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Are you kinda also thinking of Milton Friedman? Thomas Friedman isn't actually an economist.
Let me rephrase that: Is it a bug if I don't know about it? Another way to say it, would you pay money to prevent a problem you're not (yet) aware of?
Saying the bugs "never happen" is basically saying "I always write bug-free code."
I feel languages that don't have type checking (or where it's sloppy), force developers perform semi-automated testing (i.e. unit tests to catch type issues) when they could have systematic, fully-automated testing (for type issues, at least)
If that's so, doesn't the defection to an opposing camp make his message even here more credible?
Which in at least some cases means ignoring bugs. Pretty much every system I've worked on that used a language that didn't to type checking (or was too forgiving about it) has had runtime bugs because of type incompatibility or type coercion issues.
How much of the US/CA (excluding Quebec) relationship is enabled by common language and extremely similar cultures? The center of gravity of the EU isn't English speaking, so I'd expect relations to be at least somewhat more distant.
That's not actually true: they're not experiencing the same issues. The socialist pages are restored, but I don't think Facebook will do the same for QAnon or Three Percenter groups.
That wouldn't obviate their need for a Facebook page, since it's far more useful for outreach.
The problem with most technical solutions to problems with communication technologies like this is that they're marginalizing if adopted exclusively too early. Until the alternate technology reaches critical mass (at least), it's only appropriate to use it to augment existing technologies.
That's pretty awful, how are you even supposed to interpret that? I'm guessing it's something like "first || !second", because that would be the sleaziest.
> I'd be very surprised. It's cheaper to build in a 32.768kHz crystal for timekeeping than try to access the grid frequency from the isolated low-voltage circuit.
IIRC, the grid frequency is usually more accurate. Probably because it's carefully monitored and managed by the power authorities like the OP describes. If you build a clock with its own frequency reference, than any error will accumulate and have to be monitored and managed by the user.
However, from the snippet in the Bloomberg Law version, it sounds like this unit is separate from package delivery:
> Canada’s TFI International Inc. will acquire the unit, one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in the U.S., UPS said in a statement Monday. The eight-decades-old operation, separate from the package deliveries for which UPS is known, is primarily a business-to-business enterprise hauling large industrial cargo in big trucks.
> Tome’s plan to get lean is a change from 2005, when UPS paid about $1.25 billion for...
> Here, digital hoarders are characterized by laziness or a general lack of organization. Data accumulates over time and without active management habits a disengaged hoarder can accidentally end up with a mess of digital clutter.
What's the harm of having nested "old PC junk" folders containing everything on every PC I've ever owned? Storage technology has continued to progress, so it doesn't cause any problems, and it's kinda out of sight, out of mind.
I think it's a mistake to apply a word with negative connotations like "hoard" to behavior that doesn't actually cause any problems (except ironically as in /r/DataHoarder).
All right dstola: For the purposes of argument, I accuse you of being a thief who has embezzled millions of dollars from some company you've worked for. Instead of suing me for defamation for my lie, why don't you just prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you didn't steal anything? Maybe you could open source your bank account data, and all your movements to show that you couldn't have opened any secret accounts?
That's a ridiculous ask. The malicious accusation of embezzled is a lie that harmed you, and proving your innocence won't compensate you for the harm caused by that lie. These lawsuits are about the harm done to Dominion.
Also, no analysis of any kind would ever satisfy the people who believe the 2020 election was marred by vote fraud. That belief isn't based on evidence, and massive amounts of evidence to the contrary hasn't convinced those people. There's no reason to think one more report would make any difference.
You're confusing preferences and facts. I was talking about facts [1], you're talking about preferences.
[1] like Donald Trump is not waging a secret war to defeat a conspiracy of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who harvest a (fictitious) drug from trafficked children and Trump lost the 2020 election fairly.
The problem with your line of thinking is that it assumes good faith and a certain amount of competence, which are assumptions that I don't think we can reasonably make anymore in light of the insane success of things like QAnon and "Stop the Steal."
When you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
I believe that the social networks have built technologies that probably can't actually be made to work in a socially beneficial way, since they're utterly dependent on crowdsourcing and automation for economic reasons, but those tools aren't actually up the the problems they face.
That's a nice sentiment in a vacuum, but we're not in a vacuum. It's sort of like focusing on getting every child a college education when you can't even manage to teach them all literacy yet.
At the point, I feel like the priority needs to be around figuring out a way to defeat disinformation and misinformation to restore some kind of common ground understanding of the facts. The marketplace of ideas can't function if major factions reject truth-seeking in favor of blatant lies that are appealing for various other reasons (e.g. emotional satisfaction, ability to manipulate others, etc.).
If their mistrust is based on crazy, there's nothing that can be done to fix it except to cure that crazy.
And I think it's based on crazy: the reasoning seems to break down to: (A) belief that Donald Trump won implying (B) the election must be fraudulent (since it didn't confirm A).
For the same reason it's (probably) baseless for a coworker of yours to claim you've been embezzling millions from your employer for years. It's basically a false accusation.
> It wasn't always this vicious, or this pervasive in its viciousness, in my lifetime.
In our & our parents lifetimes, we had the "even stronger shared opposition to external forces" of Cold War opposition to the Soviet Union to keep these divisions in check.
America's divides have been terribly vicious in the past (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War), and some of the current things that divide us even have their roots in that era.
> After all, is there any evidence for voter fraud in Russia?
The accusations of there being no voter fraud in the 2020 US election fraud aren't baseless: all the verification checks have passed, and for that to happen and fraud to have occurred would require a conspiracy of unbelievable scale and secrecy. Also, the claims that there is fraud are not just baseless, they're incoherent.
While Russia may make baseless claims their elections are fair, there's more than enough evidence to disbelieve them (like how they disqualify and murder their political opponents).
> It’s a bit worrying that total lies about a conspiracy between Dominion and (very much dead) Hugo Chavez to rig an election for Joe Biden is what gets classified as “dissent” these days.
I'm not sure if you can really even call this a "classification." It's more of a false equivalency, either made in bad faith or through some sloppy bit of emotional reasoning.
I'm seeing a lot of this kind of thing now (another similar example is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25898393). It's like some people are experiencing certain generalized feelings, then applying charged words to what triggered those feelings without understanding either the words they used or the thing they're commenting on.
Proper investigations were conducted, and no serious issues found. The lawsuits were laughed out of court, even by Republican judges.
Its surely possible that all those "sworn affidavits" can be wrong in some way: AFAIK, they were either bogus, irrelevant, or from people who didn't understand what they were seeing because they hadn't bothered to familiarize themselves with the vote counting process before they became election observers.
The more pertinent question is: how could anyone still believe those lawsuits could have merit at this point? The sad answer is: disinformation works.
> This is the core argument of economic conservatism. One level up is “CA knows CA better than the Feds”. One level down is “I know my family better than my town”.
And one argument against it is that the lower level that "knows better" may not actually have the resources or capabilities to actually address the problem with that knowledge. That's pretty easy to see when you get down to the “I know my family better than my town [does]” level, when the only individual-level solution is some improbable pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps fantasy.
The US really needs to hire a football coach to fix this scandalous situation.
Am I looking in the wrong place? Ctrl-F "ghost" on the OP gives me no hits.
Do you think newspaper corrections [1] are totalitarian? Because it sounds like this is basically a process for adding corrections to old stories.
[1] i.e. those little notes at the bottom of the story where they apologize and correct their mistakes
> "We are not in the business of rewriting the past, but we want to update the record" - stuff like this just oozes doublespeak.
Man, that word, "censorship," is really getting abused lately. It's almost like everyone's forgotten what it actually means, or can't be bothered to actually take the time to understand what they're using it to describe. As far as I can tell, the Boston Globe is not deleting anything (not that that would be censorship, either), just appending corrections/updates and maybe de-indexing some stories:
From the OP:
> What actions does this initiative involve? Will you delete stories? Will you remove names? What about Google?
> We have a number of options, including updating a story with new information and removing a story from search engine results. We consider every case on its own merits, and take the action appropriate based on the individual circumstances.
> Are you concerned about erasing history?
> We’re considering these on a case-by-case basis but we think the value of giving someone a fresh start often outweighs the historic value of keeping a story widely accessible long after an incident occurred. People’s lives aren’t static, they’re dynamic.
If this is censorship, so is the corrections page and new & updated editions of books.
Don't be so parochial. Who knows what the places you consider to be "tech hubs" now will be in 50 years.
I recently learned that Minnesota of all places used to be a "tech hub" during the mainframe era.
That's not really true. You wouldn't be actually able to define yourself as Afro-American in the US, beyond maybe lying on a form (and even that designation would probably be overridden if it mattered). Pretty-much everyone would consider your self-designation to be annoying BS.
A few full-blooded white people have tried passing as Afro-American (only possible because of the lingering effects of the one-drop rule), but they received a lot of press (and rejection) when the real story came out.
> Most often to be found in rural areas, these houses quickly fall into disrepair, leaving them as eerie presences in the landscape, thus speeding the decline of the neighbourhood. Many akiya have been left empty after the death of their occupants; inherited by their city-living relatives, many go unclaimed and untended. With so many structures under unknown ownership, local authorities are also unable to tear them down.
It doesn't help that the Japanese have a strong bias against old/used homes, so land with a home on it is worth less than a vacant lot (because you have to factor in the cost of demolishing the existing home). I'm speculating, but that would probably also lead to houses that aren't built to last, and thus fall into disrepair more quickly.