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Amdahl’s Law is real.
It's trivially parallelizable.
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was very eye opening to me when I had a conversation with a family member who is retired CIA/NSA/Rand. Not a low level person. I was asking them about when President Clinton asked about the UFO's, and why the president was not told the answers he was seeking. Their reply: the presidency is not the highest security clearance and the president does not have a right to know everything. I wonder if that's what the fou…
I'd be hesitant to take what your family member said as doctrine, or that it's any different than any other Cabinet or other part of the Executive Branch. It's important to make the distinction that while the President doesn't know all of the things that the Intelligence Community is doing at any one time, there isn't anything that he can't know. It's no different in any other part of the cabinet - the Cabinet member…
> there isn't anything that he can't know
If he knew that "something" even exists!
A former civilian nuclear war planner, I think while working for RAND, learned about the existence of the US military plan for the actions involving nuclear weapons: the plan specified the amount of nuclear response to any conflict, which is fundamental for anybody who has the power to resolve conflicts (a president) to know.
But the civilians weren't allowed to know that the plan even existed: the planner also learned that no other civilian, including the people around the president and the president himself, even knew that the said plan existed: it's very existence was being actively hidden from "civilians." They also had a method for delivering them "something else" if the "civilians" asked "about" that topic.
The military managed for years to operate (to be trigger ready) on the plans they kept completely hidden from anybody, including the president.
The president or anybody around him had explicitly no chance to get that by their own initiative.
Everything nicely documented in the book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner." Read it and weep.
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#123Based on what I read online in discussions and in the news, there's little nuance into the circumstances around the data retrieval: - Is it related to someone stealing classified information, spying / or spy cell, or could be planning a terrorist attack? In that case, they may be more sophisticated, or the investigation shifts to preventing something from occurring in the future, or its a matter of trying to figure o…
The citation from Germany's constitution is a bit misleading. In Germany, law enforcement warrants must be signed by a judge (in urgent cases, a prosecutor can sign them, and they have to be confirmed soon afterwards by a judge).
There is an exception for communication interception by the intelligence services: those warrants must be confirmed by the G-10 committee which is organized like a court, but directly appointed by parliament.
The main differences to the US system are strict separation between law enforcement and intelligence services, and direct oversight of the latter by the parliament.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lying on a resume may get you fired. Or so I've heard.
Omitting a job is not lying on a resume -- it's very common to prune your jobs to respect a one-page limit, and the resume is supposed to present what is relevant and persuasive to the hiring manager.
So why not ask for the comprehensive job history on the job application? The federal government does.
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#125I am surprised that more NSLs have not been leaked or "hacked".
Just store the NSLs next to your user data so that when it gets stolen and published then your NSL is published as well.