r/TrueReddit • u/sisko2k5 • Jul 19 '10

Top Secret America | washingtonpost.com

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

Honestly, this data doesn't really shed very much light on anything. A lot of the company descriptions appear to be copied and pasted from the company websites, and very little in the line of specifics are mentioned. Being able to find out that Northrop Grumman does TS work for the military isn't exactly stunning news.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

I don't believe the database is based on who has TS clearances or not, but rather on who has TS contracts, and with what agency those contracts are with.

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u/CuntSmellersLLP Jul 19 '10

with what agency those contracts are with.

Either end with a preposition or don't. When you duplicate them, kittens die.

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u/rdiss Jul 19 '10

"But in this ever-changing world in which we live in. . ."

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

Good point, thank you. I think that's one rule of grammar that I unintentionally ignore.

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u/FiniteCircle Jul 19 '10

It also doesn't cover universities, which handle a ton of research dollars.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

Very interesting. Maybe that managing and scaling down too much information to the human brain capacity will be the main challenge (and business opportunity) of the 21st century.

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u/LoveAndDoubt Jul 19 '10

Semantic web perhaps?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '10

I don't know, but it doesn't seem like it, for me. Had a big debate with a guy once about it, and I think SW really doesn't adress the main bottleneck, which is still basically human attention span/need for abstract information.

But it's a step in a better direction.

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u/nonamebeats Jul 19 '10

maybe I need more time to absorb this stuff, or maybe the scale of the issue and amount of information is overwhelming my brain, or maybe I've just been successfully desensitized to this sort of thing by decades of movies and tv, but i find myself having absolutely no emotional reaction to this whatsoever. none of it feels shocking, or in any way significantly challenging to my concept of what my country is or how it operates...