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Paywalled.

15:00-18:00 is unreal. What the hell?

Can't you get options whose expiry is a year or two out (LEAPs), or is the time premium not worth it?

Should tech workers consider buying deep out of the money puts on tech ETFs as a form of insurance?

It's unfortunate that China's state-run media turned it into actual propaganda. What point are you trying to make?

Someone should tell the Washington Post that they've had a Chinese propagandist on their payroll for at least two decades. Their first Beijing bureau chief, no less. Assuming the CJR piece doesn't lie about his bio.

From TFA:

Hundreds of people, most of them workers and passersby, did die that night, but in a different place and under different circumstances.

The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.

Isn't it the 10Y-2Y which is the famous recession signal?

Do NSA and CIA share this data with DHS?

Queue other countries responding in kind to US citizens.

> When it comes to ballistic missile defense, “you want to get it into airborne platforms and into space,” said Evan Hunt, a former U.S. Air Force navigator who now works in business development for Raytheon’s high-energy laser products. “It’s better to look down than to shoot up.”

What about atmospheric interference? (And whatever unfortunate soul might be behind the missile assuming the laser misses.)

I've yet to see any data on how effective these social media ops actually are.

> Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, told reporters that the tech giant had purged 65 Israeli accounts, 161 pages, dozens of groups and four Instagram accounts.

> The activity appeared focused on Sub-Saharan African countries but was also scattered in parts of Southeast Asia and Latin America, what Brookie called a “staggering diversity of regions” that pointed to the group’s sophistication.

> The fake pages, pushing a steady stream of political news, racked up 2.8 million followers. Thousands of people expressed interest in attending at least one of the nine events organized by those behind the pages. Facebook could not confirm whether any of the events actually occurred. Some 5,000 accounts joined one or more of the fake groups.

> Gleicher said the misleading accounts primarily aimed to influence people in Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia.

> The most significant audience engagement was generated in Malaysia, which has a vast media market and held a general election last year, according to Brookie and his team at the Atlantic Council.

> Facebook investigations revealed that Archimedes had spent some $800,000 on fake ads, paid for in Brazilian reals, Israeli shekels and U.S. dollars. Gleicher said the deceptive ads dated back to 2012, with the most recent activity occurring last month.

Because students generally are poor and so don't have much to lose by declaring bankruptcy. They shrug off massive debts are left with an (ostensibly) valuable degree. Lenders are unable to secure the loan against the borrower's assets, as would generally be the case for a home, auto, or business loan. It's possible that if student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy that, absent a government guarantee, the lender would need to charge a high enough interest rate where the student loan market simply wouldn't function. And a government guarantee combined with student loan dischargeability in bankruptcy would leave US taxpayers holding the bag.

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For all the talk about Russian social media meddling, I'm surprised no one ever speculates about foreign meddling in media such as the chans. To what extent has chan culture been influenced by foreign agitprop?

Craig Murray is a former British ambassador.

So was a warrant issued or not? In the US, at least, being "unable to formally notify [someone] of allegations" would not prevent a warrant from being issued.

Craig Murray's reaction is worth reading [1]. I realize he does not respond to the bail breach directly, but rather to what precipitated this chain of events.

> If the Swedish allegations against Julian Assange were genuine and not simply a ruse to arrest him for extradition to the United States, where is the arrest warrant now from Sweden and what are the charges?

> Only the more minor allegation has passed the statute of limitations deadline. The major allegation, equivalent to rape, is still well within limits. Sweden has had seven years to complete the investigation and prepare the case. It is over two years since they interviewed Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy. They have had years and years to collect all the evidence and prepare the charges.

> So where, Swedish prosecutors, are your charges? Where is your arrest warrant?

> Julian Assange has never been charged with anything in Sweden. He was merely “wanted for questioning”, a fact the MSM repeatedly failed to make clear. It is now undeniably plain that there was never the slightest intention of charging him with anything in Sweden. All those Blairite MPs who seek to dodge the glaring issue of freedom of the media to publish whistleblower material revealing government crimes, by hiding behind trumped-up sexual allegations, are left looking pretty stupid.

> [...]

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/so-where-is-...

Coming soon: Facebook banking and insurance. More affordable rates based upon inferences from your data. Facebook will have privatized China's social credit score.

How can one guard their device against this?

What are Wasserman and Hastie?

I'm sure I will be downvoted for even mentioning his name, but Charles Murray has been writing about this for decades.

Common Crawl is referenced in the document.

> All or most of the major tests commonly used to measure intelligence have been constructed so that there are no overall score differences between males and females. Thus, there is little difference between the average IQ scores of men and women. Differences have been reported, however, in specific areas such as mathematics and verbal measures. Also, studies have found the variability of male scores is greater than that of female scores, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...

Why is that a "conspiracy theory"?

Partially off topic: if the US Fed bought publicly traded equities, would we know about it?

It was roughly coincident in time (one week prior) with the US-NK denuclearization summit.

So, if I send the file to someone else, (1) on Linux and (2) on Mac, does this URL metadata come along, or no? Sounds like no, and the issue is just your device being compromised.

Surely the paper is being harvested from sustainably managed tree farms? And surely if demand for said paper decreased, to the point where the tree farm wasn't profitable, said tree farm owner would raze the farm.