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In this thread I am seeing both "this story is already running non-stop on Fox, there's no censorship", and "if the editors didn't censor this, it would poison the election, and that's too big of a risk."
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> There was a time when journalists cared about the truth

There have always been journalists who cared about the truth, but there has never been a time when that was generally dominant over the business, political, etc., interests of publishers, who have always been, for the entire history of journalism (which has been entirely embedded within the capitalist age), very deeply intertwined with those of the capitalist ruling class, of whom publishers, especially of major, highly-visible media outlets, are generally a part.
Society would be so much better off if every IP troll lobbying group fell off the face of the planet.
In the general sense, it's not a new problem.

One of the main points I got from Chomsky & Herman's _Manufacturing Consent_ (1988, analyzing news from a decade earlier), is that journalists print what the government says because it's convenient -- it's less work to print what the government (or anyone else) says at a press conference than to do your own research -- AND even when it comes to privately given info, because they need to maintain the relationships with government (and other powerful) sources, if you make a government source mad, and they stop giving info, how are you going to get that privileged info to write your stories?

Journalists develop "sources", and relationships with those sources, and then there are pressures to serve the interests of those sources. Sources are usually powerful people (whether government or "socialites"), because that's who has valuable info on an ongoing basis, generally.
Not only that, but Mars is smaller than the Earth. Even best case for teraforming all of it into paradise and shipping half the world's population there gives ~one more population doubling time to being "full" again. Planets are not an efficient way to make surface living space with all that matter inside them.

Whatever you think of the difficulty or possibility of it, it will be easier to work out how to support 2x or 5x the current human population on Earth, compared to the effort and difficulty involved in supporting 0.001x the population (~8 million people) on Mars.
"Letting readers decide who is right" is always good thing. But they rarely do that. Most take the spicy title (or out-of-context incorrect quote from Twitter) which reaffirms their opinion and run with it. They share, like and subscribe. And the article keeps being shared, liked and subscribed for months, even if it was disproven minutes after it was published. So instead of being a way to find the truth the article ends up being a way to validate missinformation.

I don't know what the solution to this problem is. Just wanted to point out that "letting them decide" has a lot of problems.
Yes, the Inuit quite clearly thrived in the arctic:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_cuisine
>"Like-minded individuals" and people who share your citizenship are not the same.

Of all the people in the world the people geographically close to you and that share citizenship or nationality are the most likely to think like you or share goals that benefit both parties.
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Go look at all the comments being downvoted. It's insane how many reasonable, common-sense arguments are being downvoted into oblivion.

HN has a serious astroturfing problem and I can only imagine who's behind it.
That's really flexible. I think you're missing a chance to show TimescaleDB mopping the floor with RDS on throughput and tail latency on the high IO instances on a cost per transaction basis - for regular Postgres tables and workloads - time series features aside. There's a good blog post waiting there.

I didn't know about the one-click online migration, even between regions and clouds, that's huge! It's not a feature RDS will ever have for obvious reasons.
5% if you are lucky :)
I have no idea about the veracity of the story, but Hunter Biden went to Georgetown and Yale Law and was EVP at a massive bank holding company and founded a lobbying firm.. That resume is every bit as impressive as most people in the 'business world'.

Describing him as a "drug addict with no skills" is very misleading.
Good episode.
You're propagating disinfo - in the real sense of the word, not the modern Orwellian meaning - with this line of criticism. Because this is a story that has absolutely been vetted, but the issue is all of the left-leaning mainstream media (read: literally everyone except parts of Fox News) have absolutely refused to cover this story.

Do you really believe if the same story were about a member of the Trump family, that NPR would refuse to cover it?

One more point on credibility - we literally have videos, images, text messages, e-mails of which the other recipients have been confirmed - this is all basically undeniable at this point. So the only question is, is the actual story of how the material was obtained (the laptop repair shop) true, or was the material hacked and then they basically used parallel construction to hide the true origins? That's a fine question to ask, but if you think that the material itself is false that's just completely incredible.
> You haven't lost anything yet, as you haven't sold them.

That's not how it works. The difference between a realized loss and an unrealized loss is only tax consequences. If your shares have a book value of $1200 from when you bought them yesterday and a market value of $1000 right now, you could have bought the same number of shares today and had an additional $200 in cash. You're holding the same number of shares in both scenarios but your net worth is $200 lower if you bought yesterday. Obviously any dividends received since the time of purchase would change the net outcome.

The "you don't lose until you sell" meme is self-rationalization popular on reddit and in the Bitcoin community.
Interested to hear how people are using this product? I've tried experimenting with building frontend apps in a way where it's easy to see what users are doing in the past to help with research.
Which one are they? Activists or business people? Saying that they are both doesn’t hold water.
No, I lookup the hotel's actual phone number. I don't rely on any contact info on hotels.com, only their map data of where the hotels are and rates for rough pricing.
So there is one shady person who says he is real but who can’t prove anything and other people in the emails deny them. Of course if the emails are fake then the forgers would include a confederate as one of the people in the chain.
Perhaps his story fills in some of those holes? We'll see when he publishes it on his own.
They can be cross referenced with the information that's in the emails. Many have already done this. A business partner, Bobulinski, and a gmail account of one of his partners serving in prison. This is a moving story. The non-interest in even trying to verify it, as pointed out by Greenwald, is very concerning.
Or just a bitter man being kicked out of the club?
2c he'll be in a Trump/Republican aligned newspaper/media corp next week
>it's because it is a side effect of the massive production of Broadcom chips for tablets, phones, embedded

There was exactly one product using same BCM2835 chip found in first Pee, Roku2. VideoCore 4 architecture (but different silicon) was also used in few Samsung phones, and Nokia 808 as GPU only (no CPU cores).

Broadcom had zero VideoCore design wins past ~2014.

>A relatively tiny number of these find their way into developer boards

VideoCore is pretty much strictly rasPee boards now.
Again RPi comparison isn't really what you'd do here. You have the freedom to put whatever GPU you want in there, it has NVME storage, etc.

It would be interesting to benchmark this against a lower clocked x86 system. But it's kind of an odd comparison as this has 5 cores instead of the 2 cores typical in a low-end PC.
Agreed, but to be fair I suspect a polyglot programmer will still choose many other languages, outside of Java, over JavaScript.
I'm curious about this too. It definitely doesn't help that every single person involved in the story has zero credibility left, starting with a "lawyer" who has time and time again been caught peddling the president's lies, has exposed himself to a "15yo" reporter, and who the intelligence community say is being used by foreign nations to meddle in our elections.
Kludgy hacks are interesting when their value highly outweighs the lack of careful design or effort put into it. Or, I work in the video games industry and quick work can end up being charming or valuable to your audiences, even if they're a difficult thing to continue developing or maintain. The wide compatibility of NTSC likely has been very valuable to the public, but this public is also unaware of the difficult work it implies.

That said, games traditionally have a point where development stops and doesn't resume (not counting from more live-ops-style games today), so the calculus of that sort of thing changes to management.
Just signed up and so far everything worked well. Couple tweaks, you may want to use more than 1 letter for the workspace name icon in the left menu when a user has a few workspaces since naming is unpredictable.

There is also a lot of whitespace between welcome username, and the getting started copy on the page.

The home icon and the logo in the left nav do the same thing not sure if you need both.

Create task in the backlog should stand out more, I'm a PM and that is probably one of the most used options. Is there an option to add time to a task or urgency?

Hope this helps, looks like a great start.
Covid does survive in aerosols. Its R0 has been estimated around 2.5-3. Virus particles are usually smaller than 1 micron but can clump together or there can be many in a small droplet. It is easily aerosolized, can travel long distances in the air and survive for many hours. The good thing is it takes many particles to overwhelm the immune system and get a severe case.
> I wonder why there are so few people

Maybe because people understand that it's security model is flawed: the peers in the mesh treat all the other peers as not trusted, that's okay; but the network design doesn't seem to take into account potential hostility of the physical medium itself.

Say, your ISP can tarpit packets or shape traffic, or shut down the power or cell tower in your block temporarily, and then measure how the mesh congestion changed. At the same time the mesh relies on building hop chains with TTL of 10 minutes iirc, which I think makes a peer a sitting duck. It is (was) all documented/leaked.
Genuinely, this was helpful to my gut understanding of this issue: https://xkcd.com/1732/
What the fuck is going on in Nova Scotia? First a mass shooter, in a replica police car, with $50k in the trunk from a gov't bank account. No explanation required apparently.

Now a fucking psyop against civilians? That is not OK.

Something is rotten in Canada. The only saving grace is the immense ineptitude.
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A bit on a tangent so forgive my rant, but I'll contribute with a few patterns that come to mind that have something to do with messing up one's memory (but this could be subjective):

1) reinventing of software UIs and moving things around from version to version; sometimes the change is legitimate but that is not the case very frequently. This is similar to shuffling content in textbooks so that students cannot use the previous version of the textbook

2) UI bloat - all options are compressed and displayed on the screen at once, many of the features that may not be addressed to you make it hard for you not to get distracted from what you are doing. Combine that with #1

-3) The opposite of 2 where things are hidden and the interface is very unintuitive. Makes the user feel powerless and insecure

3) Fast technology cycles and too much innovation in too short of an interval. Sometimes that innovation is pure recycling and coupled with hype

4) The decay of the print media together with notetaking with a pen on paper. The endless possibilities that come with using digital notetaking or content consumption come with the explosion of information which we're subjected to. We can store more but we remember less. Search engines contributed to the weak outsourcing of our memory externally. Of course, there are plenty of advantages in the digital realm, i'm only pointing out to a few ways that I feel made my memory much worse over the year. As I said, all these could be subjective and my age (40) as well as my own genetics which can be taken in as a factor. But I noticed that I make less and less effort to memorize things in general
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According to the post, his contract allows him to publish any story that The Intercept doesn't want to, but they are making threats preventing him from publishing it.

> are using thinly disguised lawyer-crafted threats to coerce me not to do so (proclaiming it would be “detrimental” to The Intercept if I published it elsewhere).
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The phone number thing is also only affiliated businesses. There would be no way to charge them if they weren't.
Can I be the first to ask _how_ it's free?
Amazing the amount of people who are essentially reacting with "Greenwald was spreading foxnews disinfo" without even having read his article.
The price of corn goes up when weather is unfavorable for corn farming (reducing near-future supply). The price of oil falls when COVID lockdowns reduce driving. Oil and corn are real markets.

Real markets do not require immediate adjustment in supply to match demand.
> These are the raging battles over free expression and the right of dissent raging within every major cultural, political and journalistic institution. That’s the crisis that journalism, and more broadly values of liberalism, faces. Our discourse is becoming increasingly intolerant of dissenting views, and our culture is demanding more and more submission to prevailing orthodoxies imposed by self-anointed monopolists of Truth and Righteousness, backed up by armies of online enforcement mobs.
> all that matters is that the story runs, not whether it's shown to be false months after the election is over

This mentality is authoritarian, anti-democratic, and anti-free speech. It implies that YOU, the editor, or whoever gets to decide for the rest of us what is worth knowing about or not. This is why non-partisan mainstream news is failing. The Internet has shown people the stories (true or not) that were being left out. I want raw information from the news not a carefully selected set of stories that follow a neat narrative.
I'll pass giving that loser another view.
Media is completely sold out in the country. A purge is incoming.
When the center-left tries to over index on fairness and balance it loses. We don't yet know how to combat the disinformation campaign the president and fox news are waging. Greenwald was just on Joe Rogan yesterday and they each are either ignorant or unmoved by the effects this disinformation is having on our public discourse. Greenwald purports to be the ultimate protector of free speech and want us to be free to question all our the most sacred ideas but what does it mean when what's published is not a good faith critique of our institutions but is instead just lies. How do we fight back because it is a fight.

I can't help but also add that Joe Rogan is leaning heavily Right in this election because he's pissed it's not the old days where he could hop on the mic with your everyday misogyny, sexism, and dull thinking without repercussion -- this is the Left's doing in his mind. Their conversation was striking for its lack of critique of Trump on any matter while they lay into Biden. This entire episode is interesting and nuanced.
It means evidence backing up Greenwald's controversial position was still not checked out. The fact that the centerpiece of a story could be "lost" before it was even studied would show that Greenwald was jumping the gun.

He has no access to the evidence but he is making very preliminary bets.
I'd say Eloquent Javascript (available for free online, I think) is a good book to read. "You Don't Know JS" is also a good one!

Basically, go for anything that teaches you non-js-specific approaches as well as as a solid understanding of the fundamentals.
> That's not how this works. If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it

He is/was one of the main editors of The Intercept. He is the second person listed on https://theintercept.com/about/. There is a wide media censorship on this story. If you think it's just this story, they are also squashing reports on the Philadelphia riots.
The stuff of nightmares, with pictures...
The same FBI claims Giuliani is being used by foreign nations to influence our elections. What's your source?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...
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Greenwald was the founder of the outfit. I would think weight would be given to senior editors judgment.
I seriously doubt if it was Don Jr in question and not Hunter Biden the media would be so restrained.
> The Mueller report was heavily redacted

So your first argument is essentially "There's proof in the report, we just can't see it"?

> multiple members of his campaign are now in jail.

Don't you think you should mention the fact that they went to jail for reasons that have nothing to do with Russian collusion?
That's irrelevant over a timespan of months to years. People did travel and the virus spread all over the world in 1889. Due to the way exponential growth works, all it takes is one index case in a region and it takes off from there.
Not in the same way. IANAL and IANAD but I think:

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Seems like if they only cared about clicks and ads they would've ran the article.

From my position, they exercised the bare-minimum duties of any good editor to shut down stories they don't believe meet the standards they set for themselves.

And for exercising that duty, they are leaving clicks, ad impressions, and probably a good amount of money on the table.
Charlotte is basically a one horse town with respect to jobs, banking.
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Again, not true. Geometric growth can't be dismissed. Even if 90% didn't survive, it just takes (a little) longer.
There is no easy answer here, and I think the best is to allow things to play out with all the information out there for people to make an informed decision on. We need the entire collective effort of the media industry and journalists to poke, prod, piece together and corroborate the details being presented. Leak the data dump to 4chan even, see what they find. Who knows what holes everyone might find, or what additional pieces of the puzzle they might unravel with such a collective effort. Right now it just kinda seems like they're trying to discredit rather than investigate, which is why it's a huge story and why it's being picked up on by the right so much.
I agree and it’s starting to feel like there’s an agenda behind it
Hey Glen, less drama, more mamma. Good luck.
It is undeniably not fabricated Russian intelligence. We have:

- e-mails which have been confirmed by the others on the e-mails

- videos of hunter biden engaging in sexual activity while doing hard drugs

- text messages between hunter and various family and associates

- audio tapes of Hunter Biden's voice talking about his Chinese business partner disappearing

- financial documents of the agreement between various parties (Hunter Biden, Bobulinski, and others)

It is so obviously not "fabricated by Russian intelligence". By the way, the original claims of Trump being compromised by Russia have been proven absolutely false - something Greenwald himself has written about. Greenwald is incredibly critical of the democrat establishment for the entire Russia Hoax - and it is a hoax - and he is equally critical of their coverage of the laptop story which is at this point undeniable.
>The elephant in the room (which Greenwald barely acknowledges in this essay) is that many mainstream news organizations have concluded that the evidence for this story was too weak to publish, and some believe it was fabricated by Russian intelligence.

Senate Homeland Security committee and DNI director both said that this was not an issue of foreign disinfo.

In addition there is an interview from one of the co-conspirators that's 45 minutes long and he's provided documents that could be easily verified if the journalists did the leg work and asked the people who received or sent those emails if they were legitimate.
> This story has been completely debunked.

The "story" (at least that I am referring to) is that Hunter Biden had these emails and they were released. Is your claim that the emails were forgeries? If not, the NYPost story had relevant, true, information of public interest.

If you're discussing the broader context of the Ukraine prosecutor firing, I agree that there is strong evidence that Biden was not pushing for his firing in response to circumstantial evidence of pressure from his son or anything. Not, to me, strong enough to consider the claim "completely debunked."
>helps for their other goals

To profit?
They aren't the same people.

The journalists are the activists.

The managers and owners are the businesspeople.

Their motivations are very different but their incentives are aligned.
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