I think the reality might be that *both* are true. Ultimately, foreign powers probably see the opportunity to divide the US and get us to fight with ourselves, which weakens our stature globally and therefore gives them a chance to climb back into relevance.
Unfortunately, even the way both of these accusations come up are divisive -- if either party says "the platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to BOTH campaigns" then maybe someone other than their base will care.
Well, it's a reference to the same episode you were talking about where they had a social metric system and a threshold of downvotes that makes you a criminal. But whatever, looks like the mods didn't get it either.
Trump came in off of 3 months of "TREASON!!" and "ELECTION FRAUD!!!" and "PEEPEE!!"
Obama had to start after 3 months of the tea party claiming he was already responsible for our the 'great recession', which started before he was even elected and began to turn around within his first year.
Ya, sounds a lot like buying baseball cards to me. I mean, I hate the concept of loot boxes but I don't think considering it 'gambling' is helping anything.
Admittedly posting this having only read the headline, but the answer is obvious:
Because people apparently trust corporations like Uber, Facebook, etc. with all kinds of sensitive data, but for God's sake don't trust the government with the time of day!
Everyone is talking about bad UI, and they are right, but isn't the bigger problem that this is all being tested in production? Why does the "test missle alert" option even exist in production -- that should be in a sub-prod system that isn't actually connected. Maybe it has something to do with how the EBS works but seems ridiculous to me to even have those two options in the same system.
What is it about Bitcoin that makes people throw logic completely out the window? It's a really obvious bubble, and in many ways worse than most bubbles because there is literally nothing of value underneath it all. For example the housing bubble(s) (plural because it's pretty cyclical, seems like we're on the up-rise of another one now) -- at least when it pops, you have land & structures to show for it. Did you pay too much for that at the top of the bubble? Yes, but you can still turn those into income to help cut your losses. Stock bubbles -- same thing, history has shown that if you play the long game, the bubbles and their popping aren't really as devastating as they seem.
I'm not sure -- did people behave like this when the beanie baby craze was going on in the 90s? Did they react with insults and call you stupid if you tried to point out that it's a bubble? I knew lots of people who were in that bubble, and none of them are rich now -- do YOU know any beanie baby millionaires? Possibly the CEO of Ty...
So Bitcoin is obviously a pure speculation market and has no intrinsic value -- what scares me more is how defensive people get when you say that. Look at the above comments for examples, there are plenty!
My advice to BTC prospectors: Get out now. If you got into BTC early, great -- you should be able to turn that into a ton of spendable/investable cash! "But won't it cause a crash if everyone gets out now?" you ask -- possibly, but first of all it's better to be the cause of the crash by protecting yourself than the victim of the crash by waiting too long. Also, since 97% of BTC are held by a few people, the crash isn't likely unless those 4% start selling off, too...
Why would I want to put an Earth ice core in Mars orbit? Or are you suggesting once we have presence on Mars we could use railguns to send cores to orbit for pickup?
I tried to watch the Cheddar channel on Sling a bit last week. I am baffled that this network can have any credibility after the financial advice they were recommending. It was truly horrible, basically one big ad for various financial products (sponsors).
Unfortunately, in today's America, "Liberal" is a synonym for "Democrat" and "Conservative" is a synonym for "Republican." There are lots of others, too.
No, I'm sorry but you're incorrect about the streaming stick and whether its horsepower matters. It performs very poorly, and as a result is not very responsive to user input -- even just highlighting different channels is laggy let alone changing to those channels. Yes, it works, but not very well. If you spend a little more to get an actual Roku box, you'll save more than that much in anger management bills later on.
The streaming stick's best use case is on a TV where you can't place an additional box, because you plug it straight into the TV's HDMI and it can draw power from the TV's USB as well, so no new wall connections or stringing cables needed. If your use case supports adding a small box, go for that instead of the streaming stick.
I can't speak for apple TV, the Fire TV stick, or chromecast, haven't used those myself.
This looks like scientists saying "Ya, we have evidence that makes us pretty sure this event is related to the bigger picture here" and you are the one bringing politics into their science. I don't see any of them saying "Vote for X" or any stupid thing like that.
You shouldn't blindly distrust authority, either. In today's America, seems like everyone has decided to pick one or the other of those, and fact is both are ridiculously stupid things to do.
We're probably in the largest isolation bubble of our time because social media directly reinforces echo chambers. It also doesn't help that many of the people who are screeching that everyone is a nazi thinks that they're highly educated and very smart. Or that we've got an entire generation of people who are so mentally fragile that different viewpoints make anyone who disagree with them "worse then hitler." Or that we've got a education system that's full of people pushing victim politics, victimhood, and the cult of victimization as a way of social change too. You can see that one everywhere from people virtue signaling over halloween costumes, to the travesty at Wilfred Laurier, or some feminist or 'male feminist ally' being so triggered of a dongle joke that you're pretty sure they're insane.
Would you say you feel victimized by all these changes in society?
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I think the reality might be that *both* are true. Ultimately, foreign powers probably see the opportunity to divide the US and get us to fight with ourselves, which weakens our stature globally and therefore gives them a chance to climb back into relevance.
Unfortunately, even the way both of these accusations come up are divisive -- if either party says "the platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to BOTH campaigns" then maybe someone other than their base will care.
I wonder if they realize you can't buy stocks with credit cards either...
pronounce the A like the A in "apple" the 'juhr'.
He just pulled it out of his pants.
Well, it's a reference to the same episode you were talking about where they had a social metric system and a threshold of downvotes that makes you a criminal. But whatever, looks like the mods didn't get it either.
Obama had to start after 3 months of the tea party claiming he was already responsible for our the 'great recession', which started before he was even elected and began to turn around within his first year.
Downvote parent...
Ya, sounds a lot like buying baseball cards to me. I mean, I hate the concept of loot boxes but I don't think considering it 'gambling' is helping anything.
I believe he meant it's free for *Google* -- they won't have to pay people to feed it data.
Good point, I wasn't considering the physical aspects of test, just software.
Admittedly posting this having only read the headline, but the answer is obvious:
Because people apparently trust corporations like Uber, Facebook, etc. with all kinds of sensitive data, but for God's sake don't trust the government with the time of day!
Everyone is talking about bad UI, and they are right, but isn't the bigger problem that this is all being tested in production? Why does the "test missle alert" option even exist in production -- that should be in a sub-prod system that isn't actually connected. Maybe it has something to do with how the EBS works but seems ridiculous to me to even have those two options in the same system.
What is it about Bitcoin that makes people throw logic completely out the window? It's a really obvious bubble, and in many ways worse than most bubbles because there is literally nothing of value underneath it all. For example the housing bubble(s) (plural because it's pretty cyclical, seems like we're on the up-rise of another one now) -- at least when it pops, you have land & structures to show for it. Did you pay too much for that at the top of the bubble? Yes, but you can still turn those into income to help cut your losses. Stock bubbles -- same thing, history has shown that if you play the long game, the bubbles and their popping aren't really as devastating as they seem.
I'm not sure -- did people behave like this when the beanie baby craze was going on in the 90s? Did they react with insults and call you stupid if you tried to point out that it's a bubble? I knew lots of people who were in that bubble, and none of them are rich now -- do YOU know any beanie baby millionaires? Possibly the CEO of Ty...
So Bitcoin is obviously a pure speculation market and has no intrinsic value -- what scares me more is how defensive people get when you say that. Look at the above comments for examples, there are plenty!
My advice to BTC prospectors: Get out now. If you got into BTC early, great -- you should be able to turn that into a ton of spendable/investable cash! "But won't it cause a crash if everyone gets out now?" you ask -- possibly, but first of all it's better to be the cause of the crash by protecting yourself than the victim of the crash by waiting too long. Also, since 97% of BTC are held by a few people, the crash isn't likely unless those 4% start selling off, too...
Why would I want to put an Earth ice core in Mars orbit? Or are you suggesting once we have presence on Mars we could use railguns to send cores to orbit for pickup?
I tried to watch the Cheddar channel on Sling a bit last week. I am baffled that this network can have any credibility after the financial advice they were recommending. It was truly horrible, basically one big ad for various financial products (sponsors).
Unfortunately, in today's America, "Liberal" is a synonym for "Democrat" and "Conservative" is a synonym for "Republican." There are lots of others, too.
No, I'm sorry but you're incorrect about the streaming stick and whether its horsepower matters. It performs very poorly, and as a result is not very responsive to user input -- even just highlighting different channels is laggy let alone changing to those channels. Yes, it works, but not very well. If you spend a little more to get an actual Roku box, you'll save more than that much in anger management bills later on.
The streaming stick's best use case is on a TV where you can't place an additional box, because you plug it straight into the TV's HDMI and it can draw power from the TV's USB as well, so no new wall connections or stringing cables needed. If your use case supports adding a small box, go for that instead of the streaming stick.
I can't speak for apple TV, the Fire TV stick, or chromecast, haven't used those myself.
He gets a 10% royalty....
So somehow you're claiming that legal experts talking about lawsuits is the same as scientists being political?
This looks like scientists saying "Ya, we have evidence that makes us pretty sure this event is related to the bigger picture here" and you are the one bringing politics into their science. I don't see any of them saying "Vote for X" or any stupid thing like that.
You shouldn't blindly distrust authority, either. In today's America, seems like everyone has decided to pick one or the other of those, and fact is both are ridiculously stupid things to do.
Look it up yourself.
Would you say you feel victimized by all these changes in society?
I think you may not have RTFS -- this is about tracking what you put in the cart to eliminated the need for checkout lines and cashiers altogether.
I think the point is that the pros and cons of the bill unfortunately don't matter, only the D or R next to the sponsor's name.