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Erik Wemple (@ErikWemple on Twitter) was forwarded a response from from Intercept Editor in Chief Betsy Reed. (Source: https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283)

I've copied it below to the best of my ability.

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Glenn Greenwald's decision to resign from The Intercept stems from a fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship. Glenn demands the absolute right to determine what he will publish. He believes that anyone who disagrees with him is corrupt, and anyone who presumes to edit his words is a censor. Thus the preposterous charge that The Intercept's editors and reporters, with the lone noble exception of Glenn Greenwald, have betrayed our mission to engage in fearless investigative journalism because we have been seduced by the lure of a Joe Biden presidency. A brief glance at the stories The Intercept has published on Joe Biden will suffice to refute those claims.

The narrative he presents about his departure is teeming with distortions and inaccuracies - all of the mdesigned to make him appear a victim, rather than a grown person throwing a tantrum. It would take too long to point them all out here, but we intend to correct the record in time. For now, it is important to make clear that our goal in editing his work was to ensure that it would be accurate and fair. While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle a political campaign's - the Trump campaign's - dubious claims and launder them as journalism.

We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be, and we remain proud of much of the work we did with him over the past six years. It is Glenn who has strayed from his original journalistic roots, not The Intercept.

The defining feature of The Intercept's work in recent years has been the investigative journalism that came out of painstaking work by our staffers in Washington D.C., New York, and across the rest of the country. It is the staff of The Intercept that has been carrying out our investigative mission - a mission that involved a collaborative editing process.

We have no doubt that Glenn will go on to launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors-- such is the era of Substack and Patreon. In that context, it makes good business sense for Glenn to position himself as the last true guardian of investigative journalism and to smear his longtime colleagues and friends as partisan hacks. We get it. But facts are facts and The Intercept record of fearless, rigorous, independent journalism speaks for itself.

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> I don't think it's fair to say it was the correct choice.

It's absolutely fair and the Mueller Report proved Greenwald was right all along: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/robert-mueller-did-not-m...

> it's not like he works for MSNBC or CNN.

There doesn't need to be some grand conspiracy among liberal journalists in order for them to engage in the partisan censorship he describes. It's clear that most of them believe supporting the "correct" candidate is far more important than publishing the truth.
I find it amusing to imagine Nintendo trying to shut down this game. Like I get that legally they have the right to protect their IP, but realistically, what are they worried about? That this game is a threat to sales of their actual game? Or that people would think this is a legitimate Mario game and get a bad impression of Mario and never buy any of their other games? Both scenarios seem hilarious.
The irony here is off the charts, of course.

A post complaining about how you shouldn't rely on major sites because their content doesn't get backed up... is failing to load... and being saved by the same centralized, private third-party backup service that also backs up major sites.

You can't make this stuff up. ;)
At this late stage, yeah, you'd probably be right. But when the story first broke - before a cover-up, before most of the air time - if someone completely forged some emails, it would be the reasonable thing to do.

There's probably nothing really damaging. But some things in it could still potentially be interpreted that way, to the point that if someone had completely fabricated the emails, I think it'd be worth coming out and saying "to be clear, these are blatantly made up, my son never sent this email/these emails" even just once. Even in just an off-hand comment in an interview.

For example, here's a screenshot of a few of the emails in question: https://i.imgur.com/XNQarwF.png

Is this a smoking gun of corruption of any sort? Obviously not. But could it raise some questions, before an important election? It could. If someone had completely fabricated this email, in my opinion almost any rational person would, at least once, somewhere, say or write that it was absolutely completely fabricated. Additionally, someone on this exact email thread corroborates that the email thread is all real, and claims that "H" is Hunter Biden and "the big guy" is Joe Biden, which seems plausible given the email context.

I think it definitely is a cover-up. Not because of some collusion between Biden and the media; I think it's all social forces and incentives.

Optically, the media doesn't want accusations of having helped Trump win if he wins.

At the object level, a large percentage of people in the media lean left and strongly dislike Trump and don't want to do anything that might help him win.

And, probably, some percentage may also be so biased that they really think there's no possible way the emails could be real.

In the last case it wouldn't be called a cover-up, but it's being awful at one's job. In all of the cases, it's not a cover-up in the sense of a nefarious conspiracy, but it's journalists not being journalists due to strong political bias.

I think if this were leaked emails about Trump, the right-leaning media would've done exactly the same thing and not reported on it, or only reported that "the left-wing media is spewing conspiracy theories again!", as the inverse of what's happening here. I think the lesson that's reinforced here for me is just that all media organizations of any kind once again can't be trusted when it comes to actually caring about truth and epistemology.
Reddit can ether help you achieve unbelievable career success, or you can get called names all-day.

As I rule I no longer discuss cultural , political, or socio issues on the internet. In my social circles , with some friends, I might talk about this stuff.

On the internet it's very easy to forget the human and start acting like a jerk.

I've also accepted I don't need everyone to agree with me. For example I don't use social media or online dating. These things weren't good for me mentally. I don't need to write 80 Reddit posts about how right I am.

That said, I have found Reddit to be much friendlier than Stack overflow for tech questions. On SO you get banned if you write too many subjective questions.

'What IDE should I use ' gets flagged and 2 or 3 other questions like that and your banned.

As long as you aren't straight up belligerent , you won't get banned on Reddit for that.

It's a careful balance. Once Corona ends I very much plan on deleting Reddit. Right now it's an interesting distraction , but like other social media it can't replace real human interaction
For passwords, sure. For regular browsing, I don't think I would want such a thing.
Commented this earlier

The author will actually respond to you his email domain is the name of the ISP from the first book!
His books are easily top 3 for me now
The author is confusing highly-processed white bread and sugary cereals with the grains themselves. Whole grains are some of the healthiest foods one can eat.

https://nutritionfacts.org has a lot of information on evidence-based nutrition, sadly it's mostly videos.
> Ok please don’t project your creepy literal-Darwinist ideology on other people.

"Darwinism" is an "ideology" now? I thought believing in evolution was actually in-vogue! Do you actually not think intelligence is heritable, despite every study into the subject confirming that, as one of the most-reproducible pieces of social science research? Do you think we'll be better off if the smart people live lives of hedonism while only people who aren't as Climate Enlightened produce all the children?
NYT consistently reported on Hillary Clinton's e-mails all throughout the 2016 campaign.
Isn't that a bit overly pedantic? I agree that some of these examples are far-from passive, but this wouldn't be much of a thread if everyone just listed some form of passive investing. I think the heart of this thread is near-passive income sources, like 1-2 hours per week.
The Intercept responds: https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283
Yeah though when it collapses, i.e. due to foreign policy, local government will likely end up with the costs tearing down abandoned houses and a drop in real estate tax even on everything, I believe they call that phenomenon "Detroit".

Attempting to keep a buffer for that away from the various interest groups is impossible even if you defy the physics of money in politics to adequately tax profits that can buy politicians.
Mhm, do all these many doctors of https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/ look like a single random scientist who believes in satanic rituals?
I'm sorry, I'll still rather take their word than those of a random internet stranger. And I'd like to see your proof of the "suckers and losers" story being "easily debunked, when it not only came from multiple sources, but it even matches very easily to actual public things Trump has said or implied, or the fact that he himself is a war dodger.

And again, as stated above, take a moment to consider what you're actually implying. That publications such as NPR, AP, BBC, Reuters, some of the least partisan and most trusted news source with the hardest working journalist dedicated their life to communicating the facts. You're claiming that they are hiding the truth in some big conspiracy and that your one flaky source is the one telling the truth? Cmon man, don't be an old facebook grampa...
Sorry but to imagine that labour costs and unions are somehow responsible for the housing shortage is just a strange distraction. We had labour unions in Sweden with good working conditions & benefits etc etc all along that period. The goal to inflate the price of housing is the main issue.
I appear to not be the only person who (thinks they) spotted an Apple I callout.
He was paraphrasing Pascal: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time".

I agree with the general point, but when a writer has a commercial relationship based on word counts, it changes the equation. I dislike word-count based contracts for that reason, but when the CEO of Widget Company Ltd hires me to ghost-write his blog articles, he isn't usually receptive to "you can have a 1000-word article for $400 or an 800-word article for $500".
People don't really contribute, they share content and opinions, they discuss and interact.

The "contribution" is retrospective, it is only a thing that exist when you look back.

The centralisation works because brings people together. Even with torrents and bitcoin, the two decentralised networks that actually work, are valuable only when there's The Pirate Bay and Binance. Without the centralisation tools, these are simply cool technologies in the lab.
Regarding this claim:

> fair use was automatically disclaimed

Here's what the organization behind the CC licenses explains:

> By design, CC licenses do not reduce, limit, or restrict any rights under exceptions and limitations to copyright, such as fair use or fair dealing. If your use of CC-licensed material would otherwise be allowed because of an applicable exception or limitation, you do not need to rely on the CC license or comply with its terms and conditions. This is a fundamental principle of CC licensing. [1]

Regarding this ridiculous assertion:

> And some countries are not signatory to Berne convention, instead to Buenos Aires convention, which is much stricter and does not have a common fair use stipulation.

Every country that is a signatory of the Buenos Aires Convention [2] is ALSO a signatory to the Berne Convention. [3]

Your last claim is not worth substantive reply.

[1] https://creativecommonsusa.org/index.php/ufaqs/what-is-the-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_Convention_S...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berne_Convention_signator...
If I was a foreign adversary of the US, I would be supporting this "balkanization" of the US
I've been on a bit of a lisp kick recently.

Coming across the description of fexprs in earlier (pre Common Lisp and Scheme) Lisp dialects was interesting to me since it I'm familiar with uplevel and upvar in Tcl, and appears that Tcl's upvar/uplevel is closely related to Lisp's fexprs. It was interesting to see that fexprs basically give all of the power of macros, although possibly (probably?) at a performance cost due to compilation difficulties.

The obvious advantage of fexprs is that they are functions and therefore can be applied or passed along as functional arguments in ways that macros cannot.

I've been trying to understand why they were dropped from Common Lisp and the mainline Lisp descendants. From the comments I've seen in other locations, (and in the sibling linked paper) it seems that the performance issues of fexprs was a strong reason for the advocacy of dropping them (from Common Lisp especially). Some of the other online references that I've seen mention that perhaps fexprs would not continue to have the same degree of compilation problems in the modern lexically scoped Lisps that they had in the dynamically scoped earlier lisp dialects.

One of the things that was interesting about this fragment of document was that it seems to imply that fexprs are explicitly tied to the evaluation strategy, whereas it seems like maybe macros are less intimately tied to the direct structure of the evaluator.

As an aside, there are a couple of contemporary Lisp variants (PicoLisp and newLISP) that still maintain implementations of fexprs.
Everyone's life is some variety of misery and toil. I'm not especially worried for my children because spending time on worry is illogical and counterproductive - sure, things could go badly, but as long as I am always doing everything in my power to ensure my children do well, I can rest with an easy conscience no matter what happens.
CR has had some badly designed tests in the past, but the way they run their org is outstanding. They're a nonprofit, they purchase all products retail, they accept no advertising dollars, they forbid using their testing results in advertising.

It seems natural and very above board for Cruise to want to spread this good review, though they cannot use it in advertising.
I love this luddism-light. Blogs are not necessarily well indexed or well optimized for search engines. Newsgroups are a mess and people abandoned them for many good reasons. Private blogs? I guess those would be fine if actually had any friends.

I will suffer through the "interface dictatorship" to reap the benefits of a huge audience and active moderation, both of which ensure that questions get answered quickly and correctly.
Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. He broke the Snowden story--another sensational-sounding scoop which likely sounded like total bullshit at first.

Is it possible that Mr. Greenwald is a better judge of whether or not there is a story here?
A piece of data on its own is usually pretty harmless, a gigantic database that is organized, categorized, and distributed, is potentially very harmful. And it's a smooth gradient between them.

An example of data that is harmless on its own but harmful at scale is license plate reading. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-yo... a few points tells you that a person is in a city, a few more tells you where they live, a few more tells you where they work, a few more tells you where the shop, a few more tells you who their friends are, who their associates are, if they're seeing someone on the side, if their going to any gatherings, if they tend to frequent red light districts... ect.

In this way, as data is aggregated, the picture of a given person slides from blurry to clear. And a clear picture of someone is an invasive and dangerous picture of someone.

As a result, aggregation of "public" data like this is something privacy advocates generally resist. It's not that there's is some line that's been crossed.
People don’t realize that Amazon Prime doesn’t promise 2 day shipping from the time you order. It’s 2 day shipping from the time they fill your order, which could be a week or two later.
The friction is higher. Now you have to deal with github and accounts and permissions and so on. Before it was a simple web form.
Our expectations of objectivity (NPOV) is very recent and abnormal.

I'd like many many more Clay Shirky style analysis of print, broadcast, and social media, followed by a 100 crazy notions for novel NPOV organizations.
>80% of Common Lisp.

So, does it include bit-arrays, custom hash tables, multimethods, method combinations, the condition-restarts signalling system, ability to place items on the stack instead of on the garbage collector, type declarations that enable speed optimizations, saving the running state to disk, and upgrading the instances of a class to a new class?

I don't want to be smug, but 80% is a bold claim. Again, I think Eslisp is useful and maybe i'll try to introduce it to my team (they're all JS/TS developers) to see if they get the GATEWAY DRUG to Lisp.
I feel ya brother.

But, it's going to take several generations to excise the festering thorn of Marxist thought from the human collective consciousness. If it can be removed before we enact its inevitable results again.
Which research journals cite the most retracted work?
I don't think you need to "really" change your approach when it comes to wikis.

The more quality control you need the more often you just let the contributor prove themselves first. Meaning, you don't automatically approve their submissions, but you don't completely prevent them from writing either, at least for as much as your community have the resources to review.
This caught my eye: Lou Xun (CCP Games) - Traffic Control the Rabbit with Rust using RedBPF. An xdp context transparently available to rust ;)

https://github.com/aquarhead/protect-the-rabbit

https://github.com/redsift/redbpf
Zeronet why we should take it into account?
True. But it still needs to be said.
This looks awesome, great work!
The FBI, according to reports, received this laptop at the same time Trump was being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate the matter. It appears the FBI sat on this evidence for 9 months.

> Meanwhile, additional documents obtained by Fox News include FBI paperwork that details the bureau’s interactions with John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of “The Mac Shop” who reported the laptop’s contents to authorities, as first reported by the New York Post.
> Isaac received a subpoena to testify before U.S. District Court in Delaware on Dec. 9, 2019, the documents show. One page shows what appears to be serial numbers for a laptop and hard drive taken into possession.

[0]: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-purported-hunter-biden-...
> There's no hard proof they're real

Assertions made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Meta point: Oh so that's what happened. It occurs so frequently that I'm sworried about the lack of robustness against this phenomenon.
Study measures effectiveness of different face mask materials when coughing
This is especially true to the people building the ROM emulators. There are so many tricks/hacks/kludges that were at the heart of some games even being usable. Timing for interlacing that was needed for the game to work in NTSC has to be accounted for on today's faster hardware and progressive scanning. Reproducing color accurately from NTSC seems to also be another thing I've seen. I'm sure there are plenty more that have been posted here before, but they are always a fun reminder that porting code can be a nightmare.
Don’t raise money. Don’t hire. Don’t build. Sell
There's no such thing as absolute proof or "knowing", only degrees of belief. Yet we make decisions based on degrees of belief all the time.

There is very good reason to believe leafy vegetables are healthy based on oodles of medical evidence spanning decades.

The 2L of water never had evidence behind specifically that quantity, and was only a reasonable general guideline for men, with it well known that the requirements vary enormously from person to person.

edit:
To put it better, 2L of water a day as a good goal for the average person to shoot for is a public health message, it's not a clinical statement. There is a difference, in that public health advice needs to be easily digestible and not confuse people, even if it is leaving out nuance.

From the Mayo Clinic's site[0]:

You've probably heard the advice to drink eight glasses of water a day. That's easy to remember, and it's a reasonable goal.

Most healthy people can stay hydrated by drinking water and other fluids whenever they feel thirsty. For some people, fewer than eight glasses a day might be enough. But other people might need more.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
In the end the "foreigners" angle doesn't matter. If it were NYC billionaires buying up Seattle property and leaving it vacant the result would be the same: locals suffering at the hands of remote money.
BPFBox - Process Confinement in eBPF
To be fair, the implication in the emails isn't that he took money directly, but that his son held it for him. So the answer given above doesn't actually answer the question on enrichment of office.

It's not only Biden's to deny, it's His brothers, His Sons, and the others named. Further, if the information wasn't true or not believe to be true, why is it being blacklisted / treated as it's true? Why was distribution banned?

That's the questions being asked that are being shut down.
This feels like one massive false dichotomy. Discussing something on Reddit doesn't mean you can't post the content elsewhere. Write a blog post and post it on Reddit for exposure to both worlds.

Reddit, Twitter, and other fast moving websites are best for ephemeral discussions anyway. In most cases, that's a feature rather than a bug. Writing up a thoughtful blog post that's meant to be a lasting reference for many years takes a lot of effort, planning, preparation, editing, proofreading, and other work. The upper limit for this type of material is relatively low due to all of the effort.

On web forums Reddit and Twitter, people don't feel obligated to write perfect posts, so the conversation flows more freely.

There's a place for both long-lived and ephemeral content on the internet. I don't think it's productive to give blanket advice for people to avoid certain forums or deliberately withhold information to make a point.
hm this doesn't seem accurate about reddit

In a google search I often append "reddit" to the end of my search string and often do a custom recent time-range for the result, instead of the most SEO optimized answer which is usually outdated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover#First_cause

One should mention the anthropic principle in this context. This would then lead one to speculate about a connection between observing causal order and self-awareness.
(about the comments I see here) This rethoric method of mentioning just the bad/debatable parts and completely ignore the benefits is toxic. It disregard any compromise, as if we could always achieve the ideal solution
I like Jeff Bezos' idea very much. Earth is so nice, but we are facing climate change, energy problem and pollutions. Why not shift factories, mine energy and other resources from other planet, and we can live on earth without damaging it too quickly. It sounds a lot better than moving people to other planets.