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> messenger completely died when it started forcing you to use it on mobile and people simply started using other message services because half their friends wouldn't respond until they were at computers.

To counter this with my own personal anecdote, in my social circles this is not true at all, and messenger has become even more of the messaging standard in recent times.
A "controversial" practice, which allows free trades at slightly more expensive prices, that is not illegal, does not mean the entire industry is corrupt.

It's arguable that pharmaceutical rebates are bribery, so is the pharma industry criminal? College football coaches make millions while professors become starving adjuncts, is academia criminal?

I think we can separate issues from describing an enormously essential component of our economy as criminal.
How could it be illegal? If you sold bread in a grocery store and the grocery store decided they preferred their own brand and didn't wanna sell yours anymore... would that be illegal?
Who decides which organizations are part of the fourth estate? Is the NYT part of it? Bloggers? CNN? Breitbart? The Daily Stormer?
A hovercraft is a “vessel.”
So, your friends list consists of married couples and kids. How are you confusing that with the overall demographics of Facebook?
Recently switched to iOS and really miss that simple feature. Share intents are much, much better in Android.
Zero rating isn't free, there are bits transiting the network in all cases. That transit costs actual resource and is paid for.

It's a trope when someone points out that google isn't free, and if you are getting something for free then you are not the customer actual. With zero rating, it's not even free! So then you ".. pay a fixed monthly amount .." to be the carrier's product, no?
As Yelp finishes flushing itself down the toilet, I wonder what opportunities can open up for similar services that actually provide value?
Given previous versions of this enclosure (with I believe the same exterior dimensions) managed to fit the computer plus two 2.5” old school hard disks, Apple clearly could engineer the interior of this device to fit a much, much smaller m2 SSD. This is a question of engineering choices, not physical space limitations.

In this case the engineering choice was probably driven at least in part by the desire to take advantage of the T2’s line rate encryption features, which so far has never been supported on removable/upgradeable storage mediums (at least as far as I am aware - the T2 drive encryption is a separate feature from FileVault, which is supported on removable media). Even on the iMac Pro which technically has removable flash storage, to my knowledge no one has yet managed to produce a T2 compatible after market third party upgrade.

Thankfully thunderbolt 3 removes much of the advantage internal storage media traditionally enjoys, at least in performance terms, so there are reasonable upgrade paths.
distance to quarry would only affect stone latency, not stone throughput, anyway :D
Because it should be legal for the owner of a store to decide not to sell a product, whatever the reason.
It's not even close to the best experience.

Often when I "open in the app", I just get sent to the homepage of my app with no way to find the random post I had been trying to view.
This reminds me of Tumblr, which I'm sure none of you have heard of or remember :) But seriously it's always like "Open in the Tumblr app for the best experience." I finally gave it a try and it was a serious downgrade in my opinion!
How do self-driving cars see?
Every time I see SemiAccurate I remember their love for AMD and their constant, unending hate for Nvidia: https://semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-board...

I don't have any dog in this fight, SA is just a terrible news source.
Also important: children became liabilities instead of being assets. Nearly all labour which a child could contribute to has been automated or reduced.

In countries where children can be trusted with the responsibility of doing something economically useful, birth rates continue to be high.
> Who decides which organizations are part of the fourth estate?

In the United States, given our Constitution enumerates certain freedoms for the press, there is a rich corpus of case law drawing this delineation. I am not sure if such a corpus exists in the EU, and am fairly certain it does not exist in every one of the EU's twenty-eight member states.
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My screen reader, Orca under Linux, read those as "sigma" and "almost equal to." So I suppose those work, though I'd have to hit Google to find out how to type them. :)
> Friends of friends of friends? Complete strangers?

That's how it's supposed to work. lol But I guess the likes of Facebook among other social pressures has changed all of that.

I'm so glad I gave up on dating.
Yeah. I'm entirely convinced that if not in GDPR, they would have found a method to go after these journalists in another law. GDPR has the added benefit of being able to blame it on "we have to comply with EU laws" though.
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The source presumably had the information lawfully and, under GDPR, owed a duty to the subject of the information to (i) protect it from disclosure, and (ii) notify the subject of the information in the event of a breach or unlawful disclosure. However, GDPR does not extend that duty to protect/disclose when the data in question is being used for journalistic purposes. I suspect the corrupt government is just as eager to find the source of their leak as they are to bully these journalists into silence.

This is what the demand letter requests[1]:

- The purpose and legal basis of publishing on the Internet (Facebook) of personal data, at the adress https://www.facebook.com/notes/rise-project/teleormanleaks/1...

- The date/period of time when the said personal data was published on your Facebook account;

- The source from where the personal data published on Facebook was obtained;

- The support (electronic and/or physical) where you stored the documents/images published on Facebook;

- If the mobile storage devices (tablet, HDD, memory stick) were/are password protected or encrypted;

- If you have other information/documents containing personal data of the said people;

- If the personal data or documents that contain personal data of the said people were revealed in other circumstances - with the specification of these circumstances;

- The way in which you informed the said people, in conformity with Art. 13-14 of GDPR.

[1] https://www.occrp.org/en/16-other/other-articles/8876-englis...

edit: formatting
I can assure this will not happen in Bulgaria and in Turkey (which is not an EU member but has a similar data protection law), because disclosed sources might reveal possible sources and uncover state corruption, to the point of invalidating a whole election.
> sperm rates in women remain constant
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Regarding SQLite, here's the official tune (https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html#why_isn_t_sqlite_coded_in_a...):

----

All that said, it is possible that SQLite might one day be recoded in Rust. Recoding SQLite in Go is unlikely since Go hates assert(). But Rust is a possibility. Some preconditions that must occur before SQLite is recoded in Rust include:

A Rust needs to mature a little more, stop changing so fast, and move further toward being old and boring.

B Rust needs to demonstrate that it can be used to create general-purpose libraries that are callable from all other programming languages.

C Rust needs to demonstrate that it can produce object code that works on obscure embedded devices, including devices that lack an operating system.

D Rust needs to pick up the necessary tooling that enables one to do 100% branch coverage testing of the compiled binaries.

E Rust needs a mechanism to recover gracefully from OOM errors.

F Rust needs to demonstrate that it can do the kinds of work that C does in SQLite without a significant speed penalty.

If you are a "rustacean" and feel that Rust already meets the preconditions listed above, and that SQLite should be recoded in Rust, then you are welcomed and encouraged to contact the SQLite developers privately and argue your case.

----

I follow the Rust story from afar, so I don't know the status of every one of these points.

B and F (FFI and speed) are covered.

C and E (embedded story and OOM recovery) is being actively worked on.

A will improve with time (for example, I suppose that the Rust 2015 dialect will settle at some point, feature-wise, once Rust 2018 is out).

D (branch coverage of compiled binaries) is on the radar, but not addressed yet.
facebook? twitter users? we are all the press
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I assume there's also a correlation of the form that more professionally produced (and frequently released) podcasts tend to be more popular and tend to be more likely to need ads to pay for them. (And go away absent being popular and having ads.)

Simple interview or discussion-style podcasts are pretty easy and cheap to produce. They're probably not as popular in general but they're often just some sideline so it's often not even worth it to deal with advertising.
exceptions are left entirely to local governments. That went well

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-85-gdpr/
Hey, first time writing a blog post on AI and I'd love to get your feedback.
For example, should I dive more deeply into the details or maybe make it shorter and more high-level?
Thanks! :)
> technically, the state is always judge, jury and executioner

Pardon me, I meant to say "prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner." In jury trials, the jury is the jury. Not the government. And in American civil cases, the prosecutor is a private citizen's attorneys. Not the state.

GDPR's structure is highly state-reliant. It's analogous to securities regulation in the United States. Any complaint triggers an investigation by the state, with the state able to bring and decide on charges and fines.

If you trust your government, this isn't a big deal. If you don't trust your government, it is horrific.
I've booted my iMac from an external thunderbolt SSD for years. Once you set it to boot from an external SSD, it will happily continue doing so.

Much faster than the real slow hdd it came with at least, plus I don't have to open it up to clear out the data when I'm finally done with it.

I still have yet to figure out how to create a similar hassle-free "live" booting environment which works across various hardware for windows and linux.
What is wrong with people in Japan? I understand that the entity of the country is of lower standing relative to other countries due to population stagnation, but for the individual, who cares about your country's global standing if your country's members are better off on average?
The "Best ofs" I know of are generally concensus based though. If I asked 10 people in my area who are foodies, they would all generally agree with the results of what the best "Japanese restaurants" are in town. Having been to Japan myself (and speak conversational Japanese), I know what good quality Japanese food tastes like. I also know which local restaurants make their own noodles in-house VS those that don't, b/c I know most of the owners.

Zagat unfortunately missed the mark on 3 restaurants. There aren't many Japanese restaurants in my town to begin with though. It isn't even a matter of price either. All 3 I'm thinking of, one is on the cheap-end, another mid-level, and another highend.

So I find this margin of error to be enormously large. It's okay if 1 of them was on that list, but all 3 is just unusual. Plus some didn't even have a listing on that site.

I have never heard of anyone actually using Zagat either, besides the plaques I see on restaurants to showcase their awards.
would you mind expounding a bit on how this might work in application?
A second anecdote, every single communication for me is over FB messenger or iMessage. I occasionally get SMS messages but I refuse to use SMS long-term with my android friends, you just miss out on too many features.
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What does that say about all of the additional gun restrictions and laws passed recently?
" to certain people, e.g. the fourth estate"

And who exactly belongs to that category?

... is the issue.

It has to be defined based on activity, not a class of individuals wherein there's no real means to classify.
Sex workers have a screening process that demands your IRL identity for safety.

Turns out doxxing/stalking can always happen, but knowing someone's identity still makes you safer. For one, it gives you recourse. In Facebook's case, it also gives people social proof and precisely helps avoid the sort of troglodyte that's going to stalk you. When I see that I have mutual friends with someone on Tinder, I certainly have asked my mutual friend about that person just like you would do when dating through your existing friends, like that woman you met at your friend's dinner party.

Also, most dating in human history has happened through immediate social channels where you know someone's identity. I don't see what alternative you're proposing except blind dating with strangers with zero social proof. Yeah, women aren't going to do that for safety concerns.
More insultingly, if you have the app and click Open in App, they take you to the App Store even if you have the app installed.
The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights
If it’s gonna be more crowded than peak season, I’d rather not, unfortunately.
turkey is not in the EU
> Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (published in 1945) and The Watch That Ends the Night (published in 1959) are valiant if flawed attempts to depict Canada’s struggle with its own identity in the middle years of the twentieth century.

I’d say the characterization applied to other works also applies to MacLennan:

> These novels omnivorously took in cross-sections of society...

Even with the apparent confusion around Canadian identity depicted in literature, there are plenty of examples in the article where the cross-sections are well described.

I enjoyed the article nonetheless.
A native client could do.
Yes, but that is not really why the birth rate is dropping. The cause is that more women are choosing (who can choose, really) to not have children, or to have fewer children.
All of them. Anyone who publishes is part of the 4th estate. People who exploit your personal data privately do not.
If it was your own family at a wedding? Seriously? You can tell us with honesty that you would classify the brutal murder of your own family as worthwhile because there was some resistance fighters in your country that happen to be in your area and a foreign power wanted to eradicate them with air to ground missiles? Hmm. It cannot possibly be true.
Disclaimer: self-promotion

I worked at reddit for almost 4 years, but quit and started a non-profit so I could work on building a site that would be able to stick to the principles I believe are important: no advertising or investors, open-source, privacy, higher-quality content, etc.

It's not incredibly active yet since it's in invite-only alpha, but it gets several hundred posts a day and is coming along well. There's more info in this blog post (including how to request an invite): https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

Just send me an email if you're interested and I'll give you an invite. It's not intended to be much of a barrier, I just want to keep the growth controlled for now while we get base features and site culture built up.
people who installed our news reader app were 4-8 times more engaged

Of course they were more engaged, they're the tiny minority that cared enough to find and download your app.

You have't adressed the most important point in the article - people simply don't want hundreds of apps on their phone.
I prefer the alternative not-using.reddit.com
> "Arguably folks should be more comfortable with Facebook now given all the scrutiny they have gone through in terms of their recent missteps because everyone is watching everything they have done,"

That's quite the logic we have here. I feel sorry for anyone who buys it.
> Cost of raising a child has sky rocketed.

No, the cost hasn’t risen much. People are just buying a standard of living for their children that didn’t exist for any human alive 150 years ago. It’s an important difference.
Naïve vegans are spreading incredible lies and damaging the farming industry
At least for your ‘run it once in the entire cluster’ I can offer a simple solution: curator has a ‘master_only’ flag that makes it execute only on the elected master. You can run it on all nodes, but on all other nodes, the run will end up a noop: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator...
Last I knew, Braille displays are also pretty expensive, slow, and prone to breakage. Cool idea, but doesn’t work as well as a screenreader in practice for most people.
> Anyone who publishes is part of the 4th estate.

"Anyone who publishes" would be a lousy exemption for privacy requirements. Facebook puts out blog posts. Does that count as publishing?

The history of the freedom of the press in the United States [1] is worth perusing, particularly the recent case law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_Un...
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Interesting. Is rabies endemic in Poland?
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You weren’t that far off. Close enough that someone could find it.
Is this really a problem? America seems to place far more importance on the freedom of an individual to scam or fleece other people, rather than on protecting people from their own weaknesses.

Scammy for-profit colleges seem like one of dozes of byproducts of this mentality and there's no reason to think Americans would like to have it any other way. In fact, it often seems to me as if Americans reserve extra respect for these scammers for being so good that they're able to convince and con so many people.
> I wonder what would happen if you ran a golang wasm binary on a the golang wagon WASM interpereter

IIRC it won't quite work because the plumbing required for WASM on the host side isn't done there yet [0]. The plumbing is mostly [1]. In a project I did on the side to reduce Go WASM size and startup time [2], I built just enough of this plumbing to solve my needs. Go initially targets only JS [3], so sadly us with non-web use cases might have to wait.

0 - https://github.com/go-interpreter/wagon/issues/69
1 - https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/misc/wasm/wasm_exec...
2 - https://github.com/cretz/go-wasm-bake
3 - https://github.com/neelance/go/pull/7#issuecomment-377298992
Well this was certainly an interesting link form the same page:

https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/8813-a-...

"But the victim of the brutal rape and murder was Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova — and her last broadcast was about the theft of hundreds of millions of euros from European Union-funded programs in her country.

Even those who had never heard of the so-called “GP scandal” certainly know about it now.

In the program, which aired just six days before she was killed, Marinova interviewed reporters from OCCRP’s Bulgarian partner, Bivol and its Romanian partner, the RISE Project."
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Thanks for that. Some of those points are actually reasonable, and a journalist should be comfortably within rights to respond that sources need to be kept secret, and comment why/how/why not subjects were alerted to the publication (perhaps given a chance to comment).

Hopefully this'll go to court and set a precedent that more in line with the spirit of the gdpr.
I like "promo pill". That's exactly what it feels like.
Art. 85 of the GDPR defines the exemptions in terms of how the data is used, not with respect to who uses it.

> For processing carried out for journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression, Member States shall provide for exemptions or derogations ... if they are necessary to reconcile the right to the protection of personal data with the freedom of expression and information.

You can of course shift the argument to "what is journalism?", which does indeed have some fuzzy boundaries, but to claim that investigating and exposing widespread government corruption is anywhere near those fuzzy boundaries is a stretch, to say the least.
You are pointing out some real problems, but your attempt to pin them all on capitalism ("the almighty dollar") is incoherent and fallacious.

It's not "capitalism" turning young people to Tinder, which is dirt cheap. Capitalism as a system would much rather them start families and have lots of babies. Raising one kid yields far more purchases than a Tinder Plus subscription and a pack of prophylactics.

It is certainly not the "capitalism" strawman pushing aggressive gender politics. Most of these are based on Marxist studies, and closely associated with socialist and Marxist views and movements, that is - the opposite of capitalism.

In short, you invoked a bunch of very different problems with current American culture, bundled them together and strapped the collective label "capitalism" onto them, so now you have a single throat to cut to cure all that is ill with society. Unfortunately, it's not a single problem, and certainly does not have a single cause.

You're also ignoring agency completely. Nobody "pushed" people to use Tinder. They could keep dating seriously and getting married at 23 like they did in the 50s. They don't do that because they don't want to.
Bingo. Its worth a few hundred dollars to me to never see MS Windows again.

And I can’t run my music hobby software on Linux, at least not easily.
And the more people we have, the larger the world economy, the greater the ability to undertake projects to mitigate climate change, alleviate suffering, etc.

Think about it like so: US carbon emissions are ~19 tons per person per year. Carbon offsets range wildly in price with $40 per ton a very conservative (high) estimate. So an American's carbon emissions "costs" < $1k a year. Even if this is off by a factor of 5, it is still small compared to an individual's productive capacity and earning potential.

If the US were to prioritize fighting climate change, then a larger and more powerful US economy would be a very good thing. Obviously that goes for other developed countries as well.
I'll bite. What would you like to see changed?
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Although the DPA can fine them for the leak/disclosure , what is the basis for asking the rest of the stuff (purpose, source) ? I dont think it's gdpr
I don't see any mention of Office on the page you linked?
You forgot to shill for Jordan Peterson.
Op is talking about growth, not current standing. Japan looks good now, but that will change in the future without growth.
Heh every post about Apple products has this comment, doesn't it?
Like in that movie from the 90s, "The Rock"

*sadly, not actually staring Dwayne Johnson