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The article keeps using the word propaganda. I do not think it means what they think it means. ‘Propaganda’ implies that 60 Minutes knew some of the information was false or misleading, yet used it anyway because it supports their agenda.

The author presents no information to support a claim that 60 Minutes has such an agenda. Much more likely is that 60 Minutes didn’t understand the story and got it wrong. Absent evidence, to do otherwise is to claim the ability to read minds.
Build 20-30m further inlands. Perhaps also plant some trees or bushes at the end of the beach.
But no, that won't do. The rich folks need to have the sea at pissing distance.
Even then you normal would not sue the company providing the radio broadcasting equipment. Just the production making that particular radio content. Some times they were the same, but they could be different entities.

Section 230 also protects those providing infrastructure for the internet as they do not have common carrier status. Also where do you draw the line between hosting and not? I can use twitter and many other sites to host images. Alot these sites grew out of an easier to use means to host content.

Like what about sites like word-press and medium that also provide easy to use platforms for blogging. Should only the technically inclined be allowed to get hosting?
The phone company doesn’t moderate content. I think what blurs is that social media companies aren’t just dumb pipes (like cloud flare), they all have different levels of moderation based on what they decide and not only block content, but also promote content.

I think if they were just going to be ISPs then 230 should apply, but it seems odd that a company can select a piece of content and show it to a million people and then not be responsible. And then alternately, they can choose to remove content due to automated and manual rules, not required by law. It seems like they should either be regulated or not.

It seems off that if I solicit articles from random and print them out and mail them, I’m liable for libel. But if I review them all and publish them on a server then I’m no longer liable.
Precis: Wealth, diet and education have an effect on your lifespan.
That's kind of the definition of a service being up. :) I've experienced numerous "soft" outages which result in messages not sending and getting lost - and even more double sends, sometimes very distant from where the message was originally sent.

ITT: Anecdotes
The FBI is responsible for monitoring lawmakers too, it is possible for Congresspeople and their staff to break laws. It's part of the FBI official list of duties. I specifically and explicitly want law enforcement monitoring elected officials. Imagine if all you had to do was claim you were researching legislation and law enforcement just disengages, that is a ludicrous request.
You can very easily end up in that "minority". It's just an accident or disease away -- and if not, time and old age will get you anyway (presbyopia, motor decline, and so on).
Except for customers that drop you, eg, Target.
Guild has a connotation of workmanship and craft expertise, industriousness, etc. I do like that.

But there is also an existing phenomenon of various things calling themselves guilds (there are various "freelancers'" guilds, e.g.), but they do not function as an economic bargaining institution at all. They're just professional organizations where people exchange contact info for networking purposes.

I think there's no getting around the task at hand: rehabilitating the concept of a union of workers with shared interests and goals (even shared fraternity, if I'm gonna be super sentimental). It's capital, it's labor, it's unions. New century, same basic stuff.
Is suicide burn a viable landing method for manned rockets? Would need a comfortable G force, perhaps 3g for 10 secs?

And then how many successful unmanned demonstrations until passengers feel comfortable trusting it? 1000?
All schools...except nursery schools. And this is only England, Scotland, Wales and NI all have separate rules.

Full lockdown like in March? I read that I should not go out more than once per day to exercise. In March I read that I must not.
I don’t think I get you point, but I will say that interview creeps me out. His cutesy grin was unsettling.
Yeah, but it's so bleak.

10 years ago, that kind of site was called a "content farm". I don't hear that term used much lately. Google spent a lot of effort peeling dreck like that off of their search results with limited success. Facebook, it seems, has had use for them until recently.

The OP/CEO seems comes off as utterly delusional when he says...
> "Until recently, we had more than 25 million enthusiastic fans on 11 pages."

Yeah, right, "enthusiastic" if he really means getting them to click on stuff by exploiting subconscious glitches in the human basal ganglia overriding cognition.

Facebook + Shared.com must have been good while it lasted, at their users' expense, but f them both.
> Consider that this blog post frames the issue as one of surveillance, instead of an anti-malware effort.

It does address the idea of this system being intended to combat malware in the fourth and fifth paragraphs. The point it makes is that there's nothing stopping it from being used against legitimate software too, other than the benevolence of the "warlord" who controls it, so you're still just trusting them to protect you and hoping they don't take advantage of it.
I feel sad when I see drive-by downvotes with no rebuttal. It feels...mean spirited.
> With real names, faces are just one google search away for most people (and we could debate further what would it mean if a face wasn't found).

But it becomes an added hassle for those people, thus making it UX hostile for stalkers. Who is actually going to Google each and every other name on somebody else's collaborator list? Some determined stalkers I guess, but they are not going to be deterred anyways.

On the point of faces not being found, as a counterexample, some of my former MDs did not put pics in their LinkedIn. Yet people in the industry knew them by name, even if they weren't rockstar investors or something. Having heard someone's name from other sources such as word of mouth or from newspaper articles is a much better signal than using names to recognize them.
Can confirm, I just did these searches
what did I just read

mask the photo and the name. use regional locale detection and user choice to make fake names for everyone, use GAN to create fake profile pictures.
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Plus the job is really cool ... I'm tempted to apply even though it's way below my normal rate simply because I can see it being as fun as working as a FIRST mentor.
> Go through the Leetcode gauntlet once and get credentialed

The issue here is thinking that the Leetcode gauntlet matters at all in most jobs. A certification for Leetcode shouldn't matter when all I do is HTML, CSS, and JS to call various APIs.

I do agree with the general idea that some certification could prove some base level knowledge, where furthur testing beyond that could take place. The issue lies in deciding what is "base level knowledge".
I think the concern is more about man-in-the-middle attacks. Even then, though, doesn't apt verify the hashes of downloaded packages?
At Cisco (Webex team), the engineers decide when to release code, and most features are enabled by configs or feature flags independently of the deploys.

The engineering team is responsible for the mess caused by a bad deploy, so it's appropriate that those engineers should also choose the timing.

Our team typically deploys between 10am and 4ish, local time, since that's when we're at our desks and ready to click through the approvals and monitor the changes as they go through our pipelines.

The feature enablement happens through an EFT / beta process, and the final timing of GA enablement is a PM decision. But features are widely used by customers ahead of that time, as part of the rollout process.

Our team usually rolls out non-feature changes to services via dynamic configuration switches, so that we can get new bits in place, and then enable new behavior without a redeploy. This also enables us to roll back the dynamic config quickly if something unexpected happens.

(We generally don't do this for net new functionality; there's lower risk in adding a new REST endpoint etc. than in changing an existing query's behavior or implementation.)
Huh? Contributing to shareholder profits is exactly what you agree to when you take a job that has shareholders.

Being forced to pay union dues when you've decided not to be a part of that union is literal theft.
I always thought the floyd-steinberg algorithm produced images that looked like they were made from a nest of worms, at least in the implementations I came across in the Amiga era, so it's interesting to look at his FS image and realize that, most likely, it was an artifact of the low resolution display more than anything else.
Fascinating read!

Almost makes me miss the days of getting to the graphics lab late and getting stuck with one of the old Mac SEs.

Almost.
> A simple litmus test here is: "Do you genuinely believe at face value China's statement that this virus originated from outside China"

My answer? Probably not, but even if I did, it wouldn't matter. It doesn't matter what I believe about China. What matters is that the virus is here, and we're not dealing with it, and instead of pressing our governments' feet to the coals we are busy getting distracted by pointless nationalistic arguments about what is happening in a country that we have banned travel from.

Let me say it again - it doesn't matter what's happening in China. It's not the reason for why our daily cases are rising.

> millions of cell phone plans cancelled

Allright, then.

There is a mountain of reasons for why that would happen in the middle of a global recession, and a travel ban. Please consider applying the same skepticism to a wild-ass claim that was made in March, and has not since had any follow-up. (If we were to take it at face value, the entirety of China got the virus, all by March. Which is, of course, complete bullshit.)

If you don't believe me, ask any five Chinese ex-pats about how their extended family's doing. Chances are near certain that they'll tell you that not a single one of their relatives got COVID.

I personally know a lot more than five people from China. I've talked to them about COVID. Not a single one of their relatives have caught it this year. [1]

[1] Meanwhile, much of my extended family in Eastern Europe, plus a few people they know got it. Funny, that...
You don't have to be sovereign to own land. I own land.
You can sue them to have known libel removed from their shelves, but their exposure is not the same as the publisher unless for some reason they do not actually remove it.
According to the same 60 Minutes Wikipedia article linked to at the start of this comment chain, there have been 2,325 episodes of 60 Minutes that have aired.

14 is only 0.6% of 2,325, so (assuming each controversy stems from one episode) less than 1% of their episodes have generated controversy.

Edit: That said, also according to the linked Wiki article, there have been only 13 aired controversies (the last one is an internal issue). The updated percentage is 0.56%.
> All schools...except nursery schools. And this is only England, Scotland, Wales and NI all have separate rules.

See, you perfectly understood the message. Nurseries stay open, all schools close, he did say as much.
I don't think that's correct.

They're remaining open for vulnerable pupils (not defined) and children of critical workers.

Also, nurseries will remain open.

They're also staying open for exams happening this month. But the summer exams are cancelled.

Also, schools remain open for "elite athletes" to train.

And the building will continue to be used for religious activities.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home#g...

All he had to say was "school is cancelled tomorrow, except if you went when we closed them last year or for kids under 4. Exams are still on this month."

I don't see any other changes at all actually. Weddings are still on, there are 101 exemptions for visiting people. The main one of course is anyone doing business. Workers keep working so that 30mil people many of whom will be moving around and breathing on each other tomorrow.

Let me know if I missed something? It seems next week will be the same as today for me (no kids).
Is that much?

He said they got around 88k RPS.

I did a quick benchmark another day, I'm hosting my blog at the Digital Ocean App Plataform, in the free tier, used Locust with some VMs in Azure to stress test it, managed to hit 20k RPS and the only issue I had was that the my VMs at Azure were hitting memory limits...

Doesn't look impressive at all, weird that GA broke.
They'd be quick to lay you off when times get tough. I'm sure you wouldn't be super happy if that occurred.
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>> You can still sue the poster. Section 230 just means you cant sue the service provider for defamation and slander.

That presumes the account can be traced to a real person.

I'm all for having solid end to end identity verification, but that opens a lot of doors governments and companies dont want us to have. For one it makes end to end encryption easy, as its equivalent to ensuring you aren't being MITMed.
If 60 Minutes interviews the US President, and the US President says that a pandemic is not dangerous, and viewers rely on that statement to the detriment of their respiratory systems, should the injured viewers or their estates be able to sue 60 Minutes for amplifying the US President's untrue and harmful statements?
The episode may be terrible and indeed misleading for the wrong reasons.

But, and just as this written journalism can influence, that doesn't mean the adversarial stance is wrong.

Information feed and stimuli are becoming increasingly powerful. It's not clear where lines should be drawn, but there may be some moral dilemmas worth discussing.
Yeah, the suits usually follow the money or oversight, like the host, producer and or station owners.
> Unionizing at Google makes no sense, as there are thousands of tech companies hiring engineers in the valley

> they are trying other means to have their cake and eat it too.

I think you're basically correct but are making multiple slightly incorrect assumptions:

- That working at Google is comparable to any other tech company in terms of benefits and stability. In reality, only a few companies could compare. (Not everyone can work at a startup, etc.)

- That tech companies are wildly different in terms of culture and philosophy. In my experience, tech industry culture is hyper normalized and you see the same problems everywhere.

So it's not like a selfish "have their cake and eat it too", but more like they actually can't gain what they want by moving, so the remaining path is change from the inside.
> FireEye is a reputable security organization that is publicly traded

So was RSA when they accepted $10 million from NSA to backdoor their crypto library. As long as FireEye keeps the customers who pay the bills happy they'll be fine, just like RSA was.
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Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
Looks promising, congrats!

To make it more useful, I recommend increasing the font size and using darker text. The most basic requirement of a CV is that it be legible.
>What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care. They simply do not care at all what's being done to them.

Or, you know, we're as informed (or more) than you, but have different priorities and opinions.

Other people that are not merely mindless sheep, where you and those agreeing with you are the only smart people? What a wild concept!

I've used anything, from 4 major unices of yore, to FreeBSD, a dozen of Linux varieties, Windows, and modern Linux.

I still enjoy macOS more and I agree with lots of the decisions taken in that ecosystem (not every one, but more than not).

You are free to buy something else.

>The lowest common denominator of consumer cultism is surveillance and it's no surprise that both Apple and Tesla do exceptionally well in authoritarian countries like China.

A non sequitur if I ever saw one...
Unfortunately the way he describes the "Ulysses Pact" is fantasy. He makes it sound like it would be just like today, except a savvy user could sideload Signal for example if Apple was compelled to remove it. What would _actually_ happen is a long list of companies would say "brilliant, we don't have to conform to the app store guidelines any more" and go sideload-exclusive. Within a matter of months it would be common for users to have both official and unofficial app stores, sowing widespread confusion, and UX would go to pot while apps run in the background, chew up battery and take advantage of undocumented/buggy APIs to track users or steal data.

The warlord analogy is a good one. It's a tough nut to crack. The only defensive mechanism that's actionable for the average user is to keep as much data as possible offline. Sure, if Apple wants to they can ship code that exfiltrates data off my external USB hard drive, but that's way beyond the threat model we're discussing today.
"Higher" is measured in dollars, so isn't a high stock market and housing price consistent with the US dollar simply decreasing in value?

If wages haven't risen in proportion, then this doesn't seem like a win.
They don't. The data is anonymous, and no user tracking is used
> If the answer is yes, then you also believe the statement "China has zero cases since it stopped reporting them".

China currently has 1332 symptomatic cases according to the official figures (which include Hong Kong and Taiwan, but Shanghai also has 100 cases)
https://news.sina.cn/zt_d/yiqing0121

China has repeatedly announced localized outbreaks, usually attributed to failures of quarantine procedures, which were countered by localized lockdowns and subsequently fizzled out.

That's not too different from Australia and New Zealand. Do you believe that their numbers are also fake?
Japan didn’t either and both countries are performing way better than the West. I’m glad I’m living in a place that is taking the big picture into account (economic wellness of everyone) instead of hyperfocussing on saving few years of life of a very restricted demographic.
I was literally typing up the same thing when I read this.

Anytime a simple majority can have such a large impact, it's probably a bad idea.

It might not be tyranny of the majority in the classic sense, but it's "tyranny of the half plus one."
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I work on self-driving flying cars, and I can assure you that the R&D phase includes work that _is_ as glamorous as it sounds, but there are also a ton of i's to dot and t's to cross. The very nature of building a usable product requires reliability, and reliability requires extensively covering all cases. Systematically going through everything is a lot of work.
The best advice that I can give is to seek joy in solving the "industry" version of your project (the joy of producing a truly reliable product - reliability is really hard), and/or to pursue your passions in side projects.
> it's great that you're in a position to walk to if you don't like your employment situation

From a person who doesn't work in Google, or Big Tech, or even in SV. This is one of the reasons why these attempts at unionization from Google employees tend to annoy me slightly.

These are the few people in the world that would get hundreds of job offers in seconds. Yet instead of moving out if they don't agree with Google's projects, they would influence the projects and maybe affect the future of the company rather than give up their place for the hundreds like me who would gladly work on any defence-related project.

These are examples of true privilege.
This is a really good point. The endless and often needless churn in software creates a treadmill effect, making it really hard for open source and smaller companies to keep up. It inherently favors large players with deep pockets able to employ vast numbers of developers.
We need to abolish IP Laws (aka "Imaginary Property" aka "Illogical Property" aka "Incongruent Property" aka "Invalidates Property Laws"—the other term is a big lie, don't repeat it). Not "reform". Not "compromise". Abolish.

If 2020 taught me anything, it's that society can come close to the brink pretty quickly. I thought there was an inevitable trend toward freedom, but recently think it's perilous. We need ideas to flow to create a more distributed, less unequal, world, and we need it now. We need to unshackle the people.

If anyone is working toward this, let me know how I can help (including funding). I'm supporting things like SciHub/LibGen and the like, but we need far far more organizers fighting to #EndIp, #AbolishCopyright, #AbolishPatents.

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It's unlikely that they'll be bundling Chromium with the individual apps, at least on Windows:

"In the future, the Evergreen WebView2 Runtime plans to ship with future releases of Windows." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
Don't build right next to the water?
Is it Amazon? Sounds like Amazon.
That's bound to bias the viewer in the opposite direction, which is no better. After all, a '60 minutes' investigation of opioid distributors led to Congress repealing a very bad law[1].

Why not just approach a subject with which you are unfamiliar with healthy skepticism (like everything else)? And perhaps seek out a domain expert you trust for confirmation when at all possible.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-joe-manchin-introduces-...
So this would look like all meat products having a mandatory label with the specific feed(s) given to the animal over the course of its lifetime?

You'd have to have a USDA-maintained database that tracks each feeding instance of each animal in the country, as well as for all imported animals.

That could get kind of unwieldy.

Is there any country that does this currently? What's their system for doing it?
In houses that size, rooms convert from living -> dining -> study -> bedroom multiple times a day. Most households would have a clear time on when the mat comes out at night or when food is served or when the TV is turned on or off so the kids can study ...etc. At least that's how it was for us.
Someone needs to come up with a catchy name for a variant of the Gell Mann Amnesia effect where you know a source is willing to bend their presentation of facts for their agenda but ignore that knowledge when their aligns to your agenda. Because IMO that's a far bigger issue in 2021 than people innocently taking things at face value.
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