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There are some resources posted at business schools, where Bloomberg Terminal usage is frequently part of coursework [1, 2, 3]. Also the "Bloomberg Markets" magazine (frequently sold in major airports) covers new terminal features and shows how to use the terminal to analyze trending financial topics.

[1] http://businesslibrary.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=114612&p=746563 [2] https://business.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/wffmlab/guides/la... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anOUEiraEtg

It seems reasonable to claim (and seems to be backed up by authorities on the issue) that most genuine sex trafficking originates from two sources: 1) visa fraud and/or human smuggling across the border and 2) domestically, broken homes. Trying to fix either of these root causes requires stepping on some political landmines.

The internet, even "big tech" platforms with 1000 different ML algorithms for downranking and banning things, is just a different medium than broadcast media altogether, so there's bound to be tension between tech companies and broadcast media, even ignoring the whole ad money thing. There's so much going on at the same time and there's just no presumption that any particular piece of content is authoritative or popular like there is on TV or in a newspaper.

To put it another way, it seems like it's not just about the difference between the framing of the "big story" on the NBC evening news and on TruthS33k3r_42's channel; it seems more about the difference between having or caring about a single story at all, and perhaps just chatting on Discord/forums/Twitter/Messenger about something completely separate.

For those unfamiliar with this situation: Pleroma is an ActivityPub server and frontend written in Elixir and designed for low resource consumption, somewhat of an alterative to Mastodon. One or two of the most prominent early Pleroma instances had very sparse moderation policies, leading some to associate Pleroma with trolls and far-right users. Today, most Pleroma instances prohibit hate speech, harassment, and so on. Of course, anyone is free to make their own Pleroma or Mastodon instance with whatever rules and federation policies they like, and the most "chud-filled" instance in the entire fediverse (Gab) is running a Mastodon fork, not Pleroma.

Speaking of building regulations and solar, I stayed in a house that was completely powered by solar and wired with DC for lights and electronics. You can't just add an AC outlet in the kitchen for a coffee grinder, though. If you have even one AC outlet, you have to wire the entire house to code -- useless and unused AC outlets every few feet along the hallways, AC outlet in the bathroom even though the inverter can't handle most of the things (e.g. hair dryers) that would be plugged in in a bathroom.

This completely defies logic, considering that 2 kids is replacement level fertility, the world has experienced generally consistent population growth, and most of the labor ever done in the world has been low-skilled labor.

Cliqz plans to make money by, in the future, "deliver[ing] sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history...processed locally based on a remote repository of offers, with no personally identifiable data sent to remote servers"

This is the reason they're pushing their browser and their extension. Privacy wise, this method sounds OK if they really don't send the data (or what ads you see personally) out. I don't mind seeing ads if they are somewhat relevant, non-obtrusive, and not stalking me across the internet.

My first impression about Cliqz search is that it is somewhat viable, but the index is pretty shallow. There are actually a few other search engines with their own index not mentioned by the article (Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu):

* Mojeek. Sometimes really good for obscure sites when you want to "grep the internet" but seems very vulnerable to blogspam and other SEO. Maybe I just haven't figured out how to query this one yet.

* Yippy. Pretty decent index. Cool feature: categorizes search results with a tree on the side, so if you search for "cobbler" you can just remove the pie or shoe results depending on what you're looking for.

* Gigablast / private.sh: private.sh is the new Gigablast proxy run by PIA. Shallow index as well, haven't used it as much.

The search engine market will be up for grabs if Google keeps getting worse at the same pace.

People are cheering it on because there are no viable openly licensed ISAs besides RISC-V and the alternative to this move is RISC-V being crippled due to sanctions. Anybody in the US is just as free to use the ISA, and designs and fab IP can still be proprietary in whatever country.

Perhaps it's necessary but not sufficient: if you have zero lawyers, press, or government officials on your side, marching is a great way to get thrown in jail for "rioting" and have your reputation destroyed.

The state is the entity that signed all the free trade treaties in the first place — that enabled the outsourcing and let the production be moved out of the country — and still has the power to set tariffs and industrial policy. So the author's argument is that the only way to fix these problems is through state power.

>"Indeed the conspicuous embrace of 'elite values' by journalists and academics is often little more than an aspi­rational attempt to remain connected to an economically distant elite...they gave professionals greater scope to manage “postmaterial' concerns that suited their cultural sensibilities..."

In other words, this potential class war is pacified by telling the upper-middle class that they are culturally superior in spite of their increasing economic precarity. Someone in this class who has to take out massive loans, move across the country, and spend $30,000 a year on rent with no hope of ever owning a home in order to have an insecure job in their field must be assured that living this way, combined with a mix of vague cultural markers, is tasteful and elite, and not an empty bag. There may also be a variety of well-funded social movements that pose zero threat to the economic position of the 0.1% to participate in as an activist.

One could consider Americans poisoned by something, considering that 40% of the American population is obese (not just overweight) and sperm count has declined 50% in developed countries over the past few decades.

I think the author's take would be that the working class can radicalize all they want, but it probably won't change anything without the support of a significant part of the 10%-0.1%. I wish he had gone into detail on why he thinks the upper-middle class is required to effect political change. Is it because they have just enough capital? Or maybe they are closer to and more familiar with institutional power?

If it makes you feel any better, I'm over 6'1" and I still shouldn't have bothered creating an account.

It looks like Bing SFW search is only Youtube, same as DDG. Only video search site I've seen lately is Petey Vid which searches the expected Vimeo, Dailymotion, but also Instagram, Twitter, Peertube, and a bunch of random non-US video sites.

It's a neat trick: it emphasizes that they are amoral companies required to do nothing but make money, and simultaneously that they're only companies like the thousands of other gyrating tickers on the stock market. This same author frequently uses the term "Microsoft Github".

Technically speaking, the largest Mastodon instance is full of content that isn't exactly allowed on traditional social media (i.e. far-right extremism). See https://fediverse.network/

Ohio's unemployment rate is 25% above the national average, but not particularly shocking at 4.1%. It also has a GDP per capita higher than Florida and Vermont. Ohio is 16th out of 50 states for weekly church attendance.

Right above this it says,

>No school district..shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments

Where religious expression is defined including

>Prayer..activity of a religious nature...expression of a religious viewpoint...

So there's more to the story (imagine that, in a story about religion and politics) than "Johnny gets a free A+ on his multiple-choice quiz about evolution."

A few comments about how a non-negligent company handles user data:

* They wouldn't respond to "emergency disclosure" requests from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia about random users

* The average developer has zero access to user data besides names in crash logs and things that the developer has been explicitly copied on in the support system.

* Every command run on production servers by developers requires approval by someone above your org chart level (up to the executive level, when you just need someone at your level) and is logged forever.

* SREs who have to shell in to servers use Unix accounts that have no access to user data. Root access, which should hardly ever happen, requires org chart approval.

* Test environments use synthetic or anonymized data

* There is a separate team of dozens of highly paid people whose only job is it to identify, classify, and monitor access to user data. This is not even the same as the infosec team, who also would be looking for insider breaches.

There is a conceivable way for actions outdoors to be private. Just roll back the clock a whopping 3 decades. Maybe nosy old Ethel notices when you leave for work in the morning, but she's not tracking your face's position and emotion across the city. Your location and reading history is not being recorded from your cell phone and logged permanently. Would it bother you to send me your exact GPS coordinates right now, or if I dispatched a drone to follow you around at all times the instant you stepped outside your front door, then post the video feed on the internet?

There are multiple billion-dollar companies whose entire business is tying together data from all these disparate systems, e.g. Palantir. There are leaked multiple government programs whose entire purpose is the same, e.g. XKeyscore. Or look at something more general purpose like Splunk, where it is trivial to filter 1TB of logs from different sources and map identifiers.

They can not. Media ownership and media content, even NPR, is not tied to electoral representation.

This is the "dark forest" theory of the current internet, ironically posted on Medium [1]. You can put up registration barriers and such, but even being world-readable can attract negative attention. It's getting to the point where you have to "know people" to find cool stuff online.

[1] https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-int...

That may be 25% of all hangings, but I imagine the rate would be lower for hangings occurred by a 6ft tall person off a 6ft tall bed post.

Maybe not. From this article, "...it probably wasn’t American intelligence, either."

It would be more clear for everyone to call it Microsoft Github at all times.

My understanding was that the main reason power has to be turned off because there could be 1) vegetation contact with the power lines in windy conditions 2) power lines blowing away in the wind. California has been windy since before the invention of electricity, so what's changed? They can't build power lines to handle some wind that happens every other year since the beginning of human settlement? If they are failing to trim and remove dying trees around power lines, that is a direct maintenance failure. Besides PG&E, at the forestry management level, not clearing brush or doing controlled burns is direct maintenance failure.

History is replete with the sudden removal or transfer of "private" property [1,2]. I'm not saying that this is good thing economically or morally, but when people get mad they vote for Hugo Chavez or whoever. I think this is highly unlikely in the US right now: in a "how many divisions does Jeff Bezos have" argument, I'm pretty sure you could make a case for the answer being "greater than zero" given regulatory capture and general financial/corporate influence on government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reforms_by_country

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nationalizations_by_co...