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by ern 9y ago
Political ads influence voters. Donations to a foundation linked to a politician may (or may not) influence that individual politician, just as another politician’s overseas business interests may (or may not) influence that politician’s de
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by ern 9y ago
Well, if for example Saudi king donates you tens of millions of dollars to your campaign I feel compelled to fact check this. There article you linked to discusses the Clinton Foundation, not the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
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by ern 9y ago
why are Russian adverts different to political adverts bought by non-Russians? There is some measure of transparency in politician donations and ads. However a foreign government covertly working to influence an election would be interpre
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I’ve asked this question before, but doesn’t it arouse ones curiosity that the Russians spent money on the ads? Why would they have done that if they didn’t believe it would have made a difference to the election?
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if a presidential election can actually be swayed by "people buying ads on Facebook" then the USA has problems much deeper than Facebook How’s this for a root cause: the Electoral College means that carefully targeting propagand
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by ern 9y ago
As an aside the “it’s just Angular” thing doesn’t work for me when I Google for things...results come up with a mix of AngularJS and Angular2+ results. Searching for “angular2” rather than “angular” seems to work a lot better.
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by ern 9y ago
Anecdotally, Facebook seems to have gotten worse at handling fake account reports recently. I have a hunch that it’s because their moderation team has grown, and the average moderator ability hasn’t kept up.
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by ern 9y ago
I've been flagging accounts for years, and the quality of decision-making seems to me to have gotten worse recently. I wonder if the push to hire more moderators has lowered the standard.
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by ern 9y ago
Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compensate for the shock of Hillary losing I’d like to buy i
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by ern 9y ago
Because parent is a victim of the manufactured opinion that fake news is the main reason Trump won. Whether Trump won because of fake news or because of Clinton's weaknesses as a candidate, or because of his own agenda, surely it mus
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And now, after HRC lost, we are still using the same mechanism, and lenses, to form conclusions about why she lost. That’s the definition of insanity. Would you be able to explain why a foreign government felt the need to expend enormous
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by ern 9y ago
If you are correct, then it's interesting that so much effort is/was put into organized trolling by hostile state actors, if it has no pay-off. Why would that be?
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It hasn’t got a big installed base yet[1], so it’s hard to justify the investment. Also, remember that experience with Applets/Flash/Silverlight has burned developers, and probably made them fearful. I expect that once a big playe
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by ern 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Sufi Islam was pretty much mainstream Islam until the Saudis started pushing Wahhabism with their petrodollars.
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As I remember, one Microsoft was one of the original TDD pushers. You may be mistaken: There was a well-known incident back in 2005 where Microsoft published guidance for TDD that was flat-out wrong (or at least not fitting with the mains
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by ern 9y ago
Quantas, the airline of Australia, outsources its IT operations to IBM. They did not choose the cheapest alternative, but a reliable one. I believe IBM was responsible for the Australian census debacle in 2016. Hardly a ringing endorsemen
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by ern 9y ago
I assumed that Windows 8 was hated because it broke the Start Menu and tried to force users onto Metro.
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by ern 9y ago
I'd love to know why you believe that private entities can't/shouldn't censor speech on their platforms, and what philosophical underpinnings this has (not being snarky, I'm keen to know how you came to have this be
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by ern 9y ago
Without stating a position on this issue, it should be noted that the modern American notion of free speech absolutionism has, because of US cultural influence, become widespread in much of the world.
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The new ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages can no longer be used on .NET Desktop(github.com)
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I'm starting to move from angular 1 to 2, and 2 is better. Angular 4, you mean (or just "Angular").
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by ern 10y ago
This is a big win for consulting firms as their offshore profitability per employee is 3 times higher than onsite. Given a choice, they would want all their employees offshore, and the only reason they had to bring in some % of H-1B's
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by ern 10y ago
I'm all for learning and experimenting, but is it ethical to do it at the expense of paying customers (including employers) on business critical systems, without their explicit and informed consent?
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that to me says (broadly) data entry forms and reporting Yep that's pretty much it: forms over data, in various domains.
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Ask HN: Is Accidental Complexity Growing Faster Than Essential Complexity?
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I do wonder what would happen if modern adaptive development practices ("agile") were coupled with older high productivity dev platforms like Delphi. I suspect it'd be a good combination.
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I'm forced to take coffee to keep up with my fellow developers, but I agree with you. I suspect that the world would be a calmer and happier (albeit slower moving) place without caffeine.
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I agree with you about the need to remain buzzword compliant for jobs, but are we "skilling up" or spinning our wheels? There is some worthwhile learning, but a lot of it is just BS status signaling. Learning another SPA framework
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Reading your link, it seems that the cement factory land was always zoned industrial, and was intended to be used for industrial purposes after the Olympics.
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Quick guide to asking Cambridge Analytica for your data(medium.com)
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