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wheelzr··on France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
Classic case of the carrot and the stick. Freedom of the press radically changed public access to news for the good. Was it too powerful? Back when you had to own a printing press for mass consumption -- No it wasn't.

But it is now.

The demand for updates and net-new information creates markets for information. There are too many pretenders and pranksters now because there are no barriers to posting on the internet.

Until we start breaking down the anonymity of users posting data to indiviuals there will be no one to answer for bad reporting.

Punishment should be doled out via the platform posted, similar to FCC going after radio station DJ's and ultimately the broadcast network itself. This will create an underworld for news. The news underworld will need to have a few well known paragons and pranksters to bring a sense of balance and uncertainty to non-regulated news.

First step would be to introduce small fines for sites that claim their information is accurate. Classifying and identifying the obvious from NYT/WSJ from Reddit and 4chan. Once the extremes are identified, lessons learned can be applied slowly to the middle of the pack.

wheelzr··on Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
Ok, so it's SmartSheet with API integrations.

Could be good solution to simplify managing multiple sites through API calls.

Basically creating a spreadsheet with external calls. And a sexy ass website.

wheelzr··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
Credit card numbers are a bug.
wheelzr··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
Credit Monitoring is the shittiest way to resolve these issues.

I've stopped using any credit card numbers for anything ditial. I can change paypal passwords weekly If I'm that paranoid.

wheelzr··on Windows 10: The Next Chapter [video]
Kind of hard to overlook the fact the video is encoded using flash. Not real promising.
wheelzr··on Life in New York City, Where Arrests Are Down and Tickets Are Rarities
It's a direct response to De Blasio's asking police to implement Broken Windows policies. They are sending him the message they aren't taking his orders anymore.
wheelzr··on Confessions of a Car Salesman (2001)
I was a "online sales director" for a small chain of new and used cars for about a year.

Never buy a car new unless you have to. If you're buying the car new you shouldn't focus on the purchase price, but the value for your trade in and your APR.

Most used car sales generally only brought in $1,000-$3,000 in profit. The dishonesty in the business doesn't revolve around the pricing, it's in the details of the cars. Salesmen will lie about resale values, maintenance records, previous owners and so on.

My advice is to identify 2-3 cars you'd like and then buy that car with 30K-50K miles on it no more than 3-4 years old. You'll still be able to get a low APR, and you'll have cashed in on a car that will hold it's resell value better than a brand new car.

wheelzr··on Massively Multiplayer Online Drum Machine
Fantastic....not very intuitive to select beats...really strange.