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by ern 10y ago
In hindsight, the term Fake News wasn't a good one. "Organized [foreign] disinformation" is both more descriptive and would have been less easily appropriated and diluted.
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It's a bit cynical to say this but running HSR on an incompatible network protects it against future politicians who may seek to sabotage it by merging networks.
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"It will bar green card holders," Gillian Christensen, acting Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in an email. http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-Homeland-Security-Gree... Now, of course, o
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This is not a ban on refugees from Muslim countries. It's neither a ban, nor targeting refugees, nor limited to Muslim countries. Rudy Giuliani has now claimed on Fox News that he helped design the restrictions as a legally valid for
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A reversal (Google for "trump reverse green card"): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum... In case you don't trust The Independent Here's a solidly right wing so
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From Fox News: That covers legal permanent residents -- green card holders -- and visa-holders from those seven countries who are out of the United States after Friday, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the tempora
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Airlines lost those regulations under Reagan Under Carter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act
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Ask HN: Have you ever had plastic surgery to appear younger at a job interview?
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The report and its unredacted sources will be subject to Congressional oversight from a Republican dominated congress. So far they have been supportive of its contents.
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There's no good solution to this Yes there is, and it is already in place. There has been bipartisan oversight of intelligence from Congress for decades. A subset of the people's representatives with the necessary security clear
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I doubt very much that "freedom of the press" as guaranteed by the First Amendment in the United States applies to the right of foreign nations to engage in propaganda. I also doubt that any country in has ever accepted foreign pr
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Software Should Be Easier to Build, Not Harder(c-sharpcorner.com)
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In a world of unlimited resources, you'd obviously keep moving the threshold down, but according to OP, many jurisdictions were slow to react to the last change, and many labs can't deal accurately with very low exposure levels an
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Except the case of Flint, where in the article I linked to, the people who set the threshold of 5 have had to backtrack, and reassure parents that their children are not really "poisoned". The article also mentions concern over th
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Indeed. I know the lead industry used to manipulate scientific research, in much the same way that the sugar industry has done in recent times, but that's no excuse for throwing scientific rigor away.
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I make sure my own children do things like wash their hands before eating to limit their lead exposure, but I've also been reading up on this issue and keep finding this sort of equivocation: This does not mean that children at this l
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It could be well-crafted, or it could just be part of Zuckerberg growing up. A lot of big changes happen between one's 20s and 30s, and having children, in particular, tends to change one's outlook dramatically.
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I find this to be a fascinating article because simplistic emotional arguments disseminated in the press, presumably by researchers and regulators themselves and scientifically illiterate journalists ("lead is unsafe at any level and
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The Brains of Flint’s Children, Imperiled by Lead, Could Still Escape Damage(scientificamerican.com)
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While your analysis may be accurate, I don't think this case has anything to do with freedom of speech. If the attacker had walked up to the journalist with a strobe light with the intent of inducing a seizure, it would have no differe
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The player has literally no agency in the game A bit of a sidetrack, but Ludo does have decisions: which disc to move and how many spaces. Chasing vs rushing to complete. Whether to move a disc when a 6 is diced or to bring a new disc int
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Has industry given up making software development easier for ordinary people?(quora.com)
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With policiticans buying into the "everyone must code" hype, the gap between what students will be forced to learn in grade school and what they need to become professional programmers is going to be glaringly obvious. Attempts to
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I disagree that the constant churn in FE/JS is necessarily a sign of "rapid progress", rather than a lack of strong stewardship/leadership leading to people reinventing the wheel. I haven't worked with Java for a lo
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How Fake News Articles Were Used to Market an Iffy Supplement (2015)(forbes.com)
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Please Don't Learn to Code (2012)(blog.codinghorror.com)
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There is some truth in that. But these stories about fake news and professional trolling have been around for more than a year. The article is about other countries where the phenomenon is widespread. If HRC had won. I'm pretty sure we
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The media was covering fake news well before the election. I suspect that, had Hillary won, we'd have seen the same amount of coverage, but with a tone of "it was a close call". It has been clear for a long time that large-sc
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I am using a standard line "It's fake. In general you should consider anything you see on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp or the Internet to be false by default." Engaging in refuting online garbage constantly is a painful waste
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Facebook’s fake news crisis deepens(bbc.com)
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