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The Accountant
2016 · Film · 128 min
Directed by Gavin O'Connor
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
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Well adding to the above list of what could be considered stand out movies, these below are some I really enjoyed / admired -- in no particular order.
Dark City
Ice Planet (2001)
The Green Mile
Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
Flodder 3
Gettin' Square
Midnight Run
The Accountant
Slipstream (2005)
To Kill a Mockingbird
North by Northwest
In the Heat of the Night
What the Deaf Man Heard
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Short film - Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job
It's a bit of a spoiler but you may like the film "The Accountant" starring Ben Affleck.
Also the Book "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K Dick which (no spoiler) explores the consequences of deep undercover.
> at the mercy of their positioning of your shop amongst others.
Maybe this is why the owner of these restaurants has so many brands. Back when phone books were a thing, you'd see businesses named "AAA Bail Bonds" or "AAA Plumbing" [0] so they would sort first in their classification. Looking at the restaurant names they used, it appears that they want at least one of their brands to appear in every cuisine category - so no matter if you're searching for Biryani, Chinese, Curry, or Kebabs, they'll have a presence on Swiggy & Zomato.
A restaurant that specializes in every possible kind of cuisine isn't likely to be good at any of them, and it appears their ratings bear that out. :)
[0] A plot point in the The Accountant movie with Ben Affleck was that he had named his business "ZZZ Accounting" so that he wouldn't get many walk-in customers.
As referenced in the 2016 film, The Accountant.[1][2][3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oghd8vgfAL8
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFq5_zjY4Q
[3] idky yt poster split this short scene into two shorter yt posts ><
In some sense that podcast episode is much more interesting than a 2015 article of course.
The transcript you linked in particular is a giggle if you actually know what's going on because of course it's wrong all over the place in ways somebody who doesn't know can't fix. A few of them are generic (e.g. it's normal for English speakers to say "fifty-two eighty" to mean 5280 and then of course the transcript renders that as 52 80, and it's normal to pronounce ETSI "Etsy") but many more are not (if you know Ryan is saying PKIX then you can recognise that, but if you don't then "Peak X" or indeed "Peacocks" is a fair stab). [Maybe one of the many PKIX implementations should name itself "Peacocks" in the same way that "Secret Rabbit Code" stands out from other Sample Rate Converter libraries]
I assume the transcript is at least human curated to be as coherent as it is, but maybe not.
Ryan doesn't mention it on that podcast because it wasn't official yet, but much of the public role of Ryan (Sleevi) is now played by Ryan (Dickson).
The entire "How to be a Certificate Authority" podcast premise seems to be er, what if the "Honest Achmed" Bugzilla ticket, but a podcast. Which you know, fine but you are very late people - did you already do a "Steamed Hams" episode? Also, I'd be fascinated to hear from anybody, in any sector with auditors, who thinks they're actually getting something like that Affleck / Kendrick movie "The Accountant". Maybe Thomas thinks he's Ben Affleck? I've worked with auditors, both internal and external. They're like a code review from a junior. They might see something you missed but they aren't going to find anything you actually hid. Thus audit is valuable, until it isn't. Should I talk about that?
In fact Thomas has already brought up Symantec so why not, if you go back and look at that, one of the things I highlighted very early there was that Symantec are relying on auditors, and we know auditors are the worst option other than nothing. So, this is the right choice if your alternative was nothing, but Symantec had lots of better alternatives and didn't take them.
And this is one of the many places where I think Thomas is just obviously wrong, he describes CAs as "A force for evil" but er, no. We don't see a lot of evil. Now, honestly I'm not looking for evil, but even if I looked I don't expect to find much. What we see are the usual human failings: Laziness and incompetence. Maybe some greed. But mostly laziness and incompetence. I talked about hiding earlier. Isn't that evil? Nope. Just laziness again. You could fix the problem but it's a lot of work, so lie instead. Not evil, just lazy.
Yup. I feel as if I have done well, in that arena. I was a manager, for 25 years. I managed a couple of people "on the spectrum," and they were (and still are) amazing.
Last night, I watched The Accountant again. I really enjoy that movie. It does kinda go a bit crazy in advocating for autistic people (I get the feeling it was written by people that studied hard, but maybe don't have a lot of personal experience), but it's really fun.
I wish I had a teak-lined camper and a Renoir in my bedroom, but I'm fairly happy how things turned out.
Totally. I saw a real shit movie there, I think it was The Accountant. Still one of the better movie-going experiences I've had solely on the basis of the theater itself.
Contrast that with seeing a rat scurry across the floor at The Metreon's AMC.
Remember that scene in "The Accountant" movie where the accountant says "No, the company's truck" meaning that since the truck is kinda used to carry some fluff that the family eventually sells, the truck gets a special tax status. In other words, since you use half of your house as an office, can you deduct half of your mortgage from taxes?
She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff.
* She was in two of the Twilight films.
* Pitch Perfect (trilogy).
* Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies).
* A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery).
* Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great)
* Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Adapt? Really? It doesn't seem so. They are in their own world, and don't care.
But no wonder when you read about the crazy head of Sony Pictures, the woman that got kicked because of the scandals that got made public (emails leaked). For example we can "thank" her for that the Steve Jobs movie lost the The Social Network director and is now such a boring piece of movie.
We don't need hundreds of super hero movies, such a mass is stupid. Where are the funny movies, the action movies, the adventure movies? We want less CGI and more real action, or CGI looking like real action.
We want movies not boring hour long series, we have no time to waste hours for a stretched story arc.
The Accountant, (second half of) Bourne 2016, Jack Reacher 2, Mission Impossible Rogue Nation ... were good movies. But it gets harder and harder to find a few movies per year that are watchable. The last two X-Men movies were so bad, so many CGI effects, so dark, so little content that made the previous X-Men movies great. Were are the Die Hard 1-2, Air Force One, first three Tom Clancy movies of this decade - right, directors and script writers forgot how to pace a movie, as constant action is just wrong, you need intense action then calm situations and then action again and a bit humour does't hurt (something almost completely forgotten). I just saw a 1968 action movie and it was so much better (Steven Spielberg mentioned it's his favourite movie he sees up to), this decades Hollywood is in a sad state.
> I'd guess mathematicians must not suffer from that problem
In my experience (both myself and what I've seen in other successful mathematicians), there is a lot of truth to your guess. I'm also a number theorist (and know Andrew, for what it's worth). I enjoy concentrating on something for a very long time, to the exclusion of everything else. I try to organize my life so that I can "retreat to my home office" and stay there and work as long as possible. The thing I struggle with is forcing myself to take breaks and stopping concentrating, since I can get way too obsessed with finishing one thing, to the exclusion of everything else. Balance is hard. An extreme fictional example of too much concentration is featured in the recent movie "The Accountant", in which the (autistic) protagonist very obsessively concentrates on an accounting situation, and is incredibly frustrated when real-world circumstances distract him from doing so.
I'm in the same boat, likely less. I figure my IQ is no where near as high as the people who had to suffer under the US' misguided programs and possible subversion and antagonism by their own elites.
It reminds me of the disturbing movie called "The Accountant" where they express a genius of Mozart and Einstein is turned into a complete monster, a robotic killing machine... and this is somehow celebratory. Maybe it is an expression of our times, and that western civility has failed (or is non-existant).
Environment has an active effect on how a person develops through their lives, and maybe scientifically and genetically this is expressed as "marker switching" or "de/activation".