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That's a good one, but my all-time favorite is this one: Hillary Clinton used a hammer to smash her mobile phone during an FBI investigation.

Mixture: It was not just one phone, but many, and it was one of her aides, not Hillary herself, who did the smashing.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon...

It was wild to me too. I have an .xyz domain, which seemed appropriate for a non-commercial math site. I'd try to send links of math experiments to friends and colleagues via SMS, so they could tell me if they worked right on their phones or not. Can't tell you how much confusion and frustration it caused that the links were simply not being delivered, though all the conversation around the links went through just fine. No error was reported on either end. A year or so ago, I did a lot of searching trying to find some explanation of this bizarre behavior, but found literally nothing. It's nice to know I'm not crazy, at least. Is there a published list of what domains are not allowed to go through?

Also, censored.tv.

Just in case people are reading something nefarious into Sowell's comment about Obama and Sharia law, he wasn't implying that Obama was a secret Muslim or the like, rather he was criticizing Obama's posture toward Iran, which Sowell considered soft and also feckless, in the sense that he believed the policy would lead to Iran joining the nuclear power club.

Shadowbanning is lying, plain and simple. I don't doubt that it works. Lying often works.

I think that list is only Minneapolis. There are more.

Black Lives Matter is still allowed on Twitter. Dozens of people have died from their protests and riots, not to mention hundreds of businesses vandalized, looted, and set afire. Ditto Antifa. This ban is utterly political, which, depending on how "libertarian" you are, may be fine. But the precedent is not a good one in my opinion.

That's my point. AP doesn't decide who won the election.

Joe Biden has added "president elect" to his bio. When Trump tweets that he won, Twitter flags it.

Good collision detection is everything.

Youtube Premium for $10/month. No ads to break your focus.

This is a cool idea. I did give it a spin and found that the fidelity between viewers was not all that true. For example, if I pause the video (as the room creator), the video gets paused for other viewers as expected, but not in the same place. In other words, not all viewers are in sync.

I wonder if any of these concerned employees have ever listened to the rap songs Spotify so proudly hosts and promotes.

The fundamental problem is that our beliefs become part of our identity, and thus most of the time we're not actually seeking the "truth". This is obviously true when it comes to religion, and almost as bad when it comes to politics. And these days, a lot of "science" has become hyper political: race, climate, gender, evolution. Forget changing anyone's mind on those topics, no matter what facts you have in your arsenal.

"Rape is rape"

OK, thanks, good to know. That's not where it dropped me after signing up though—it put me on an app download page and it didn't look to be optional.

I've avoided Spotify for all these years because it always felt like it was part of the Facebook / Apple universe, which I generally find annoying. But I love Joe so I thought in preparation for this move, I'll go ahead and sign up, not wanting to be a sourpuss about it. Sure enough, I could sign up with Facebook, or with Apple (but not Google etc), or the old-fashioned way with email and password. I filled out the nosy little signup form and the next step was to install an app on my computer! No chance.

Google American Inventors and you'll get 95% black men.

win-win-win

Who else had a monochrome monitor to display Soft-ICE info while debugging video-intensive programs? Text at B000:0000 instead of B800:0000.

Here's another one that I think belongs on this list:

NYC spent 6+ years and $13 million trying to reopen the Wollman skating rink in Central Park. In 1986, Trump negotiated a deal with the city for 2½ million, promising completion in 6 months, by Dec 15, in time to salvage most of the winter season. He and his team opened the rink 2 months ahead of schedule, and ¾ million under budget.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3wtqnPYlk

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/07/nyregion/trump-to-rebuild...

Things you can't say in the tech world, 2019: * global warming is junk science * there are approximately two genders * Trump is a great president * the US is not a racist country * Apple sucks

Edit: If you're one of the many downvoters, who presumably disagree with this, I dare you to say any of these things if you work for a tech company.

Every tech company I've ever had anything to do with (which includes IBM) has bent over backwards to hire minority engineers. This ridiculous narrative that the tech world is prejudiced against black people is ridiculous and unproductive. It needs to end. There, I said it.

The best part of the book is the part about The Kennedy Portfolio, in Chapter 9. "Reader John Kennedy regularly passes along intriguing assembly programming tricks, many of which I've never seen mentioned anywhere else."

I once saw research that said English speakers utter about 4 words per second. Shannon once empirically determined each English word carried about 6 bits of information. For what it's worth.

If one is interested at all in the Twitter CEO's account being hacked, you want to know what they did with it, i.e. what did they tweet? Notice that none of these news sources actually told us what was tweeted (e.g. FUCK NIGGERS). JFC, we're adults—just tell us what was tweeted.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

I worked on Encarta in the mid 90s. Here are a few tidbits you may or may not find interesting.

* The content was based on Funk & Wagnalls. Then we had a bunch of editors and writers cleaning up the content and adding new articles.

* The Windows version was always done first, then we ported to the Mac using "WLM" (Windows Library for Mac?).

* We used fractal compression for the images. If you never heard of this, look it up—pretty interesting. This was going to be all the rage, but then it wasn't.

* As a consumer product, Christmas sales were everything. Therefore, unlike most software, the schedule never slipped. There was a hard date for completion. Features would be cut to make the deadline, no matter what.

* When the web hit, we put professionally curated links into the articles. Best of both worlds. And you could get a subscription that would update articles and links monthly.

* We worked with WBUR to implement a brand-new closed captioning standard for videos.

* The codebase was ostensibly C++ and MFC, but it..was..complicated.

* Articles were edited in Word, with a bunch of custom macros, and exported to RTF. There was a lot more processing that went on after that to shove all that content onto the CD, but I wasn't too familiar with that part.

* Later versions occupied more than one CD. Swapping was a real pain, but if you had multiple CD-ROM drives, it would accommodate you.

Red McCombs is turning in his grave.

Also 1978: "International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30‐Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/05/archives/international-te...