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While I'm quite left of center on most issues, I'm also a political hound. I listen to conservative talk radio a couple times a week for the purposes of oppo research and fake news is regularly tossed around in reference to NPR, BBC, NYTimes, etc. Rush Limbaugh has 14M+ listeners per week who hear those sources called "fake news", so I'd sadly agree that it has been very effectively appropriated.
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The term got terribly misappropriated like that, which was probably unavoidable. But no, stop it. There is always going to be potential bias in reporting focus, there will always be arguments to be had over journalism. But junk like Pizzagate is just plain wrong, full stop. It's fake. Everyone should agree that it's fake.

And yet in the social media world (Facebook was the big offender) links like this are just treated as "news" and presented to their users alongside other stuff. There is a gatekeeper role for these companies that used to be provided by the traditional media. And Facebook wasn't even trying. So we got Pizzagate.
> Otherwise you would just game the system by retracting posts irregularly.

But that's the point. There seems to be a large number of people and organizations (including the US President) who are NEVER interested in issuing retractions or admitting fault - when something is pointed out as factually false, they just repeat the falsehood louder even when there is stuff like audio or video evidence that directly refutes it.
News propaganda didn't just fall off a tree magically.

Propaganda is common throughout history to gather supports.

Fake news didn't just happen on Facebook. Mainstream media have been criticized for all forms of malpractices or unfair reporting by misquoting, taking a quote or story out of context, using unauthentic images or using different random parts of a clip to create a story. Is NYT more fair than Fox News?

I recently came across a YouTube video called "The Sinter Reason Weed is Illegal" [1]. I am not a historian, but from this video I learned that perhaps the ban of cannabis was perhaps not based on scientific facts at all. The whole ban was just a political move by provoking racism to rally up against the Blacks and the Mexicans.

After the 2016 Election, I started to follow a Facebook Page called "Now This Politics" (NTP). Given the page's political nature, most of the stories are about the current administration. I started to get more news stories from Facebook. A few days ago United Airlines was reported to have barred girls from boarding a flight because of their leggings. NTP created a video about the incident. I felt UA was being ridiculous. Legging isn't the most inappropriate dress code. I didn't approve UA's defense. But when I went to the comment section, I started to change my stand on the issue because apparently these girls got their tickets via an employee discount program, for which the ticket holder is subjected to a stricter dress code. While I don't dispute this dress code might be outdated for legging (what about Yoga pants?), NTP's video was able to impose a negative view on me. Yes, the video did include UA's defense statement UA said the employee discount ticket holders are subjected to dress code requirement at the end of the video, but at that point the negativity had already been planted.

Now I have to be extra careful not to side with the video creator right away, just because their other videos do make good points exposing the uglinesses of our current government. The fact I agree with them before would mean I am now vulnerable to social influences and perhaps beginning to deindivdiualize in my capacity to distinguishing my own views from others' views..

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlqsdezhhk

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/us/united-airlines-leggin...
Thanks, a quote like that from the 5th wealthiest president of the US during the Gilded Age or thereabouts really cemented my view that you live in some deep cognitive dissonance.

If you're a libertarian too, then perhaps your level of doublethink rivals the one I made my comment about. If it does, it's pointless to discuss with you anything of substance.
Thanks Jives, but that still doesn't really help, does it? GraphQL from a client side are just json requests/responses, right? Am I missing something else?
From what I can tell, Relay and Apollo serve as an implementation of functions you'd need to write to organize the fetching of your data on the client side. It turns things like "oh, in componentDidMount I need to fetch a route and update that data inside the store I'm using" into "Hey Relay this component needs this data before it loads".

Relay I think is a more opinionated and heavier weight option, with the benefit provided being that it intelligently aggregates queries based off fragments and allegedly handles caching (minus invalidation, so you could argue that it doesn't really handle it ;) )

Fwiw in the project I'm working on now we judged that the extra complexity of a data fetching layer like Relay or Apollo wasn't worth it for us. We may have come to a different conclusion with a different project. Ymmv
The new major version 8 of Node.js coming out in April will be a great performance booster for those who started using async/await and more:

- Node upgraded v8 to 5.7 [1] & async functions as fast as promises [2]

- Optimizations in fs[3]

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11752

[2] https://v8project.blogspot.ca/2017/02/v8-release-57.html

[3] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12105
That's not really a fair comparison. The amount of money you lose if something bad happens is more than just the cost of replacing your payload (which is what insurance covers)
I don't actively use G+ so I can't judge that. But I do use FB every day. I think the "fake news" and many other annoyances would go away if we just rolled the platform back to what it was like ten+ year ago - where you could just type messages and your friends would see those messages.
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You might be right about the bubbles.

I don't use Twitter much. But was searching the term a while back and saw in Google auto-complete of "fake news " CNN poped up as the 4th line. And still does, I just checked. I found that fascinating for some reason. Here is a $1B+ in gross profit mass media business reduced to being the only explicitly named news company in the Google search suggestion box for "Fake News".
A) I'm sure he planned that when he escaped from Mecca on a camel.

B) yes kind of like how the Russians went communist and then invaded Afghanistan.

/a whole lot happened in between/

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Anyway, I'm done arguing. You obviously won't be convinced and neither will I, and I have better things to do than argue with a person on the internet. Good luck with whatever it is that you do and no hard feelings.
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In that case, they have moral high ground.

Abortions, at least late ones, should be a national shame just like death penalties.

Doesn't support everything else Republicans do but just wanted to mention this since your post made it sound like this wasn't an important issue.
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If anything, the Fifth Amendment has been interpreted more broadly than intended! The Constitution just says that the government can't compel someone "to be a witness" against himself "in any criminal case." Just reading the text, the only questions are (1) is this a criminal case, and (2) is the government forcing you to be a witness in the case? If yes, the Fifth Amendment applies. If not, then it doesn't. Easy peasy.

But as interpreted, the Fifth Amendment covers much more than "be[ing] a witness," and doesn't only apply "in a criminal case." And the whole Miranda thing is pulled totally out of thin air. If you look at the chart, most of the exceptions and edge cases in the are there to cabin and delineate all the extra protections the Supreme Court has layered on top of the Fifth Amendment.
Believing that since nothing can be 100% true everything is completely false paralyzes society. The temperature that's reported by your thermometer may be off by a degree or so but if you take that to mean it can't be trusted at all you have no basis to trust anything.

Sources should be critically evaluated constantly, but sources that are usually more off should be treated differently than sources that are usually more on.
> The outrage was because it was pro-Trump.

Or because someone managed to find a way to make American political dialogue even dumber.
Everything today is better then yesterday and tomorrow everything will be better then today (on average on a global a scale for all the issues you pointed out). Progress is being made all the time. But the news/media mostly just reports the failings/problems/issues (sells better) so it feels like everything is getting worse.

(There are some looming issues on the horizon like climate change etc. which might change this course in the future.)
Number of times someone moves is irrelevant.

How far did they move?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2008/12/17/who-moves-who-stay...

https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-07.pdf

Native-born Californians form a relatively small percentage of
the city's population: only 37.7% of its residents were born in
California, while 25.2% were born in a different U.S. state.
More than a third of city residents (35.6%) were born outside
the United States.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco

Plenty of international diversity at 35.6% of residents born abroad, but a meager 25.2% of San Francisco residents are from a different US state. Simply put, San Francisco is not representative of the US.

There are also commuters, but I would be surprised if the demographics of the 265,000 people that commute to San Francisco daily are that much different from the demographics of who lives here. Insofar as people working in tech in San Francisco are concerned is concerned, my experience shows that only San Francisco county, San Mateo county and Alameda county are relevant. I've met many people from those other Bay Area counties, but very few tech workers from those counties. Those two other counties have similar demographics.
Interesting. I had to sign something saying that I would be exposed to terrible stuff during the course of my job at MSN, and I wouldn't sue the company for damages. This was back in 2003. Maybe they stopped asking employees to sign this document?
Tax fraud is a super gray area. I will be surprised to find any person who has not violated IRS regulation.
Another great theme. Saw the other one you posted a few days ago and really liked it. Keep up the good work!
Makes up for the rocket they lost. Actually, now they're ahead if you count the insurance payout. People should stop saying we need to spend X trillions to get to Mars. They should instead say we can't get to Mars until technology is good enough that it will cost less than X billions or even millions.
Who cares? Get your news from paying attention to real life instead of from your friends spending time on Facebook.

Read here and make up your own mind: http://www.allsides.com/
*shoulders of giants. :)
a reader would be easy from a micro controller with 20 lines of code....the writer part with the weird voltage and uv regimens you can wait one until you need to make a copy

i don't know if there is a 2708, but there were some eprom functionally compatible replacements that used more modern technology
Yes, we know that. His hypocrisy still reeks.

And great. Give him immunity and get him in front of the Senate and House committees. If, as you assert, he has only minor dirt on some small player that will come out. And the immunity itself will save everyone time and money.
I think much of their revenue was from corporate customers --office park enterprises where restaurants are sparse and selection minimal. But looks like they miscalculated costs and overhead.
As a child, I thought it was weird that spaceships didn't land... supported by science fiction covers showing them landing.
e.g. Tintin https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/The_Adventure...

I mean, a regular ship doesn't discard part of itself to set sail... as a child, I didn't understand the need for multi-stage rockets.
The two sides on political spectrum define "fake news" differently: one calls everything that's not reported by the established (and very well paid) media "fake news", the other one calls news that uses cherry picked facts to push the narrative "fake news."
You're right, but honestly even just "issues retractions or corrections ever" weeds out huge swaths of "news".
Well, the problem with what happens what government has pre-filled on the form differs from my interpretation!

As a matter of principle I am even opposed to tax deductions at source. Each individual must sign a check at the end of the year/month and pay taxes. This makes sure he feels the pinch.
>Because it doesn't reflect reality? Do you really feel like you're "struggling" with other classes?

Do you feel okay in the head?
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Bookmarking this so I can go back to it when we have similar issues which are a function of scale, I assume.
I remember reading an article from Shawn Hargreaves from the days of XNA (gamedev framework):

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnhar/2006/12/11/sixty-f...

I took the code from that article and combined it with the normalized iteration count algorithm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set#Continuous_.28s...

Running the result at 60FPS on a huge 1080p TV was a lot of fun!
In case anyone's interested in the webgl implementation (with explanation), here's my post on the same topic from a while back: http://gpfault.net/posts/mandelbrot-webgl.txt.html
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Specifically, in the post launch press event, he mentioned titanium cast grid fins a number of times.

The video I saw [1] didn't have great audio and I was in transit while watching, but I believe he also said something about how it would be the largest single titanium cast in production.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3LQFpuzqs
> Well said. Are people savvy enough now to see through that?

Absolutely not.
The internet has turned "I read it somewhere" factoids into a constant barrage of crap that is addictive and unfulfilling and kinda rage inducing. I'm hoping sometime in the future-ish that people will wise up, but its very hard when all of your media is tailor-made to keep you just pissed off to demand more.
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let gets_complicated = "FDR is going to pack the court if I don't start finding ways to go along with him"
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It comes with thinking a superficial understanding of lots of things makes you qualified to to belittle others "less enlightened".
The Hijrah was in 622, Mohammad died in 632. Ten years to solidify power in Medina and Mecca isn't really comparable to the seventy years and a world war between the Russian Revolution and the invasion of Afghanistan.

I'm sorry you didn't find this worth your time. I've learned a few things from this discussion, and refreshed my memory of a few others, so I found it worthwhile. Thanks for the discussion.
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Doesn't it depend on what "effective" means though? Did anyone who listens to Rush Limbaugh have respect for NPR beforehand? My point is - have any minds been changed by the appropriation? In any case, most actual Republicans I talk to are very different than radio personalities, and don't buy this stuff about mainstream news being "fake". Liberally biased, to be sure, but the whole "fake news" aspect of that bias is recognized as propaganda.
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It's a lot more difficult. Every gram you add in reuse facilitating systems is a gram lost in payload, so every gram has to be incredibly valuable. That's a daunting constraint to deal with.

Consider the worst case scenario here. You have a launch to GTO where the upper stage goes out to geostationary orbit altitude over the course of several hours before returning to LEO. The stage needs to be able to have enough power generation to live that long (currently it doesn't), which probably means solar panels or bigger batteries. The re-entry burn will take a little propellant, which isn't a big deal but does reduce payload capacity again. The re-entry will require new avionics and thermal protection systems. Then landing will require new control systems to steer toward the landing site plus new engines and possibly new propellant storage for the landing. At this point the main engine can't be used because it not only has the wrong thrust, it won't even work at low altitude.

But that's not the worst part. The worst part here is that being in orbit the stage is now "floating" free from the Earth's surface, which means that it now has landing windows in the same way that there are launch windows into orbit. For a high altitude orbit like a geostationary transfer trajectory this is very problematic because you have to wait for things to line up, but you only get roughly two chances a day so you might be waiting a long time. Lowering the apogee would help (you'd probably be able to achieve a landing within a day) but that's costly in terms of propulsion.

The obvious easy way out of that mess is to move the problem boundaries by going to 3 stages. The 2nd stage would only push to LEO and re-enter after a once around roughly an hour and a half after launch. The 3rd stage could be fairly small with a modest propulsion system, it only has to boost payloads from LEO to GTO etc. so it could be fairly low cost and easy to develop. Plus, it wouldn't be used at all on LEO missions.

But that still leaves all the rest. Most likely they add draco/superdraco thrusters to the 2nd stage along with landing legs and thermal protection systems. The thrusters alone might be enough to provide attitude control authority through re-entry and landing. Adding all that mass and complexity will increase the cost of the 2nd stage, while, for the most part, lowering the payload.

But on the plus side, even with significant increases in stage cost and mass they should be able to bring the per flight amortized hardware costs due to the 2nd stage down from over $10 million to under $2 million.

With first stage reuse alone they should be able to lower their costs by up to a factor of 3 or so, with second stage reuse they should be able to lower that by a further factor of 2 or more, making it possible to provide launches for under $10 million.
This is great! I more or less majored in fractals from being really interested as a kid, so I love seeing people find it and break it down.

As mentioned elsewhere, the Colors of Infinity doc is pretty good, if you've never gone beyond the T-shirts and trippy colors.
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Fake News is an awfully vague term for censorship.
"having close ties" is not "illegally coordinating an election campaign", and saudi is not a rival of the united states -- it's been among its strongest allies since fdr. but that's neither here nor there and i'm not interested in defending either of the clintons. you're trying to dodge the issue when it's spelled out. you're arguing in bad faith.
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I used to work at a company which was eventually acquired by Siemens PLM (there were some intermediate merges and acquisitions as well). We had a pretty neat CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) product called I-deas - you could build a part then watch heat transfer or mechanical deformation take place under various forces and conditions.

Also it was funny how we found out about the acquisition. We showed up one morning and one person in next cubicle yells out "hey check out CNN, looks like we've been acquired". I was just an intern so didn't affect me much but other developers were pretty shaken by that.
The parent was talking about how recently the Canadian (vs pre-Canadian, for lack of a better distinction terminology) population has moved there, which isn't long enough to "feel" like ancestral connections claiming the land as theirs by family roots and birthright. A side effect is that settlements, cities, and expansion are quite new, globally-speaking, so there's not a lot of related deep physical history there either.

All of those are orthogonal to the demographics.

Where demographics come into play is that, in my experience, the issues of First Nations people are more a part of common Canadian politics than Native American issues are in the USA. That focus likely also plays against a sense of other Canadians feeling too rooted there.
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Is the problem not then that they should have represented it as "things people are interested in right now" and not as news?
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Ironically this loops back to an earlier question of yours: virtually everything humans have ascribed to supernatural causes when there was no better answer has turned out to have natural causes. It's simpler to assume this will be the same.
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> "i have received more new twitter followers from a happenstance endorsement from 'ladybro' on hacker news than any other moment ever"

https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/847681320310329347
I think you are talking past each other because you are not talking about the same party when asserting whether there is or isn't a problem. It's true that the investors don't have a problem if Dropbox fails to live up to its valuation. Venture capitalists expect that most of their investments will fail. But a company that has accepted venture capital is beholden to its investors and will almost certainly have a problem if it fails to live up to their expectations. Remember that investors are part owners, and get to make decisions about how the company should be run. The more dissatisfied they become, the more drastic the changes they will demand.
Nothing in the entire article answered WHY he left. So it was because of the Trump thing?... Because that's stupid reason. Mark Zuckerberg who is the actual CEO of facebook is getting bad press on a daily basis and for much worse reasons than Palmer Luckey. Nobody outside of the tech community even knows who Palmer Luckey is but because he funded some trump trolls he gets ousted from the company he started??...something just doesn't sound right. Seems like a power play is happening behind the scenes and this is just an excuse