@lhochstein "It's complicated"

Having been in Amazon, Google, MS, the Google process is (was!) a clear outlier, which was totally culturally aligned with how everything else in the company worked.

1) Designed to fail closed
2) Detail over big picture
3) Written over relationship

1) "Fail closed" -- jargon for "optimised to say no by default".

Many processes in Google were like this, probably the largest other one being the hiring process. (Many Googlers hated the hiring process since they felt it said no to people who would 100% have been great hires...

...sometimes being burned to the extent of refusing to do any more interviewing.)

But the promotion process is (was) the same way - if the committee couldn't convince itself the case was watertight, it wouldn't promote.

This obviously led to a situation where a lot of cases were refused and meant a lot of heartache and unnecessary departures, but also a situation where by god if you'd MADE that bar, it was close to undeniable.

There was a very strong shared sense of what each level meant.

Some more so than others: I think L5/Senior is probably the one most folks have the largest degree of precision on, and above that it's harder to tell. But one benefit was that title/grade inflation was very strongly counteracted by "the system".

Star Wars has a simple dichotomy between good and evil. But as the stories have evolved, the nuances between these distinct poles also has acquired a richness that is hard to dismiss.

In the latest trilogy, we discover a dysfunctional civilization even after the defeat of the empire. The argument that the remnants of the empire make is that the galaxy stills seeks a need for order. Order and chaos are at seperate poles where evil is aligned with order.

We know however from D&D alignment charts that good and evil, order and chaos can exist in many combinations:

It is also interesting that the Sith (the Evil sorcerers) only come in pairs as opposed to the Jedi that can be entire communities. Apparently, to sustain evil one has to restrict agency and individuality to just a few. A community of evil-doers very quickly turns on itself.

So at one extreme we have evil, order, individuality and at the other we have good, chaos, collective. Which brings up the question, what is the definition of evil and good? Something that we took for granted ever since the first Star Wars movie.

We could make our Defense cheaper. We could reinstate conscription. We could transfer large portions of our standing forces into guard and reserve units. We could stop invading central and southwest asian countries. We could increase direct military aid to our allies.

The other good ideas include more unmanned and uninhabited systems (WHERE APPROPRIATE, and nobody has convinced me yet that naval presence is worth a damn unmanned), as well as investing more in the dark arts of gray zone warfare.

Now, all that wouldn't be very efficient were we to need to go to war in a hurry. But maybe... And this is crazy... We shouldn't be in a hurry to go to war?

But our adversaries -- Russia, China and Iran -- all invest heavily in the dark arts, all use conscription, are all investing in unmanned. They ain't crazy. They know if WWIII was about to kick off they'd need time to boost readiness and train conscripts.

And I know what folks would say: "Sometimes you don't have a choice of when you got to war. Think of 9/11."

And, good point. But my recollection of that time period was that in Afghanistan, the CIA and SOF had the Taliban and al qaeda just about licked within a few months.

THREAD: A thread on research and sampling, and how the media use data and polling.

I can safely say from a decade of working with media, it is *highly* unusual for a newspaper to so heavily reference a self-selecting and homemade survey and present it as the views of all people.

Surveys with self-selecting samples, in this case, both from FairFuelUK + cycling advocates, should not be represented as the views of all of those groups; same goes for claiming data represents "Tory voters".

And that's without even mentioning the survey's leading questions.

Polls can make for really interesting stories and are commonplace in media. YouGov, a key player, vets the questions and ensures they don't lead, and gets answers from a statistically representative sample to reflect the views of all GB adults.

You've probably seen the stories: X% of Brits think X. The sample size is over 2,000 and the methodology means they'd be confident the output would be the same, even if the number of people surveyed increased.

They ensure each demographic is represented as per the population.

I've worked with YouGov to conduct polls like this, most recently for @BikeIsBestHQ. Our nationally representative survey looked like this.

- 62% used their cars as first choice for errands
- Just 5% cycled
- 78% agreed the environment would be better if more people cycled

It has been some time since I reclaimed my title. I had dropped it when I moved industries but after seeing the sexism I meet, I decided to use it at least to give them a hint to step back or pause before one utters another BS to me.

Sexism in this 👇🏾 column and the fact that it passed through the editor and got published tells how much more fight I have to continue fighting.

Glad to be in good company, Dr. Jill

I had to write a chapter on what is interferometry as it was a new field and my research was assessing the data derived from interferometric processing of radar data for the purpose of generating 3D terrain and how good we can expect them to be 😀

Kids checking for “English mistakes”

Couldn’t help but look at my prof’s third edition which included a chapter on interferometry after & based on my research to look for acknowledgement - he had mentioned all PhD students “for good nature”. He sent me a signed copy to let me know of that chapter.

When Nazis Took Manhattan : Code Switch : NPR

Riots erupted between anti-Fascists and Blackshirts (British

The spread of fascism in the 1920s was significantly aided by the fact that liberals and mainstream conservatives failed to take it seriously. Instead, they accommodated and normalised it.

Why we have to cut off the head of fascism again and again.

Seriously. Look at the image.

American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American

1. Military Intelligence contact continued:
. Everything is being coordinated and the funds were finally situated at 3:30am EST this morning Sat 12 Dec for what we have been waiting for FOREVER to pay out the final accounts (downstream liquidity in payouts to lowest level...

2. ... accounts Over the initial 72 hours after the shotgun release starts approx Mon 14 Dec);
. They are finishing this weekend the final settlements, closings, and processing of the master major accounts--that's what started at 3:30 am EST today Sat 12/12 when Trump, the...

3. ... top 5 Chinese Elders, and everyone got on the same page to start the release process;
. They are ON IT and Tue 15 Dec is the date to start Tue-into-Wed 15-16 Dec--it would take a major BOMB of interference to move it from that date—he said PLEASE PRAY.

4. . Trump wants everything FINISHED by Wed 23 Dec by mid-day--so the RV teams are pressing extremely HARD this weekend to get things ready, closed, funds settled in accounts GLOBALLY in all the levels, tiers 1-4, to start on time next week;(edited)
[10:42 PM]

5. . They will move forward within A 72-HOUR PERIOD with MON 14 DEC as INTENDED kick-off day but it WON'T REACH T4B till TUE-WED 15-16 at the earliest; currently they EXPECT T4B start APPROX. WED 16 DEC but it could go beyond that;

alright here we go, these are the most iconic British TV moments of 2020

1. When Zara McDermott told Sam Thompson HE CAN

1. Military Intelligence contact continued:

. There were 300 arrests that took place yesterday Fri 11 Dec--that was one of the last pieces that needed to be put in place for the final release of the RV shotgun start--and that leads to the Insurrection Act possibly being...

2. ...invoked by POTUS (for military suppression of Deep State riots fomented by Antifa thugs), that leads to martial law (if necessary when people realize the vote fraud NEGATES A BIDEN PRESIDENCY & the Deep State tries to start RIOTS IN 18+ URBAN HOT SPOTS AROUND THE COUNTRY...

3. ... that have already been prepared with initial arrests and round-ups by Spec Op (SOF) military missions (black hawks carrying them);
. ALL THESE THINGS are TIED to NESARA / GESARA, to the restored Republic being organizationally and legally in place by Mon 21 Dec...

4. ... (POTUS TEAM'S LEGAL DEADLINE to get it done), and to COMMON LAW or CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (your post-RV CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM and your post-RV FINANCIAL FREEDOM to spend the money as YOU INTEND and NOT AS THE DEEP STATE GOVT wants to do to LOCK YOU DOWN, TAX 50%-70% of...

5. ... your post-RV funds, and to LIMIT YOU under DRACONIAN ECONOMIC LOCKDOWNS and SCAMDEMIC LOCKDOWNS while FORCING COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES on you AGAINST YOUR WILL and against YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL & GENEVA CONVENTION RIGHTS >>NOT<< to HAVE TO TAKE A VACCINE--Trump will NOT...

MIND CONTROL
Why did I think of this before?!
I wasn’t thinking evil enough!

The CCP perfected mind control technologies & now strategically mind controls powerful assets in other countries, with DNA specific injections, which is why they look weird?
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Today I thought to share some Tips that have helped me survive Twitter as a Liberal supporter - in the hopes they'll help you too. A thread:

If you find yourself endlessly harassed by bots/trolls, you can reduce their number by altering your settings as shown on this image:

Swearing in a tweet is tolerable. Being sworn AT or swearing AT someone in a tweet is not. Know the difference.

When you first join Twitter, your name will have a long number after it. Change it, get rid of the number as it is a sign of a bot/troll for many people, fair or not.
Go to Settings>Your account>account information (you'll be asked for your password).

In the same vein as the last tweet, you should have something as your profile pic because the grey shadow image is also judged to be a sign of a bot/troll by some. If you don't want your own photo up, choose any image you like.
Go to Profile, click Edit Profile

Stop reacting & start responding.

Here’s how you speak slowly.

Shadow Integration method.

Thread

One quality that separates a man from children is how he responds to interactions.

Any time someone interacts with you, you have two choices; you can either react, or you can respond.

A response is a thought out reply.

A reaction is emotional.

A reaction is urge driven. Its when you instantly reply without thinking.

Its very easy to identify those who are impulsive simply by looking at this trait.

Its a trait that frames you to be weak through several subliminal effects.

If you react, you communicate that you have no urge control and that you act on emotions.

This assumes you to be unreliable & not dependable.

Whether you like it or not, high-end professional people will notice these small details in your behaviour.

A dead give away of a reactive man is when he talks fast.

Talking fast shows that you dont think & operate on other people's time while not respecting your own.

It also makes the credibility of your dialogue shaky at best.

Because it indicates no thought was provided.

#NEIOH

1. Friends Of Earth!

In These Moments, 'Be As Water!'  You Heard This First From An Incarnated Pleiadian That Was Known As Bruce Lee. To Survive And Thrive Through The Density Of The Dream, Learn To Slide Through The Narrow Thinking Of Others And Burst Forth As Light!

On April 12, 1922, Hitler gave a speech to a crowd in Munich proclaiming he was a Christian, “My Christian feeling directs me to my Lord and saviour as a fighter. As a Christian I have the duty for the truth and what is right.” His supporters believed him

They stated, “Hitler said it, I believe it, that settles it.”

Joseph Goebbels knew Hitler to be anti-Christian, in his diary entries, Hitler in reality wanted to destroy the churches. He saw Christianity as a symptom of decay, a strata deposited by the Jewish race.

Hitler was a deceptive politician who knew how to woo voters. He pandered to religious sensibilities. It is known that Hitler would lie if it would benefit him. In the mid 1930’s he assured people he had no aggressive intentions. Even when he annexed Austria, he assured the world

that he had no other designs whilst encouraging Germans leaders in Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland region to foment unrest in the country as a country of unrest will accept anything.

Today, let's talk about microtest TDD's Judgment Premise: "We are absolutely and permanently reliant on individual humans using their individual judgment in TDD."

Folks, in these times, I gain respite in thinking & writing about geekery, and I hope you do, too. But there are more important stories, and this is just a break.

Stay safe. Stay strong. Stay angry. Stay kind.

Black lives matter.

Voting rights do, too.

The judgment premise emphasizes the human in test-driven development. There are no known non-humans practicing TDD, so it may seem a odd that we have to talk about this, and yet, we do.

As software geeks, we work with the most rigid deterministic systems conceivable, and we do much of that work in abstract mental space. To say that our target systems are machine-like is to say too little, really: they're more machine-like than any real-world machine.

The uber-mechanical material of our job can lead us to seeing *every* aspect of the job as if it were the same as that material, a phenomenon the French call "deformation professionelle". Put simply: working with uber-machines all day, we imagine uber-machines everywhere.

Technical Analysis Masterclass- Part 2

'Entering the trade'

Entering a trade without ascertaining a certain things is gambling.

In this masterclass we will learn the pre-requisites to enter a trade.

DON'T ENTER A TRADE WITHOUT DETERMINNG THE FOLLOWING.

Please share.

We understand what reward to risk (popularly called risk to reward) is.
It will be denoted by R:R.

We will also try to bust a few myths about R:R and how to avoid losing trades.

Before entering a trade, you need to determine 3 things.

1. Entry trigger
2. Stop loss
3. Target

1. Entry trigger = Reasons for entering a trade. There could be multiple reasons or a single reason for entry.

Generally a set of reasons AKA confluence is a higher probability trade and a generally a safer entry.

Example of an entry trigger.

2. Stop Loss.

The price in the opposite direction of the trade where the trade is exited, at a loss.

At this level, the reason for the entry becomes invalidated according to TA and the price can then move in the opposite direction, probabilistically.

3. Target is the possible price level that the asset might touch based on previous trends or confluence AND where a possible reversal could occur.

Target is the next path of least resistance from where the price might reverse.

We will always ONLY use TA to determine all 3.

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His mother was [Miriam], (the woman who) let (her) women's [hair] grow long (megadla [sē‘ar] nešayya).

Some authors associated her with “Miriam Megaddlela” or Miriam with the braided locks, named in the 2nd century Talmud.[1]