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There are so many horrifying revelations that its hard to keep track of them all.

You had Debbie Wasserman Schultz rig the primary and resign in disgrace then immediately go to work on Hillary's campaign.

Million dollar 'gifts' to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments while she was the secretary of state.

It just goes on and on.
I guess I misunderstood "formal" as "a former".
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> you could call him a Citibank executive, or you could call him the Chief of Staff in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department

You could point to a revolving door of administration between the private and public sector, along with public-private partnerships that launder would-be-illegal acts between public and private sectors.

It's a pretty big deal to have anyone besides a president elect choose their cabinet, much less an oligarchic figure.
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Forget Texas oil; its Methane Hydrates that will rule the future:

http://geology.com/articles/methane-hydrates/
The core idea here is that underlying every data type is a number and presentation of that data type can often lead to it being interpreted and used incorrectly.
Most likely SpaceX will do what those governments require. It's trying to charge for the service, after all, and that means going through normal financial channels.
> I don't remember anyone credible refuting and saying they didn't write it.

The criticisms were generally of a different sort: editorializing in their selection of leaks. "selective omission", if you will.

They have information about Trump but chose not to release it. According to Breitbart (so you know it's not from a "liberal media" source): http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/27/wikileaks-info-dona...

> “We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” Assange said. “I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day ..."

I don't know about you, but I feel like it would have been helpful for the people to know what they had on Trump. Seems oddly opaque and politically motivated.

It really doesn't help that they were selling explicitly anti-Clinton merchandise in their store: http://i.imgur.com/AjsWfqg.jpg

This is one example. In other cases, such as the Syria files, known-to-have-existed emails that involved Russia mysteriously weren't leaked and many people have speculated that stemmed from a pro-Russia bias.

If they were releasing everything they had, it would be hard to criticize. But when you see the pattern of leaks and omissions, it's hard not to make the argument that they are playing politics.
Congratulations, you've invented the iMessage security model.

The cryptographers behind signal are very smart; they have thought about these things.

The signal model has the advantage of not having to trust a third party server. With iMessage, it's possible for the government to force Apple to add pubkeys to a user's identity (although the user will be notified).
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> Amid a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country, after the social network failed to transfer Russian user data to servers located in the country, violating a law instituted in Russia requiring all online sites to store personal data on national servers.

Not the worst rationale. Keep in mind that countries such as Canada and EU countries also have different privacy laws that US corporations have ran afoul of from time to time.
It's silly to say the emails are fake. Many of them can be corroborated and a lot of them are authenticated with DKIM from Google's servers.

Donna Brazille embarrassed herself by saying that message was altered, the DKIM hash quite clearly covered the message body.
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The incredible thing is that this type of coordination is not at all unusual. It's how the US media and propaganda system works. It's how stories from US narrative pervade all corners of US media simultaneously.

Plenty of people in Washington think what happened to the DNC was unfair. Because that's the way our system works. The only outcry was against the DNC because only the DNC was disclosed as participating in it.

There just simply haven't been a collection of leaks yet to "shock" the American public into understanding how coordinated the media is with US government narrative.
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It is bizarre. GP is, as you said, "either grossly misinformed or purposefully misleading readers". There is plainly illegal activity in those emails, and massive evidence of electoral fraud.

But whatever, it was the blue team that did it, so they get a pass. This is why it's actually good that Trump was elected. Now suddenly everyone cares again about mass deportation, war crimes, lobbying, etc. Now that we have an out-of-the-closet fascist as president, legislation like the 2012 NDAA doesn't seem like such a good idea anymore does it blue team?
Yes, I hope someday we learn the details of which of those things were actually illegal and which were not. Schultz being immediately re-hired with no contrition or acknowledgement of wrongdoing by HRC was bizarre, I'd have thought the press would have forced some sort of statement on the subject.
I think if you make the developers life harder and ask them to abandon the pull request and submit another you'll run in to objections.

I think the whole idea of pushing commits to an open pull request is a good one because you can see the discussion and the commits which come after it.

GitHub actually does this nicely by showing it in a timeline where you have a comment and then a commit following it in the discussion thread.
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> they never did match the (encrypted) files

The pre-commitment hashes have always matched the encrypted files, up to this point.
With AWS, I think cost becomes a significant issue in selecting which services to use, more so than development issues.

But then again I've also always found that once you start coding to it, AWS gets you 90% of what you want, and you spend the other 90% of the time fleshing out the exact retry, migration, and error-handling behaviors you need manually on top of it. :-P
I believe it does, but don't have any evidence to back it up. If itp volunteers, we could test by down voting his comments :)
I think we should use our wealth and clout to both do better than the bare minimum in our own country and pressure other countries to do at least the bare minimum. I think our leaders should figure out how to do that while still winning elections. That does sound hard, but if the job description were only to pander, anybody could do it.
I feel like most of the discussion on this topic is anecdotes, spiced up by cultural stereotypes.

I'm originally from a European country where the stick is prevalent, and pretty much had to learn to drive it (and hated it) - while driving exam could be passed with automatic in theory, there were simply no cars available (and you couldn't supply your own).

That said, people there weren't really particularly opinionated about it one way or another. There was some mild form of sexism, along the lines of "auto is for girls", but I think it was more an extension of the general car-related sexism in that country.

I then lived in New Zealand, Canada and US for a while. All of them have autos dominate - less so in NZ, more in Canada and especially US. But no-one really makes a big deal of it. If you drive the stick, no-one will taunt you for showing off, for example, the way people do with other stuff. It's just a slightly unusual choice.

On the other hand, I noticed that many European immigrants have a decidedly snobby attitude towards auto. They don't just prefer the stick - they're like vegetarians who have to make a point of some innate superiority of their choice, and disparage the other option - not even rationally, but on the level of, "Americans are just too dumb to learn this stuff".

And I think that this, more than anything else, kinda muddies up meaningful discussion (with studies etc) on this subject. It's such a strong part of cultural identity for some, that even starting a conversation on it is inviting flame. Note how my first post in this thread is at 0, even though it was purely about sharing my personal experience as a data point, and not saying that it applies to other people.

For the most part, I think people should just choose what they feel makes most sense for them, and refrain from judging the choices of others. The differences really aren't that big or that important beyond subjective personal experience.
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You'll see very different behavior in Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS because the latter is required to use WebKit. There are some really big problems with the present situation. The web's fundamental promise of a cross-platform consistent runtime is basically broken, and consumers, developers, and businesses all suffer significant but mostly invisible harm.
Growing up on the High Plains I only knew trees as carefully maintained decoration and windbreaks that gale force winds, disease, lightning, hail and drought would make short work of without constant care. I remember my first trip to New York State where I was wondering about some trees blocking a view of an on ramp and why someone planted them there. Then it occurred to me. Nobody planted them. These were trees in the wild!
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_calculus
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> This is one example. In other cases, such as the Syria files, known-to-have-existed emails that involved Russia mysteriously weren't leaked and many people have speculated that stemmed from a pro-Russia bias.

I thought of this, but certainly there would have been someone CC'ed on one of those emails who would have leaked it to prove WL was sitting on relevant emails. This didn't happen.
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Somehow calling the chief political adviser to the most powerful person in the world-elect "fringe" doesn't seem accurate.

Perhaps corporate media has defined the Overton window for so long that we've come to believe that they speak for the mainstream, even when millions of people send a clear message that that is not true.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293

It's pretty incredible how casually members of the US government and party officials invoke the concept of galvanizing revolutionary movements.

There's a concept within the US government that "it's better to convince than to conquer" but there's been a growing awareness and resistance to the emotional abuse that comes from the exhausting onslaught of ideological infiltration and astroturfed revolutionary appeal.
That's a separate question from whether they're doing something illegal. Illegality depends on abuse of monopoly power, not on the technical problems it causes for the industry.
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As China proved, it is easy to blow up satellites. I don't know how reliable this will be under global pressure.
Geostationary birds are in a 42K+ km orbit. That's almost a quarter second round trip just taking the speed of light into account and assuming the satellite is directly overhead.

Back when international phone circuits were mostly satellite, you'd find yourself continually starting a sentence at the same time as the other party because that short delay messed up the flow of the conversation.
The email in question: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293

For those who don't know the term "Spring" means a fake, externally organized revolution that is seen as legitimate because it aggravates insiders to the cause.
What makes you think wikileaks doesn't vet their information before they publish it?
I really find the notion of designing the metabolic steps this way interesting. Converting CO2 to mallic acid, converting sugars to oil, what ever. At some point there is an organic chemistry "programming" language where you specify at a high level what you have for input and what you want for output and your biometabolic compiler spits out a bunch of RNA modules for you to link together in your holding organism to operate.
> I think our leaders should figure out how to do that while still winning elections.

Do you want a pony, too?

Look, we're not talking about straight up charity. You can talk people into charity; despite the standard narrative, the United States is quite generous in that regard. What you're asking for is for us to reduce our standard of living explicitly so other people can pollute. That's going to be a hard sell.
Well it is just plain old COM, with a new base interface IIspectable that inherits from IUnknown and using .NET metadata instead of TLB files.

Using it from C++/CX is quite painless compared with the old ways, as it is quite similar to .NET, Delphi and C++ Builder ways of using COM.

For a little pain ATL style, you can use Windows Runtime Library.

Kenny Kerr and his team are pushing for C++/WinRT, a new C++ projection (language binding), based on pure Modern C++, with the goal to eventually replace C++/CX. Currently WIP, though.

For those that really like to suffer, the old way of using MIDL compiler with C is still possible for UWP applications.

From our projects, I would say most UWP developers use .NET for UWP controls and only resort to C++/CX if integration is C++ code is required.
I agree with you. This is actually part of a larger problem with the way strongly typed languages are used in practice, where usually whatever "primitive" numeric types are available are used everywhere, rather than any thoughtful attempt at creating a coherent meaning for each input value. My favorite abuse of language is when we pass around two integers to represent a fixed-point number, rather than passing around a data type like struct { int32_t exponent; int32_t mantissa; } fixedPoint.

This becomes an issue because now everywhere you operate on these data types you have to implement the math to add, subtract, multiply, and divide these values, and the syntax becomes much dirtier. You wind up repeating the same rounding rules everywhere except in one place, and then it happens that there's a bug caught during system-level testing that's specific to that rounding error. This is an issue I have seen repeatedly with the project I'm currently working on, and it's a huge pain in the ass.

Meanwhile with some reasonably clever use of syntax and the creation of a fixed point arithmetic library at the start of the project, you're always applying the same rounding rule, and you don't have to do wonky stuff just to round your numbers.
Good stuff David!! Let me know how I can help!

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Is this post being brigaded? Surprised it's fallen off the front page already.
Yeah there was no big smoking gun, no lizard people, but there was a lot of shady deals. And most of all, I find interesting is, what wasn't there - not a lot of concern for regular people. Not a lot of "yeah we should figure out how to reach out to folks struggling with finding work, inner cities have more crime than expected we should find a way to help there.."

But there was a lot of "let's take this angle, let's paint Bernie as a atheist, they'll hate him then".

One illustrative example of the email about Theano and its relationship to the Clinton Foundation. Also apparently Chelsea started digging too much and at some point was under the illusion that the charity was just that, a charity. She had to be reminded how things really worked and such. And anyone who thinks Saudi Arabia is donating money to CF cure AIDS is deluded. And of course, it had to be followed through with threats to blackmail her: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046
I can vouch for Karl Lehenbauer - he's one of the head dudes at flightaware.com and they definitely use a bunch of Tcl.
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A few points:

1. Cracked screens are incredibly easy to fix, so the one example you can give that doesn't cost an arm and a leg is the one thing that arguably any random repair shop should be able to do.

2. Not everyone even lives near an apple store, so while you might benefit from driving in to a physical store, there is a large chunk of the population who won't (at least not without driving a few hours).

PA is a great example of this - the only stores in PA are basically around Philly and around Pittsburgh. Live anywhere else in the state and you are driving to a store out of town.

That isn't so bad if prices are reasonable, but when you get there and hear "$600 to replace the battery" the stores start to feel less useful.

I understand that there is value in the Apple store. I'm not trying to say that there isn't any, but I do believe the original comment overstates that value, especially when Google (or a third party they work with) offers a pretty reasonable replacement plan as an add-on to your purchase.
> If that's true, it isn't consistent with another supposed disadvantage of PR-STV: that under it competition between candidates of the same party undermines party unity.

Unfortunately it's possible to do both at the same time. The fact that the party can kick people out for not sticking to the party line doesn't mean there won't be friction when two members of the same party are campaigning against each other for a seat.

> Either way, if you approve of democracy, why not majority rule and increased voter choice?

"Majority rule" is the problem representative democracy exists to solve. With direct democracy (or anything that sufficiently approximates it) you get bad choices because if you put something on the ballot that will give +1 to 51% of people and -10 to 49% of people then it passes.

> What you want can be achieved with proportional representation. Effective local government (itself elected proportionally) with appropriate powers should address local issues.

The only way that could work is if each level of government was only in charge of things that affect each of its constituents uniformly, which is not possible. For example The Feds have to regulate pollution because pollution generated in West Virginia can affect New York, but that also means that the interests of people in West Virginia are different than the interests of people in New York and so they each need their own representatives.

And it goes all the way down the stack. Zoning regulations affect the whole city but affect different neighborhoods differently, so each neighborhood should have its own representative on the city council.

> Under FPTP, too many legislators are elected without a majority of votes cast in their electoral districts, thwarting democracy even at that level. The problem typically accumulates over a whole chamber; if you need a third of votes in an electoral district to win it, you only need a sixth of votes nationally to control the whole chamber.

I don't think anybody is arguing that FPTP is not terrible. Approval voting or range voting fixes it without having to combine districts.
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I don't believe he's been assassinated, no. I believe it's just that his internet access has been cut.

It's simply not their style (to assassinate him). You can think of Western oppression as being snake-like, while Chinese or Russian oppression is dragon-like. If someone speaks out against the establishment in China or Russia, the response will be brute-force - the dissident will be assassinated. If someone speaks out against the establishment in the West, the response is far more insidious, they will run smear campaigns against you, call you a rapist etc, try to control information. Not unlike Scientology. An assassination is typically the last resort because of the extra paperwork involved.
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I understand that this was their intent, but this in no way seemed to me be the effect (not to mention that this strategy has already proven entirely incapable of checking the rise of Trump). The strategy of the alt-right is to couch Neo-Nazi ideology with just enough politeness and intellectual poise as to entice "ordinary people" into their ranks, further normalizing their cause. If you're well-mannered accountant is commenting on Breitbart while you gather together your tax documents, how bad can they really be? Fascist groups know they need white collar members, because the thugs are the first things they have to sacrifice when they gain real political power (both to appease military and law enforcement institutions as well as to demonstrate that they've shed their brutish origins).

The only way to counter it is to give these guys enough rope to hang themselves, and then openly and clearly expose their intellectual dishonesty and historical record. This requires a far greater skill at interviewing and rhetoric than is on display anywhere at NPR. The harshest rebuff the interviewer gave Spencer was something along the lines of "but don't people of all races get along on the NYC subway?" Spencer walked away from that interview quite happy with the seeds he planted.
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> There are really not that many fighting on the internet about who said what about who's sexual identity.

And yet, there are enough to create a terrifying chilling effect for anyone whose beliefs don't fit in to the narrative, especially in hard-left milieus like college campuses or major tech companies, and the rest don't speak up against them.
Brigaded threads are the norm for the internet now. Governments around the world including the US and UK hire military contractors to brigade, trolls brigade, and motivated communities brigade.

It's sad, I agree.
I think that the parent is saying that your credit-card company might be the 3rd party insurance, and you might be able to make a claim to take advantage of that insurance.
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Most likely an intelligence agency will replace it. There will probably be a battle for the credibility vacuum created. With high likelihood USG will be a contenter.
> one example would be people wanting healthcare before the ACA became associated with the 'evil' Democrats

The ACA is not "health care." It's an insurance regulation. The conflating of the two is a useful narrative but it is not accurate in any way.
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>There is, it's the downvote button. The distinction of why a downvote is useless.

How about a tag system associated with each posting? Then you can have just a scalar "weight" and a set of keywords (string labels), each with a designated meaning. You press a "plus" button or something, and a menu with optional tagging pops up (tag clouds can be used).

Some tags could be "spam", others could be "didn't read" and users can build their own threshold filters for tags. (0) spam; (4) didn't read; (3) incomplete; ...