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I wish these reviews would post the full res images. I clicked "View Image" on a few of these to see just the photo but they're all cropped and compressed.

Almost any flagship phone can produce similar pics to the ones in this article. The devil is really in the details now.

Very interesting, thanks.

I wonder if dang or others could comment on whether this is true of HN too.

I have not seen a single defense of this behavior in this thread except those with the thesis of "but America".

Here is the full text of the email: https://community.expensify.com/discussion/7632/protect-demo...

It looks like he used his access to millions of customer emails to spam them with his political views.

> I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it.

This whole thing just reeks of narcissism and delusion. And that's saying something, since I mostly agree with him otherwise. I can't imagine this did anything but piss off a lot of people.

The machines also perform better in areas with: low English proficiency, limited household internet access, low-income residents, uninsured residents, cost-burdened renters, residents with less than a high-school diploma, and unemployed residents, according to this tool.

I wonder why you chose just that one specific stat to highlight.

If granted a pardon by the current or future US president, is there any chance that Russia will not let him return home?

Where are you seeing that they are going after individuals criminally?

I did read the article, and it says nothing of the sort. Just that they're not ruling it out.

NYC also offers tickets to baseball games and fast food gift cards to try to get people to show up for court.

> A law enforcement source told CBS2 a city program will offer those released incentives meant to encourage them to show up in court such as Mets baseball tickets, a subway pass or a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card. [0]

[0] https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/11/04/nyc-to-offer-mets-ti...

Let me know when they start going after executives at these companies and throwing them in jail.

Otherwise, this isn't justice. It's business as usual.

Yes, they should do their jobs by not rushing the case to court to get a cheap political win.

lol.

In the past they have texted specific GRU agents on their personal phones: https://www.wired.com/story/cyber-command-ira-strike-sends-s...

> As The New York Times reported last October, Cyber Command operators sent direct messages to individual Russian staffers that they had identified as involved in election interference, and were tracking their activity. The Post reports that the IRA was troubled enough by those messages that they launched an internal investigation to identify potential leakers.

I have a feeling that the US and allied countries are pretty deep into the Russians with this stuff.

It's a long PDF [0], but these indictments are usually very detailed.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328521/downl...

There was international pressure to remove Shokin for precisely the _opposite_ reason that you cite. It was because he was _not_ going after Biden's son's employer forcefully enough.

> In 2015, Shokin became the prosecutor general, inheriting the investigation. The Obama administration and other governments and non-governmental organizations soon became concerned that Shokin was not adequately pursuing corruption in Ukraine, was protecting the political elite, and was regarded as "an obstacle to anti-corruption efforts".[24] Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team – to the extent that Obama officials were considering launching their own criminal investigation into the company for possible money laundering.[38]

Decry Wikipedia if you'd like, but this is easily verifiable from any number of other outlets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shokin#Failure_to_prope...

That was your takeaway from the article? Nitpicking the grammar?

We purge daily. We use it as an ephemeral messaging service, not as a wiki.

> The Times reported last January that Burisma had been hacked by the same Russian GRU unit that was one of two groups that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Last month, United States intelligence analysts contacted several people with knowledge of the Burisma hack for further information after they had picked up chatter that stolen Burisma emails would be leaked in the form of an “October surprise.”

> Among their chief concerns, according to people familiar with the discussions, was that the Burisma material would be leaked alongside forged materials in an attempt to hurt Mr. Biden’s candidacy — as Russian hackers did when they dumped real emails alongside forgeries ahead of the 2017 French elections — a slight twist on Russia’s 2016 playbook when they siphoned leaked D.N.C. emails through fake personas on Twitter and WikiLeaks.

It's pretty typical in my experience to go to a clinic like that and the staff will have no idea what your insurance will eventually charge you.

It's a complete mess that we need a uh, universal, solution for.

Do people still watch these live?

I find them really hard to watch. It's about 95% fluff and bullshit and 5% about the technology. I usually just read the bullet summary afterwards.

They're barely a year into being a public company and have already more than 3x'd their share price. Impressive.

> Today, we’re announcing a new consumer alert to stand against racism.

I read this, laughed, and closed the tab. The world has gone mad.

For others who did not know what EB-1 is (like me):

> The EB-1 is a preference category for United States employment-based permanent residency. It is intended for "priority workers". Those are foreign nationals who either have "extraordinary abilities", or are "outstanding professors or researchers", and also includes "some executives and managers of foreign companies who are transferred to the US". It allows them to remain permanently in the US.

> Therefore, applicants who can demonstrate their extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim are not required to have a permanent offer of employment in the US and are eligible to self-petition, however, they must intend to work in the US in their field of expertise.

You're assuming good faith in elected representatives and their staff.

I wonder if anyone in the last decade has _ever_ walked into their rep's office, talked to them, and changed their vote on a key issue. I really doubt it.

Wouldn't this work both ways?

"The Deep State wants to read your Facebook messages!", etc.

> They seem to be getting significant US opposition to their technology advancement.

Do you think that's related to China allowing zero domestic tech competition, but demanding that their companies be allowed to compete in the rest of the world?

> They were also caught a few years ago asking users to "verify their emails" by providing Facebook their email account password(2), after which FB's servers logged into the user's email account and scraped their contacts out without warning.

Why aren't developers in jail for this? Breaking into someone's email account and exfiltrating their data - disgusting. Clicking "OK" on a 500 page ToS doesn't get you out of this.

I'm so sick of this criminal behavior being brushed off as "growth hacking", "move fast and break things", or some other bullshit. The people creating this garbage should feel some shame and face real consequences.

But it's not a waste of time, because the purpose isn't to have a cogent conversation about the issue.

It's to beat up on a CEO or two for 5 minutes and tweet out the clip to your followers. And for that, it's time well spent.

I removed it from my comment (probably as you were writing) because you're right, it's lame and doesn't belong on HN. My apologies.

They had an office in Manhattan and customers in the US.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1323316... (Page 8)