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The “witness statement” comes from disgraced former Ukranian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, and was made directly to Dmitry Firtash’s legal team. Firtash is a Ukranian oligarch linked to the Russian mafia. It’s not entirely clear to me yet what Shokin is getting out of it.

Firtash is trading his willingness to manufacture fake dirt on Biden in return for the Trump administration dropping his extradition to the US to stand trial for corruption. He has been stranded in Vienna for years, and wants to go back to running his mob-tied business empire.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/the-debunked-biden-a...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/watch-this-closely-n...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03/giuliani-claims-ukraine...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oligarch-used-giul...

etc.

Shokin’s affadavit is full of holes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/timeline-...
Zuck's social status and financial position enables him to influence way more people than most individuals can. As the parent of this thread stated, he has way more power.
It's not ridiculous to say the urbanest area should try to set an example for other urban areas
> All electronic voting machines should output a paper human readable 'scantron' type ballot that is safely stored for verifying the internal digital tally.

And then that ballot should be what is actually tabulated and the internal digital tally ignored, or not even kept. The machine should be a device to facilitate creation of accurate, easily tabulated paper ballots, period.
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No, what makes our roads deadly is cars. Things with engines in them that can power a street of suburban homes. Never pedestrians.
I agree with a lot of this, but I have not worked ANYWHERE that a high level IC engineer doesn't get paid more than a first level manager. As a manager myself, until I got quite senior, I always had more than one person on my team who made substantially more than I did.
They're both submitted by the same author.
You say this as if it were something simple or even possible to achieve. How do you tell the difference between political and non-political money? Not taking money directly from campaigns is easy enough, but that’s not where most of the ‘political money’ comes from. What about every dollar that’s spent to promote a political idea that doesn’t come directly from a campaign? How do you even discern between a political idea and a non-political one? There’s no way to do any of that from a neutral position, because all of that is highly subjective.
You mean like the hamburger shown at the menu and the hamburger you get for real.
Coincidentally, 8chan's owner, Jim Watkins, is seemingly considering a ham radio link for "8kun", 8chan's purported new manifestation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGDwLG9x4tI
Sure, but that does not include the rest of the information of the comment I quoted
The responsibility of handling and interpreting misinformation needs to be shifted to the consumer. People will lie to you almost every day, and you must figure out how to deal with it.

The validity of information should be vetted by those consuming it, not an entity who is in any kind of power. If enough people think someone is lying or untruthful, with enough evidence, then the content should be flagged, labeled, or potentially taken down, because every consumer had the opportunity to contribute their perspective leading up to handling said content.

We need to move away from the idea that certain authorities in our lives (governments, companies, organizations, or any entity with significant power) can determine what's true or not, because it's highly likely to be biased in either direction.

It's incredibly easy for a collective body to double cross their word—to say one thing and intend another at the expense of those who aren't in power.

The problem is, when an organization makes the decision to censor content, it is usually a very small few who make that biased decision on behalf of the—seemingly big—company. Effectively, it is a small team, or even one or two people, unless it's done by a dedicated team of moderators driven by policies, procedures—or worse: bribery—that may or may not be something those individuals believe in.

When it's left to the people interacting with that content, it's their choice in how to deal with it individually or collectively. That is maximum freedom. To enforce censorship, as a government or organization, is to assume that consumers are idiots, and that's not an assumption they should be making.
Funny meme on the wall at Google: Picture of Governor Tarkin on the Death Star captioned, "Documentation? At our moment of triumph?" Still makes me laugh.
Yeah it was more failure to protect myself, really. I was 18 at the time and still early in my work career.
For any poor soul reading this AND regularily reading journalctl output on a black background AND using xterm; Add this to your .Xresources:

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It made my ... friends life a lot better
Exactly. I work in digital advertising and we just don't take political or issue based campaigns. The spend isn't worth it. The hassle isn't worth it. The optics aren't worth it.
Publicly stating your opposition to a contentious issue your company is facing isn't exactly an easy thing to do. Workplace marginalization is a real thing.
This is literally blaming the victim.

Pedestrians aren't carrying a multi-tonne vehicle that can kill people. Traffic lights are for drivers, and it's drivers who should pay attention.

The first step to fixing traffic deaths is fixing the laws that make causing a traffic accident more affordable than paying attention on the road. Right now you can drive while using a cellphone and run over as many people as you want if your excuse is "they came out of nowhere".
I disagree here strongly. It is not the best option. Statistics has become the tool of obfuscation and making exaggerated claims.

Compare the two statements: "10 out of 80 people that took the drug lived a month longer but were extremely miserable."

Versus: "A new cancer drug doubles the average survival rates scientists say".

Which one do you understand better? Here I just made up some examples, but as a scientist I'll tell you just about all the papers I read are in the second category, it takes an unreasonable amount of effort to get the first type of infomration out of the publications.
No, people are mad because here we have a totalitarian, protectionist, mercantilist nation that has no rule of law governing their people or their economy and subsidizing and weaponizing their companies to slowly strangle western economies by stealing their IP and defrauding foreign investors.

You can get pretty far when you lie, cheat, and steal, especially when there isn't anyone there to punish you. I wouldn't call that first-fiddle "superior Chinese culture" though.
I assume it's because the only devices with that chip can identify themselves as being "in ear". So you don't have your phone loudly announcing an embarrassing message for everyone to hear (as my gf's Alexa tried to do).

The problem is you could conceivably enable this in a "safe" setting like your car...only to have an embarrassing message spoken on an occasion when you have a passenger in your car.
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They don't want to exercise editorial control of their ads because "fact checking" crosses the chasm of media company vs not-a-media company.

They super duper don't want to be called a media company.

They're simply a publisher. ;)
After the hurricane, for the next 2-3 days there were no working ATMs (that we found) in San Juan. Luckily, we had around 120$ in cash handy which we carefully spent. After that we had to queue up for 1h+ in the torrid sun at one of the few ATMs which had any cash. If I remember well there was a limit of 100$ withdrawal.
It does not, as well anyone without an axe to grind should know. He can influence other people's +1; even if only fractionally, that adds up.

There's a reason Murdoch is feared by UK politicians, why Berlusconi had such leverage even in the face of scandal. Media controls perception.
It's surprising to me that they'd run it by the editorial board. How do you know?

I mean, sure, newspapers have policies for acceptable ads, but don't they try to keep editorial and advertising separate?

Example:

"The Minnesota Daily at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, houses its news staff and advertising staff separately and does not hold meetings between the groups."

https://splc.org/2018/10/student-media-guide-to-publishing-p...
NYC faces problems at a scale that make it much more difficult to get done than in a lot of cities. It's not ridiculous to suggest they try, but it also doesn't naturally follow: NYC and Des Moines are not solving the same problem.
I'm not qualified to answer, but just wanted to let you know that I found this post hard to parse. The last point is a constraint and not an assumption, but the others are. The second point is not a property of a problem, but the others are. They also all have different moods. And I don't know what "SE" is in this context.
IIRC, Zuck has debated running in the future. Having Facebook with that power would probably benefit.
You know what really makes no sense, the choice to use that font for the title of the article. I mean holy readability nightmare.
lots of deliveries are made on high speed motorized bikes they go year round
I think any bluetooth headphone can do this. That's why the fitness trackers don't implement it.
I haven't tried that.
Excellent example, thanks. I read somewhere that Lem was unhappy with both (by Tarkovsky and Soderbergh) adaptations because they didn't put the if we encounter aliens they will be too alien to communicate idea front and center like he did.

I agree with your last point, that would well-suited to criticism, too, maybe even better.
One thing those three languages have in common is that they are almost syntax-less. Each, in its own particular way, allows user defined code to process tokens of the program source before it gets to the core interpreter, allowing users to implement custom control structures and DSLs.
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How is Facebooks ad pricing structured? Do people pay Facebook on the amount of users Facebook claims it will reach or by actually views counted by whether or not it loaded or was clicked?

It seems possible that Facebook could charge people claiming it will reach 10 million users even if every single one of those people ends up blocking it.
I bike to work year-round in NYC, and so do many other people. It doesn't actually snow that much, and when it does, it's generally cleared pretty quickly. One thing the city should do to be better on that front is buy some bike-lane-sized snow clearing machines; we currently only have truck-sized snow plows, so the streets are cleared better than the bike lanes.

The biggest problem I have with biking in the winter is when it gets brutally cold, which doesn't happen that often, hardly at all in the past few years. There was this one particularly horrible winter several years back when it was terribly cold for weeks on end, and that was rough.
Yet, that one is right next door to a very frequently deployed political lie: $POLITICIAN voted against $VOTER_DESIRED_POLICY, when in fact what they did was vote against some massive bill primarily about some other topic entirely that contained some head nod towards $VOTER_DESIRED_POLICY that may or may not even have done anything, or voted against a bill that did indeed have $VOTER_DESIRED_POLICY but had so much other crap in it they couldn't vote for it for some unrelated reason.

Teasing that sort of thing out is above the pay grade of anyone Facebook is going to hire to resolve it.
It's just a fake "as an X" to try to make the arguments have more weight.
They should have a 'truth' button to accompany the 'like' button, and so people can see who thinks something is 'true', and if they identify with that group. Then there is no censorship, and people also get some sort of crowdsourced 'truth' value that allows them to see the source of bias.
Facebook makes way more than a couple hundred $$M that they spent in last elections. And the cost of being broken up post election is far higher, so it definitely doesn't make economic sense for them
> BitBucket support

You mean mercurial?
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This is sort of a spiritual sequel to

Can a biologist fix a radio?--Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12242150
The US sets a very low standard. The downfall of the wellfare state in Sweden is very obvious.
You're being irrational with that fear. Cyclists are basically never killed by other cyclists or pedestrians.

In fact, 5 of the last 8 years had zero pedestrian deaths due to collisions with cyclists. [1]

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikestats.shtm...
I think that's an old CVS/SVN trick that didn't come forward into git.

There's a token pattern you can put into files that gets
updated at commit time.
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THIS THIS THIS!

Exactly what excited us about building Duffel in the first place. (After we struggled to get access to a decent travel booking API ourselves).

We want to give everyone the opportunity to sell travel products, anywhere.
Similarly, we have paid much more attention to the ~10s of deaths from the Fukushima nuclear disaster but somehow conveniently ignore the ~20,000 deaths from the tsunami that caused the disaster.
What this ignores is that there is a finite amount of ads one can run.

It would be easy enough for Facebook to classify ads as political/non-political and for political ads have more scrutiny over what they decide to air. And have strict penalties against those who choose to mis-classify their ads.

Or make political ads visibile publicly for anyone to search for details as to who created them, how much they paid, how many people were targeted.

All these are valid solutions to the problem, but Facebook doesn't want to do it, because if they can get away with what they're doing right now, they can make a ton of ad money.
Facebook probably has considerably less media power than TV stations of old. But that was ok, because they got regulated.
Do you know anything about autoeurope.eu?
I am renting there for years, sometimes months in a row, and nothing and no one can compare with prices + coverage.
They somehow squeeze big players like Alamo and Hertz, providing exceptional prices for their rentals
Easy: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/recursion-2.2.4.0/docs/Co...

Also:

subsets = filterM (pure [True, False])
It doesn't snow that often in NYC either. These past few winters it's only snowed a few times in any significant amount (i.e. actual accumulation on roadways; flurries or snow that doesn't stick doesn't count).
How do you do "bipartisan counting" and validation in an all digital voting system? Reading the same digital information twice, doesn't verify it.

If you have paper ballots, sure, but the US does not have paper ballots in some states and won't by the next national election. And even if they did (as many do), few states have a uniform system of random vote audits.

So I'm not sure what you're referring to with this:

> There are enough checks in the system (bipartisan counting and validation committees) that a pure digital compromise of an election that would not be flagged and detected is very small.

I literally read the Diebold Voting machine source code (and tabulator) that was leaked (twice). There's nothing remotely like that in there. There's no facility to do that. And while most of those are now retired, there's similar machines that work exactly the same way still in usage.
Thanks for the example. Once I did some analytics consulting with a stealth startup with some very talented engineers. One of them was usingusing rsync to replicate their data from their eng server to the analytics server, and I (not a software engineer, but familiar with shell) was initially like "that's it? You're just using rsync instead of <complex, paid replication tool>?" But it was the simplest and most straightforward tool for the job.
Direct mail is entirely different. The campaign doesn't need anyone's prior permission to do it, and it might not even be sent by the campaign.
So bad docs because they list a way you don't approve of?
They do list a number of different ways. They could have used intval() for example 4 because I prefer it but it doesn't take away from the docs or make them bad.

Do you have a method that makes sprintf with d value invalid?
> "We have to upgrade right now because everything is on fire!",

I don't know exactly how it relates to the broader "tech debt" discussion, but one thing that can make a big difference is to design systems in such a way that there are obvious strain indicators.

To quote Firefly, ways the system can "let you know she's hurting before she keels.".

How exactly you do that depends on what you're building, but I think it's a worthwhile thing to keep in mind.

Can't think of any specific example off the top of my head, but I've noticed that lots of places talk about needing people to be "on call" all the time. We are a very small shop with some fairly high profile clients, and "everything's on fire" situations happen maybe once every year or two. And are then mitigated by fixing the code in such a way that there are diagnostics to let us know if we're ending up in dangerous territory again. Before everything goes Kaboom.
They just need to pass an ordinance stating it's totally legal to key cars parked in bike lanes. Problem solved!
Well, Bitcoin is good enough for these use cases even if it's only pseudo-anonymous.

But I do agree that the current valuation of Bitcoin is to a very large part driven by speculation, and from the network effect. As some comments here point to, Monero isn't even widely known despite being technically superior in many ways.
I was impressed with traction on the Citibike-style bicycles here in Minneapolis the last time I tried one in the snow. The tires aren’t so huge that they always stay on top, but they get pretty decent traction.
Anyone have a link to the letter that isn't behind a paywall?
That’s why you should order from places you have actually been to. I wouldn’t say the service is any different then.

But again, you say you’re not in the market for 20 quid takeaways - then how much are you willing to pay for food?

That’s how much it costs to eat in London unless you’re going for cheapish fried chicken or a really bad pizza.
You could and probably should promote this to the Elixir community too. Especially the OTP parts are very relevant fundamental knowledge for any Elixir dev.
I'm not really sure how to answer that question without just saying how extremely obvious it is that a massive national (and international) company would benefit massively from having influence over USA national politics.
ans to dead question.

> Do they pay people to do this?

Yes you fucking bet they do.
If we ever are in doubt of the system and ask to verify it, those voting machines are essentially just really expensive pencils.
> The best people to make that determination are the customers themselves.

The only time you should not tip is when the service is bad.

IME, many servers don't seem to think they got stiffed for poor service, but instead blame the customer for being cheap. That's why I always leave something, but at a percentage relative to the service. It's probably the same outcome in the servers' minds, but at least I know I tried to convince them otherwise.
As a pedestrian, I've often thought that. There are no cars coming (in the direction that has the right of way), but if I wait, the cars waiting to turn might not yield to me.

My threshold for cars entering my personal space is clearly different than drivers. I've had drivers accelerate toward me and pass me with 1-2' of space. Way too close.

My rule, as a driver is simple: never accelerate toward a pedestrian. That means I have to stay on the break until they are not in front of me.

The law, btw, says that you can't go into the crosswalk until the pedestrian is has made it onto the sidewalk. At least, in CA that is the law. I was warned once, by a LEO about this.
This article and all the people involved speaking on how the older generations decided or "pushed" to get training or "your job will not exist in a few years."

Why it is not up to the company, after making the move to change technology to train it's employees? They did so in this article, because they did not have access to enough potential new hire...

You do not make a change of technology that big in one day; this is a year-long process. Therefore, you can plan the training for your workforce because it is the right thing to do.
Good question. D1_v2, D2_v2 and NV6 have them, because I use them day-to-day. I have some E4, I'll have to check.
It's more complicated than that. Pedal-assist e-bikes are now legal, but throttle-control e-bikes still aren't (although in theory they're supposed to be legalized soon). The latter constitutes the vast majority of e-bikes on the streets here.
Wait, isn't it like any other market which already has long lasting players?

If you want no competition -- find a new market (and win it). Otherwise you have to be smarter and faster than existing players.
Because you can walk search trees from their root but not from their leafs.
More content coming soon - there is tons of stuff we want to share about the industry.

Definitely not planning to spend a large portion of that $30M on PPC, maybe just $25M.

joking!
You mean create a brain by convetion i.E. having intercouse of course.

Given raw cellular material, gtca biological code samples, design an organic chemical engine "brain" capable of self replication, repair and inference?

Its sorting through the 4.5 billion years of leftover legacy dna code that makes it tedious to understand.
They're not. You can find the full details on each and every cyclist fatality in the city from news reports and such, and e-bikes are a small minority of deaths.
Is this a general tip you're giving, or is there specifically pieces of information you feel are being too opaque in the text at this point?
I think they are working in new territories. Their options now are allow all candidate for public office ads or refuse all of such ads. The tendency, given our 1A context would be to allow all.

But I think the Congress should step in and set the rules for how companies should govern this new territory. Not doing so leaves an important aspect of democracy in the hands of companies to make decisions for politicians.
This gets awkward when you would have to distribute unequal pieces of e.g. chicken. Although I guess you could make a live "reverse claw machine" for added entertainment...
I cook for myself and get higher quality food at a fraction of the price.

I generally reserve eating out for when I'm on the go or want to have a night out with friends. It's very rare that I buy takeaway food to eat at home. One of the best parts about being at home is having a kitchen.

Decent quality prepared food is expensive in a ton of places, this isn't an exclusively London thing by any stretch of the imagination.
I didn't see any mention of onion routing. There's several references to the "Deep Web", but that's in the context of file-sharing peer-to-peer networks.
I completely forgot about this. This code is very beautiful too. Norvig doesn't take a bruteforce approach, his codes are worth studying, his sudoku solver is just as good too.
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Why are the only two options to let ads through or reject them? How about, fact check them and visibly mark them as being potentially false and a link to more details. This should make both sides happy: Zuck who believes the public should decide for themselves, and the rest.