do love my cash to be more volatile in value than any stock I own.
Since it is generally volatile in an upward direction, it has worked out well for me. I bought my stash when it hit $1 back in 2011. It is currently at $2800.
Manufactures are denying farmers the right to repair their tractors.
There is a movement to change that, but alas, they have been repeatedly out lobbied and out donationed by the manufacturers. The farmers are too diffuse and disorganized to be an effective special interest group.
If you have ever read a news story where you have first hand knowledge of what is being reported, then you should know that most articles get a lot of facts wrong, and sometimes are wildly inaccurate. So the premise of the questions is wrong.
Q: How do news organizations keep track of so much info? A: They don't.
it was really the success of Fairchild and the companies that spun off of it
Sure, but the Traitorous Eight were only in California because they had gone there with Shockley. If not for Bill Shockley, they would have stayed in New Jersey. Silicon Valley may have grown up around Princeton instead of Stanford.
There is nothing in TFA that indicates that this is a "new" problem. Sure people are generally pretty stupid, but that has always been true, and this is not evidence that "things are getting worse".
It is not gender discrimination because the "law" doesn't actually exist. Men can legally change diapers in NY. The only reference I could find was a daycare that had a policy that the male teachers would not change diapers, but that was not a legal requirement.
That's... less than 2%. Naturally, we want it to be 0%, but 1.8% is nothing to generate scare headlines over.
They only caught the dumb ones. It would have been easy to generate fake data that fits a known distribution. For instance, in Python, just use numpy.random.normal instead of numpy.random.uniform.
The 2% is just the floor. The actual fraud and/or incompetence rate is likely higher.
Anecdote: My wife has a Tesla, and she has a super-low deductible policy. She takes her car in to get every little micro-scratch repaired. After more than a dozen trips to the body shop, I don't see any way that the insurance company could be making money off her policy. I don't know if every Tesla owner is this neurotic, but if she is any way typical, then that could explain the problem.
Disclaimer: I drive a 19 year old minivan with more rust than paint. My insurance is liability only.
The WSJ is NOT hurting. They are gaining subscribers, and they are losing freeloaders. I will no longer read WSJ articles, but that is no loss for them, because I never paid them for anything and I never will, and I never click on the ads. Eyeballs are worth nothing if they can't be monetized.
Pre-911, the airlines ran security for half the price, with much shorter delays, and with more courtesy and politeness. Penetration testing has shown that TSA is no better than their predecessors at catching perps.
1. If a Netflix subscriber watches the pirated show, Netflix loses nothing, and saves because they aren't providing the bandwidth. 2. If a non-subscriber watches the show, they may become a subscriber to see future episodes.
Either way, Netflix wins, plus they are getting free publicity. This is such an obvious win for Netflix, that I wonder if they faked the whole thing and actually put it on PB themselves.
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Revoking a clearance for political beliefs is some seriously dangerous ground.
I didn't say that. Her particular beliefs are NOT extreme. For instance, she opposes Keystone XL, and so do tens of millions of other Americans. It is the way she expresses her beliefs. She appears to be emotionally unhinged. She talks about stopping Keystone XL as if it was the most important issue in the history of the universe, when actually it is a silly symbolic issue that doesn't really matter at all. The oil is just going to continue to be transported by rail if isn't built. It is a politically manufactured issue like the spotted owl and Bears Ears.
They deserve it, honestly.
Since they are not transparent about what they spend the money on, you don't know if they deserve it or not. All you know for sure is that WMF's foundation thinks it is best to obscure the truth.
There are several organizations that rate charities. You should do your research before you donate. Many, many non-profits are not what they seem. They divert huge amounts of money into salary, perks, and fund raising, while only a small fraction is spent on the supposed beneficiaries. I once visited the United Way offices in Alexandria VA, and marveled at all the beautiful Italian marble tiling. How many children went hungry to pay for that?
I don't know about insane, but certainly not very bright.
If you look at her social media posts, it is clear that she was not emotionally stable and while her views were not particularly extreme, she was very passionate and riled up about even small issues. She should have had her security clearance revoked long ago.
Way too much crap is classified, and because of that, way too many people have clearances.
Disclaimer: I had a "secret" clearance for 15 years.
Or just build a 50 mile test track from San Jose to Palo Alto, and then up the Peninsula to SF. That would be enough to test the concept, and if it works, there would be plenty of demand from people that can afford the fare.
The UK has never been part of Schengen, so leaving the EU won't change much.
Because $75,000 is *not* what it costs for an individual to live in a cement cell in the ground, get served shitty food, and work on a chain gang 365 days a year.
Indeed. When you include the legal expenses for court challenges, medical expenses, and the cost of the higher recidivism rates, that would cost WAY more than $75k.
How is Socialist Venezuela doing these days?
Free markets work better than socialism for distributing groceries.
Monopsony markets do NOT work better than socialism for running prisons.
Back in the 1980s, there was a big push for privatized prisons. I was a supporter, because it seemed like a good idea to use the profit motive to drive reform. But it has NOT worked, and private prisons have a dismal record. Since I believe in evidence based reasoning, I no longer support private prisons. They were a mistake.
The prison guard unions have funded ballot initiatives to lengthen sentences and send more people to prison. So it isn't just a matter of how much they are paid, but how many of them we need. California has way too many people in prison, and way too many prison guards.
Also, the biggest problem with guard compensation is not salaries but pensions. Pensions are based on "final year salary" so what they do is cram an extra thousand hours of overtime into their last year, wildly inflating their pay, and guaranteeing themselves an obscenely generous pension for the next 40 years (they can retire at age 50). Most of them spend longer collecting a pension than they spent collecting a salary.
if these people currently in prison actually went into the armed services, their chances of committing crime and ending up in prison would been cut dramatically.
I don't think so. In the military, being late for work is a crime. People that can't follow rules tend to do very poorly. When I was a Marine, our 120 man infantry company typically had about 5 guys in the brig. That is way higher than the civilian rate.
So...Rob a Bank, get a free education?
I think the idea is to educate people before they rob the bank. If they have other options, then bank robbery doesn't look like such a good idea.
not to mention the amount of energy pissed away mining these pointless tokens.
The mining centers are in Iceland and the US Pacific Northwest, where nearly all the energy comes from hydropower. So mining just means the water is flowing to the sea slightly differently.
Bitcoin mining is way better for the environment than gold mining.
Yeah, I sure do love my cash to be more volatile in value than any stock I own.
Since it is generally volatile in an upward direction, it has worked out well for me. I bought my stash when it hit $1 back in 2011. It is currently at $2800.
Manufactures are denying farmers the right to repair their tractors.
There is a movement to change that, but alas, they have been repeatedly out lobbied and out donationed by the manufacturers. The farmers are too diffuse and disorganized to be an effective special interest group.
It's a contract so it's legal.
There are plenty of reasons that a contract can not be enforceable or even legal.
If you have ever read a news story where you have first hand knowledge of what is being reported, then you should know that most articles get a lot of facts wrong, and sometimes are wildly inaccurate. So the premise of the questions is wrong.
Q: How do news organizations keep track of so much info?
A: They don't.
At least agree that the scale of the problem has grown massively.
I agree that tuitions and student debt have gone up dramatically, and that is a problem.
I do NOT agree that students today are worse at critical thinking than in the past. I have seen zero evidence for that.
... and Shockley moved from New Jersey to Palo Alto because his mom lived there and she was sick.
it was really the success of Fairchild and the companies that spun off of it
Sure, but the Traitorous Eight were only in California because they had gone there with Shockley. If not for Bill Shockley, they would have stayed in New Jersey. Silicon Valley may have grown up around Princeton instead of Stanford.
Here is a non-paywalled version of the article.
There is nothing in TFA that indicates that this is a "new" problem. Sure people are generally pretty stupid, but that has always been true, and this is not evidence that "things are getting worse".
How is that law not gender discrimination?
It is not gender discrimination because the "law" doesn't actually exist. Men can legally change diapers in NY. The only reference I could find was a daycare that had a policy that the male teachers would not change diapers, but that was not a legal requirement.
That's... less than 2%. Naturally, we want it to be 0%, but 1.8% is nothing to generate scare headlines over.
They only caught the dumb ones. It would have been easy to generate fake data that fits a known distribution. For instance, in Python, just use numpy.random.normal instead of numpy.random.uniform.
The 2% is just the floor. The actual fraud and/or incompetence rate is likely higher.
Anecdote: My wife has a Tesla, and she has a super-low deductible policy. She takes her car in to get every little micro-scratch repaired. After more than a dozen trips to the body shop, I don't see any way that the insurance company could be making money off her policy. I don't know if every Tesla owner is this neurotic, but if she is any way typical, then that could explain the problem.
Disclaimer: I drive a 19 year old minivan with more rust than paint. My insurance is liability only.
The WSJ is NOT hurting. They are gaining subscribers, and they are losing freeloaders. I will no longer read WSJ articles, but that is no loss for them, because I never paid them for anything and I never will, and I never click on the ads. Eyeballs are worth nothing if they can't be monetized.
Pre-911, the airlines ran security for half the price, with much shorter delays, and with more courtesy and politeness. Penetration testing has shown that TSA is no better than their predecessors at catching perps.
1. If a Netflix subscriber watches the pirated show, Netflix loses nothing, and saves because they aren't providing the bandwidth.
2. If a non-subscriber watches the show, they may become a subscriber to see future episodes.
Either way, Netflix wins, plus they are getting free publicity. This is such an obvious win for Netflix, that I wonder if they faked the whole thing and actually put it on PB themselves.