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yes but to be fair blatantly lying has been their business model from the very beginning

interesting ideas, perhaps the closest we may come to doing 'nothing' is meditation

The problem as I see it is that while 99% of police officers are not only law abiding and do their job with integrity, the 1% out there can and do destroy innocent lives. It is like walking into a mine field. You could very well walk out unscathed but one 'routine' brush with the wrong police officer and your life may never recover. So are you willing to take such a small but catastrophic chance? An intelligent person would do all they can to minimize the risk.

try going for fish or seafood instead of red meat, I love steaks but I started to balance it out with more vegetable proteins/fats (avocado) and oily fish like salmon

actually recent evidence point to below 100 to be beneficial

> Costco carries the Kirkland Brand that's average

Kirkland's olive oil brand is not only one of the few imported brands that consistently passes tests as authentic 100% virgin olive oil but is also one of the most affordable

for those interested in more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_school_%28learning_styl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptkID2k091I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkiij9dJfcw

Because journalism, like other major professions has an aura of respectability, it needs to be protected from charlatans who wish to don it as a mantle whenever it suits them and to cast it aside just as easily to further their selfish purposes

Denton needed to decide a long time ago whether he was a journalist or not. Based on the output of his organization he clearly decided to not be a journalist.

Now, having sown the wind, he is reaping the whirlwind. And in a desperate attempt, he wants us to ignore everything that he has done and stood for up until now and to pretend along with him that he is an actual journalist standing up for journalistic values and integrity.

The best analogy is that of a homeopathic quack who dons a white coat and pretends to be a medical professional to gain patients & attention but also wants to have the privilege of disparaging 'allopathy' to set himself apart and above actual medical doctors.

> the ethics of where the money comes from

not sure what you mean by 'ethics'

it is clearly a construct, just like the concept of money in the first place or the idea of democracy or the authority of police, or the constitution, etc

as a society we agree on certain things and then live within this framework

"power resides where men believe it resides, it is a trick, a shadow on the wall..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpL6Fwu0wkw

don't mean for this to come across as snarky but what has he done lately? is his best work from the 1980's?

"I can tell you this was not a purchase Warren Buffett made. It was one of his two lieutenants"

@BeckyQuick on CNBC this morning

Also in classical times the 'seat of power' for men was not the penis but the testicles.

Today we equate masculinity and virility with a large penis, but to the Greeks and Romans a large penis had no such connotation.

When you think about it, it makes sense from a biochemical perspective. Without the male testes a man can not produce testosterone which is the key hormone that regulates growth, muscle mass, aggressiveness, competitiveness, vitality, etc.

So it is understandable to think that a larger pair of testes would make you 'more' of a man and a smaller set, less.

Not sure when exactly this change occurred in Western culture but it would be the more interesting question to try to answer.

thoroughly disappointed in the Shriver interview, didn't ask any hard questions, didn't redirect after her answers, didn't really seem like she was at all fully informed about Theranos

now if John Carreyrou had been conducting the interview, that would be another thing but I get the feeling that he would never be granted an interview simply because he is much more qualified in terms of competency in Theranos and its history and science relative to Shriver that they would see him as a threat

Shriver on the other hand probably came across as a 'safe' interview to the company, which it was

real journalism is so hard to find these days, sigh

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." George Orwell

and by 'we' you mean the Mongols who sacked and razed this version of Baghdad to the ground in 1258, right?

NK is really a surreal place, no matter how much you learn about it, something new will still shock you

for example, I watched a documentary about a Western eye doctor who went there pro bono to do cataract surgeries

the thing was, when he gave people their sight back they didn't thank him, they went up to a picture of 'Dear Leader' and wept and prostrated themselves in a cathartic show of gratitude

here's a good counter point:

http://www.pragcap.com/passive-investing-isnt-hurting-the-ec...

a friend who recently took up twitter ran into this exact thing. here's what happened, they had figured out that you just write stuff in the text box and press enter. great. simple. done!

here's what happened though, they started a tweet with @nameoffriend and noticed that unlike their previous tweets that were just words, this new tweet they wrote and sent didn't show up in their timeline like the others.

so she wrote another, thinking that for some reason it hadn't been successful. nope. again, it didn't show up.

so after the fourth duplicate message which started with @nameoffriend she gave up in exasperation and said, this is stupid!

she was later informed that all her messages which started with @nameoffriend had in fact been sent but she wasn't seeing them until she clicked on the tab tweets and replies category

it is this sort of thing that makes twitter's UX just atrocious for the average person

of course, many people on HN will read the above and chuckle but you have to understand that the average person out there is not nearly as tech savvy or nearly as invested. they will not commit to dedicating 100's of hours to learn the intricacies of a specific UI. no way!

if it is badly designed and made so that they can't use it in the first or second try, they get frustrated and just leave, and go where they can interact without the UI tripping them up, which is what you're seeing in twitter's stats

you would think a VC - out of the average person out there - would, you know, kinda sorta pay attention to the numbers, maybe?

but it seems they just throw stacks of bills at targets and hope that one of them sticks

riiiiight, beyond cherry picked anecdotal evidence, I guess that explains the MAU numbers, because errrybody is on twitter twatting away incessantly

twitter was an interesting novelty a few years ago but you can't sustain a worldclass communication platform when the user can't figure out how to use it effectively or how to keep track of and follow conversations

when the average user has to become a developer or a UI expert in your own freakish cult of UI to be able to use your product... well, don't be surprised when they leave in a confused herd

this isn't rocket science, old fashioned bboards and forums up to now have this stuff figured out

but twitter came along and said, F* that! what we need are MODAL windows out the yin-yang to confuse the hell out of each and every user until they leave and go use something with better UI

please google it, there are tonnes of articles and blogs talking about it

http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/20/did-twitters-orwellian-tru...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/26/1491618/-Twitter-Exe...

They also constantly censor their own platform to fit the narrative of those running it. They've kicked out and muted multiple users for being conservative. They mute or remove 'problematic' hashtags like #JeSuiMilo

Just recently they've also censored the #whichhillary hashtag.

The fact that twitter execs fundraise for Hillary Clinton must have no bearing on this, right?

LoL that's the most hilarious and apt way of putting it :)

compare and contrast to reddit: text but extremely simple, intuitive, you can follow conversations, know who is talking to whom, respond, link, etc.

Too little, too late. Twitter has the most abysmal UI/UX I've ever seen, especially when you consider its clout and popularity (although that is fast waning).

Any meaningful change will be so jarring that the dyed in the wool users will balk at it, kicking up a storm of protests and it will not serve to bring in new users (they come in not for good UI but for the network effect - but they don't use it and leave because of the UI).

I honestly can't believe how insanely horrible twitter UI is - and it seems to be something that all twitter users have agreed to never mention. It just leaves one breathless after it opens the FOURTH modal window on top of the previous three that it had already opened.

On the bright side of things, for anyone teaching UI, twitter is a fantastic example of what NOT to do.

I love how a few years ago many people, including google and lackeys like fishkin at MozSEO, said that negative seo simply wasn't a thing

... and then google comes out with the disavow tool

!

posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11128535

really baffled as to how this tripe can be on the front page of HN, unless... no, I don't want to go there...

previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10592754

Thanks, that's why I shared it on here. I suspected that its rational approach may not receive a warm reception since so much of today's dialogue about this topic is driven by emotions. Glad that I was wrong.

I find it alarming that this toxic culture is invading the tech field. Because of its nature, coding is, has been and will continue to be the best environment for meritocracy to flourish and be rewarded.

If you are a good programmer and can deliver, no one really cares if you're young, old, black, white, purple, man, woman, etc. They will want to hire you and/or work with you.

Squashing that for a superficially forced diversity "solution" is both short sighted and wrong. Discriminating against any category of people, no matter on what personal basis you decide to create that category is short sighted and wrong.

Or should I say 'problematic'? ;)

To leave things on a positive note, this is the sort of thing I'm talking about:

https://github.com/rosarior/Code-of-Merit

Iran is an authoritarian country like North Korea. No foreign press is allowed in without first requesting a special permit. Among the information they have to present is who they are and what they are planning on reporting on. This is the first filter.

For example, if you request a press pass to enter Iran and report on the persecution of Bahais, don't be surprised if you are turned down.

But once allowed in, that's not the end of it. They are monitored and carefully managed to only present the positive. Also, who they speak to and what they say and hear is also monitored.

This is well known and routine. Therefore, to think that a choreographed and superficial 'feel good' anecdotal video like Rick Steve's presents anything approaching reality is the height of naivete.