Last time I was hill-walking in the UK I was very happy with little tins of wine I got from Marks & Spencers.
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Denial of the totality of Russiagate (shadowy foreign powers are using the scary, technological internet to reach into the minds of innocent Americans who would otherwise be happily eating apple pie and going to work on time in the porn and missile factory) does not imply that the motte is untrue.
It is very possible that Russia, or some element of the Russian elite, have sought to propagandize the USA. But here is zero proof that it was effective, let alone that there was control of Trump, zero proof of voting irregularities, zero proof of a change in foreign policy advantageous to Russia.
Russiagate is irrational. Maybe not as lurid as QAnon, but similarly lacking in support for its major theses.
I think anyone advancing the hard line that Russia has influenced US elections for the last 50 years still has not emerged from the rabbit hole dug for protection from nuclear attacks 50 years ago.
Russia may revel and delight in anything that weakens the pre-eminent superpower, they surely have cyberwarfare teams reacting to constant US attacks. But the idea that US election results were swayed is far-fetched. The "division" that was supposedly sowed by clever Russian propaganda was manufactured by the economic engine running out of control in the USA and the resulting impoverishment of many.
Like many conspiracy theories the Russiagate hysteria seeks to replace complexity with simplicity. From my cultural and economic background it is less obviously crazy than QAnon, but if I seek to find solid grounds for either of them I end up dropping both of them into the same asylum.
Reality, as Curtis has reminded us, is not something we have direct access to, we are working off imperfect models. When those models stop working we should change them. Clinging on to them is irrational. It looks like our current models are very poor at describing the complexity of the world.
There really is only one obvious response to this: Facebook, Google etc are common carriers, not allowed to censor. They should also be broken up given their massive size which enables them to drive policy which affects them.
The link to Matuschak that you supply explicitly argues that you need to go back and revise prompts based on developments in your knowledge and new connections found. This includes eliminating prompts that are too easy, reformulating them for greater personal import and adding new ones to shore up areas of weakness.
It is difficult.
One of the most serious things the court system does is deprive people of their liberty and life. And it is not stellar. You may argue that the 2% to 10% wrongful conviction rate is good (I think it is unacceptable) but what does seem clear is that many judges are swayed by any old pseudo-scientific rubbish (if they even remain awake during the trial): https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-grisham-wrongful...
I like the idea of people being held accountable for mis-information though.
Disclaimer: I use it exclusively on Linux but there are iOS clients https://www.zotero.org/support/mobile
The good news is that there are other people that are willing to exercize those rights:
e.g. Bay Area Transparency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwv35xL9AFI
Maybe if MySQL, its offshoot MariaDB, and our graph brothers Neo4j weren’t the only GPL flag flyers in the top 20 databases, it might be easier to gain adoption with GPL
That compounded with the following trite slogan actually detracts from what should have just been a simple announcement instead of extended squirming: code freedom is being overtaken by developer freedom
I understand that when you think of corruption you are assuming several magnitudes greater recompense but you have to remember how the little folks live.
And once they had taken violent charge of that innocent person they had no business lurking in the family dwelling with weapons drawn menacing people that were not even listed on that warrant.
You are making a very thin apologium for appalling behaviour.
You have 20 seconds to comply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
The efficiency (like all other marginal gains in cycling) is important for racers or long-distance tourers. For everyone else it needs to be considered against the maintenance burden required to maintain an exposed drivetrain which needs to be cleaned, lubricated and adjusted in order to maintain its relative efficiency.
And weight...
I assume this is a typo for 500?
A better term would be something like "Tied programmers" or "Dependent progammers". Maybe "sharecropper progammers"?